asterisk users - Jun 2009 - MeetMe: Mute All Lines Automatically?

I'm considering implementing an Asterisk PBX for conferencing. Before I get
started, I wanted to make sure that it supports the features that I need.

I plan to use Asterisk as a conference bridge only. I want people to be able
to use my conference to listen live to lectures/etc, without having to
listen to others in the conference.

I'm using the FreePBX web interface, and I can't find any options
anywhere.
Having the user mute their own line is not going to work, mosty because they
*won't* do it.

Also, I've used a lot of commercial web-based conferencing services. They
all have lots of great features in the web interface, like a list of current
participants, muting/unmuting specific lines, manual recording, dropping
certain callers, etc. Assuming that Asterisk is capable of all this, is
there any web-based GUI available to control meetme?

Thanks!

-- 
Christopher Stamper

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On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Christopher
Stamper<christopherstamper at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm considering implementing an Asterisk PBX for conferencing. Before I
get
> started, I wanted to make sure that it supports the features that I need.
>
> I plan to use Asterisk as a conference bridge only. I want people to be
able
> to use my conference to listen live to lectures/etc, without having to
> listen to others in the conference.
have a look at the documentation here :
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe

you want this option
'm' ? set monitor only mode (Listen only, no talking)

hth