Chad,
I'll have to challenge you on your comment of being the "full version".
[EMAIL PROTECTED], is a full version. If anything it is more complete then a
manually installed system, since it has handled all the integration of
comedian-mail, spanDSP, Flash Panel, festival speech, and more.
The limitation people run into is the AMP web interface. It hasn't kept
up with the advances in Asterisk, but the guys who have put it together
have a very good way of working around it's limitation. What they have
done is done an include in every configuration file of an additional
custom file ( ie. managers.conf includes managers_custom.conf ). So
anything outside the scope that AMP can handle you stick in there,
thereby avoiding AMP undoing anything custom that you have added.
The other limitation may be hardware support, but this is due to the use
of the very stable CentOS. I ran into issues when trying to use a high
end raid card which CentOS didn't have drivers for. But this isn't the
norm for most people. Also with [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s install it compiles the kernel
to optimize it for the hardware you've installed it on, which I have to
say most of us don't do.
I think people on this list have to have a bit more of an open mind
about [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes it's not the same as building from scratch, but if you
need an asterisk server fast, it's definitely the way to go. On a half
decent box, you can install the OS and all apps in 30 minutes. Then 10
minutes to an hour to set up your config depending on complexity and
your good to go.
Mike
Chad Osmond wrote:
1. Wait(2) then Answer() in asterisk
2. I am not sure how the [EMAIL PROTECTED] interface looks, so I'm not sure how
to set
this. If you want examples from Asterisk I can provide them.
3. From what I have experienced, if you register two phones on the same
extension, they will usually both get dialed, but this isn't a sure
thing. I would create a macro that dials both extensions (say you want
220, it would dial 220 and 9220, 9220 being the home extension if it is
available)
I would recommend using the full version of asterisk, especially if you
have someone in-house who knows asterisk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is quite easy to
use and
seems pretty good, but when you want to do things that aren't within
it's scope you're out of luck. With the normal version of Asterisk, if
you can think it and program it, you can do it.
Chad
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