Gauging Interest in product...

[AACon]

On my android phone, I have a nifty app that logs all of my calls to a separate google calendar, so I have documentation of when a call was made, how long it was, and who it was to/from. It's awesome.

I'm looking into developing an app like that for the IP Office. I know I would find it *immensely* useful, and I'm just gauging general interest on this board of merry men (and women). I'll probably release it under a creative commons, free for all license.

It would probably run perl, and capture via SMDR the call logs that hit trunks, and then just dump them onto a calendar using the gcal interface. I've done a ton of work with that using php and mysql...now to venture into perl, or even python.

-Austin
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[Greybeard191]

sounds interesting... there's always customers who want a cheap (free) piece of software that will give them some kind of call reporting.

I've never played around or used Google calendar, so I can picture what the output would look like. I'd assume it requires a 7/24 PC to play host to the SMDR output.

I'm intrigued, for one.

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[phoneguy610]

Sip I'm assuming?

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[AACon]

Sip? Nah. It'll just use classy SMDR to collect the info, and then put it onto a google calendar via GCal. I'm thinking it might be easiest to dump it into a mysql table as well, and run a php front end on it for a call accounting of sorts. That is sort of what the gcal thing is supposed to do. Basically, it just creates calendar entries with info on date/time, caller id, call length. Then you can view all the calls made on a day by day basis, on a google calendar. I know some businesses use google apps, so this might be an alternative.
I'm not entirely sure how I would do it in real time though, I'm not *that* great at system programming languages (better at web stuff). I might have to have it dump on a schedule, and have a service pick it all up and do it at once, nightly, or however.



-Austin
ACE: Implement IP Office

 

[yankblan]

That would be great. Wish I had the patience (time) to do stuff like that. I learned basic html scripting out of curiosity and started with Java, but never really pushed it; but applications seemed endless.

I use Android too, what is the app?

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[AACon]

The Android/gcal app is just called "CallTrack". Works wonderfully!

-Austin
ACE: Implement IP Office

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

interestingly, you could develop this on Raspberry Pi, install Android on it, and ask the creators of the app to read in SMDR Data.

One very very cheap call logger, low power, no moving parts, leave it open source for others to develop.

There is also a trick to getting real time call info from the serial port too

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[hairlessupportmonkey]

for a bit more horse power:

http://apc.io/

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[AACon]

I like the raspberry pi idea, I've been meaning to get one, now I have an excuse. I have zero knowledge of android programming, but it's worth a shot!

-Austin
ACE: Implement IP Office

 

[hairlessupportmonkey]

You can still program in perl (C++ would be better) but there are SDK's available for free anyway.

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