Comments on: $500 bounty to make an Apple TV telephone exchange http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/ Get more from your shiny box of joy Tue, 21 May 2013 10:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Telephony11 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-249686 Telephony11 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:07:48 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-249686 These technological changes that have come about with time are not only reliable but they are also the most cost-effective way for communicating to almost any corner of this world. Among all these finer technologies, Voip Telephony is the most easy-to-use technology that is much suitable for almost all business entities.

]]> By: Asterisk VOIP Tips » Installing Asterisk on Apple TV http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-1685 Asterisk VOIP Tips » Installing Asterisk on Apple TV Tue, 08 May 2007 18:16:44 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-1685 [...] TV Hacks sponsored a contest recently to see who can be first to hack the Apple TV by installing Asterisk. And the result: this [...]

]]> By: Install Asterisk on Apple TV | Apple TV Hacks http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-735 Install Asterisk on Apple TV | Apple TV Hacks Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:37:57 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-735 [...] Asterisk on Apple TV The winner of the bounty to get the Asterisk PBX system running on Apple TV, kindly sponsored by Sokol & Associates, [...]

]]> By: rcfa http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-619 rcfa Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:23:54 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-619 Oh, and yes, if the regular OS remains, freeSwitch seems to me a much more interesting approach than Asterisk, for many reasons, including the fact that like much of Mac OS X it uses XML for configuration files, etc.

]]> By: rcfa http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-618 rcfa Sun, 01 Apr 2007 09:21:40 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-618 Asterisk shouldn’t be a problem, given that “regular” Mac OS X runs on the AppleTV.
The problem with the Mac OS X version of Asterisk is, that a bunch of the features won’t work due to lack of Zaptel drivers, and also Asterisk, as shipped, has no support for fax reception and a bunch of other things.

The solution to all this is to run the Trixbox linux distribution, which is based on CentOS 4.4, Asterisk 1.2.x, freePBX, mySQL, and a bunch of add-ons to create a truly useful setup.

Since the AppleTV is intel based, the real quest is to get a linux kernel to boot on the box, and to find/write the required drivers for all the various hardware in AppleTV.

Then a Trixbox distribution could run on the AppleTV, and be really useful, not just a gadget.

I just spent some time trying to get Trixbox running on an old XBOX. The software works, but the limited amount of RAM (64MB) causes performance to drop due to swapping to a level that breaks a lot of the functionality.

AppleTV may just have enough extra RAM and extra CPU performance and faster disk drive options that this problem would go away.

So my quest is to get rEFIt working, and (dual) boot an AppleTV into Linux or its regular OS on demand.

]]> By: alexr http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-531 alexr Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:39:17 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-531 There is no “hack” here to do. Asterisk builds on OS X just fine. The real hack would be to get Digium to put proper support for software timers into Asterisk.

]]> By: l0rdr0ck http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-495 l0rdr0ck Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:17:05 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-495 Here is are my initial notes on this

http://www.mediamax.com/l0rdr0ck/Hosted/asteriskTV.txt

]]> By: Apple TV Resource » Blog Archive » First Apple TV Hack Prize Claimed? http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-487 Apple TV Resource » Blog Archive » First Apple TV Hack Prize Claimed? Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:00:23 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-487 [...] that was fast. Earlier this week the website AppleTVHacks.com offered a bounty of $500 for anyone who could successfully get Asterisk, the IP PBX (an Internet phone thing) to run on an [...]

]]> By: Laputa http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-480 Laputa Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:12:44 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-480 Hi,

a wish list – the Apple TV should be functioning as before but just with asterisk as an add on function.

That is, user can still put the box next to the TV for video watching but can also use it as a telephony system.

cheers,

]]> By: Charles http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-454 Charles Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:08:21 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/03/28/500-bounty-to-make-an-apple-tv-pbx/#comment-454 Hi Tom,

So, Macnn.com has it wrong… hum, bummer! Well, I will continue to monitor this site, thanks you to ALL of the faithful hackers! ;-)

Charles

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