Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Michael Mol]

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 08:37:14 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:32:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > > I take it the other 10% was rounding errors? ;-)
> > 
> > Covered by NDA. ;)
> 
> Non-Decimal Addition?

Actually, part of what annoyed me about it was driven / exacerbated by things 
I honestly can't discuss. But, yes, that was intended to be roughly 10%.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:32:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:

> > I take it the other 10% was rounding errors? ;-)  
> 
> Covered by NDA. ;)

Non-Decimal Addition?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Michael Mol]

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 08:24:47 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:38:12 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > To be clear, 80% of my grievances with FreeSwitch have to do with the
> > nature of their configuration and documentation. 9% had to do with a
> > weird issue wherin we wound up rebooting the VM containing FS on a
> > schedule; none of my instrumentation made it obvious what the nature of
> > the leak was, but somehow rebooting the VM would resolve the issue. The
> > remaining 1% was the difficulty in setting the thing up for anything
> > but their preferred platform.
> 
> I take it the other 10% was rounding errors? ;-)

Covered by NDA. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:38:12 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:

> To be clear, 80% of my grievances with FreeSwitch have to do with the
> nature of their configuration and documentation. 9% had to do with a
> weird issue wherin we wound up rebooting the VM containing FS on a
> schedule; none of my instrumentation made it obvious what the nature of
> the leak was, but somehow rebooting the VM would resolve the issue. The
> remaining 1% was the difficulty in setting the thing up for anything
> but their preferred platform.

I take it the other 10% was rounding errors? ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Michael Mol]

On Thursday, April 28, 2016 04:06:50 PM James wrote:
> Michael Mol  gmail.com> writes:
> > Bah. So you guys aren't going to let me get away with trash-talking
> > without
> > some accountability of details. OK. I'll let you know when I've written up
> > something; I've already emailed one person a handful of my complaints in
> > bullet form. But that'd need to get more properly fleshed out before I
> > drop it somewhere more archival in nature.
> 
> Like I said, it's GOOD to have you back, brah.

Hey, the major reason for my absence was / is *time*. So the more time 
investment I have to make, the less likely I am to speak up in the first place. 
;)

> 
> > I use freeswitch here all the time as my home pbx and it does things
> > asterisk either cannot do, or only with great difficulty.  I can even
> > put c# code in it using mono and a lot of times the xml is insufficient
> > and this is where this comes in handy.  There is a mailing list, so you
> > can ask questions as well.  Its one strength and also weakness is there
> > are a lot of variables, some of which are poorly documented, and some
> > not documented at all.
> 
> Perhaps we need some code help, to join our team. Sinced MM has deep
> experience with shrot comings and other like what works form them, do
> we have a quorum?

To be clear, 80% of my grievances with FreeSwitch have to do with the nature 
of their configuration and documentation. 9% had to do with a weird issue 
wherin we wound up rebooting the VM containing FS on a schedule; none of my 
instrumentation made it obvious what the nature of the leak was, but somehow 
rebooting the VM would resolve the issue. The remaining 1% was the difficulty 
in 
setting the thing up for anything but their preferred platform.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Meik Frischke]

Am 2016-04-27 16:12, schrieb James:

 ccs.covici.com> writes:



> How do you install freeswitch, just a raw compile from sources?
> Or is there an ebuild somewhere that I   missed?


I just did the configure, make, make install combination, it by 
default
installs in /usr/local/freeswitch -- even the binaries, so its 
somewhat
isolated.  but check the docs first, you will need some libraries 
which

are not in gentoo and must be gotten from their repository just to
build.  I think I had to download and install a dozen packages from
source.


Thanks for the info. Did you every file a bug to have an ebuild 
created?

BGO searching did not find one and freeswitch just seems like a cool
software to add to gentoo.

Oh, I almost forget to mention:: what caught my eye was that I ran
across instructions for installation on a Raspberry Pi 2 [1].
And was wondering if  a larger pbx (ip-switch) could be built
by clustering Rpi3 devices together?

Lots of projects seem to be centric on Rpi3 clusters these days. [2]
Thanks again for the feedback.

James

[1]
http://www.algissalys.com/how-to/freeswitch-1-7-raspberry-pi-2-voip-sip-server

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-spark-supercomputer/


There is the Freeswitch overlay available [1], also listed here [2], 
which can be added with layman. The provided ebuild is a little outdated 
though (1.6.2 vs currently 1.6.7). It can probably be adapted for the 
current version, but I havn't tried it yet.


Meik

[1] 
https://github.com/alphallc/freeswitch/tree/master/net-voip/freeswitch

[2] https://overlays.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[covici]

James  wrote:

>   ccs.covici.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > > https://freeswitch.org/
> 
> 
> > > Folks interested in an ebuild for this software?
> 
> > I use it all the time on gentoo, but watch out for its dependencies. 
> 
> Good to know.
> 
> 
> > I had to downgrade ffmpeg to 2.72 before I could get fs to compile and
> > they are not interested in supporting gentoo.  Their development systems
> > are Debian Jessie.
> 
> 
> How do you install freeswitch, just a raw compile from sources? 
> Or is there an ebuild somewhere that I   missed?

I just did the configure, make, make install combination, it by default
installs in /usr/local/freeswitch -- even the binaries, so its somewhat
isolated.  but check the docs first, you will need some libraries which
are not in gentoo and must be gotten from their repository just to
build.  I think I had to download and install a dozen packages from
source.


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