Re: OGo and Asterisk integration

off topic a little, but I downloaded knoppix and og iso, but it doesn't 
work!  Anyone help me out.!!

Helge Hess wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2004, at 17:10, John Helmuth wrote:
>
>> Either you want to dial a person that's shown on the Ogo screen (Dial 
>> Out), or you want to see the person's Ogo screen when that person 
>> calls you (Dial In).
>
>
> Yup. There is other stuff like attaching call logs to a contact.
>
>> Dial Out appears simple: What the user wants is for his phone to dial 
>> the number he clicks on.  It should be comparatively simple to do, if 
>> the CTI plugin is available, and there's a link between the logged in 
>> user and his phone.  This should work fine with the web based 
>> interface, I would think, essentially entirely on the server (or 
>> servers.)
>
>
> a) if the VoIP client supports some native URL scheme, it would be 
> best to
>    invoke that by the dial link, like:
>      sip://12881727112/
>    don't know whether something like this exists.
>
> b) The dial out is a bit more complicated than just making the server 
> make a
>    connection. Keep in mind that you have three devices, the 
> browser/server, the
>    actual phone (or software) and the PBX.
>    Dial out need to make the PBX connect both source and target 
> phones. This is
>    supported by TeamCall, but I have no idea about Asterisk.
>    (you basically need two phone numbers, the target _and_ the source)
>
>> Dial In is complicated in the web interface, I think, as there would 
>> have to be a way to pop up a new window (or refresh the window he's 
>> looking at) showing the caller's information... how do you do that 
>> with a browser?  Seems like some special client software would be 
>> necessary.
>
>
> Yes, could be a small Java Applet which triggers the browser. Nothing 
> impossible and I suspect something like this should be already 
> available for Asterisk.
>
>> So, at the least, Asterisk integration should be a CTI plug in that 
>> uses whatever protocols Asterisk is using to to a 'dial out' on the 
>> logged in user's phone when they click on the dial button.
>
>
> Yes, that would be a good starting point. So we need to have some 
> research on that Asterisk protocol to connect two phones.
>
>> I'm not sure how the dial-in should be done... how does the current 
>> Ogo CTI plugin handle this?
>
>
> Dial-In is not supported. As you correctly analyzed this is not really 
> possible for a pure HTML interface.
>
>
> BTW: if someone with Asterisk knowledge/experience wants to do that - 
> we could setup an asterisk.opengroupware.org server which hosts a 
> testing/integration environment for OGo developers. We would need to 
> find someone wanting to setup/admin Asterisk on an OGo dev machine.
>
> Greets,
>   Helge

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