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|  [Equipment] Any way to make this device a VoIP client?
I saw a very interesting Linux pc earlier this morning, and I posted a link to it in another forum. I am trying to find a useful thing to do with it, when I realized I had a specific 'vision' in mind. As its VoIP related, I figured I would ask the people here as well. To begin, the device can be located at the following link:
»www.betanews.com/article/Marvell···35572776
I would want to get a very cheap/free (most likely SIP) DID number that I could give out to people. They would call that number, and then the system (this little wall-wart) would prompt them for their name, and then forward the call out to me (perhaps call blast to a few numbers). Right now there are a few hosted services that do this, in fact I use Grandcentral for this very purpose. GC is free, and there is a similar paid offering called Ring Central. The only reason I dont stick with GC is that the latency is terrible, and it feels like you are on a half duplex 1980's international call or something. I figure why pay for a (potentially crappy) hosted offering if I can do it on my own $80 'pc'. Can I do something like this using this device? All thoughts/ideas are appreciated!
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| I HAVE GOT TO GET ONE OF THOSE!!!!!!!
That is just so cool. Now I know what I want for my birthday.
Does anyone know how a 1.2GHz Sheeva CPU ranks with other CPUs such as an Atom 230? It wasn't listed on »www.cpubenchmark.net/ |
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That looks like an awesome device with a 1.2GHz CPU + 512MB/512MB Flash/RAM for $80. It may be overkill; however, if it is supported by OpenWRT, then it will be able to run asterisk on it. You will still need an ATA device configured to the asterisk as extensions to use.
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wifi4milez
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| said by mazilo  :That looks like an awesome device with a 1.2GHz CPU + 512MB/512MB Flash/RAM for $80. It may be overkill; however, if it is supported by OpenWRT, then it will be able to run asterisk on it. You will still need an ATA device configured to the asterisk as extensions to use. What about a simple answer/call blast application?
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| said by wifi4milez :What about a simple answer/call blast application? What is a call blast application? |
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Bogomips is definitely not a benchmark, it should give us some idea.
I believe its the same processor in Buffalo Linkstation LS-XHL, which has a bogomips of 1200---a very impressive score for ARM, while Atom 230 gets 3200.
Really, no need to wait for OpenWRT support, this should be capable of running a FULL debian by chroot to SD card or USB disk, or simply feed it with Optware. |
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From what I can gather, it is a similar device branded the Pogoplug (the specs of which are nowhere to be found) that costs $80. The Sheevaplug, which is the device featured in the article sporting the 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB RAM/Flash, is a little bit more, at $99. |
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wifi4milez
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| said by DogFace05 :From what I can gather, it is a similar device branded the Pogoplug (the specs of which are nowhere to be found) that costs $80. The Sheevaplug, which is the device featured in the article sporting the 1.2GHz CPU and 512MB RAM/Flash, is a little bit more, at $99. My understanding is the Pogoplug is a specific branded version of the Sheeva plug (with basically the same features), although I could be wrong.
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Might want to post something over ate the Unix forum. They might be able to give you some better ideas.
»All Things Unix |
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wifi4milez
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Anyone know if I can load and use Asterisk on this thing? |
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| said by wifi4milez :Anyone know if I can load and use Asterisk on this thing? You will need to know its CPU architecture, cross reference to OpenWRT supported CPU architectures list, download the OpenWRT source from its SVN trunk, and start the compilation for the supported CPU architecture used on the device. You will also need to enable asterisk compilation to produce asterisk binary package (files). Once this is done, you can install the asterisk binary package (files) on to your device. This may sound like a lot of work to someone who never does this; however, it should be simple enough (not necessarily easy) to follow.
