On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Rob Lith wrote: > >> I don't think you'll get much support or have much luck with Asterisk >> on a Mac for any production environment. You can't get any of the >> interface cards to connect to the PSTN going on a Mac. I's a Mac fan >> and only use them, but our Asterisk systems are on Linux - as 99.9% >> of > > Wow.... that's depressing. > > I don't know the first thing about Linux. Maybe I will try to learn > or see if other Mac products will do what I need. > > Can you recommend a Linux version, the hardware to run it on and if > so, is there a gui interface for the Linux version of Asterisk? > > --Rick
To clear up some concerns: Asterisk runs quite well on MacOS X. I have been running it on my laptop as a test environment for quite some time, and I have never had any problems that would make me hesitate to use it in a production system. There are many Linux-only binary things which won't work, but I see no reason that you would need any of them (speech recognition modules, proprietary codecs, and the like.) Your app is very simple and would work fine on MacOS. That being said, you will probably not be able to use the TDM cards that are sold by Digium to connect your Asterisk system directly to POTS lines or T1 trunks. The DAHDI driver toolkit that acts as the interface layer for various cards is not Mac-compatible at this time. But don't despair! There are lots of hardware solutions out there which are stand-alone, and turn POTS lines into VOIP SIP calls, which work just fine. In fact, that's probably what you want to do anyway if you already run a call center of some sort. Just turn all your calls into SIP and feed them to your Asterisk system. Since Asterisk runs fine on MacOS, you could probably even cobble together some sort of AppleScript to it via the System call or the AGI methods, but that's outside my territory of familiarity. I don't know about FileMaker, but there's an ODBC driver for Asterisk as well as MySQL drivers. What you're looking for is not difficult to do, though as a first- timer with Asterisk it may take a bit of getting used to the system. JT --- John Todd email:[email protected] Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
