Conferencing with Admin PIN

[tomsyr]

I'm running FreePBX 2.5.1.1 with the conferencing module 2.517
I can't seem to make the following work -
If I set up a conference room with a admin PIN and Leader wait, the system does not prompt for a PIN. When a second caller joins, the conference works.

The system will prompt for a PIN if I put an entry in for a user PIN and a Admin PIN. Is this by design?
I would prefer to just have an admin PIN so that a conference doesn't start without a leader present, and there's no real need for a participant to enter a PIN.
Is there a work around for this?
Thanks,
TomSyr

 

[TheShniz]

No, you MUST either specify BOTH an Admin & User PIN... or neither, only then will the caller be prompted. Think logically, there's no way to know 'this caller' should be asked while 'this other caller' shouldn't. The Conference Room defines the caller by what PIN is entered.

 

[tomsyr]

Conf with admin pin

I understand where you are coming from, but as part of being a PIN protected room for just the leader, an announcement would state "If you are the Leader, please enter your PIN now..."
If the caller is just a participant, they would have to wait until the 'leader' has opened the room. If a participant calls in after the leader has started the conference, they would automatically enter the room, and everyone would hear the tone.
To me – it seems like that is the intended design – that’s why you would pick “Leader Wait”. This helps to secure the room. Everyone could have the dial-in number and conference room number, but without the admin and his PIN, a conference can’t start. Or be highjacked
If there's a way to pass a null for the caller - that would do it I think...
TomSyr

 

[tomsyr]

Well - I got a little further.
Originally, I had the following:
exten => 272,1,MeetMe(,scM,)Going through the Asterisk book, it looked like in needed (,scMw,)
I have that in now, and the Leader wait works, but when I put in the admin pin, it doesn't work.
Trying with a user PIN works, and they are on hold waiting for the leader, but the system doesn't take the admin PIN.
Looking at the meetme_additional.conf shows a user pin, but not the additional user pin, which should look like this:
conf => confno[,pin][,adminpin]
What I have is:
conf => 1234,123
But it should be:
conf => 1234,123,321

Does anyone have the conferencing working and could share with me the code in meetme_additional.conf ?
Thanks,
TomSyr