Please update documentation: How do I forward calls from my Asterisk server to FreeSWITCH in BigBlueButton?

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Thank you for your great software. I am pretty new to it and I have a long way 
to go in understanding how it works.

I have been working on getting my Asterisk server to communicate with BBB 
freeswitch.

I believe I have discovered your documentation needs updating:

How do I forward calls from my Asterisk server to FreeSWITCH in BigBlueButton?

exten => 85001,1,Dial(SIP/fs-gw/${EXTEN})
exten => 85001,2,Hangup

From what I can tell, BigBlueButton is setup only to take extensions that begin 
with 7 + 4 digits

in /opt/freeswitch/conf/dialplan/public.xml

    <extension name="bbb_conferences">
      <condition field="destination_number" expression="^(7\d{4})$">

I could never make the 85001 example work.

Also it would be helpful to include some info about putting the extension 
number in demo3.jsp (or wherever)

 meeting.put("voiceBridge",      "85001");                        // The extension number for the voice bridge

Thank you!
Gary

Original issue reported on code.google.com by g...@attaserv.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 9:50

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Hi Gary,

You don't have to use FreeSWITCH with BigBlueButton.  You can use Asterisk as 
well, and therefore forward the calls from one asterisk server to another 
(which is really an asterisk question, not a BigBlueButton question).

For accepting calls from any five digit extension, see 

  http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#Why_did_my_voice_conference_number_work_in_0.7_but_not_in_0.71?

As for modifying demo3.jsp, see

  http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_setup_new_classrooms_in_BigBlueButton_?

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 10:01

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Thanks for the quick response. I wish I would have found that article
sooner. Maybe you could put a link to that article under the section
titled:  How do I forward calls from my Asterisk server to FreeSWITCH in
BigBlueButton?

I set my server up with FreeSwitch since that is what was recommended on
your website.

Do you think it would be better that I run BBB with Asterisk since I have
another Asterisk server?

Would the sound quality be better?

Thanks for your help!

Gary

Original comment by g...@attaserv.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 10:21

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Hi Gary,

With BigBlueButton 0.71a (the current release), the sound quality should be the 
same with both asterisk and FreeSWITCH.

With the upcoming BigBlueButton 0.8, we're switching to using the speex codec 
from Flash, which is natively supported in FreeSWITCH 1.6, but not in Asterisk 
1.4.2.   

Speex will give higher quality audio, see

  http://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-dev/browse_thread/thread/a36d61df9b9fc45b#

We'll still support asterisk/nellymoser, but FreeSWITCH/speex will give you 
higher quality audio in 0.8.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2011 at 10:33

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Need to improve our documentation on integrating with external SIP providers.

Original comment by ffdixon@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2012 at 6:07

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