asterisk users - Apr 2006 - channels change names

I'm writing a php script to dial numbers and connect them to a
conference. This is fairly straightforward:

Action: originate
Channel: Local/conf@default
Context: default
Exten: $extension
Priority: 1

This is pretty straightforward. However, the script then loads the list
of members in the conference (using the meetme list ... command). For
local extensions this works fine - the list of members shows the right
channels, etc. The problem I'm having is that if the extension is
external, the conference list shows a Local/$extension channel at the
start, and then once the call is completed, it changes the channel to
whatever was dialed. 

I'm probably not explaining it properly, but what I'd like to have
happen is that I get one consistent channel name from the start of the
connection - it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it doesn't change.
As things stand, the conference list isn't accurate, unless I wait about
5 seconds after adding someone before updating the list.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have here!

-- 
Jon-o Addleman - http://redowl.dyndns.org

Probably because the Local proxy channel drops out once the two sides 
have been bridged.  If you want the Local chan to stay up, use the /n 
parameter and the local channel won't perform the native transfer.  This 
does have it's own problems, but should do what you want.

eg:

Channel: Local/conf@default/n



Jon-o Addleman wrote:
>I'm writing a php script to dial numbers and connect them to a
>conference. This is fairly straightforward:
>
>Action: originate
>Channel: Local/conf@default
>Context: default
>Exten: $extension
>Priority: 1
>
>This is pretty straightforward. However, the script then loads the list
>of members in the conference (using the meetme list ... command). For
>local extensions this works fine - the list of members shows the right
>channels, etc. The problem I'm having is that if the extension is
>external, the conference list shows a Local/$extension channel at the
>start, and then once the call is completed, it changes the channel to
>whatever was dialed. 
>
>I'm probably not explaining it properly, but what I'd like to have
>happen is that I get one consistent channel name from the start of the
>connection - it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it doesn't
change.
>As things stand, the conference list isn't accurate, unless I wait about
>5 seconds after adding someone before updating the list.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions you might have here!
>
>  
>