[App_rpt-users] Skype

[Ken]

Yes - I understand the effort required ... it might be easier to go the
other way and put in the stuff required for the Skype channel driver to
work, if it is simple ... but if that is not deemed valuable, then "oh well"

Meantime, WA1SOT has pointed out that there is another way to do this, by
running a Linux version of Skype on the repeater controller and something
called SIPtoSIS (plus JRE, X11, etc) - it involves installing a lot more
software than just a channel and probably represents a heavy computational
load too.  But (I am told) it works.

The advantage of using Skype from your hotel room is that Skype somehow
makes pretty good sounding audio out of a poor internet connection ... a
connection that would really trash IAX communications (based on my
experience and others with side-by-side comparisons). 

The advantage of a channel (I think), versus reverse auto-patch, is that you
do not need someone to "answer the phone" at the repeater end, to let you
in. 

Ken 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rodgers [mailto:sales at qrvc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:59 AM
> To: Ken
> Cc: App_rpt-users at qrvc.com
> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Skype
> 
> Ken wrote:
> > I have "discovered" the Digium Skype-for-Asterisk product and wonder
> if it
> > can be used with ACID?
> >
> > They say that version 1.4.25 of asterisk is required.
> >
> > Apparently ACID uses "1.4.23-pre"
> >
> > Is this going to be compatible?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > KE2N
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> If Asterisk 1.4.25 is required, then no, it won't be compatible. To
> upgrade our version of Asterisk to a later version
> of Asterisk requires a lot of effort to port over all of our changes
> and test them. We aren't going to do this unless
> there is some event which leaves us no choice but to do so. Skype
> compatibility is definitely not one of these.
> 
> 
> Steve
> WA6ZFT
>