Upgrading asterisk in MTE ISO Edition

app_valetpark broke in version 1.4.23, i fixed and submitted a patch the other day but the maintainer has not acknowledged my patch

zaptel - dont waste your time with legacy software, if its a new install you definitely want to use the DAHDI drivers instead.

are they still rolling up asterisk as non-root? if so you want to rebuild asterisk to run as root so that you can set the TOS headers correctly and keep good QoS.

Hi Erik:

Thanks for the reply.

running process for asterisk on MTE ISO looks like:

root 2740 0.0 0.0 4528 652 ? S Feb25 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk

asterisk 2746 0.1 0.3 31756 12856 ? Sl Feb25 29:51 /usr/sbin/asterisk -f -U asterisk -G asterisk -vvvg -c

I wish I compiled and installed asterisk and thirdlane from scratch. The iso makes me feel left out and at a loss.

So if app_valetpark broke in 1.4.23, what did you did to fix it? One of the reasons for the upgrade is to get parking working. I could always reinstall the current version and add valet to it I guess but if I'm going to do the work it makes sense to upgrade the version also.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks again,

Larry

do you know how to compile and apply patches etc? I could email you the patch to apply to app_valetparking.c

Hi Erik:

Thanks so much. Email is larryg@computer.net

I may just reinstall .22 with the app but I'll take a look at the patch and see how much has changed and decide then.

I assume the patch corrected all the issues or is anything not 100% at this point?

Following the thread at: https://www.thirdlane.com/forum/valetparkcall it seems like dozment got parking working 100% for MT. From what you have found is one person able to park multiple calls and then can mutiple calls be retrieved from various extensions? Is the parking lot unique to each tenant and isolated from others? In that thread you mentioned:

"multi-context parking slots is coming in 1.6.1 btw. Ive seen the code in SVN. I asked Mark Spencer for this personally July 07, so I'm glad its finally coming."

which threw me a little. Also it concerns me that thirdlane didn't pre-intstall this with MT but rather put the script references in without the backend scripts. Does that mean it is problematic or just that it's a third party script that they can't include in something they are charging for without a license.

Thanks for sharing.

Larry

I have valet parking working in 1.4.23. I did an upgrade to 1.4.23 recently, and it seems to have worked with my existing app_valetpark source. I am only allowing one parked call per tenant. Using Erik's post here about Polycom softkeys as a template I was able to add Park and Unpark buttons to my Polycoms.

How does one compile asterisk with the valetpark app?? What is the exact process and commands?

drop the source file into the apps/ directory of the asterisk source tree before doing ./configure and 'make menuinstall'