asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Advanced conference features, meetme2?

Hi,

I have been playing about with meetme as a conference bridge, and find it
lacking in some features which I believe are out their somewhere.

Viewing this wiki page http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+MeetMe2+Design
it looks like a plan happened, but where is meetme2 at now?

Things like recording a conference, allowing callers to adjust volume,
allowing the conference to be locked, having the users name recorded before
entering, and then played back to other callers on entrance etc etc.

Are these things available now, or would they require development.

Regards

C
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, C. Tomlinson wrote:
> I have been playing about with meetme as a conference bridge, and find it
> lacking in some features which I believe are out their somewhere.
> 
> Viewing this wiki page
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+MeetMe2+Design
> it looks like a plan happened, but where is meetme2 at now?
> 
> Things like recording a conference, allowing callers to adjust volume,
> allowing the conference to be locked, having the users name recorded before
> entering, and then played back to other callers on entrance etc etc.
> 
> Are these things available now, or would they require development.
At least some of these are already in meetme in cvs head. Some can be 
implemented in the dialplan. Some I guess are not available yet. 

Peter

Conference lock and member name been recorded and announced when they get in
and out of a conference is already available. 

Check the wiki and look for meetme, you will see they have some parametes
like m,a,s that will help you control this features.

Anton Krall


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Sent:	S?bado, 12 de Marzo de 2005 12:31 p.m.
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Subject:	[Asterisk-Users] Advanced conference features, meetme2?

Hi,

I have been playing about with meetme as a conference bridge, and find it
lacking in some features which I believe are out their somewhere.

Viewing this wiki page http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+MeetMe2+Design
it looks like a plan happened, but where is meetme2 at now?

Things like recording a conference, allowing callers to adjust volume,
allowing the conference to be locked, having the users name recorded before
entering, and then played back to other callers on entrance etc etc.

Are these things available now, or would they require development.

Regards

C << File: ATT00137.txt >>

I'd like to know this to, I'm prepared to kick in $50 to start off a
bounty if no one else has done so.


Cheers,
Dean


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of C.
Tomlinson
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 1:31 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Advanced conference features, meetme2?

Hi,

I have been playing about with meetme as a conference bridge, and find
it lacking in some features which I believe are out their somewhere.

Viewing this wiki page
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+MeetMe2+Design it looks like a
plan happened, but where is meetme2 at now?

Things like recording a conference, allowing callers to adjust volume,
allowing the conference to be locked, having the users name recorded
before entering, and then played back to other callers on entrance etc
etc.

Are these things available now, or would they require development.

Regards

C << File: ATT00036.txt >> 
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Taking yourself off mute is one of the more important requirements for
broadcast conferences.

I probably dial in to about 3 conference calls a week (using commercial
services) where the default is everyone in the call is on mute and then
you press star to talk - some automatically take you off or some flag it
with the organizer to take you off mute.

I'm prepared to pay a $25 bounty for this feature and automatically
recorded conference calls feature.


Cheers,
Dean


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter
Svensson
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:24 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Advanced conference features, meetme2?

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, C. Tomlinson wrote:
> I couldn't find, for example, a variable containing the current
conference
> name.
> 
> If I had those I agree it would be simple in the dialplan; just listen
for a
> key eg 2, then when pressed kick user from conference, and immediately
> rejoin using a mute option, rejoining the same conference as the
dialplan
> line got its info from the variable.
I did not realise that you wanted to change the mute status during the
call. Yes, that would require some code to be added, probably to the
admin 
menu or similar. But yes, we need new primitives for this. 

Peter


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> A speaker list is more advanced. Probably bet implemented with a
manager 
> interface to meetme that passes the dtmf digits to the manager
interface 
> and allows the manager interface to manipulate the conference.
A managable speaker list is part of the out-of-tree meetme2 application
and
PHP web interfaces that go with it....

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Nope that wont work.

The whole reason you need to change and unchanged mute for conference
calls is when on a cell phone or listening in on 'broadcast' conference
where the majority of the time I will be just listening in eg - a
brokers report or similar but I may want to ask a question at the end of
it.

Now the conference manager may or may not want to let me ask a question
at that point, if I press a key and the conference manager has the
option to let me speak or not speak at that time then this would be a
heavily used feature.

Also the ability for the conference manager to 'raise' the volume of my
question would be really handy as well. I hate the amount of times I
manage a conference cal only to have to repeat questions on a regular
basis because of low volume from one speaker etc.

It shouldn't be that hard to have a little slider bar on a web page
increasing or decreasing an individual channel.

If anyone is developing advance conference features and wants to have me
work with them on it to develop features let me know as I am a heavy
user of conference calls and can let you know what you need.



Cheers,
Dean


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Philipp
von Klitzing
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:59 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Advanced conference features, meetme2?

Hi!
> > I couldn't find, for example, a variable containing the current
conference
> > name.
> > 
> > If I had those I agree it would be simple in the dialplan; just
listen for a
> > key eg 2, then when pressed kick user from conference, and
immediately
> > rejoin using a mute option, rejoining the same conference as the
dialplan
> > line got its info from the variable.
> 
> I did not realise that you wanted to change the mute status during the
> call. Yes, that would require some code to be added, probably to the
admin 
> menu or similar. But yes, we need new primitives for this. 
Yet I think there _is_ a way around this: Let the admin leave the 
conference for a very short moment by pressing a key, and than manage
the 
mute action outside of MeetMe in the dialplan or in an agi, and then 
(automatically) let the admin join the conference again.

Philipp


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