[Mac-telephony-list] Asterisk GUI and the like

Wed Dec 20 23:58:22 JST 2006

Ivan your astconsole looks pretty useful, can it connect to asterisk servers 
not on the local Mac OS X machine?  And do you plan on releasing the code to 
us neophytes?  Great work!

J

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 01:11, Ivan C Myrvold via List wrote:
> We also have Asterisk up and running on OS X, on an intel Mini I
> bought for my company a couple of months ago. Before that I ran
> Asterisk on a 5 year old G4. I have around 35 telephones, mostly on
> pap2-adapters (Linksys), and 5 Grandstream GXP-2000 phones. I found a
> company that I connect to with IAX that I use for outgoing/incoming
> calls to the analog telephone network, and very cheap too (I am in
> Norway).
>
> The timer issue has been fixed in OpenPBX.org, and I will use that
> instead of Asterisk when they have a final release ready. There are
> still some small issues with it that I will wait until I switch.
>
> I have also developed a Cocoa application that I use to connect to
> Asterisk and OpenPBX.org. Here is an URL to some screenshots: http://
> www.myrvold.org/astconsole/astconsole.html
>
> Ivan
>
> Den 20. des. 2006 kl. 05.48 skrev Mark Engelhardt via List:
> > On Dec 19, 2006, at 8:33 PM, brody bernardi via List wrote:
> >> is there any effort to make an interface to go from copper to
> >> computer?  I recall the usb modem being a possible solution.
> >> I certainly wasn't expecting a "poof, its done" out of the box
> >> solution.
> >
> > The SPA 3000 and SPA 3102 do that pretty well.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >> On Dec 19, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ken Rice via List wrote:
> >>> The real reason IMHO is just lack of a really good "MAC" interface
> >>> on it.
> >>> Its very much a CLI product. Maybe one of these days we'll see that.
> >>>
> >>> Also you cant just plug the copper into your Mac at this time and
> >>> poof it
> >>> works unfortunately... Personally I love to be able to use some
> >>> Xserves for
> >>> 1U telephony Servers
> >>>
> >>> On 12/19/06 10:04 PM, "brody bernardi via List"
> >>>
> >>> <mac-telephony-list at mactelephony.net> wrote:
> >>>> Is there a reason that "not too many people deploy OpenPBX on OS
> >>>> X"?
> >>>> It would be sooo easy to yank the Comdial off the wall, plug the
> >>>> copper pairs into a Mac, install/configure OpenPBX(azzuro)
> >>>> configure
> >>>> for each station, swap out the comdial phones for the ip phones,
> >>>> and
> >>>> roll with it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Granted the OpenPBX install configure would likely need outsourced,
> >>>> but that is fine.
> >>>>
> >>>> Brody
> >>>>
> >>>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Ken Rice via List wrote:
> >>>>> Hey guys
> >>>>>
> >>>>> OpenPBX/Asterisk both work on OSX (Plain Tiger is fine)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The main problems are related around timing and a few other things
> >>>>> that ends
> >>>>> up leaving a few things to be desired in Conference Bridges on
> >>>>> system and
> >>>>> MusicOnHold.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As far as connecting to the PSTN your real options are a) Use a
> >>>>> VoIP based
> >>>>> Service provider, or b) use a PSTN -> SIP gateway like a Cisco
> >>>>> 2600
> >>>>> or Cisco
> >>>>> IAD2400 series box.  These boxes allow you to connect T1s or POTS
> >>>>> lines to
> >>>>> your system Via SIP.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Not too many people deploy asterisk/OpenPBX on OSX but it has been
> >>>>> done.
> >>>>> (personally I do my asterisk development on my G4 PowerBook and
> >>>>> have for
> >>>>> quite a while)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Once you have the core system set up, there are a stack of phones
> >>>>> you can
> >>>>> use as long as they are SIP Compliant, Polycom SoundPoint IP
> >>>>> series, Cisco
> >>>>> SIP phones, Linksys ATAs and SPA series phones, EyeBeam/X-Lite and
> >>>>> several
> >>>>> others.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 12/19/06 9:39 PM, "brody bernardi via List"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <mac-telephony-list at mactelephony.net> wrote:
> >>>>>> Mark,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I am in a similar situation, our company's aging Comdial DSU 8
> >>>>>> line
> >>>>>> 16 station phone system is due for replacement.  I have been
> >>>>>> monitoring this mailing list to watch asterisk (now openpbx)
> >>>>>> development for some time now.  I have been waiting to hear of
> >>>>>> some
> >>>>>> real world installs, and the methods used.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We are a Mac only manufacturing company and would likely follow a
> >>>>>> similar solution (run on a mac).  I would be very interested to
> >>>>>> follow your deployment and learn all I can of its successes and
> >>>>>> failures.
> >>>>>> I already have some questions...:
> >>>>>> How are you connecting the land lines to OpenPBX?  (is that the
> >>>>>> Cisco 2600? I will google it as sonn as I finish this email)
> >>>>>> Do you need OS X Server or will plain Tiger work fine?
> >>>>>> Are you going to consider the new Linksys(cisco) voip iPhone?
> >>>>>> Will you use any soft phones?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a million more questions, but I hope simply reading of
> >>>>>> your
> >>>>>> posts here will answer a lot of them.
> >>>>>> I'm sure you can't possibly post daily updates or anything, but
> >>>>>> even
> >>>>>> to hear the final results would be great.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Anyway, Good luck on this project, and thanks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Brody
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> p.s. I love your shop (smalldog) and have been an occasional
> >>>>>> customer.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Mark Engelhardt via List wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> We are considering deploying the following setup:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> G5 Xserver running openPBX RC2
> >>>>>>> 25 Cisco 7960 IP phones
> >>>>>>> 10 Cisco 7912 IP Phones
> >>>>>>> 1  Cisco 2600 router with a High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV)
> >>>>>>> installed connected to a Telco PRI.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> The above system would replace 13 copper pair analog lines
> >>>>>>> connected
> >>>>>>> to an Avaya Magix system.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Questions:
> >>>>>>>   1) Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup?
> >>>>>>>   2) Is the cisco High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV)
> >>>>>>> recommended for
> >>>>>>> this?
> >>>>>>>   3) What other PRI gateway do you recommend?
> >>>>>>>   4) Are you available for hire to help configure this setup in
> >>>>>>> mid-
> >>>>>>> january?
> >>>>>>>      You can reply to the above question off list:  marke at
> >>>>>>> smalldog.com
> >>>>>>>   5) Should I scrap the mac idea and run asterisk with a Digium
> >>>>>>> Wildcard TE110P on a PC linux box.?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Mark Engelhardt
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>   .
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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