Hello! I'm new to asterisk and because I try to configure the package for my needs the last days without success, I'd like to ask a basical qestion. I need asterisk to work together with the German VoIP provider sipgate (http://www.sipgate.de). Asterisk should act as a softphone, I want to recive and make calls only with the software under linux, no softphone should be used. Is this possible with asterisk in principle or do I have to use a real softphone together with asterisk? Manny thanks! -- Gruss / Regards, Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net> Linux for the blind: http://www.blinux.suse.de
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:13 +0100, Christian Schoepplein wrote:> Hello! > > I'm new to asterisk and because I try to configure the package for my > needs the last days without success, I'd like to ask a basical qestion. > > I need asterisk to work together with the German VoIP provider sipgate > (http://www.sipgate.de). Asterisk should act as a softphone, I want to > recive and make calls only with the software under linux, no softphone > should be used. Is this possible with asterisk in principle or do I have > to use a real softphone together with asterisk? > > Manny thanks! >You can use asterisk as a softphone with either chan_oss or chan_alsa. Googling for 'asterisk' and 'softphone' gives this link at 7th position http://www.junghanns.net/asterisk/page13.html It's slightly outdated, you won't need the diff any more (as far as I can tell), but it still gives you the general idea. *'s softphone capabilities are somehow limited though. E.g. you can't put calls on hold, and what bothers me even more is that the soundcard isn't released between calls. I.e. * grabs it on startup and releases it only when quitting, unlike (most) other softphones. On the other hand, latency wise * is the best softphone I came across on Linux. Regards, Bruno.
I have * running with sipgate.de so that works fine. However, if all you want is to use * as a softphone, you'd be better off using an actual softphone -- * would be overkill for that, and it still wouldn't be as easy to use as a proper softphone.> -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Schoepplein [mailto:chris@schoeppi.net] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:14 AM > To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Basical question to asterisk > > > Hello! > > I'm new to asterisk and because I try to configure the package for my > needs the last days without success, I'd like to ask a > basical qestion. > > I need asterisk to work together with the German VoIP > provider sipgate > (http://www.sipgate.de). Asterisk should act as a softphone, > I want to > recive and make calls only with the software under linux, no > softphone > should be used. Is this possible with asterisk in principle > or do I have > to use a real softphone together with asterisk?