[Freeswitch-users] Seeking Advice on SIP Phones like Aastra

[Michael Jerris]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:01 AM, teldev wrote:

> 
> Hello Mike,
> 
> Last post lost all formatting when I used Nabble, this is readable now.
> 
> "Can you post for all to see some idea of how these applications work,
> lanagages used, some samples so we can see if we can get some interest in
> this?"
> 
> "I am not sure the phone gui has much to do with FreeSWITCH at all, other
> than pulling a little data from the databases (again, ODBC highly
> recommended)" 
> 
> -->  The idea would be to create a phone GUI on Aastra 6739i that would
> enable the touchscreen to do something like what is shown in these demos:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZDHibW1gUs
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58TPNCOTZI
> 
> Perform FreeSWITCH actions: answer calls, place calls, setup conferences/add
> participants, etc.
> Display FreeSWITCH states: voice mail waiting count, extensions that are
> online/offline, call log, etc. 
> Introduce new actions: dial By name directory with pictures, visual setup of
> conferences, etc.  
> 
> Since the Aastra 6739i, SNOM 870, and some others have built-in XML browsers
> it seems like they could be programmed to interact well with FreeSWITCH and
> various third party systems such as online feeds like weather reports, news,
> stock prices.  Aastra is taking the IPhone approach of letting developers
> create the apps.  They even have a similar slogan "There's an App for That"
> versus Apple's "There's an app for just about anything". 

Slogan ripoff FAIL

> 
> http://www.ucstrategies.com/unified-communications-expert-views/aastra-phone-theres-an-app-for-that.aspx
> 
> I don't know to what extent FreeSWITCH interacts with this phone out of the
> box, it reportedly works well with Asterisk though.  I'm sure FS will likely
> understand certain button presses like hold, mute, speaker, transfer, etc. 
> I will be ordering one within a few days. 
> 
> A few quesions for the FS community:
> 
> Does this project have merit and fulfill a need?  (I have yet to use FS as a
> PBX)
> 

Sure.

> Can anyone shed some light on what features on the phone will work and what
> I've mentioned will require custom development?

Thats a hard question, short answer, all the normal sip stuff, and a bunch of the abnormal stuff too.

> Any ideas on how to architect an integration that would leverage what FS
> already does?  Currently our IVR work uses Javascript/SpiderMonkey to call
> our own web service for database reads/writes.  For this project, we'd need
> to interact more directly with FS and learn more about it's internals.

I am not sure this is totally true, its probably pretty trivial database work for everything you need.

Mike