[Freeswitch-users] Status of mod_skinny? is it being maintained?

Thu Mar 14 17:09:48 MSK 2013

This shouldn't be anything at all in mod_skinny.  You would use dialplan to do all of this.  Just set the timeouts, hangup_after, continue_on, etc… and have the next dialplan entries go to voicemail.

On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu> wrote:

> Main concerns right now is it seems like some pretty critical functionality is missing - right now, doesn't seem to be 
> any way to get calls to roll over to voicemail.
> 
> I've been able to come up with ways to work around other limitations (like the variables not coming in from the user 
> directory entry), but haven't been able to find any way yet to get voicemail to work.
> 
> I'll certainly be looking at the code with intent to make improvements, but there's some learning curve involved in 
> knowing how the rest of the system works.
> 
> For the voicemail stuff - seems like if there would be a way to just get the bridge to skinny to fall through 
> (hangup_after_bridge,continue_on_fail) with some sort of failure/status code set - I could always check the status with 
> a condition afterwards and route to voicemail that way.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> On 03/13/2013 12:13 PM, Anthony Minessale wrote:
>> I asked the author of the module and here is his response:
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mod_skinny hasn't seen updates since long time because my dev machines
>> are in a bad shape since that time (and for other reasons : I'm
>> building a new house). The main reason is lack of time.
>> 
>> Mod_skinny is stable and works for me. There are currently 8 issues in
>> Jira. Only one (FS-4321) may be critical (but there is a patch
>> attached).
>> 
>> Appart from that, contributions are welcome. I think the code is clean
>> enough to allow easy hacking. There is a TODO:
>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_skinny/Development#TODO
>> 
>> Summary: I won't contribute features soon, but others may do (and I
>> can help them understand the code).
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 2013/3/13 Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com <mailto:math.parent at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>>    My impression from this is that the skinny support is operating very differently - it almost appears as if the
>>    user/directory entry isn't getting used at all, it's only being referenced as a source for some of the skinny
>>    configuration.
>> 
>>    Log:
>>    http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20685
>> 
>>    Portion of dialplan that is getting hit:
>>    http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20686
>> 
>>    User directory entry:
>>    http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20687
>> 
>> 
>>    -- Nathan
>> 
>>    On 03/12/2013 03:55 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
>>> I'm not up on mod_skinny, but this sounds like possibly the user isn't authorized and therefore the variables in the
>>> user's directory entry aren't getting added. The best way to tell is to look at the console log of a user making
>>    a phone
>>> call. Is is being handled in context "default" or context "public"? (This is assuming you're starting with the
>>    vanilla
>>> configs and working from there.)
>>> 
>>> If you'd like to share then use our pb: pastebin.freeswitch.org <http://pastebin.freeswitch.org>
>>    <http://pastebin.freeswitch.org> and select "FreeSWITCH
>>> Log" as the syntax highlighting. The folks here can assist you with learning the ropes on debugging.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> MC
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu <mailto:nneul at mst.edu> <mailto:nneul at mst.edu
>>    <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    It's actually working fine, though one issue. Shared line appearances, busy lamp, transfers, etc. all operating
>>>    correctly.
>>> 
>>>    The one piece I was trying to get to work and isn't was adding a variable (toll_allow) to the user directory
>>    entry for
>>>    the skinny phone - but it doesn't seem to take effect. When I started looking around and saw that nothing had
>>    been
>>>    touched in mod_skinny, was a little concerned that it may no longer have an active maintainer.
>>> 
>>>    -- Nathan
>>> 
>>>    On 03/12/2013 09:54 AM, Erik Dekkers wrote:
>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>> 
>>>> As far as I know mod_skinny just works. Although there no recent development I suggest to give it a change.
>>>> Just take a few SCCP phones, connect them to a freeswitch box and see for yourself if it suit your needs.
>>>> 
>>>> Oh, please read the wiki on mod_skinny. There's enough information to get it working. Otherwise you can
>>    contact
>>>    me on IRC (wvds-nl) and I will be glad to help you.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Erik
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>>>> Onderwerp: [Freeswitch-users] Status of mod_skinny? is it being maintained?
>>>> 
>>>> Started looking around at the git log for mod_skinny after putting in a jira issue on it, and noticed that it
>>>    hasn't been directly touched since around Dec 2011.
>>>> 
>>>> Is it being worked on at all or is the lack of changes just due to "nothing really broke, but no new
>>    development
>>>    taking place"?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm looking at a possible large (1600+) phone deployment (replacement of old CCM deployment) using almost all
>>>    SCCP based Cisco phones and just want to know what the status is since it looks like SCCP development on
>>    Asterisk is
>>>    actively ongoing. I started with Freeswitch based on others recommendations, but if the core support for
>>    cisco isn't
>>>    actively maintained, it would probably be a mistake for us to go that direction.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Nathan
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