On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Chris Cantey <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I read through some archives from last year and may have found the answer to > this. It looks like snoop was added to allow this (and more). > Yup! That's exactly the intent. ARI is geared towards providing a toolbox that you can use to build applications, and the more we talked about the traditional 'Monitor/MixMonitor/ChanSpy' dialplan applications, the more it felt like they tried to do too much. So Snoop channels were created to provide the most basic building block needed for those use cases. To implement a 'Monitor/MixMonitor' style of functionality, you can create a Snoop channel and issue a /record operation on the Snoop channel. To implement a 'Whisper/ChanSpy' style of functionality, you can create a Snoop channel and bridge it with the channel that wants to whiisper/spy. That's obviously just scratching the surface - you can do a lot of interesting things with Snoop channels. In particular, since bridges can hold any number of Snoop channels, you can create some interesting whisper/monitoring situations. I've never been sure how practically useful this is, but you can also use them to create some very ephemeral bridges while the channel being snooped on is another bridge. Matt -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org _______________________________________________ asterisk-app-dev mailing list asterisk-app-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.digium.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-app-dev
