Comments on: Introducing TeleYapper 3.0: The Free Asterisk Message Broadcasting System

By: Bob Pierce

Bob Pierce — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:33:06 +0000

Hey Ward – Has this script been tested with Trixbox 2.4.2 yet? I can authenticate but when it jumps to the yapper routine it dosen’t prompt it just hangs up.

— Executing [674@from-internal:1] Answer(“SIP/205-09febc88”, “”) in new stack
— Executing [674@from-internal:2] Wait(“SIP/205-09febc88”, “1”) in new stack
— Executing [674@from-internal:3] Authenticate(“SIP/205-09febc88”, “1234”) in new stack
— Playing ‘agent-pass’ (language ‘en’)
— Playing ‘auth-thankyou’ (language ‘en’)
— Executing [674@from-internal:4] Goto(“SIP/205-09febc88”, “yapper|s|1”) in new stack
— Goto (yapper,s,1)
== Spawn extension (yapper, s, 1) exited non-zero on ‘SIP/205-09febc88’
— Executing [h@yapper:1] Hangup(“SIP/205-09febc88”, “”) in new stack
== Spawn extension (yapper, h, 1) exited non-zero on ‘SIP/205-09febc88’
— Saved useragent “Linksys/SPA3102-5.1.7(GW)” for peer 205

[WM: Doesn’t work with any system running Asterisk 1.4 yet, but we’re working on it.]

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:50:40 +0000

Hi Ward, is there a teleyapper version for PIAF?

[WM: Coming very, very soon.]

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:02:35 +0000

I have been able to write a html front end for the teleyapper program and it seems to work pretty nice. I have added a “groups” database to the system and have it joined to the “callees” database. You can add, edit and view both groups and users through the web interface. Please let me know if you would like the code. I am not a pure programmer so it is not as nice as as some but it gets the job done. It works with Asterisk 1.4.15, mysql 5.0.22 and php.

[WM: We’d love to have a look. Thanks, Scott!]

By: Octothorpe

Octothorpe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:14:47 +0000

One thing that I would like to add to the wishlist is a way to simply call all or part of a group. For Example: I have groups 1-9 set to call different parts of the group and would like to be able use group 0 to call everyone in the entire database, or all groups. That way I can just call group or call everyone depending one what I need to send.

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:36:55 +0000

I got Teleyapper 3.0 running on an Asterisk 1.4 on Ubuntu Server. It’s very nice.

You note that on Asterisk 1.4 one should comment out lines 167-172. I did this and the checkgroup.php didn’t return the correct number of phone numbers in the group. I uncommented line 167 and then it returned the correct number of phone numbers in the group.

Thanks!

By: james

james — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:20:22 +0000

I was just installing this for about the fourth time on my trixbox I keep erasing and reinstalling everything. When I try to copy/paste the download/unzip/rm lines, I get the prompt to rm. Would it be easier for everyone, especially the newbies to use:
rm -f teleyapper2.zip
instead of
rm teleyapper2.zip
??
Thanks for a great app.

[WM: Using -f is great if you never make typos. When you do use it, you don’t get a second chance!]

By: termy

termy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:33:51 +0000

I’ve been working on this for 3 weeks. I dont know why, teleyapper dont respect the time. I put 1 Line. call spead =3. And its still makes all the calls at one time. It doesnt wait for the 3 minutes. Even do, teleyapper.txt write the time delay, it shoots all the calls at onces!! Anyone had that kind of problem? I’ve been trying v.30 v.25 still the same thing.

[WM: Be sure there’s not a typo in the variable name, e.g. call spead =3]

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:11:58 +0000

The teleyapper is great, now is there a way to schedule or stop outgoing messages? lets say at 3:00pm on Monday when I’m at work with my buddies. or stop at 3:30 even if the list of friends was not called completely. Great work guys .

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:19:49 +0000

Ok, this is cool. Took me about 15 minutes and I was bugging the heck out of my family with the silly calls I kept making.
Now, as I ponder the uses for my business…
I’m very new with AGI and PHP. Is there some one who can point me to some tutorials as I would like to create a GUI interface for this. Great work.

By: termy

termy — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:47:29 +0000

Is it possible to make a call, make a pause, and then leave the message?
Like to leave a message directly on the cell phone?

By: mak

mak — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:16:34 +0000

Do you know if this supports any TTS engine?

[WM: Not yet, but good idea. We’ll look into adding support for Flite down the road.]

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:07:49 +0000

Ward
THANK YOU!!! you are save our Pack more than $200 a year with this!
I did want to know if there was away to customize the voice prompts?

By: ppuskari

ppuskari — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:35:57 +0000

I can’t believe I finally get the chance to contribute!!!!! Please change this one line of code in teleyapper.php in order to get multiple lines to work correctly. Without it, you’ll autostrip your duplicates, and it will also make it impossible to test multilines with the same destination number.

$thisfile = $calltime . “.yap.” . $phonenum . “.call” ;

$thisfile = $calltime . $loopcounter . “.yap.” . $phonenum . “.call” ;

If your outbound call list has no duplicates then the original will work fine. But I was trying to call my voicemail to prove all 32 IAX2 channels fired with 35 callees and got only 2 call files. Since the phone number is the differentiation with time, that just overwrote the call files… This fixes that and all is happy.

This is great stuff!

[WM: Thanks for finding it. We didn’t have multiple lines to try. The zip file has been updated. I assume you didn’t need a period after the $calltime since the other code just looks for the first four characters for a time match. Just download the new file and try it for me if you would. If the missing period causes a problem, let me know. Thanks again.]

By: JP

JP — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:28:29 +0000

Thanks for this Ward, will prove veeeeeeery handy with our local hockey association!