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barisdad
barisdad

Reputation: 525

asterisk - which API to use for creating and managing conferences

I want to create a outbound conferencing application using asterisk in windows - the user can enter a few phone numbers and the system calls all the participants and adds them to the conference. I read a little bit about asterisk APIs, and I saw that I can use the manager API and AGI. I looked at the command reference and I couldn't find any conference related commands. Can this be done using any of these APIs or other APIs?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4134

Answers (3)

Matt Jordan
Matt Jordan

Reputation: 2884

In Asterisk you have two potential options for conferencing.

  • In 1.8 and older, the preferred application is MeetMe. MeetMe has a lot of options, but is rather monolithic in its design. Its also ties you into using DAHDI for timing, and does not support wide band audio formats.
  • In 10 and later, the preferred mechanism is ConfBridge. ConfBridge is more flexible then MeetMe (dynamic DTMF menus, ability to bounce out to the dialplan while still inside a conference, dynamic user/bridge profiles, etc.), supports wide band audio, and has support for video conferencing (without transcoding).

Both have AMI actions that you can use to interface with them, documented here. You can also find more information on ConfBridge in Asterisk here.

Upvotes: 2

Taimoor Ali
Taimoor Ali

Reputation: 1

You can use AsterNET to create Voice applications on .NET (C#) https://github.com/skrusty/AsterNET

Upvotes: 0

arheops
arheops

Reputation: 15259

You can use Exec command of AMI/AGI api.

Using that, you can get any command from asterisk dialplan.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+AGI

Using exec:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+-+documentation+of+application+commands

Upvotes: 0

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