Posted by irishgringo on May 15, 2011 at 11:30am
I am an iPHONE and ANDROID developer as well as doing DRUPAL. I am looking for some assistance from someone that has ASTERISK experience and a server that I can use for experimentation. Basically I just want to write the clients on the phone but I need a server to test with.
this is a personal project that I want to do and demonstrate for a potential client, and I have some ideas for mobile VoIP.
thus, if someone has these resources and some time to experiment with me, I would appreciate your assistance.
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Re:Help doing Mobile VoIP asterisk project...
Hello IrishGringo,
How are you planning to connect to the Asterisk server? Via regular phone call? Via SIP? Other?
In case you're interested, Tropo might be accessible via SIP...
3CX Phone ...
... is a free SIP client that works well on iPhone and Android on 3G or wireless. Anyway I was also planning to write a SIP client for Android as this one is not open source, so there's no possibility to extend. Please let me know if you want to share any ideas. Btw there's another one X-Lite which is paid for Android but voice quality is not so good.
I think there are existing
I think there are existing open source SIP clients for both platforms - I use CSipSimple for Android and really like it - multiple SIP provider support, nice integration, great codec options and will work over 3G (depending on your phone provider/connection of course!). For iPhone I think Siphon seems to be the main FOSS contender (and uses the same stack as CSipSimple), although I haven't used it personally.
Hi IrishGringo, I don't think
Hi IrishGringo,
I don't think it needs many resources to get started - you may even be able to install FreePBX or TrixBox on a VPS or spare machine to play around with - these have easy web guis if you just want something to let you call in/out easily. Connecting to regular phone (PSTN also known as POTS) is easy and very cheap, this is called a DID (incoming) and DOD (outgoing) - one or two dollars a month for an incoming line, and ~1-2c/min to make calls. If this is still too low level something like Tropo may be a better fit.
Let us know how you get on!