asterisk users - Sep 2009 - Bringing people into a conference

G'day all, I'm using Asterisk 1.4 and am trying to work out a way to
bring
people into a conference call. In the ideal scenario two people would be 
talking and one of them would push some keys, then a phone number and then 
the three of them would be in a conference. From there they should be able 
to bring in other people as well.

This seems to be what the Asterisk n-way call HOWTO from voip-info is 
trying to do, but it doesn't work quite properly for me. Here's what 
happens:
1. Internal person A calls person B
2. Person A presses *0, he is given a dial tone and person B is taken to a 
conference room
3. Person A calls person C and they can talk, and then person A presses 
**.
4. Person C is brought to the conference room, but person A is 
disconnected.

In the last step, A should be taken to the conference room as well.  Or at 
least, that's what I think should happen.

Here's the relevant logs, where 230 is person A, 231 is person B, 207 is 
person C, and 282 is the conference room: http://dpaste.com/hold/97072/.

Thanks,
  Harley
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On 23/09/09 5:07 PM, Harley Holcombe wrote:
> G'day all, I'm using Asterisk 1.4 and am trying to work out a way
to
> bring people into a conference call. In the ideal scenario two people
> would be talking and one of them would push some keys, then a phone
> number and then the three of them would be in a conference. >From there
> they should be able to bring in other people as well.
>
> This seems to be what the Asterisk n-way call HOWTO from voip-info is
> trying to do, but it doesn't work quite properly for me. Here's
what
> happens:
> 1. Internal person A calls person B
> 2. Person A presses *0, he is given a dial tone and person B is taken to
> a conference room
> 3. Person A calls person C and they can talk, and then person A presses **.
> 4. Person C is brought to the conference room, but person A is
> disconnected.
Why doesn't A just call the number they've been transferring people to?

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
Director
_______________________________________________

http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News)
http://www.venturevoip.com/st.php (SmoothTorque Predictive Dialer)
http://www.venturevoip.com/c3.php (ConduIT3 PABX Systems)

On 23/09/09 5:07 PM, Harley Holcombe wrote:
> 1. Internal person A calls person B
> 2. Person A presses *0, he is given a dial tone and person B is taken to
> a conference room
> 3. Person A calls person C and they can talk, and then person A presses **.
> 4. Person C is brought to the conference room, but person A is
> disconnected.
Is there an extension:

dynamic-nway,282,1

Oh, and please refrain from using HTML emails to lists.

-- 
Cheers,

Matt Riddell
Director
_______________________________________________

http://www.venturevoip.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News)
http://www.venturevoip.com/st.php (SmoothTorque Predictive Dialer)
http://www.venturevoip.com/c3.php (ConduIT3 PABX Systems)

BTW, I have been using the n-way conference feature from Polycom.
By n-way, they mean only 4 parties (including the host) and the
interface is quite neat because you can manage the conference from the
display and you can mute, far-mute, hold and resume each parties.
To use this Polycom nway conference, you need to purchase a productivity
suite.
> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Riddell
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 3:57 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Bringing people into a conference
> 
> On 23/09/09 5:07 PM, Harley Holcombe wrote:
> > 1. Internal person A calls person B
> > 2. Person A presses *0, he is given a dial tone and person B is
taken to
> > a conference room
> > 3. Person A calls person C and they can talk, and then person A
presses
> **.
> > 4. Person C is brought to the conference room, but person A is
> > disconnected.
> 
> Is there an extension:
> 
> dynamic-nway,282,1
> 
> Oh, and please refrain from using HTML emails to lists.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> Matt Riddell
> Director
> _______________________________________________
> 
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