[asterisk-users] Radio interfaces for Asterisk - ISO image distro

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:43:08AM -0700, John Todd wrote:
> 
> I just ran across these guys - looks very interesting:
> 
>   http://xelatec.com/xippr/install
> 
> They distribute a self-installing ISO with Asterisk, FreePBX, and some  
> pre-built software to do "radio over IP".  You'll need to buy the USB  
> radio hardware, but it looks really interesting as a pre-built system  
> for radio trunking using some of the Asterisk capabilities.  There is  
> a very narrow but highly interested group of people who use radio  
> interfaces for exotic locations such as oil platforms, ships, or  
> remote off-grid locations to connect Asterisk systems together for  
> long-haul telecommunications access.
> 
> Hopefully there will be a speaker this year at Astricon who will be  
> going into a very complex and unique system in detail using these  
> components; I'll announce if/when they schedule their talk.

Now, why would they need a separate ISO for that? What extra software do
they have?

One change is obvious: chan_usbradio is not build by default. 

The output from cppcheck for it:

[channels/xpmr/xpmr.c:160]: (style) Redundant condition. It is safe to deallocate a NULL pointer
[channels/chan_usbradio.c:391]: (style) struct or union member 'sound::desc' is never used
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: HAVE_SYS_IO_H...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: RADIO_XPMRX...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: HAVE_XPMRX...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: __linux...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: defined(__FreeBSD__)...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: NEW_ASTERISK...
[channels/chan_usbradio.c:390]: (style) struct or union member 'sound::ind' is never used
[channels/chan_usbradio.c:394]: (style) struct or union member 'sound::samplen' is never used
[channels/chan_usbradio.c:395]: (style) struct or union member 'sound::silencelen' is never used
[channels/chan_usbradio.c:396]: (style) struct or union member 'sound::repeat' is never used
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: __FreeBSD__...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: defined(__OpenBSD__)||defined(__NetBSD__)...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: MIN...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: MAX...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: DEBUG_FILETEST==1...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: __BYTE_ORDER==__LITTLE_ENDIAN...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: DEBUG_CAPTURES==1...
Checking channels/chan_usbradio.c: DEBUG_CAPTURES==1&&XPMR_DEBUG0==1...

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