Have Asterisk automatically call me and others into a conference

Question

We are trying to setup an Asterisk server. We have it up and trunks and routes configured. We have a daily conference call amongst 2 or 3 people each day at the same time. We would like to tell Asterisk to automatically call each one of the co-workers and bring them into a conference. We currently use GotoMeeting, but would like to automate this process using Asterisk. Has anyone seen anything like this or have any ideas on how one would approach a situation like this?

Answer 1

You need

1. Setup conference number

2. Create call files one side is number you want invite, other side is conference number and context(for freepbx context=from-internal)

So you need create ONE file per EVERY user.

This page have alot of examples:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+auto-dial+out

Issue that can arise:

• You call out using g729 codec and no codec in system. Solution: disallow g729 on trunk
• You call out to 2-3 users but have only one outgoing line.