Create a CONFBRIDGE conference via ARI

Asterisk Asterisk APIs
1

I am trying to create a conference which offers (uses) CONFBRIDGE features from the ARI. Based on various posts I’ve gotten this far:

  1. Create bridge (type mixing)
  2. Create channels
  3. Add channels to bridge
  4. Dial channels (Users are all in a bridge now)

Now I have a simple conference with no CONFBRIDGE features. How do I now make this a CONFBRIDGE conference? And then identify one of my channels as admin/marked?

Or am I going about this the wrong way? I feel like I need to add a CONFBRIDGE channel to this bridge to listen and provide the nice features.

2

You don’t. If you want ConfBridge you have to leave ARI. ARI gives you fundamentals to BUILD your own ConfBridge.

3

Yeah, I had a feeling I was going about this wrong.

Is it possible to create the conference dynamically from an API, and then add channels (which dial users)? I’m trying to programmatically create a CONFBRIDGE and have 3 people answer their phones and end up in a conference.

Basically an automated CONFBRIDGE initiated by my app. I don’t care if I need to use AMI/ARI or mix of them.

If it’s possible, what’s the wright way to do this?

4

There is no explicit “creation” of a ConfBridge. The act of a channel going into it creates it. You can specify a bridge profile and/or user profile for that channel. AMI provides Originate[1] to make outgoing calls and direct them to a location upon answer, as does ARI[2].

[1] Originate - Asterisk Documentation
[2] Channels - Asterisk Documentation

5

I feel like my question is about to get a stupid slap…but…I’m missing something.

I THINK you are saying that I should originate a channel from the ARI, but instead of sending the channel back to my stasis app, I send it to a CONFBRIDGE (with a bridge profile and user profile, or if none dynamically created). And at that point my app/stasis has nothing more to do with the channel or conference as Asterisk owns the CONFBRIDGE.

If I got that right, ARI channel originate shows how to send the channel to an app (is that where I specify CONFBRIDGE?), or do I have to send the channel into context/extension/priority in the dialplan which runs the CONFBRIDGE command (not ideal)?

I just connect these dots :slight_smile:

6

You have to send it to a context/extension/priority.

7

Ah…ok. So I send it back into the dialplan, and then Asterisk owns the conference. (Nothing more for me to keep track of or destroy).

Therefor I can’t do it completely in ARI, I still need to use some dialplan.