Meetme conferencing

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Hi all,
I have installed asterisk version 1.4 along with libpri and zaptel. I need the meetme conference application working. I have tried the examples in the net but it was very confusing. For instance, when I dial the conference room number say 9999, the server would announce no such confernce exists.

These are the exact lines in my sip.conf and extensions.conf, meetme.conf.

Sip.conf

[tutorial]

[2041]
type=friend
username=2041
secret=1234
host=dynamic
context=tutorial
allow=all

[2051]
type=friend
username=2051
secret=1234
host=dynamic
context=tutorial
allow=all

[2081]
type=friend
username=2081
secret=1234
host=dynamic
context=tutorial
allow=all

Meetme.conf

[general]
[rooms]
conf => 8600

Extensions.conf

[general]

[tutorial]

exten=>2041,1,Dial(SIP/2041)
exten=>2051,1,Dial(SIP/2051)
exten=>2081,1,Dial(SIP/2081)
exten=>2091,1,Dial(SIP/2091)

[tutorial]
exten => 8600,1,Meetme(8600)

exten => conf,1,Set(MEETME_RECORDINGFILE=/tmp/Tutorial-${TIMESTAMP})
exten => conf,2,Meetme(8600|sr)
exten => conf,3,Hangup()

With the above settings, when I dial 8600 from an extension 2051, it shows the following output

pbxCLI>
– Executing [8600@tutorial:1] MeetMe(“SIP/2051-08230368”, “8600”) in new stack
== Parsing ‘/etc/asterisk/meetme.conf’: Found
[Sep 16 18:29:44] WARNING[7585]: app_meetme.c:774 build_conf: Unable to open pseudo device
– <SIP/2051-08230368> Playing ‘conf-invalid’ (language ‘en’)
== Spawn extension (tutorial, 8600, 1) exited non-zero on 'SIP/2051-08230368’
pbxCLI>

Please let me know what to do to get the announcements, add users to conference etc.

Thanks in advance,
Padmaja

2

You dont have a conference room by the name of 9999 its 8600
add this line to ur MeetMe.conf

conf => 9999

3

It says that it can’t open a Pseudo Device, so that means you don’t have any Zap hardware on your system. If that is the case, then you need to ensure that zt_dummy is properly loaded. When it’s working, you should be able to do “zap show status” at the CLI and it will show you the ZTDUMMY info.

4

If you really need libpri, you won’t need xxxx-dummy, as libpri is only needed if you have real, primary rate, telephony hardware. More likely is that you didn’t need libpri.