[asterisk-dev] [ANNOUNCE] chan_celliax, for managing cellphones via Asterisk, first release

[Giovanni Maruzzelli]

I'm pleased to announce that chan_celliax has been released as pre-Beta
tuesday Oct 24th, in concomitance with the Asterisk Developer's Summit
at Astricon Dallas.

chan_celliax is a new channel for Asterisk that manages cellphones
through a Celliax adapter, composed by a datacable (for commands) and
an audiocable (for the voice) interfacing the computer soundcard.
It manages cellphones using both the AT (most phones) and the FBUS2
(Nokia proprietary) command set.

chan_celliax is also capable of making and receiving Skype calls, and
has an app like app_directory that let you choose which one of your
Skype contacts you want to call.

As additional features, chan_celliax can manage (on Linux) voicemodems
that use the ALSA modem driver (but with voicemodems it can't interact
with Skype), and has got CLI commands: console, dial and hangup
similar to the ones in chan_oss, useful for testing without hardware.

chan_celliax runs on Asterisk 1.2 on Linux and Windows (with cygwin
and a little modification to the compilation of Asterisk to avoid the
calls to sigkill). At date it runs on Asterisk 1.4 only in Linux
(because of the different compilation procedure of Asterisk 1.4, that
does not build on cygwin). Hopefully it will run on FreeBSD.

Together with chan_celliax is distributed the Celliax Developer's LiveCD,
with a working installation of Asterisk, chan_celliax, and configuration
utilities based on Knoppix. Celliax Developer's LiveCD comes complete
with all the developer's tools needed to recompile from svn and remaster
the LiveCD itself.
The LiveCD contains also the cygwin installer and the tgz with the
asterisk-celliax stuff to be untarred in a basic cygwin installation.

The lucky ones of you guys who are at Astricon Developer's Summit will
find some cables and CDs in the Code Zone.

More info on the site www.celliax.org, with forums, downloads, svn,
trac, etc.

Please, report bug and issues to www.celliax.org/trac , is pre-beta
software ;-)

Happy hacking,

Giovanni Maruzzelli