Re: Bridge 2 incoming calls

Steve Murphy <murf@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:50:18 -0600

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:27 +0100, Tim Panton wrote:
> I think I've forgotten something obvious....
> 
> I've got 2 incoming calls, I want to bridge them - how can I do this ?
> 
> (assume I somehow know which calls should be paired up...)
> 
> I could dump them both in a meetme - but that seems wasteful
> as i _know_ there will only ever be 2 parties. (And I need DTMF
> to flow through). I may want to record the bridged call, but that isn't
> vital.
> 
> I'm thinking of dialing chan_local with a call-id but I'm sure I
> am missing something simpler.
> 
> 

Not in 1.4, but in trunk,(and 1.6.x) there is a the Bridge manager 
command you can call via the manager interface, which takes two 
required args, the names of the two channels to bridge, and an 
optional arg, that will send a tone to the second channel.

see main/features.c

murf

> 
> Tim.
> 
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