[Asterisk-Users] AsteriskPT- Sucessfull routing Skype Calls to my * box. Incoming and Outgoing calls!!!

[undrhil.1528785 at bloglines.com]

Well, look at it this way: if you get the working, you can buy one of those
tiny form-factor 386 boards with the 2 pcmcia slots and get a pcmcia soundcard
and a ethernet port.  Run Linux off a CF card and have it setup to *only*
interface with Skype and Asterisk.  Basically, make a Skype ATA, but it would
convert Skype to SIP.  I think that could still be considered an ATA, right?
 Or a gateway at least.

Since you can make a Skype account for free and
can (for right now) make US and Canada LD calls for free, I think the cost
and time to make them would be worth it.  :)  And if you figure out a good
price for them, people might even buy them from you....

Undrhil

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How many channels have you guys been able to get with this?  
> 

> The only problem I have with this is that it takes skype and a soundcard

> (virtual or otherwise) and the "API" is really executing commands on a

> running skype process.  In my opinion its not worth it for 1 concurrent

> call per account.
> 
> I have written code that works with skype in linux
that simulates a
> virtual sound device.  I have used that and successfully
done calls out
> with this.  I havent played with the dbus stuff (how you
control the
> skype app from within linux) but since I have a "soundcard"
that I know
> the audio format of it wouldnt be difficult to integrate this
into
> asterisk, I could tweak chan_oss and make it into chan_skype fairly

> easily since that takes care of the other half of the equation.  The
>
only thing missing would be the events via dbus, which there are plenty
>
of examples on so its not like all new code would have to be written.
> 

> But its just not worth it if you have to have skype running for each
>
call.  And then you would potentially have to have a new username for
> each
running process, and skype really wants X on linux so you would
> have to
at least have the X virtual frame buffer (it works and acts like
> X but
never displays anything or uses any hardware).  That seems like an
> aweful
lot of wasted resources on a box to connect to skype.
> 
> 
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