asterisk users - Nov 2004 - Call ID Mini-Popup?

Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?

Thanks very much for any ideas, or knowledge of something already in
existence.

Thomas Hutton

On November 17, 2004 03:05 pm, Thomas Hutton wrote:
> Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
> incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
> winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
> but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
> configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
> method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?
http://www.mixdown.ca/~andrew/astbot/

A little Perl script that uses the Net::Jabber module -- It pops up an online 
(presence) notification via Jabber.  I use Psi (psi.affinix.com) for my 
Jabber client and it works quite well.

I wrote this up (very) quickly, but it is expandable and can be used to 
provide service to many people with some simple changes to the mechanism 
(i.e. use directed presence messages).

-A.

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:05 -0300, Thomas Hutton wrote:
> Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
> incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
> winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
> but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
> configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
> method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?
> 
> Thanks very much for any ideas, or knowledge of something already in
> existence.
Well there is a system command where you can shell out and issue a CLI
command from the dialplan. From there you can look at what your options
are such as smbclient.

Maybe a moment running through the man page is in order. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Thomas Hutton wrote:
> Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
> incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
> winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
> but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
> configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
> method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?
> 
> Thanks very much for any ideas, or knowledge of something already in
> existence.
The "smbclient" program from Samba provides an option to send winpopup
messages.

Peter

In my quest to determine why asterisk wont talk to our Merlin Legend I
tried moving the D-Channel in zaptel to other position. But If I try
putting it anything different than dchan=24 asterisk fails to load
with "start_pri:

"Unable to open D-channel 24 (No such device or address)"

I wonder if there is a bug where it tries d-channel 24 regardless of
dchan=x setting in zaptel.conf

Now, If I set it to 24 I get the following warning: 

"No D-channels available!  Using Primary on channel anyway 24!"

This may explain why can't we get any calls through... any ideas?

Victor Perez

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:05:55 -0300, Thomas Hutton <pres@nicheware.com>
wrote:
> Question: Does anyone know of a lightweight popup method to put an
> incoming call ID string on a client machine?  Something as simple as
> winpopup would work great- for example: I have a call coming in on Zap/4
> but the phone on Zap/4 doesn't have a call ID display.  Could I somehow
> configure Asterisk to call a script that uses a SMB winpopup (or other
> method) out to a specified computer sitting next to the phone?
> 
> Thanks very much for any ideas, or knowledge of something already in
> existence.
I use a program called YAC. 
http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

The client basically sits on a listening socket. I run a little perl
AGI that streams the CID to the YAC client. I also have this running
on my Tivo so that I can get callerID on my TV. All of the vb source
is available. One thing I have been meaning to do is rewrite it to
accept a UDP broadcast on my whole subnet so that I don't have to
specify indidual IP addresses in my Perl AGI.

Hope this helps. If anyone tweeks it better, let me know. I just
haven't had time.

-Chuji