[asterisk-users] Asterisk on Mac OS X

[Rick Dwyer]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Niles Ingalls wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Rick Dwyer wrote:
>
>> Hello list.
>> I posted this over on the Biz section but some of the members thought
>> I might find more people running Asterisk on the Mac over here.
>>
>> Here's my question:
>>
>>
>> I have looked at PHLink and PhoneValet and neither seem to be able to
>> do what I need, so I am looking at Asterisk.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is what I am trying to accomplish within the realm of what Asterisk
>> can do on the Mac platform... or any platform... and if so, how
>> difficult of an install is it?  I have read varying accounts from it
>> being a breeze to being frustrating.
>
> The main distinction between running Asterisk on Linux as opposed to
> OSX, is that you'll
> have access to hardware device drivers.  If you're going to be using a
> SIP/IAX Trunk, then
> you'll be just fine on OSX.

I have a bunch of Handytone-488 boxes from Grandstream... are these  
the hardware devices that will allow me to run multiple lines on a Mac?




>  What your attempting to do falls closer
> to the category of "breeze".

Good to hear.

>
> You can install the asterisk-addon package to handle your SQL queries

Good.

Finally, the last thing that will probably determine Mac or Linux does  
the Mac version have a software GUI to adminster and configure  
Asterisk... or is this a Linux only item?

Thanks,
--Rick





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> Niles
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