As far as I can tell, our site www.forestlake.ca is currently the only working example of asterisk drupal integration. I would love to be disabused of this notion, so if there are other working sites out there, please let us know.
At any rate you can read about the "Forest Lake Telephone Company" at this posting on drupal .org: http://drupal.org/node/59187 or you can just register and try it out on the forest lake site. Go to : http://forestlake.ca/forestlake/?q=node/466 for instructions on trying it out.
The good news in all this is that I have an asterisk server all ready and working with Drupal. If you want to install and test the asterisk integration module developed by Malthus, you can do so by downloading and installing the asterisk module (http://drupal.org/project/asterisk) on your site. (Important, as far as I know, the asterisk integration module only works so far on 4.6. I do not know what plans Malthus might have to upgrade).
Once you have installed and activated the module you can register your site on our asterisk server by going to http://www.vcg.net and following the instructions on the front page. Assuming a successful install and registration, the asterisk server will then poll your site every minute to initiate calls that your users have entered.
Some caveats: This is for testing purposes only. Currently I am successfully completing PSTN calls using voipjet.com. (I have not actually tested sip or iax only calls. I would be most happy if someone were to try those). This means there are some minor costs. I dont mind covering the odd test call within North America,( rates of 1.2 cents a minute )but if you are going to have two hour calls with your aunt in Afghanistan, or start putting more than the occasional call through, we will have to discuss some cost recovery.
If this all sounds loosey goosey - it is! I am doing this in the interests of stirring the asterisk pot and perhaps getting some needed development going. Malthus has already provided an asterisk road map at http://drupal.org/node/37571 which is worth a read. I will add some additional suggestions for asterisk development based on our experience in a later post.
I would love to hear your comments
Regards
