Apple TV Hacks - Latest Comments in $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Telephony11 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:07:48 -0000

These technological changes that have come about with time are not only reliable but they are also the most cost-effective way for communicating to almost any corner of this world. Among all these finer technologies, Voip Telephony is the most easy-to-use technology that is much suitable for almost all business entities.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

rcfa — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:23:54 -0000

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.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

rcfa — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:21:40 -0000

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.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

alexr — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:39:17 -0000

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.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

l0rdr0ck — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:17:05 -0000

Here is are my initial notes on this

http://www.mediamax.com/l0r...

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Laputa — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:12:44 -0000

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,

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:08:21 -0000

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Tom @ AppleTVHacks.net — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:30:54 -0000

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.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Charles — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:27:21 -0000

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 spa400â€¦.)
SIP / Fxs gateway for analog phone connection (soundwin, aliwei, pattonâ€¦.)

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Mark Q. — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:38:45 -0000

you can use astribank for the USB :)

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

JP Loh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:01:26 -0000

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.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Jeremy Salmon — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:52:05 -0000

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....

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:44:52 -0000

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

steven — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:58:39 -0000

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

l0rdr0ck — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:59:06 -0000

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

http://i167.photobucket.com...

enjoy.

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

l0rdr0ck — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:32:40 -0000

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:41:42 -0000

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

Re: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange

Brian West — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:18:15 -0000

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.