asterisk users - Nov 2010 - How to initiate a two-party call from within Asterisk

The desired result is that user A's phone rings; when he picks it up,
user B is dialled, and user A's channel is connected to that. (This is
to be a back-end for a web-based address book.)

On Monday 29 November 2010 11:07:50 Roger Burton West
wrote:
> The desired result is that user A's phone rings; when he picks it up,
> user B is dialled, and user A's channel is connected to that. (This is
> to be a back-end for a web-based address book.)
You're looking for the "Originate" action in AMI.  The originating
channel is
user A's device address, and the action can be either a predetermined
extension in the dialplan or an application (such as Dial), with arguments.
If you go the extension route, you can additionally set variables from the
originate command to be set prior to the extension being invoked.

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Roger Burton West <roger at
firedrake.org>wrote:
> The desired result is that user A's phone rings; when he picks it up,
> user B is dialled, and user A's channel is connected to that. (This is
> to be a back-end for a web-based address book.)
>
This is "click-to-call".  It can be done with the Asterisk Manager
Interface
(AMI).  See this site:

 http://www.voipjots.com/2006/02/click-to-call-with-your-asteriskhome.html

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 01:36:17PM -0600, Chris Gentle wrote:
>This is "click-to-call".  It can be done with the Asterisk Manager
Interface
>(AMI).  See this site:
Thanks to you and Tilghman for this, though as it turned out it was much
simpler to avoid AMI completely and use the Extension: parameter to an
outgoing call file.

Roger