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

[Mark Michelson]

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 know much about mezzo.net, but 1.4.11 is a pretty old version of 
Asterisk. The current version of Asterisk is 1.4.24.1, and 1.4.25 is due out 
relatively soon.

As far as the tarballs of Asterisk on asterisk.org go, they can be used on OS X. 
Asterisk is made to be run on any POSIX-compliant OS. A few of the core 
developers use Apple laptops and make sure that the code compiles and runs on a 
Mac. If you use the Asterisk-GUI available from asterisk.org, you can run it on 
a Mac. I don't know how much Safari testing is done, but if you have issues 
using Safari, you can try using Firefox instead.

Mark Michelson