Barzilai Spinak wrote:
Thank you Steve.
About the configs in Asterisk... I confess that I'm new to the code so
I still need to read more. I didn't know about ast_config()
About the hardcodedness of the countries... that seems to be the
"problem". Everything is too oriented to "my country works like this
with this telephone company".
When in fact, what I'm using is not even to connect it to a the
telephone company of my country but to some other machine which has an
old Call Center implementation with some other modification of the MF
R2 sequence.
It doesn't relate specifically to any country. Yes, they are all
similar, and being able to specify the number of ANI and DNIS/DID is
sometimes all you need, that's why I could make it work.
Well that's just a weird system. Config files tend not to get over
those. See Mexico support in Unicall for an example. :-)
There's some truth in your statement that opening the configuration to
external files may get some people into trouble.
On the other hand, what I see is a strange mix of:
a) If you're doing telephony stuff you should know what you're doing
b) Most people using Unicall (Asterisk for that matter) have very
little idea of what they are doing and why (copying and pasting
configs from here and there).
So, where's the sweet spot? :-)
Most users are in category b. Usable by people who don't know what they
are doing is paramount. As I said, config files don't get over most
problems beyond what you can configure right now.
I can spend 1 hour reading the source code and finally knowing how to
change it to my needs. (For example, adding a new "country")
Should I need to? Can people from the (b) set do it?
Is it scalable? What is more of a support nightmare?
Please take all this as constructive comments. I really appreciate
your work and if I had to do it from the start it would take me months
longer!!!
A real question that should go in a different mail, but what the check:
Let's say I have two E1 spans, but one needs to talk
CountryFooVersion, and the other needs CountryBarVersion (yes, both on
the same machine and in the same "country", maybe different number of
digits for ANI).
Each channel is individually configured. You could have 30 different
configurations on a single E1.
How would I go about configing that?
In a unicall.conf file for chan_unicall? Set a configuration. Define
some channels. Set a new configuration. Define some more channels. The
most recent configuration is used as each channel is defined.
Regards,
Steve
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