On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Niles Ingalls wrote: > > On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote: > >> Hello list. >> I posted this over on the Biz section but some of the members thought >> I might find more people running Asterisk on the Mac over here. >> >> Here's my question: >> >> >> I have looked at PHLink and PhoneValet and neither seem to be able to >> do what I need, so I am looking at Asterisk. >> >> What I want to do is allow callers to call a our phone line and >> unsubscribe their phone number from our call center list. So, >> basically, when they call in, they would be greeted with a message >> something like: "please enter your 10 digit phone number followed by >> the pound sign". They would then have the number read back to them >> to >> confirm it or reenter it. Once confirmed, it would write the phone >> number to a text file for importing into MySQL or FileMaker. >> >> Is what I am trying to accomplish within the realm of what Asterisk >> can do on the Mac platform... or any platform... and if so, how >> difficult of an install is it? I have read varying accounts from it >> being a breeze to being frustrating. > > The main distinction between running Asterisk on Linux as opposed to > OSX, is that you'll > have access to hardware device drivers. If you're going to be using a > SIP/IAX Trunk, then > you'll be just fine on OSX.
I have a bunch of Handytone-488 boxes from Grandstream... are these the hardware devices that will allow me to run multiple lines on a Mac? > What your attempting to do falls closer > to the category of "breeze". Good to hear. > > You can install the asterisk-addon package to handle your SQL queries Good. Finally, the last thing that will probably determine Mac or Linux does the Mac version have a software GUI to adminster and configure Asterisk... or is this a Linux only item? Thanks, --Rick > > Niles > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users