A Couple Of Problems With Confbridge

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Hi. I have been using meetme for years, but I wanted to try confbridge as meetme is going away soon. I am having a few problems/questions doing this.

1. When I list the confbridge users in a bridge, I only get the caller id number — I have a number of contacts in contact manager and I am using superfecta, but the name does not appear. I do need the name to see who is on there.

2. I will be using a conference with a marked user — and I would like to record the conference — when does the recording start — when the first user comes on or when the marked user joins?

3. In the sample file it says you cannot have more than one user profile on a bridge, but I need two, one for the marked user and another one for regular users — how do I work around this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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5 thoughts on - A Couple Of Problems With Confbridge

  • You’ll need to be specific on how you are listing. The AMI action provides all of the information.

    I don’t know the answer to this, but you should be able to easily test this.

    You can only have a single bridge profile for a bridge. Each participant can have their own user profile with different settings.

  • … I was using the confbridge list command from the console and that only gives the number — any way to fix or is there some other way I could get this information on the console?

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  • The CLI command is only written to output the number. Changing that would require code changes. Someone else may have a shell script trick of getting the channel name and then do a “core show channel” for each to get full information, but that is not something I have.

  • I believe the answer #2 depends on the user options for each participant.

    If all participants have user options with wait for marked set to true there will be no conference/recording until at least one marked user joins. If any participants have user options with wait for marked set to false, when they join the conference bridge it is actually going. Thus, if the bridge options had the record enabled it would start recording. If only marked user joins first, it’s met the criteria and will conference and start recording.

    Dan

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