similar to: *** Asterisk Sunday News: Conferences on the phone and IRL - "in real life"

Sunday news is today published on a monday. Yesterday was fourth of july, and I used that as an excuse for being off line yesterday. (Sweden's national day is June 6th - and it's not yet a public holiday, btw). Most of my Asterisk time lately have been used for producing the registration site for Astricon and tracking down speakers that haven't sent in their material for the conference

I'm having a problem with conferences both meetme and app_conference, though I've done most of the testing with meetme. Essentially, I get little gaps in the audio - usually fewer than a dozen or so samples, though it does vary. They seem to occur at random, but I usually get one ever few seconds, on average. They also seem to delay some buffer somewhere, so that if I start recording

I have Asterisk running in Xen virtual machines. Unfortunately, this kind of virtualization makes a real time clock impossible, which in turn makes ztdummy or a Zaptel driver impossible to load, which also makes MeetMe conferences impossible. As an alternative, I have downloaded, patched, compiled and installed the app_conference source code against the headers in Asterisk CVS HEAD. I can load

Another issue of Asterisk Summer News, delivered right to your mailbox! Back here in Sweden, it's finally summer weather. Sunshine and some heat. It's good for our ice bears and the snow houses to get some sunshine :-) Asterisk development and IRC chat has gone into a lazy summer mode, but the mailing list is still cooking. It's impossible to keep up with it, for both gurus and

In Asterisk 1.2.4 is love being able to recording conferences. However, using the default variables, the files are being written to /var/lib/asterisk/sounds instead of /var/spool/asterisk/meetme. If I change MEETME_RECORDINGFILE variable to something different in works, bit I lose the ability to define CONFNO as part of the file name, which is handy when sorting for users to review. I call meetme

One of the features that I thought would be popular with the Web-MeetMe suite is the ability to start all non-admin callers in a muted state and selectively unmute them. For example any large conference that is of an announcment nature with a Q&A session. It's probably a feature I should have tested better, but I just discovered that a caller that is joined to a MeetMe with the |m flag

I've just started trying to use this functionality and I get the invalid conference number message. Any ideas? I started out with: exten => 7315,1,Meetme,1234 and confno = 1234 and then tried: exten => 7315,1,Meetme and confno = 1234 and enter 1234 at prompt. All give the same message.

Hello, I made a post to the forums (http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=72901&sid=3d5c2717ca5ab7ad676957ae436d4b51) but haven't received any replies, so thought I'd try here. On my debian machine running asterisk 1:1.4.21.2~dfsg-3, I've been noticing that there's a problem with conferences (using both meetme and app_conference) and the audio sent out to an

I want to have a "personal meetme conference", so when on a call I can transfer the other party to my personal conference with "#7". (I can then make other calls, and dump them into the conference using "#7" as well, then join myself by dialing "7"). Using: exten => 7,1,MeetMe(${CALLERIDNUM}|Mpd) this works as long as I originate the call. However,

Spring is back in the Stockholm area. After a few day's worth winter re-runs, the sun is back and night-time temperature is at least 5 degrees celsius. Time to move out all my annual flowers and prepare the garden for summer. Sweden is famous for our annual five week holidays - by law. From june to late august, it's almost impossible to make any business decision, since there's always

Hi all, I've been trying to get meetme working for a while now (complie problems - will probably try again later on another machine) but have given up and started looking at alternatives. I've managed to get app_conference compiled and installed - show modules shows its there in asterisk, but I don't know how too actually use it in the dial plan... The info on voip-info

Hi, I am trying to achieve 3-way conferencing taking hint from wiki link http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+n-way+call+HOWTO Here is the scenario: 1. user "ua1" calls user "ca1" 2. "ua1" then presses the feature code "*0" to redirect "ca1" to conference room 300 3. "ua1" then dials the user "33" 4. user

Hi, I am trying to achieve 3-way conferencing taking hint from wiki link http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+n-way+call+HOWTO Here is the scenario: 1. user "user1" calls user "user2" 2. "user1" then presses the feature code "*0" to redirect "user2" to conference room 300 3. "user1" then dials the user "user3" 4.

Hello, using Asterisk 1.8.12.2 I am having trouble with exiting the conference room by entering a single digit. option X of the Meetme()-application should do this. I have following in extensions.conf : /exten => _1000X,n,Set(MEETME_EXIT_CONTEXT=dynamic-nway-invite)// //exten => _1000X,n,MeetMe(${CONFNO},dMX)// // // //[dynamic-nway-invite]// //exten => 0,1,NoOp(confno =

I've just started switching my project to use confbridge instead of meetme and app_conference (because of audio glitches that kept appearing in those applications). However, I can't find any way to interact with an existing confbridge conference. Surely there's some equivalent to meetme's 'meetme list' command? Anything else I can use through the cli or manager API? I

As stated here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe A Meetme room uses Ulaw as the audio codec, so if the other channels use different codecs, then * will transcode. Does the app_conference application works the same way? Or if i have SIP/g729 users and i create a conference with other users also at g729 asterisk will not transcode (when using app_conference)?

Thank you very much for all feedback on Asterisk Sunday News! This is the last issue for June. This week I'll go on holiday and will be back with more news in early July. My kids are getting summer leave this week and we'll be visiting the south of England for a while. Another part of Europe that still use their own currency. If you think there's an European standard, you're

We need to conference together a call center agent, a customer and a third party IVR and send DTMF tones from the agent to the IVR. MeetMe has been eating our DTMFs so we'd like to try app_conference. Has anybody setup such a configuration in app_conference and how did you configure it? -HJC

Hi, i am using the n-way-call dialplan solution found on voip-info. i have added its entry in applicationmap of features.conf file. the problem is......its not working. to activate the n-way call i dial *0 but nothing happens. i have played around with dtmf and codec settings but no success. the extensions and sip configuration is below if you want to have a look. I dont have any clue why its not

Hi all, I'm trying to get the MeetMe system to take a caller and announce to them they've joined the conference in addition to the other members of the conference assuming previous members of the conference >= 1. I can see where the meetme.c app actually processes it using the ast_pthread_create_background(&conf->announcethread, NULL, announce_thread, conf); function. The