Bringing people into an Asterisk conference call

I know this is a bit of a necro, but i can't see your relevent logs.

Its not as fancy as *1 and **, but it should work in the same idea. -- Make an extension that is a conference extension, anyone who calls ext 6000, gets placed in a conference call.

Person A calls Person B. Person A and B talk, and then Person A decides Person C should be in on the call too. Person A blind-transfers Person B to extension 6000. Person A Calls Person C, Briefs him, and blind-transfers Person C to extension 6000. Person A then Calls Extension 6000.

Rinse and repeat as many times as necessary -- or AIM your buddies to dial extension 6000.

You need the meetme extension. Configure a "room" using meetme.conf and assign it a pin and an extension. Then configure the extension from the dialplan to call MeetMe application.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MeetMe is a good guide for getting it working.

When you dial into the conference extension, you can either set it up to go to one "room" only, or to ask the user to dial the room number, and then a PIN after to auth to that room.

It also gives you the option to become a manager, and kick people from the conf-call. It's not easy to do this if you're doing 3way calls.

I never managed to get conf-calling working without MeetMe.