[asterisk-users] building a phone

[Jon Pounder]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:48:28PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> The core of the system is:
>>> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/kirkwood/index.jsp
>>> (yes, also two TDM ports with slics. No idea how to use them)
>>>
>>> That plug supports running quite a number of Linux distributions
>>> (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and some others)
>>>
>>> What would it take me to port Asterisk or Yate to it? An existing web
>>> interface?
>>>       
>> You don't want a PBX in it - you want a command-line VoIP client.
>>
>> I was asking (here and elsewhere) if such a beast existed some time back. 
>> All I got back was "put asterisk on it and use the OSS/ALSA stuff". Talk 
>> about using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.. I had a quick look at libiax 
>> and ran out of time...
>>     
>
> Yate is the only h32, IAX and SIP free software soft phone I know.
> I figure adding one extra interface wouldn't be that tough :-)
>
> Linphone has a command-line interface. Not sure about others. But then
> again, maybe the system will run X11. That can simplify some hings.
>
>   
ekiga (formerly gnome-meeting) seems to be the most included in distros 
etc., but it has a lot of shortcomings and is buggy IMO - continuously 
reruns wizard for some reason on a mint distro, wants to bind to vpn ip 
when its up instead of sticking to the previous setting, needs -c in the 
command line for calls so can't easily handle a sip url from a browser 
with a standard setting for helpers, barfs when you run from command 
line like that if there is already an instance running (should - just 
tell the original instance to handle the call via some form of ipc and 
shut down the new instance)

they all seem like pretty easy problems to fix but how did something get 
to this state of maturity with some major shortcomings ?

anyone know anything better ?