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New York, NY | Does it matter that its not an intel chipset? That seems to be of concern to some other people. I dont want to drop $80 on it, then compile and install Asterisk, just to have it not work! |
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It seems you should be able to run a command line asterisk on it. Mazilo put asterisk on a Fonero, which has lower specs. I think the main question is if this device has SSH or some other way of talking with it and if anything can be run or saved directly on the chip. Since there is a USB port, you should be able to put a memory stick in there to handle all the config files and other things that get changed, as well as voicemail. Look up embedded asterisk. I'd bet if either of those were opened up - there would be a serial or JTAG port. Another thought - since this runs Linux, then they have to GPL the firmware. With that, you should be able to see how much room is left on the chip to even attempt this. |
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| said by meister_sd :It seems you should be able to run a command line asterisk on it. Mazilo put asterisk on a Fonero, which has lower specs. I think the main question is if this device has SSH or some other way of talking with it and if anything can be run or saved directly on the chip. Since there is a USB port, you should be able to put a memory stick in there to handle all the config files and other things that get changed, as well as voicemail. Look up embedded asterisk. I'd bet if either of those were opened up - there would be a serial or JTAG port. Another thought - since this runs Linux, then they have to GPL the firmware. With that, you should be able to see how much room is left on the chip to even attempt this. As it turns out it has an SD/IO card slot on the side, so external memory is not a problem (and SD is cheap!). The real question I have is, is there a very simple (pre compiled) package that I can simply copy to an SD card, pop it into this pc, and then use the GUI to enter in the SIP info and make changes? I am not well versed with Linux command line, so I would really need something basic in order to consider this project.
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said by wifi4milez :Does it matter that its not an intel chipset? Not only an Intel chipset, even a SONY PS3 is supported by OpenWRT!  |
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| said by mazilo :said by wifi4milez :Does it matter that its not an intel chipset? Not only an Intel chipset, even a SONY PS3 is supported by OpenWRT! Interesting. I used to run OpenWRT on some of my old Linksys routers (when as far as I know that was all it did!), however that was a few years back. Are you saying if I load OpenWRT on this device that will enable me to run Asterisk on it?
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Found the site, a lot of info there and place holders for more info:
»www.marvell.com/products/embedde···plug.jsp
You don't have to have OpenWRT to run asterisk, it just has some things in it that make it easier. |
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said by wifi4milez :Are you saying if I load OpenWRT on this device that will enable me to run Asterisk on it? As Meister_SD has already pointed out, you don't need to have the device to run an OpenWRT firmware to run asterisk. The reason I recommend asterisk because it has been ported to OpenWRT and can be compiled into the firmware. I have asterisk-1.6.0.1 compile into an OpenWRT firmware and flashed to my FON2100 WiFi router. This makes it easier for me to upgrade. If you want to build/compile asterisk for this device, you will first need to get is firmware source + its SDK package + asterisk source, then try to port and compile asterisk using the SDK.
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| said by mazilo :said by wifi4milez :Are you saying if I load OpenWRT on this device that will enable me to run Asterisk on it? As Meister_SD has already pointed out, you don't need to have the device to run an OpenWRT firmware to run asterisk. The reason I recommend asterisk because it has been ported to OpenWRT and can be compiled into the firmware. I have asterisk-1.6.0.1 compile into an OpenWRT firmware and flashed to my FON2100 WiFi router. This makes it easier for me to upgrade. If you want to build/compile asterisk for this device, you will first need to get is firmware source + its SDK package + asterisk source, then try to port and compile asterisk using the SDK. Ok I think I understand. So you are saying that assuming this device can run OpenWRT (which it looks like it can), I can then flash it with a version of OpenWRT that includes Asterisk in the firmware? That being the case, do you know where I can find a pre-compiled version (OpenWRT with Asterisk) or is it something I need to do myself?
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1 edit | said by wifi4milez :So you are saying that assuming this device can run OpenWRT (which it looks like it can), I can then flash it with a version of OpenWRT that includes Asterisk in the firmware? Yes and only if you or have someone to compile the asterisk to include in the firmware like the way I do for my FON2100 unit. When you compile your own OpenWRT SVN source, you can specify which package(s) to include into the firmware to use. Alternately, you can also specify which package(s) to build and use its binary package to install on your device.
That being the case, do you know where I can find a pre-compiled version (OpenWRT with Asterisk) or is it something I need to do myself? I believe you have to do this by yourself. AFAIK, besides the source codes, OpenWRT only releases some binary firmwares for specific platforms with separate binary packages.
Of course, if anyone is willing to donate a unit of this device to me, I will be more than happy to help working on the project.
EDIT: Just wanted to let you know that the latest OpenWRT 8.09 does not have a support for a Marvell chipset as shown here. 
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