Comments on: Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk

By: Naturalblue

Naturalblue — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:33:56 +0000

It'd be cool to have asterisk integrate with zimbra so that you could click a contact number and your phone would ring. when you pick it up it would ring the contact number. [WM: I'm not familiar with zimbra, but we do exactly the same thing with our AsteriDex application which is free for the taking here.]

By: DarkSource

DarkSource — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:44:38 +0000

In replay to number 8– take a look at this firewall script for asterisk-
http://www.darksource.org/asterisk/firewall.txt

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:11 +0000

Thanks for all the great info on AAH which you have provided to date. One additional project that I would be interested in would be how to set up Asterisk@Home for paging both through a phone with speaker phone and an intercom system. This would be useful for Car dealerships, manufacturing plants etc.

Thanks again for all wour efforts.

Dave

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:46:48 +0000

Great series. Keep up the good work. What are you using for a WiFi phone. I haven’t been able to find one that works. Thanks.
-bill

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:12:54 +0000

Thanks for all the great articles! As Asterisk@Home/CentOS gains popularity, it is no doubt becoming a fatter target. I would love to see another security article on how to work with the built in linux firewall iptables (or perhaps Shorewall) either manually or through WebMin.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:48:47 +0000

I was happy to make a donation.
Some comments on that..
You are certainly justified in asking for some money, Feel free to make the appeal more visually prominent and also to allow for more than $5.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:18:32 +0000

Just found this yesterday and this is my new favorite asterisk site... donating shortly, I'm looking forward to the reminder system. Two things I would like to see... a revisit or more details on delivering voicemail to email (can't get mine to work, it's a linux problem, not an asterisk problem but still...) and a list (table of contents) of all the asterisk projects, so I don't have to scroll through a huge page of them. [WM: There is a table of contents of sorts. Click on the link I've provided or click on the Asterisk Tutorials link in the upper right column. As for voicemail to email, take a look at the email section of the Asterisk@Home 2.2 Installation tutorial. There's some additional information added in recent days.

By: djw

djw — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:02:10 +0000

FWIW, Centos and Asterisk@home supported wireless on my test machine out of the box (older Thinkpad Laptop with pcmcia wireless card), no fiddling required. And it works well with my home wireless WDS mesh set-up.

There are a lot of advantages to redeploying a retired laptop for AAH – built-in battery (i.e. ups), pcmcia/wireless. Some (most old tp’s even have an option to add a 2nd hard disk in the bay that will permit image backups for upgrading to new aah versions without clobbering the old set-up.

I’m not sure if it will put up with continuous use for years or has the horsepower much use beyond my limited requirements but it’s been working pretty well so far.

[WM: Good to know and some great information to keep in mind. Linux does seem to have good built-in support for PCMCIA WiFi cards. It’s just the USB stuff that’s a real problem. Unfortunately, the USB dongles are the easiest to deploy … at least for desktop systems. Thanks.]

By: Tim Bornholtz

Tim Bornholtz — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:36:59 +0000

One Linux tool that you may not be aware of is Wifi Radar. It is a graphical tool for finding and connecting to preferred wireless networks. It is also a boot daemon to connect to the preferred profile automatically. That may save you a bit of manual work and not have to "issue dozens of unintelligible Linux commands to make a Wi-Fi adapter come to life". [WM: Good suggestion. I'll try it out and report the results down the road.]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:48:48 +0000

The articles have been great!!! How about some form of MS Outlook integration with caller ID…

Thanks!!!!!

By: Kevin McCarn

Kevin McCarn — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:59:13 +0000

Love the blog.

Since starting to read your column – I have deployed 1 AAH server in the Washington DC area with extensions in Woodbridge (IAX) and Hawaii (SIP).

Holding my breath for the AAH linkup howto.

Change the donation link to allow adjustable donation amount – I’ll give more.

Keep up the good work.

[WM: Thanks for your note and generosity. We want to spread the burden fairly, but your offer is appreciated.]

By: Ross C

Ross C — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:13:44 +0000

1. How much will all the Allison prompts cost?
2. And what’s the ETA for the appointment reminder system?
3. A how-to on getting Asterisk to behave like a key system would be a popular article (IMO).

Keep up the good work!

[WM: 1. Haven’t finished the code yet so I really don’t know. 2. I try not to get in the ETA game. Look how well Microsoft does at it, and they have a few more programmers than we do. I’m hoping in the next few weeks unless there’s a snag waiting in the wings. 3. Key system is on our radar. Thanks for the input.]