[Asterisk-Dev] Embedded Asterisk

[Lars Boegild Thomsen]

Hi,

I got the feeling that most people considered the discussion off-topics on
this mailing list, so that's why I haven't continued the discussion.

The meeting (which was with a local Malaysian service provider) went well.
Nothing is confirmed yet - things take time here in Asia (a lot of it), but
all in all it is positive.  Basically their angle, since they are providing
wireless fixed lines - would be to deploy an Asterisk box at the customer
premisis - and in doing that obviously it would be a lot easier with an
embedded device.

As for my development - right now it's a little stalled :)  I am constantly
working on two or three projects (one being an embedded wireless access
point using the same platform/os as the embedded pbx), so right now I've
been doing more on the access point functionality.

Status right now is that it boots and runs of my STB-1030N device (solid
state - no moving parts).  Could use a fancy GUI though :)

Anyway - if anybody is curious I actually did set up an anonymous CVS for
the embedded source.  Do:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.justit.ws:/home/jitos login

Password is 'anonymous'.  Then:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.justit.ws:/home/jitos co jitos

Do NOT expect this to cleanly compile on your system :)  It does cleanly
compile on my system (Debian), but it does require a couple of mount points
defined in /etc/fstab (Would love to find another way but haven't gone there
yet).

I have actually also setup a few anonymous news groups on news.justit.ws for
further discussion if it becomes too off-topics here (and no - I won't setup
a mailing list - newsgroups are far easier to handle).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Andy Powell
> Sent: 17 November 2003 17:35
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] Embedded Asterisk
>
>
> Hi
>
> I just thought I do a follow up on this since I haven't seen any
> futher posts on this for a while...
>
> How did your meeting go Lars? Hope it all worked out... Have you
> got any progress reports
> for us?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> On 27/10/2003 at 23:47 Lars Boegild Thomsen wrote:
>
> >Hi Andy,
> >
> >Well - it would be fun to get a possibility to work on this more or less
> >full time, so let's see if I can impress them :)  It works quite well
> >though, so I would guess so.  Currently the only thing I can't
> demo is the
> >MOH (lack of ztdummy) and meetme (same reason), so I'll just "forget" to
> >mention those features.
> >
> >The allwell boxes are great except from one thing.  The
> >$#@#%$^%^$&@$%#%@#%$#@&&$ CyberPro video chips does't have any
> working open
> >source framebuffer driver available that'll enable the video output.  I
> >originally got a few of these boxes for a streaming video
> project and that
> >died more or less of the same reason.  So now I've turned it
> into a PBX (at
> >least for the demo - I want my MP3 player back after the demo).
> >
> >As to your request for 2 PCI slots :)  Search and thou shall find
> >(http://www.allwell.tv/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.h
tml).  The
>Metallica box have room for 2 PCI slots and comes in an 800 MHz version
>which would be cool.  Just - the box doesn't look great as a PBX - but
>well - can't have everything.
>
>As for getting the boxes in Holland I would assume that's easier than
>getting them to Malaysia :)  And Allwell managed that about 4 days after we
>placed an order - they are pretty efficient (albeit USD 50 for shipping did
>piss me off slightly and then they labelled the shipping as electronic
>equipment against my request - which meant I had to pay duties here in
>Malaysia - pc equipment does not carry any duty).  Anyway - I think I ended
>up paying around USD 300 for the first box - including shipping, flash disk
>and a neat wireless keyboard with built-in joystick/mouse.
>
>I'll see if I can make the CVS repository accessible once I get over this
>meeting tomorrow.


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