Scripts : Asterisk 1.6 : Installs

*Experimental* Means these are all beta programs and may not work AT ALL. Notwithstanding these are being used by the PIAF Dev Team every day and work *HERE*. Your mileage may vary, no warranties express or implied, and running these programs may cause you to have to reinstall PBX in a Flash Version 1.2 or 1.3 – Asterisk 1.6 BETA at any time. Do not use PBX in a Flash Version 1.2 or 1.3 – Asterisk 1.6 BETA on a production machine *EVER*!

Asterisk 1.6 Install GTalk and Speex

Submitted by Admin on May 1, 2008 - 9:46pm.

Update

Version 1.3.0 released. This release will provide you with some required conf files and load jabber and gtalk. There are also some modifications to extensions_custom.conf. Please read the following thread on our forums. Special thanks to Vik for the help!

This will give you an idea of what else needs to be done. After the install you need to look at the following and modify accordingly

  • /etc/asterisk/jabber.conf
  • /etc/asterisk/gtalk.conf
  • /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf

This script will install gtalk and the speex codec. Gtalk is also known as iksemel and is essentially a channel driver for Asterisk. Speex is a speech compression algorithm or codec that is favored by users of Gtalk. This script will install and compile it into Asterisk, HOWEVER this does not mean you can now use it! Various configuration files have to be modified in order to make it work within Asterisk once it is compiled in. Unfortunately I do not have a good how to guide so you will have to trawl google for the configuration. It seems the installation is what has been causing the most problems.

You should ONLY install this AFTER running the update-source program which is included with most of the newer versions of PIAF. Once you have updated your PIAF box with the latest digium source then you can run the program below to install Gtalk and the Speex codec.

This script is still classified RC1 and I would hesitate to install it onto a production machine without further testing... however it is installed on my office system, and configured, and seems to cause no problems. Your mileage may vary!

Installation

I recommend you do not delete this program but rather move it to /usr/local/sbin. You will need to run this each time after you run update-source.

Documentation

Here is a good link for configuration of gtalk with Asterisk 1.4 (PIAF)
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Google+Talk

Script Creator: Tom King

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