Asterisk (Allstarlink) and Nethserver Development?

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#1

Greetings I am still a very new user to the Nethserver world I have successfully setup 4 separate machines with your customized distro… I was wondering if the development team that worked on Nethserver would be interested in actually helping out public safety communications and amateur radio with asterisk… We don’t have many developers around anymore… We have to use a very old version of asterisk and asterisk has pretty much forgotten about us…

Here is where we left off…
http://svn.ohnosec.org/svn/projects/allstar/

Here is our current active developer…
https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar <Distro Installation…

RF Control panel…
https://github.com/tsawyer/allmon2 <Allom 2 its a control panel for Allstarlink as well.

The RF control panel is really cool but i think its lacking alot… Probably could use some work but I think it probably could be integrated nicely with a neth server… The biggest issue of course is development has stalled…

Here is the thing… This stuff is not only used for phone communications but its also used for radio communications…

This is extremely important to us ham operators but most of us don’t exactly have the money to purchase from the big three so we build our own stuff keeping things very open source from the hardware to the software…

This is just a thought and i hope i didn’t violate any rules or anything… Its just that the true commercial, public safety and amateur radio community has been hung out to dry with the old asterisk version…

I guess basically we would have to fork it from its current version at 1.4.23 which was years ago and move forward… At this time in the amateur radio community this is how many publicly known users that are using this project…
stats.allstarlink.org

Any thoughts? Could this be added to a Neth Server?

It would really help out a small group of people!

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#2

I don’t know Allstarlink, but surely we have expertise on Asterisk.

We are just internally discussing how we can add FreePBX and Asterisk 13 on top of NS 7, but plans are not ready yet. Does Asterisk 13 can work as Allstarlink or a patch is still needed to support amateur radio scenario?

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#3

They left us out some where back in about 2009… We have all been beating this software to death on 1.4.23 now we are starting to get issues with Ddos attacks on the IAX ports we use which is common 4569…

In order for us to move on we would have to get to version 13 or above and I personally do not think anyone could just pull it off too much has changed… My hope is maybe we could use some of the code that makes our systems work and kinda hack it together lol… I really wish i was a coder I would do everything i could to save us from the huge security holes that we face…

Your probably looking at about a total of 7 years back…

If i remember correctly it had some thing to do with TX key and unkey was removed from asterisk and then they completely rewrote the software on us…

#4

I realize maybe i hadn’t really provided enough information directly on how things work…

You can take a look at my personal notes on my forum at forum.kc9zhv.com Take it easy on me i just got the forum page up about an hour ago after our big security issue we had about a week ago… Of course you can look up my callsign and see under the photos page at kc9zhv.com of how things hook up to a repeater…

I use some thing called a URI or known as Usb Radio Inteface here is the documentation on that… [http://dmkeng.com/Products.htm] (http://dmkeng.com/Products.htm)

I hope this clears up some common questions…