asterisk users - Jan 2008 - chanspy does not pull the call back to asterisk after a reinvite

Hello all,

I am allowing a reinvite between a snom 320 phone and a SIP gateway to take load
off my Asterisk server.  When I put the caller on hold, for example, Asterisk
successfully reinserts itself into the rtp stream to play music on hold to the
caller, but when I do a chanspy Asterisk does not seem to pull the call back. 
If I am spying on a channel when the call build up happens the reinvite never
occurs and it works, but I cannot jump in and spy on a call in progress once the
reinvite has happened.

Has anyone run into this issue any maybe have a solution, or does anyone know of
a good way to get that call back onto the Asterisk switch from another extension
prior to calling chanspy?

Thanks much,

Franklin Webb

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Franklin Webb
Asst Project Manager
Inter Medi@ Marketing Solutions
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fwebb at imminc.com

Franklin,

Because ChanSpy() is a "passive" monitor, there is nothing about the
implementation that would cause Asterisk to shunt the speech back to
itself.  Asterisk only does this in situations where it is out of the
media path and needs to insinuate itself back into it for the purpose
of generating media, such as on-hold music, IVR, etc.

What you're wanting should, in my opinion, basically be submitted as a
feature request.  Perhaps the developers can add a flag to the ChanSpy()
invocation repertoire to make this work.

Cheers,

-- Alex

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Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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Tel    : +1-678-954-0670
Direct : +1-678-954-0671