[asterisk-biz] Asterisk on Mac OS X...newbie questions

[Rob Lith]

On 23 Apr 2009, at 19:43, Rick Dwyer wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Stephane Bakhos wrote:
>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Rick Dwyer <rdwyer at quick-link.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> What I want to do is allow callers to call a our phone line and
>>>>> unsubscribe their phone number from our call center list.  So,
>>>>> basically, when they call in, they would be greeted with a message
>>>>> something like: "please enter your 10 digit phone number followed
>>>>> by
>>>>> the pound sign".  They would then have the number read back to  
>>>>> them
>>>>> to
>>>>> confirm it or reenter it.  Once confirmed, it would write the  
>>>>> phone
>>>>> number to a text file for importing into MySQL or FileMaker.
>>>>
>>>> Not can Asterisk do that, but it can read the callerID and ask if
>>>> they
>>>> want to remove *that* number. Filemaker, I don't know but it can
>>>> talk
>>>> to a mysql database or just write the number to be removed to a
>>>> file.
>>>> Not too complicated.
>>>
>>> OK, so asterisk can read callerid back to the caller.... what if the
>>> caller is calling from a different line... can they be given the
>>> option to enter their phone number?
>>
>> Yes.
>> You can either use dialplan or AGI scripting for that.
>>
>> You can interface with Mysql using the MYSQL app
>>
>> "core show application MYSQL"
>
> Thank you.
> Last question... I think.
>
> I downloaded version 1.4.11 from the site mezzo.net/asterisk/ as this
> is the site a google search returned when I looked up Asterisk for the
> Mac.
>
> Is this the same version listed from asterisk.org?  Or are the
> asterisk.org versions Linux only?  The reason I ask is I would like a
> GUI interface, but don't see one available from mezzo.net.
>
> --Rick

I don't think you'll get much support or have much luck with Asterisk  
on a Mac for any production environment. You can't get any of the  
interface cards to connect to the PSTN going on a Mac. I's a Mac fan  
and only use them, but our Asterisk systems are on Linux - as 99.9% of  
every other install.

Regards
Rob