DISQUS

Brian West · 2 years ago

FreeSWITCH can already run on this hardware as its native to Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris and many BSD flavors.

It should be fairly trivial to get it up and running on this hardware... I just received my Apple TV today but I'm going to order another one to hack on.

/b

J · 2 years ago

Why is this useful when the system has no USB for use with telephony peripherals? ???

l0rdr0ck · 2 years ago

I have Asterisk running.

I need clarification on which new GUI has to be run.
The 1.4.2 code base is installed
asterisk -vvvc runs
it is configured to run on boot

here is the output so far.
http://www.pastebin.ca/414691

l0rdr0ck · 2 years ago

almost got GUI working
here is a screencap. good luck to whoever finishes this

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u121/l0rdr0c...

enjoy.

steven · 2 years ago

The Apple TV *HAS* an usb connector... normally only for maintenance...but people have allready connected an external usb hdd without any problems...

G · 2 years ago

Why not just stick with Astlinux. Already runs Asterisk on embedded systems.

Jeremy Salmon · 2 years ago

We haven't need USB port to make a telephony system.

SIP / Fxo gateway for telco connection (soundwin, aliwei, patton, linksys spa400....)
SIP / Fxs gateway for analog phone connection (soundwin, aliwei, patton....)

And SIP or IAX phone or softphone.

No USB, no pci, just the ethernet on a switch....

JP Loh · 2 years ago

Because it'll be a PBX. After you get it working on your Apple TV, you can use an IP Phone and connect to your Apple TV PBX and make calls.

Mark Q. · 2 years ago

you can use astribank for the USB :)

Charles · 2 years ago

So I see that Macnn.com noted that it was won but referenced a website ( http://www.awkwardtv.org/ ) stating "This is the default site"... Server pop'd or they referencing the wrong site?

Also to understand, once it is running on ATV, one would ethernet to a router/switch and connect the VoIP phone. But how does the phone line get into the ATV? If the Ethernet is connected using the below being the ATV only has one port.

SIP / Fxo gateway for telco connection (soundwin, aliwei, patton, linksys spa400….)
SIP / Fxs gateway for analog phone connection (soundwin, aliwei, patton….)

I know, I know... this is NOT the forum for this discussion but many are going to think the samething and want to be pointed in the right direction.

Thanks,
Charles

Tom @ AppleTVHacks.net · 2 years ago

Charles,

We've had entries, but non have been confirmed yet, and so it has not been won yet.

If an entry doesn't get confirmed, then the next one will be tried, in order, and so on.

Charles · 2 years ago

Hi Tom,

So, Macnn.com has it wrong... hum, bummer! Well, I will continue to monitor this site, thanks you to ALL of the faithful hackers! ;-)


Charles

Laputa · 2 years ago

Hi,

a wish list - the Apple TV should be functioning as before but just with asterisk as an add on function.

That is, user can still put the box next to the TV for video watching but can also use it as a telephony system.

cheers,

l0rdr0ck · 2 years ago

Here is are my initial notes on this

http://www.mediamax.com/l0rdr0ck/Hosted/asteris...

alexr · 2 years ago

There is no "hack" here to do. Asterisk builds on OS X just fine. The real hack would be to get Digium to put proper support for software timers into Asterisk.

rcfa · 2 years ago

Asterisk shouldn't be a problem, given that "regular" Mac OS X runs on the AppleTV.
The problem with the Mac OS X version of Asterisk is, that a bunch of the features won't work due to lack of Zaptel drivers, and also Asterisk, as shipped, has no support for fax reception and a bunch of other things.

The solution to all this is to run the Trixbox linux distribution, which is based on CentOS 4.4, Asterisk 1.2.x, freePBX, mySQL, and a bunch of add-ons to create a truly useful setup.

Since the AppleTV is intel based, the real quest is to get a linux kernel to boot on the box, and to find/write the required drivers for all the various hardware in AppleTV.

Then a Trixbox distribution could run on the AppleTV, and be really useful, not just a gadget.

I just spent some time trying to get Trixbox running on an old XBOX. The software works, but the limited amount of RAM (64MB) causes performance to drop due to swapping to a level that breaks a lot of the functionality.

AppleTV may just have enough extra RAM and extra CPU performance and faster disk drive options that this problem would go away.

So my quest is to get rEFIt working, and (dual) boot an AppleTV into Linux or its regular OS on demand.

rcfa · 2 years ago

Oh, and yes, if the regular OS remains, freeSwitch seems to me a much more interesting approach than Asterisk, for many reasons, including the fact that like much of Mac OS X it uses XML for configuration files, etc.