asterisk users - May 2009 - howto set up persistent dynamic meetme

With 1.6.1, I'm trying to set up a test of meetme for creating dynamic
conferences.

extensions.conf:

[meetme]
exten => 2663,1,MeetMe(,De)
exten => 2663,n,Hangup()

exten => 2666,1,MeetMe()
exten => 2666,n,Hangup()


What I'm expecting is to dial 2663, get a conference room number ( 600,
I suppose since it's the only room ), and set a PIN. Hangup.

Then users would dial 2666 enter the conference room number and the PIN, 
and be placed in conference.

The problem is that as soon as 2663 hangs up, the conference disappears. 
What I'd like is to have the conference stay up for some period of time 
after 2663 hangs up. That way I could schedule a conference for a 
specific time, set it up beforehand, and email everyone the conference 
number and pin.

I don't want the conference to stay up forever, since I'd like new
pin's
each time.

This should be a common use case. How do you do it?

sean

On Saturday 16 May 2009 08:21:43 sean darcy wrote:
> With 1.6.1, I'm trying to set up a test of meetme for creating dynamic
> conferences.
>
> extensions.conf:
>
> [meetme]
> exten => 2663,1,MeetMe(,De)
> exten => 2663,n,Hangup()
>
> exten => 2666,1,MeetMe()
> exten => 2666,n,Hangup()
>
>
> What I'm expecting is to dial 2663, get a conference room number ( 600,
> I suppose since it's the only room ), and set a PIN. Hangup.
>
> Then users would dial 2666 enter the conference room number and the PIN,
> and be placed in conference.
>
> The problem is that as soon as 2663 hangs up, the conference disappears.
> What I'd like is to have the conference stay up for some period of time
> after 2663 hangs up. That way I could schedule a conference for a
> specific time, set it up beforehand, and email everyone the conference
> number and pin.
>
> I don't want the conference to stay up forever, since I'd like new
pin's
> each time.
>
> This should be a common use case. How do you do it?
In Asterisk 1.6, user DEA contributed realtime capabilities to MeetMe, which
allows the capability of scheduling conferences, with new pins each time.  I
believe this would meet the needs your question has posed.

-- 
Tilghman