DeStar screen shoots
Note: the graphics files are stored on http://destar.berlios.de. Sometimes Berlios is quite slow, so please bear with them ...
Screen shoots
User functions
Upon log in, you will see the main menu to the left:
First we will select the user options. The first menu option shows the state of the Asterisk PBX. For every extension, we well see if the phone is online, offline, busy, etc:
The user info show the rights of the currently logged in user. We are logged in via a programmers hook, so we can see debug information as well (e.g. the "Request values") at the end of the side navigator).
A logged in user can have a phone associated with him. If this is the case, then we get a link to his phone status:
A user can also change settings for his phone. For each call to the phone, the system first checks if the phone has been made silent ("Do not disturb") or if the phone is unconditionally forwarded to another phone ("Call forwarding immediate"). If not, the the phone call is put through to the phone, making the phone ring for some seconds. Should no one answer or should the phone be busy, then the call can again be forwarded to another phone ("Call forwarding if Busy"). Or the call can be put thought to the voice mailbox.
Administrator functions
For every call that me make, some CDR (call data record) is written. The next screen shows the current, extremely simple display of this data. This functionality will be beefed up considerably in the future:
Configurator functions
In DeStar, we can configure various phones:
Here is an example of a simple SIP phone. The settings that DeStar makes works with at least these phones:
- GrandStream BudgetTone 101
- Atcom AT323
- Yuxin YWH100
- Cisco 7960 with SIP firmware
- Sipura SPA-2000 analog adapter
- X-Lite Softphone
- QtIAX Softphone
But phones alone aren't that useful, we need a connection to the outer world, either via a SIP or IAX Provider, or via plain old telephony technology like ISDN BRI or PRI, analog FXO channels etc:
Here is an example of an ISDN BRI configuration, this works with chan_capi:
Phones have extensions, but there are other extensions as well: so called applications. This are little programs that perform specific tasks:
Although DeStar comes with a pre-set configuration that should suit a common office usage scenario, you may want to change some options:
Here we change Asterisk's logging feature:
And here we create a DeStar user:
