Can I set up an "involuntary" conference call with Freeswitch?

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I am trying to set up a SIP/RTP public announcement infrastructure. Basically there are several slave user agents that are configured to answer automatically, and a master UA which should be able to call all of them and make announcements.

A way to work around seems creating a conference and making all UAs to join via some RPC mechanism but I don't want to go that direction unless I have to.

The slave UAs are linphone and I haven't decided on the master agent yet.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 30 '13 at 14:53

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conference_set_auto_outcall in mod_conference is doing exactly that -- it sets the destination endpoints which will be called out as soon as the conference starts.

Use these flags to make sure the calling device can terminate the call and rest of the agents are silent:

<action application="set" data="conference_auto_outcall_flags=mute"/>
...   
<action application="conference" data="public_address@default++flags{endconf|moderator}"/>

edited Oct 30 '13 at 14:53

Atilla Filiz

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answered Oct 23 '13 at 14:40

Stanislav Sinyagin

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Use these flags to make sure the calling device can terminate the call and rest of the agents are silent: ... – Atilla Filiz Oct 30 '13 at 10:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '13 at 10:37

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you can simply make a group call to a set of extensions: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/XML_User_Directory_Guide#Groups

Also a comma-separated list of bridge destinations will work in the same way: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_bridge

answered Oct 18 '13 at 10:37

Stanislav Sinyagin

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Setting up groups does not solve my problem, as when I call a group, and once a group member replies, all the other members stop ringing. I want to talk to all my group members simultaneously. I will try your second link. – Atilla Filiz Oct 21 '13 at 12:57
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ah, then you can use "conference_set_auto_outcall" in mod_conference. Then the parties will be invited as soon as the caller joins. In mod_comgerence wiki, there's an example which does exactly that. – Stanislav Sinyagin Oct 21 '13 at 18:14
Would you like to edit your answer so that I accept it? Or I will write a detailed answer myself and accept that one. – Atilla Filiz Oct 23 '13 at 11:18

Can I set up an "involuntary" conference call with Freeswitch?

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