asterisk users - Jan 2012 - ConfBridge details

running Asterisk 1.8.9.0-rc2, what are the ways to interface with 
ConfBridge ?

I see the CLI command 'confbridge' documented for asterisk 10, but i 
dont see how to interface with confbridge on 1.8

What I'm trying to do is keep track of conferences that are used.

I tried something like the below, but not only does Confbridge not 
return, but i'd need something that erases the database entry after the 
conference is empty, not after 1 particular user leaves.


[macro-confbridge-setup]
exten => s,1,Set(NUM=$[0${NUM} + 1]);
exten => s,n,Set(CONFNO=99${NUM})
exten => s,n,GotoIf(${DB_EXISTS(confbridge:${CONFNO})}?1)
exten => s,n,Set(DB(confbridge/${CONFNO})=1)


[foo]
exten => s,1,Macro(confbridge-setup)
exten => s,n,ConfBridge(${CONFNO})
exten => s,n,NoOp( ${DB_DELETE(confbridge/${CONFNO})} )


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Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./

On 1/23/2012 3:53 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is keep track of conferences that are used.
this seems to work:
[macro-confbridge-setup]
exten => s,1,Set(NUM=$[0${NUM} + 1]);
exten => s,n,Set(CONFNO=99${NUM})
exten => s,n,Set(CONFS=${SHELL(asterisk -rx "core show channels" |
awk
'/ConfBridge/ { print $2 }' | awk -F@ '{ print $1 }' | sort |
uniq |
grep ${CONFNO} )})
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${CONFS}" = "${CONFNO}"]?1)
exten => s,n,Noop(got a new conference# ${CONFNO})

but there's got to be a better way than spawning X shell commands for 
'asterisk -rx', right ?


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Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./