Hi,
I've managed to acquire a few Cisco handsets (7905, 7920) and would like to
use them with Asterisk.
Rather than simply switching to the SIP firmware I thought I'd use these
with chan_skinny - partly because this is Cisco's primary firmware and
therefore the phones might be more stable, and partly to help test
chan_skinny as it seems to be generally underused. (Is functionality
identical across both firmwares?)
However, I've come across a couple of showstoppers and am not really sure
where to go from here. I've raised bugs for both of them (#17680, #17692)
and had no response so far - have I perhaps overestimated how much
chan_skinny is in use these days, or do I need to follow another route?
I'm not an Asterisk developer but am happy to spend some time this week
resolving the problems. Unfortunately I need the phones next week, so may
have to end up taking the defeatist approach of switching to the SIP
firmware :(
Cheers!
Jonathan
--
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
- Albert Einstein
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On 10-07-26 04:03 AM, Jonathan Hunter wrote:> However, I've come across a couple of showstoppers and am not really > sure where to go from here. I've raised bugs for both of them (#17680, > #17692) and had no response so far - have I perhaps overestimated how > much chan_skinny is in use these days, or do I need to follow another route?Unfortunately the developer who was looking after that channel driver (community developer) has been pulled off onto other projects it seems, so currently there isn't much support for chan_skinny. If your timeframe is just a week or so, you're probably going to be further ahead with chan_sip. Leif Madsen.
Jonathan wrote:> I've managed to acquire a few Cisco handsets (7905, 7920) > and would like to use them with Asterisk.> Rather than simply switching to the SIP firmware I thought > I'd use these with chan_skinny - partly because this is > Cisco's primary firmware and therefore the phones might be > more stable, and partly to help test chan_skinny as it seems > to be generally underused. (Is functionality identical across > both firmwares?)> However, I've come across a couple of showstoppers and am not > really sure where to go from here. I've raised bugs for both > of them (#17680, #17692) and had no response so far - have I > perhaps overestimated how much chan_skinny is in use these days, > or do I need to follow another route?The problem in 17680 has been worked on a couple of times and I believe the issue is not actually in chan_skinny, although it seems easiest to trigger from that channel. I had thought that the problem described in 17692 had also been put to rest, but the more I think about it, I seem to remember a potential fix was deferred pending a re-write of the subchannel handling code. I'll dig around in my archives to see if I can find my old patches for either of these.> I'm not an Asterisk developer but am happy to spend some time this > week resolving the problems. Unfortunately I need the phones next > week, so may have to end up taking the defeatist approach of > switching to the SIP firmware :(Regardless of whether the fixes were available, there is no way they would be reviewed, merged and released within the next week... Dan