asterisk users - Feb 2006 - Music on hold and conferencing on OS X

We're setting up asterisk at the office (really doing some testing  
right now) and it is going to be hosted on a dual G5 XServe running  
OS X. We're an apple certified solutions provider, etc. so we want to  
build all our stuff on apple hardware and software. Anyway, the last  
sticking point is moh and meetme. Is there any solution to get moh  
and meetme working on OS X? Meetme isn't necessarily a big deal for  
us in our setup, but we plan to start selling asterisk solutions to  
our customers and they might need/want a conference solution. Also,  
something that is somewhat of a big deal (but not a deal breaker) for  
us is music on hold. Is there any way to get moh working without  
zaptel drivers, or is there another timing source that asterisk can  
use that works on OS X? I see alot of people using OS X for asterisk,  
but no one mentions moh except that it doesn't work, and those posts  
are from over a year ago. So, just looking for input on moh/meetme,  
and also any general observations people have from working with  
asterisk on OS X.

thanks,
~joseph

On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:03 PM, Joseph Blake wrote:
> We're setting up asterisk at the office (really doing some testing 
> right now) and it is going to be hosted on a dual G5 XServe running OS 
> X.
I love it.  Glad to hear it.  Should be a monster.
> We're an apple certified solutions provider, etc. so we want to build 
> all our stuff on apple hardware and software. Anyway, the last 
> sticking point is moh and meetme. Is there any solution to get moh and 
> meetme working on OS X? Meetme isn't necessarily a big deal for us in 
> our setup, but we plan to start selling asterisk solutions to our 
> customers and they might need/want a conference solution. Also, 
> something that is somewhat of a big deal (but not a deal breaker) for 
> us is music on hold. Is there any way to get moh working without 
> zaptel drivers, or is there another timing source that asterisk can 
> use that works on OS X?
I certainly don't see why not.  I am also a hardcore Apple guy, and a 
newb to asterisk.  I have been using it for several months now and have 
a small setup running on a measly old G3/400 imac (with a dead screen).

I will try to play with MOH,  but I suggest that if you have more time 
for this, try using the newer asterisk's native music on hold method.  
I see no reason why this wouldn't work as it is playing back audio just 
like any other audio (which works fine).  This means no MPG123.  If 
this makes no sense to you try searching this list for "mpg123 
alternative".

Let us know..
Marty

We are running Asterisk on Mac OS X Server as our office PBX. MOH  
seems to work just fine out of the box. I believe I had to install  
the addons package before it would work. This was somewhat annoying  
to work on because I actually had to stop and restart asterisk for  
changes in musiconhold.conf to take effect. Anyway, this is what our  
musiconhold.conf file looks like:

[default]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3
random=yes

The real challenge is getting meetme to work. I don't understand why  
the timer is such a major obstacle. Under linux, you need to apply a  
patch to create a dummy timer for meetme. As far as I know, no one  
has created one for Darwin, and probably not for BSD either.

I'm also really interested in getting realtime to work under OS X  
using postgres. There's a wiki for it, but no one has anything to  
contribute. :(

	- .Dustin


On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Joseph Blake wrote:
> We're setting up asterisk at the office (really doing some testing  
> right now) and it is going to be hosted on a dual G5 XServe running  
> OS X. We're an apple certified solutions provider, etc. so we want  
> to build all our stuff on apple hardware and software. Anyway, the  
> last sticking point is moh and meetme. Is there any solution to get  
> moh and meetme working on OS X? Meetme isn't necessarily a big deal  
> for us in our setup, but we plan to start selling asterisk  
> solutions to our customers and they might need/want a conference  
> solution. Also, something that is somewhat of a big deal (but not a  
> deal breaker) for us is music on hold. Is there any way to get moh  
> working without zaptel drivers, or is there another timing source  
> that asterisk can use that works on OS X? I see alot of people  
> using OS X for asterisk, but no one mentions moh except that it  
> doesn't work, and those posts are from over a year ago. So, just  
> looking for input on moh/meetme, and also any general observations  
> people have from working with asterisk on OS X.
>
> thanks,
> ~joseph
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