Comments on: Introducing TeleYapper 2.5: The Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System

By: Dr Stoker

Dr Stoker — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:16:19 +0000

The trick now is to get people to actually listen to the entire message before they hang up …

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:28:22 +0000

Where would you change the code to get it do multiple calls simultaneouly, as I want to be able to notify a large group of people pretty quickly?

By: Lee Azzarello

Lee Azzarello — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:59:03 +0000

I had to comment out lines 167-172 in checkgroup.php to get the script to function with Asterisk 1.4. The SET VARIABLE tmp $retcode line is empty each time.

By: Brian C.

Brian C. — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:36:54 +0000

Ward, I love the Yapper program and it fits perfectly with a new campaign my company is running. I have one question though. In the Yapper.php page where it does the actual writing of the .call files, how hard would it be to create a loop in the php? See we have 2 8port cards and want to use 12 of the 16 lines to broadcast. With the 60 second delay between calls, it only ever makes it to maybe line 2 of 12. If the code could write the the .call files for as many lines as you want, that would be incredible.

Thanks again for a great, free product!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:01:53 +0000

It’s a great script and works well. I am going to test it with mock FXS ports of up to 10,000 to test it for time efficiency. One big problem that I have noticed is that there is no way to stop this script. How do you stop it in case you just don’t want to continue with the calls? I tried changing the tables name and now I get continuous errors on the page.

[WM: Just delete all the files in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing folder.]

By: JD

JD — Thu, 17 May 2007 19:18:57 +0000

A modified version of this would combined with the wakeup call app would make a nice reminder system.

By: Ermal

Ermal — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:00:42 +0000

Also if you want to build a graphical interface in php for teleyapper, you got to change the group field in the database because it is a reserved word in php. I changed it grp.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:12:19 +0000

Hey, great concept for so many purposes! I’m trying to get it running on Trixbox 2.2 but there’s no joy. I’m guessing that maybe the php modules need some tweeking? It gets to the part where it should tell me how many calls it’s going to make and then just hangs up. Doesn’t even produce a teleyapper.txt log file. I’m not a code-head at all.. any ideas on where to start?

[WM: I’ve quit being a pioneer, but we do plan to use trixbox 2.2 when the appliance comes out. Give me a few weeks, and we should have more to report.]

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sat, 05 May 2007 13:43:38 +0000

Hi, Ward. Great work. Was there ever a web interface for adding numbers to the database? I would like to use this to call people that have an appointment on the next day to remind them. And my mom is NOT very technical and she’s the one that would setup the numbers to be dialed. Any ideas?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:43:59 +0000

Gee I guess im no expert at SQL. How exactly do you place in a phone number to test after being in the database? Thanks guys

[WM: phpMyAdmin is an easy way, and it’s included in all the TrixBox builds.]

By: Bill Sterzenbach

Bill Sterzenbach — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:35:32 +0000

Here are the changes:

DigitTimeout and ResponseTimeout are deprecated in 1.4.0 so wherever DigitTimeout and ResponseTimeout are used, they need to be replaced with the SET() command.

So we end up with:

DigitTimeout(7)
Becomes:
Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=7)

ResponseTimeout(10)
Becomes:
Set(TIMEOUT(response)=10)

Thanks again for a great system.

Bill

[WM: An additional change needs to be made in checkgroup.php. See Comment #34 below.]

By: Bill Sterzenbach

Bill Sterzenbach — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:55:13 +0000

This is sweet! I’m using it successfully with a plain-jane 1.4.0 version of asterisk. I just needed to remove a couple of lines of deprecated code and it worked flawlessly. Took about an hour to get it working.

thanks!

[WM: Bill, send us the code changes. We’d love to publish them. Thanks.]

By: John

John — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:42:04 +0000

We would like to add a 4th option: “press 4 to speak to 1 of our representitives. Is It possible.

Thanks in Advance.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:26:24 +0000

Also is there a way to automatically ad the prefix 1 so I don’t have to ad it to the database before you upload it to teleyapper?

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:24:22 +0000

I noticed you can select local to use default dial plan or pick an individual trunk sip/aix. I would like to choose an “outbound route” instead of an actuall trunk is that possible.

[WM: Not as currently written. Sorry.]

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:44:37 +0000

Hi,
Great work. thanks for all your effort. I wanted to know if you have added the multiple simultaneous calls capability. That will help a lot, when a message has to be broadcast and the user can set the limit depending on the BW and the outbound trunks they have.

Thanks
MK

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:01:08 +0000

When I dial internally it works fine. But if I setup in auto attendant no way to dial to extension “674”

[WM: This is one of those issues that is best posted on the TrixBox forums together with the exact code from your autoattendant setup.]

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:49:04 +0000

Can this extension be reached by external callers? If so how?

[WM: Sure. Add the TeleYapper extension to your AutoAttendant and give out the password to those who need access.]

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:17:49 +0000

First off, THANK YOU for a wonderful program.

Secondly, a few comments on my use. I have been using it successfully to queue up multiple calls at once. Here’s how I do it. I split my list up into 100 contacts each. Group each one from 0 to 9 as usual. Then I dial-in and queue each one up one right after the other, so that I usually have 3 or 4 going at once (300 or 400 contacts.) That way instead of 300 or 400 minutes to send out, it only takes about 100.

I use VoicePulse Connect for outgoing. I get two trunks of 4 simultaneous channels. I’ve never went over 4, so I am not sure if it would roll over properly to the 2nd trunk or not? But from the billing detail, I have had as many as 4 channels active at the same time with Teleyapper. Very cool.

Seems to work just fine. I inserted my number into the middle of my lists so that I get “test” calls throughout to check quality. They all come through loud and clear.

Finally, a request. How hard would it be to have Teleyapper transfer the caller into an IVR instead of just playing a message? That would add so much capability, and I could REALLY use it. I don’t care if it is voicemail, answering machine or answered, I’d like them all sent to an IVR that I could setup. That would be so cool….

[WM: Great suggestions, Sean. I’ll have a look at the IVR idea.]

By: bharath

bharath — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:47:01 +0000

can teleyapper work as a interactively
that is if were working for a hospital. we call our patients and give his schedule,if he accepts it he has to press 1 or to reschedule he has to press 2 or to contact the operator press 3

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:18:38 +0000

Hi WM,
First I want to thank you for that remarkable effort and I managed to get teleyapper working on my Asterisk except for writting the status of the call to the file (LastOkcall , lastcallstatus) in Callees table. Is there any specifics to get it working? I checkd the teleyapper.php. I do not think there is code to do that step. Is it still under developement?
Thanks in advance.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:56:43 +0000

Is there a way to have multiple Teleyapper Voicmail Boxes. This way I could assign a Teleyapper Extension per coach and not have them share the same voicemail box?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:49:54 +0000

Is it possible to initalize more than 1 call at a time?

[WM: Not the way the current code is written. Sorry.]

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:24:13 +0000

Finally took the plunge and have TrixBox 1.1 working and writing to SQL – it just worked!

WaitFor Silence works very well for us. We poll mobile phones in the UK and they always goto a message – wrong number, voice mail etc. Using CallProgress as well, we seem to be pretty near 100% accurate in either leaving a message after the voice mail prompt or talking to the recipient after they answer.

Fantastic product – redial seems to work as well.

Thank you Ward