[Asterisk-Users] A winphone without the phone ??

[asterisk at billheckel.com]

The current version has 2 components, a windows 'client' that is actually a UDP server and a linux
'server' that is actually a UDP client.

The windows 'client' can be popped to the top or pushed down with server side control.  It will
display whatever HTML you send to it as well as maintaining a clock ( at the caller's time zone )
using an offset from the server.  There is a simple tag framework that could be extended to do more.

When the 'client' starts it registers with the server so the server can find the IP address of the
client to associate with the channel for the phone.

I am nearing completion, other issues have taken too much of my time lately.

It will be released as Open Source when finished. ( or at least beta )

Bill

Adam Goryachev wrote:
>>I am almost done with just an animal.  I will be releasing the
>>code when I can get it ready for
>>consumption.
> 
> 
> Any more details on how it works/what it does?
> 
> Perhaps a daemon which runs all the time seperate from asterisk which simply
> reads data from a named pipe or similar, and which then sends the data out
> to the desktop apps? This fits with my previous idea of an AGI that
> continues running while the extension processing also continues onward.
> 
> Of course, even better might be simply the desktop app makes a connection to
> the asterisk manager TCP port, logs in, and watches for calls to it's
> extension, then it can grab the data it needs, call the URL/popup
> window/whatever, and even transfer the call away to voicemail/other
> extension etc...
> 
> ie, a pop-up window might have:
> Answer button (probably only can be done on an ADSI/SNOM phones?? or some IP
> phones)
> Reject button (send busy ??)
> Voicemail button (divert to voicemail)
> Extension (type in a number and the call will be diverted to that extension)
> Displays the callerid details
> Displays the called number
> 
> If this basic app could be written, it would then allow people to extend it
> out to interpret the called number into a 'script' of what the person
> answering the call should say, or lookup the callerid to display the
> customer record, etc...
> 
> One thing that would be interesting is where the caller has been asked to
> "Enter your ticket number?" and being able to trap the ticket number from
> the manager interface (worst case is just use an AGI to drop this number
> into a DB and have the desktop pull it out again)...
> 
> Should be able to re-use a lot of the windows code from gastman to do this,
> just need to restrict what is displayed etc... (ie, it's more a cut-down
> gastman rather than a advanced gastman)...
> 
> Adam
> 
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