Reference11r1:PBX/Objects/Conference

The PBX conference object offers one conference room with announcements and PIN protection.

The conference calls themselves are connected by one or more conference servers registered to this object as devices. If more than one conference server is used, the different media types of the calls can be split to the different servers.

General Configuration

The information about general configuration options shared by all objects can be found at Reference11r1:PBX/Objects.

Devices

Hardware Id

The hardware Id must match with a hardware Id of a device on the General page. The device is registered to this object and provides the conference service.

innovaphone device

This should be ticked if the MCU is an innovaphone device.

Media Types

If a media type is ticked, calls to the registration includes this media type.

Number of channels

The number of the available channels of the MCU device.

MCU Room Numbers

If the device isn't an innovaphone device and has severals rooms, the room numbers which are dialed can be configured here.

Registration

If a registration to this hardware Id exists, the IP address of the registrar is shown here.

Options

Announcement URL

The URL where the announcements were saved. A '$type' within the URL is substituted for the announcement type string. These announcement types are known by the conference module:

• Welcome: Announcement of a welcome message. ($type="welcome")
• PIN: Announcement to input a PIN. ($type="pin")
• Wrong PIN: Announcement about a wrong PIN input. ($type="wrong_pin")
• No input: Announcement if no input is done by the caller within a certain time. ($type="no_input")

Extern Announcement Name/No

Announcements can be provided by an external destination which name or number is to be configured here.

PIN

The PIN of the conference room. It can be empty or consists of four digits.

Trace

If ticked, the trace of this PBX object is enabled.