Rediriecting calls on answer

[Zedsquared]

Hi Folks,
I’m trying to achieve the following behaviour, can anyone help?

When an extension calls another one, and the called party answers, transfer both to a meetme conference automatically so that they wouldn’t even realise they were in a conference room.

The aim is to make a system with easy patching of other extensions into already ongoing calls (this would be done an operator via a management interface) whilst retaining the ease of users just dialling each other, rather than all calls being handled by the operator manually patching.

The number of extensions is small so I can effectively give each their own room and use the calling extension’s room as the conference (or use dynamic conferencing I suppose).

The thing I can’t work out how to do is intercept the call once it has been handed over to Dial().

Thanks in advance,
Robin.

[mbruni]

Try use the “G” parameter of the Dial() application.
From the book Asterisk TFOT, 2nd edition:

G( context ^ extension ^ priority )
When the call is answered, the calling party is transferred to the specified priority
and the called party to the specified priority+1. You cannot use any additional
action post-answer options in conjunction with this option.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

[Zedsquared]

Excellent! that looks like just the thing, thank you very much indeed

I was using the reference on asterisk-guru which, it seems, is very out of date!

Cheers,
Robin.