Astral

Astral is a telephone dialler module for use with the Asterisk PBX. Astral provides the telephony/dial service, making it possible to dial directly from phone numbers listed in your Turba address book, or anywhere else where Horde Form elements of the type 'phone' or 'cellphone' are used.

Bugs

Astral is so new we haven't had time to find any yet!

People

Astral is being developed by Chris Hastie: chris at raggedstaff dot net

Description

Astral provides a way to set up a phone call by clicking on a link within Horde - most commonly associated with phone numbers listed in Turba. It achieves this by providing the telephony/dial service through an API. Astral interacts with Asterisk's Manager interface over a TCP connection, using the Originate action to set up a call between the configured source extension and the phone number to be dialled. When a dial link is clicked, the configured source extension rings. When that is picked up, Asterisk dials the required number and connects it to the extension.

Astral is primarily useful in a corporate context where telephony is provided by Asterisk and all Horde users have access to the same Asterisk server.

Astral has no displayable pages. It attempts to set up the call, pushes a message about the response to the $notification object then redirects to the calling page.

Resources

Asterisk Manager API

Asterisk Manager Originate action

CustomizeApis

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