asterisk users - Jan 2006 - MeetMe Listen Only flag (|m)

One of the features that I thought would be popular with the Web-MeetMe
suite is the ability to start all non-admin callers in a muted state and
selectively unmute them.  For example any large conference that is
of an announcment nature with a Q&A session.

It's probably a feature I should have tested better, but I just
discovered
that a caller that is joined to a MeetMe with the |m flag cannot be
unmuted with command *cli>meetme unmute $confno $caller-no

Is anyone using MeetMe for such conferences, and if so what combination
of flags do you use, and how do you change their state from Listen Only
to Talk&Listen?

Thanks,
Dan

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Dan Austin <Dan_Austin@Phoenix.com> wrote:
> One of the features that I thought would be popular with the Web-MeetMe
> suite is the ability to start all non-admin callers in a muted state and
> selectively unmute them.  For example any large conference that is
> of an announcment nature with a Q&A session.
> 
> It's probably a feature I should have tested better, but I just
> discovered
> that a caller that is joined to a MeetMe with the |m flag cannot be
> unmuted with command *cli>meetme unmute $confno $caller-no
> 
> Is anyone using MeetMe for such conferences, and if so what combination
> of flags do you use, and how do you change their state from Listen Only
> to Talk&Listen?
I needed the same functionality. There wasn't a way to do it in the current
version of MeetMe. Also, the current muting logic is a bit of a mess.

I reworked the muting logic, and changed MeetMe so that an 'l' flag
meant
listen-only (like the current 'm'), and an 'm' flag meant
initially-muted.

I also put in Manager Events to inform when a user was muted or unmuted.

I should tidy it up and submit it, but haven't got round to it :-(

Cheers
Tony
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Tony wrote:
> I needed the same functionality. There wasn't a way to do it in the
> current version of MeetMe. Also, the current muting logic is a bit 
> of a mess.
I concur.
> I reworked the muting logic, and changed MeetMe so that an 'l' flag
> meant listen-only (like the current 'm'), and an 'm' flag
meant
> initially-muted.
Now that's an idea I think I could impliment...
> I also put in Manager Events to inform when a user was muted or 
> unmuted.
> I should tidy it up and submit it, but haven't got round to it :-(
Let us know if you can.  I'm already maintaining a grocery list
of patches to make MeetMe viable in my orginization, so one more
won't kill me.

Dan