[asterisk-dev] CSTA support for asterisk... or begining this module/project

Fri Jan 8 06:18:37 CST 2010

Hy All,

Chris,

you looked at cstainside?
http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/cstainside/

is a C++ code. do you see a problem in this project?
maybe to implement in asterisk based on him?

[]'s

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Chris Mylonas <chris at opencsta.org> wrote:

> G'day,
>
> Yes, uaCSTA is the CSTA over SIP thing.  And this is one goal of the
> project, to communicate with OCS because commercially I guess people want
> it.  Both on the asterisk and Siemens and XXXX  side of the fence.
>
> The CSTA spec is 1000+ pages in a several PDFs.  There's a reason it hasn't
> been implemented in open source stuff - it's not easy!
> However, with the code and data structures that are available at opencsta,
> someone could use a blackbox and reverse engineer the stuff to work.
>
> I'm not a C coder, so don't look at me (for the moment) :)   The first goal
> is to make development across PBXs a little easier by using the same CSTA
> API.  If you write an application using it and it works on Siemens or
> Asterisk, it aims to work similarly on the other system.
>
> E.g. 3PCC agent app on Siemens will work on Asterisk and vice versa.
>  Better for the developers!
>
>
> Let's see how early 2010 pans out, but maybe it can be done in two or three
> stages over the next year or two.  If AMI can be configured to talk to a 3rd
> party CSTA Server like opencsta's, then before it writes out the SIP
> message, it could query the CSTA server over a socket for some additional
> uaCSTA stuff to inject.  Probably the fastest way to implement something for
> a stage I implementation.  (Plus you won't annoy me by railroading my
> efforts straight away ;)
>
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Klaus Darilion <
> klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> AFAIK Microsoft's OCS uses CSTA over SIP. Would opencsta.org be useful
>> for sending CSTA over SIP too?
>>
>> Maybe in this case it would be easier to implement CSTA server directly
>> in Asterisk and use chan_sip as transport for CSTA.
>>
>> regards
>> klaus
>>
>> Chris Mylonas schrieb:
>> > Hi Dev List,
>> >
>> > I'm Chris from Sydney.  CSTA Chris!
>> >
>> > In response to the below email - there is now an LGPL csta stack which
>> > works for the Siemens Hipath 3000 series PBX with limited support for
>> > the 4000 series released 15 November 2009.
>> >
>> > The project itself has been alive for years.  As an open source project,
>> > it's early days.  I have just cut-over a new website with a support
>> > forum and some vids of how to set up java on linux and some other basic
>> > functions.  The vids will be reproduced to raise the quality of them
>> > after receiving some helpful feedback.
>> >
>> > There is also an accompanying LGPL nurse call integration project at
>> > http://www.nursepaging.com - by receiving nurse call messages, you are
>> > able to send text messages to cordless DECT phones on a Siemens.  8 or 9
>> > years ago this was a big enough deal - one less piece of equipment for
>> > carers/nurses to carry.
>> >
>> > This same functionality would work with asterisk/SIP handsets, except
>> > the SendMessage/SendText message only sets the display until a button is
>> > pressed (tested with snom m3).  If it could persist button presses, it
>> > would be an effective nurse call integration platform.
>> >
>> > I wouldn't advise spending too much time trying to work out how
>> > everything works at this stage.  At least let me provide some pre-build
>> > JARs (yes java) which will be made available by the end of this month at
>> > the latest.
>> >
>> > The data structures are sound - have a look around here
>> >
>> http://stack.trac.opencsta.org/browser/trunk/src/org/opencsta/servicedescription/callcontrol/events
>> >
>> > The project talks ASN.1 at the moment with hexadecimal characters.
>> > At some stage during 2010, an XML outputter will be done.
>> >
>> > There is a handy utility I've used in the past simply called blackbox.
>> > It sits between CTI servers if you fancy seeing what traffic is passed
>> > around - there's a network version and a serial port version.  You can
>> > view the source at
>> >
>> http://utils.trac.opencsta.org/browser/trunk/src/org/opencsta/utils/blackbox/network
>> >
>> > You'll have to excuse my webserver at the moment.  After installing
>> > mod_python and trac, it's been running a bit doggish.  This will change
>> > sooner or later as well.
>> >
>> >
>> > In order to get asterisk csta integration working, the events just have
>> > to be mapped to each other - CSTA events vs AMI events.  It's a pretty
>> > simple process now that the bulk of the other stuff is out of the way.
>> >
>> > I would like to request an AMI command for placing a call on hold.  I
>> > understand that "Hold" is done with SIP messages, but if we could get an
>> > AMI command to do something similar (without having to transfer calls to
>> > a queue or to a park extension, and keep the call on the handset) that
>> > would be awesome!!
>> >
>> >
>> > Kind Regards  &  Happy New Year!
>> >
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hy,
>> >
>> > Currently i studing ECMA 269 for implement a parser PROPRIETARY/CSTA im
>> my
>> > company.
>> > the module/project for asterisk csta has started?
>> >
>> > i would like to help...
>> >
>> > tnks and sorry of english errors.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Guilherme BR {
>> >      Linux ID: #437053
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>> > }
>> >
>> >
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