Hey Everybody: Asterisk is really cool, first off! I'm impressed! Anyway, I'm working on a design project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, and part of the project requires a system that callers can call in, and talk to other "teams". That part is easy with Asterisk. The hard part is this: the system must also allow one to call the system and talk to all teams at once. My question for you is: how can I have somebody call in, then have the system call a list of numbers (i.e. the other teams) and play to them what the caller is saying? If that isn't possible, can I have the caller record a sound, then play that to the other teams all at once (or one at a time)? I see there are modules pbx_wilcalu and pbx_spool that look like they might do something of the sort, but I can't find any docs on this--I can create a new module if there isn't any functionality to do something like this, as I'm a programmer, too, but I'm trying to avoid duplicating work already done... Thanks for a cool product and your help, -Jeff.
Jeff Maki wrote:> Hey Everybody: > > Asterisk is really cool, first off! I'm impressed! > > Anyway, I'm working on a design project funded in part by the National > Science Foundation, and part of the project requires a system that > callers can call in, and talk to other "teams". That part is easy with > Asterisk. The hard part is this: the system must also allow one to > call the system and talk to all teams at once. My question for you is: > how can I have somebody call in, then have the system call a list of > numbers (i.e. the other teams) and play to them what the caller is > saying? >You could write an AGI file, or a call file to bridge multiple conference rooms of teams? How are you planning to have a caller call in and talk to his team or another team, just a conference room? What I would do is, create a .call file to join that person to a conference room, and then .call files to join the 20 other team members in to that same conference room. Information on auto dialing and the .call file is available at : http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-print.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out I've used .call files to bridge about 40 people in to a single conference call (all using IP lines.) However you can have asterisk ".call" PSTN numbers, or devices connected to your FXS lines, and automatically bridge them to your conference room. With AGI, you could even play a prompt saying "Team member "Brian" is joining you to his global/team xxx conference room. Brian