Hey Mike, That was well written and nicely argued. Would you be willing to consider doing a talk for us on HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] I for one would be very interested in such a thing. I'll admit to being in the "not for me" camp when it comes to GUIs for Asterisk, but I've also always thought what the boys at Coalescent and HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] were doing was a worthy cause. Jim.
-- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] HYPERLINK "http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177"http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- _____ From: Mike Ashton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 18, 2006 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Setting Wait Time Before Pickup Chad, I'll have to challenge you on your comment of being the "full version". [EMAIL PROTECTED], is a full version. If anything it is more complete then a manually installed system, since it has handled all the integration of comedian-mail, spanDSP, Flash Panel, festival speech, and more. The limitation people run into is the AMP web interface. It hasn't kept up with the advances in Asterisk, but the guys who have put it together have a very good way of working around it's limitation. What they have done is done an include in every configuration file of an additional custom file ( ie. managers.conf includes managers_custom.conf ). So anything outside the scope that AMP can handle you stick in there, thereby avoiding AMP undoing anything custom that you have added. The other limitation may be hardware support, but this is due to the use of the very stable CentOS. I ran into issues when trying to use a high end raid card which CentOS didn't have drivers for. But this isn't the norm for most people. Also with [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s install it compiles the kernel to optimize it for the hardware you've installed it on, which I have to say most of us don't do. I think people on this list have to have a bit more of an open mind about [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it's not the same as building from scratch, but if you need an asterisk server fast, it's definitely the way to go. On a half decent box, you can install the OS and all apps in 30 minutes. Then 10 minutes to an hour to set up your config depending on complexity and your good to go. Mike Chad Osmond wrote: 1. Wait(2) then Answer() in asterisk 2. I am not sure how the [EMAIL PROTECTED] interface looks, so I'm not sure how to set this. If you want examples from Asterisk I can provide them. 3. From what I have experienced, if you register two phones on the same extension, they will usually both get dialed, but this isn't a sure thing. I would create a macro that dials both extensions (say you want 220, it would dial 220 and 9220, 9220 being the home extension if it is available) I would recommend using the full version of asterisk, especially if you have someone in-house who knows asterisk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is quite easy to use and seems pretty good, but when you want to do things that aren't within it's scope you're out of luck. With the normal version of Asterisk, if you can think it and program it, you can do it. Chad -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 18/01/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/233 - Release Date: 18/01/2006
