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Freeswitch 1.6 Cookbook

You're reading from   Freeswitch 1.6 Cookbook Over 45 practical recipes to empower you with the latest FreeSWITCH 1.6 features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280917
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Routing Calls FREE CHAPTER 2. Connecting Telephones and Service Providers 3. Processing Call Detail Records 4. External Control 5. PBX Functionality 6. WebRTC and Mod_Verto 7. Dialplan Scripting with Lua Index

Creating conferences


FreeSWITCH excels at letting multiple parties connect to a single conference "room" where they can all hear and speak to one another. The default configuration has some examples of conferences that we can use as a starting point. Keep in mind that in FreeSWITCH, there is no need explicitly to "create" a conference room—the conference dialplan application does all the work for us.

Getting ready

In addition to a text editor, you will need at least two phones for testing, and preferably another person or two so that you can verify that your conference rooms are working. Also, make sure that you have the default FreeSWITCH configuration installed and the sound and music files added.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Dial 3000 and listen. You will be put into a standard conference room, and if you are the only person there, then after the announcement, you will hear hold music.

  2. Dial 3000 from another phone, and both persons are in the same conference.

  3. Add more parties by dialing...

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