[Asterisk-Users] Music on hold and conferencing on OS X

[Dustin Wenz]

We are running Asterisk on Mac OS X Server as our office PBX. MOH  
seems to work just fine out of the box. I believe I had to install  
the addons package before it would work. This was somewhat annoying  
to work on because I actually had to stop and restart asterisk for  
changes in musiconhold.conf to take effect. Anyway, this is what our  
musiconhold.conf file looks like:

[default]
mode=files
directory=/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3
random=yes

The real challenge is getting meetme to work. I don't understand why  
the timer is such a major obstacle. Under linux, you need to apply a  
patch to create a dummy timer for meetme. As far as I know, no one  
has created one for Darwin, and probably not for BSD either.

I'm also really interested in getting realtime to work under OS X  
using postgres. There's a wiki for it, but no one has anything to  
contribute. :(

	- .Dustin


On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Joseph Blake wrote:

> We're setting up asterisk at the office (really doing some testing  
> right now) and it is going to be hosted on a dual G5 XServe running  
> OS X. We're an apple certified solutions provider, etc. so we want  
> to build all our stuff on apple hardware and software. Anyway, the  
> last sticking point is moh and meetme. Is there any solution to get  
> moh and meetme working on OS X? Meetme isn't necessarily a big deal  
> for us in our setup, but we plan to start selling asterisk  
> solutions to our customers and they might need/want a conference  
> solution. Also, something that is somewhat of a big deal (but not a  
> deal breaker) for us is music on hold. Is there any way to get moh  
> working without zaptel drivers, or is there another timing source  
> that asterisk can use that works on OS X? I see alot of people  
> using OS X for asterisk, but no one mentions moh except that it  
> doesn't work, and those posts are from over a year ago. So, just  
> looking for input on moh/meetme, and also any general observations  
> people have from working with asterisk on OS X.
>
> thanks,
> ~joseph
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