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If you have a real-life scenario where you want the manager of the switchboard operator to login as the switchboard operator to oversee, i.e. multiple logins with the same extension, can you do this?
When I try this, one of the swtichboards seems to get 'locked', i.e. doesn't refresh correctly. I don't know if this is my configuration error or just by fop2 design?

Now I get it. I can see the list now. I didn't realise you have to get the conferencing working thru asterisk first, I thought fop2 did the conferencing.

...and set up all the MeetMe exten's in the dailplans?

Have I got to configure the meetme.conf in asterisk?

I don’t seem to get the list of participants depicted in the online help or understand how to invite anyone to a conference.
Here is my fop2.cfg:
;Users
user=103:secret1:meetme
user=104:secret2:meetme
user=503:secet3:all:MotherHen
;Groups
group=MotherHen:SIP/503,SIP/103,SIP/104,CONFERENCE/1000
(The contexts for all the users and the conference are allowing normal internal extension-extension calls)
Is this right?

I want to record all calls which go thru a certain dialplan (failing that, all calls)
Is there any way to configure fop2 to do this, or do I have to go thru asterisk?

Thanks Nicolas, it was my fault, there was no dialplan set up incoming calls for the listening phone, whoops! It is getting an incoming/listening call now. (I'm an Asterisk newbie).

It is (buttons.cfg) generated by code, but the code was written by hand so it may still be wrong!
They are a minimum, e.g.

[SIP/107]
type=extension
extension=107
context=TeamMember
label=Pauline Ford

And the calls are going thru ok, and they light up fop2 buttons ok, so you would think the buttons.cfg is matching the sip.conf.
Do I really not need a dialplan/extenstion.conf entry for the listen in?

I haven't set any privacy options for the buttons, I guess the default is off?
I have set the manager.conf to
read= all
write=all
The phone listening in is not receiving any incoming call event. Could it be the extensions.conf/dialplan, I haven't done anything to enable that for listening in?

I can hangup the call, so I guess the permissions are getting thru ok, maybe(?)

I'm just trying to listen in to ongoing call.
Ok, I realise I was misreading the help, I've switched back to spy_options="bq", I'm still unable to listen in.
Any other suggestions?

Asterisk 1.8, fop2.
I’ve put spyoptions=4 in appropriate button in buttons.cfg

• permissions set to ‘all’ for the user entry in fop2.cfg ( I don’t know if this is granting the same permission twice)
• I’ve put force_parameter_delimiter="," spy_options="4" in fop2.cfg
• read = system,call,command,agent,user,originate
  write = system,call,command,agent,user,originate in Asterisk manager.conf,
  but sill no listen in!!!
  What else to try?

What is the best way to trigger a reload remotely (say from a Windows Service in my case)?

Thanks, that was it.

Is it that the buttons bind to channels, which take the form SIP/username (=sip.conf username??)
(link to relevant documentation would be welcome if I'm overlooking the obvious)

If know I must be exposing a fundamental misunderstanding, but if asterisk has all these sip calls getting 'bridged' between the registered sip phones and the outside world, doesn't fop2 somehow 'sit' on top of that to flash the lines which are active, etc, etc?

I'm sure this is staring me in the face, but I don't quite understand the relationship between the user list in fop2.cfg and Sip.conf user list/sip registrations , how do you tie them together?(they are presumably the same thing(?))

Thanks, that fixed it.

Thanks for getting back to me.
I tried the uname -a, which returns i686, which I think means 32 bit, and I downloaded the file: fop2-2.20-debian-i386.tgz which I guess is the correct one, and ran the chmod a+x, but still the 'Command Not Found', any further suggestions?

As far as I can tell I've completed all the installation steps on Ubuntu, I go to run the fop2_server --test and I just keep getting 'command not found'. I do a Alt-f2 to run the app, even though I'm not sure its running as I can see it listed if I run ps -A. Where am I going wrong?