Connecting to TalkShoe via SIP

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2 Problem
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Connecting to TalkShoe via SIP

Problem

TalkShoe could be considered the Web 2.0 (social) mash-up of talk radio and business-type conference calls. It's web-casting with a dial-in feature. The problem is, for POTS, it's a long distance call.

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Solution

Fortunately, TalkShoe also has a SIP interface. Accessing it is quite simple and can be done entirely from the dial plan.

If you want to connect to a specific conference call, put something similar to the following in /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf:

exten => _205,1,Dial(SIP/123@66.212.134.192,60,D(3844#7775551212#))

where:

- "205" is the local extension you want to connect
- "3844" is the conference ID (the TalkShoe ID for the discussion room)
- "7775551212" is your PIN (your TalkShoe account #)

If you don't have a PIN, use "1". However, having a TalkShoe account makes things simpler if you actually participate in calls (i.e., your username isn't "Guest1" or some such).

If you want to be able to dial into any TalkShoe conference on the fly, you'll want something similar to the following:

exten => _82.,1,Dial(SIP/123@66.212.134.192,60,D(${EXTEN:2}#7775551212#))

As an example, using the above, if you dialed "8222622", you would be connected to "22622" which is the VoIP Users Community Conference (formerly known as the Asterisk Users Conference).

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Discussion

Get your TalkShoe account at http://www.talkshoe.com/ (It doesn't cost anything.)

Note: sometimes the call isn't successful. You can either hang up and try again, or listen to the prompts and punch in the conference ID and your PIN.

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