Asterisk 1.8/Gtalk working on Dockstar (not stable)

[twinclouds]

After struggling for a few days, I am happy to report that I eventually made gtalk working on Asterisk 1.8 installed on Dockstar.  The installation was based on steps described in http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=75868&sid=afa79921d1c14a77a52a28ba1828e4fb.  However, when I installed A1.8, I cannot select gtalk channel and jabber module.  I had to install iksemel first as described in http://michigantelephone.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/how-to-fix-the-problem-of-missing-modules-res_jabber-so-andor-chan_gtalk-so-in-your-asterisk-installation/ first.  I don't know if it is normal, but it worked.
Then I found a problem that I cannot register my sip softphone.  It was because I need to set the protocol to be UDP.  TCP does not work on A1.8 even though it works on A1.6 and 1.4.  Finally, looks like my installation cannot handle 8 character secret.  I reduced to 5 digits and it worked.  Now everything looks really good.
The config files I used are adapted from jimylongs' files in the above link.
I will post a mini how to when get chance.
Edit - 10:00pm, 11/06/2010
It worked this morning but not now.  It failed to make calls.  It looks like Asterisk 1.8 on Dockstar is not very stable, yet.

[jet101]

twinclouds,  Are you making any progress on your Asterisk 1.8 install on the Dockstar? I worked on it over the weekend and seem to have many of the same issues you do. I'm currently leaving the passwords blank on any SIP endpoint I want to register. If I do that, I can get them to register. This is the least of my worries at this time.

I seem to be stuck where you and at least other person were last time I checked. It is the problem with rtp engine error:

[Nov 15 15:19:27] ERROR[2044]: rtp_engine.c:325 ast_rtp_instance_new: No RTP engine was found. Do you have one loaded?
[Nov 15 15:19:2] WARNING
[2044]: app_dial.c:2030 dial_exec_full: Unable to create channel of type 'SIP' (cause 20 - Unknown)
  == Everyone is busy/congested at this time (1:0/0/1)
    -- Auto fallthrough, channel 'Gtalk/+1512xxxxxxx-0395' status is 'CHANUNAVAIL'

I've tried several different builds of Asterisk and modifications, but haven't been able to fix this one yet. Just wondering where you were at lately?

[PlugPBX Admin]

Does 1.8 strike you as being bleeding edge? Sure starting to sound like it.

[jet101]

From the DockStar point of view it is. Don't know if this is more an ARM processor issue, a Debian issue, or what? It's taking up more of my time than I'd like, but I sure would like to get Gtalk working instead of the legacy Google Voice.

[jet101]

Well, I've spent two solid days on it, and all I can say is something is unstable as hell. I can make and receive phone calls one minute, and then turn right around having done nothing, and get the errors shown in the previous post. When someone figures it out, let me know. I've got to move on to stuff that pays.

[PlugPBX Admin]

Sounds like 1.8 is bleeding edge then. I'd suggest revisiting it again in in a few months time worse case...

Welcome to the time vampire that was me playing with various asterisk versions before settling on the combination of components that comprised PlugPBX 1.00

[jet101]

Somebody seems to have figured it out, as s/he is selling them on eBay with 1.8. Looks they put together a little script to take the buyer's google voice details and append the config files. It would be interesting to see how stable it is. It's probabaly built on OpenWRT, but can't be sure. Oh well...back to work.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pogoplug-Dockstar-VOIP-Asterisk-Free-Google-Voice-Calls_W0QQitemZ130454037136QQcmdZViewItem

[PlugPBX Admin]

Interesting. Got a link to post?

[twinclouds]

Hi, jet101:
Sorry for the delayed reply.  I am currently looking into implement Asterisk 1.8 and gtalk in OpenWRT.  Even though I didn't have a solutions for Dockstar implementation, I do have a few interesting things to report.
I eventually successfully installed OpenWRT on Dockstar with the help from posters in other forums.  However, Asterisk 1.8 is not available for Kirkwood, on which Dockstar is based.  Even when I try to install Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6 using opkg, I still have some problems for some basic functions to work such as register to a voip service.  I also tried to install A1.8 on Sheevaplug Debian on USB, it did exact the same things, as you have observed.  So it is not Dockstar issue but more a combination of A1.8/Debian/Kirkwood implementation.
Now the good news.  Following Mario's post (http://supermario-world.blogspot.com/2010/11/asterisk-18-and-native-google-voice.html?), I first opkg installed A1.8/gtalk on OpenWRT, embedded on my Buffalo router WZR-HP-G300NH.  It works perfectly.  I then found an old SimpleShare NAS which have a processor that Mario also developed A1.8 Package for.  After installed OpenWRT on it, A1.8/gtalk also works fine.  So the problem is not ARM but more Kirkwood specific.
I also tried to use the same config files that worked on Dockstar Debian.  It worked first time but then the problems returns.
In conclusions, looks like A1.8 will work on ARM based OpenWRT platform but not for Dockstar/Debian yet.  Currently, there's no A1.8 packages available for Kirkwood OpenWRT.  Unfortunately, I have neither experience nor knowledge to make such a package.  Hope somebody will be able to come up one soon.

[nguyen]

Hi,

I installed asterisk 1.8 on Dockstar OpenWRT Backfire 10.03 having authentication and rtp_engine issues.

Additional I have localtime error and CLI output text format. The text layout are not properly formatted. 
[Dec 31 16:52:56] ERROR[1885]: stdtime/localtime.c:283 inotify_daemon: Cannot initialize file notification service: Function not implemented (38)

[twinclouds]

Hi,

I installed asterisk 1.8 on Dockstar OpenWRT Backfire 10.03 having authentication and rtp_engine issues.

Additional I have localtime error and CLI output text format. The text layout are not properly formatted. 
[Dec 31 16:52:56] ERROR[1885]: stdtime/localtime.c:283 inotify_daemon: Cannot initialize file notification service: Function not implemented (38)

Where did you get asterisk 1.8?  Does it in compiled packages or you need to recompile it?

[PlugPBX Admin]

Hey I'm hitting this issue too.

http://forums.plugpbx.org/index.php/topic,234.msg1108.html#msg1108

Trying to get this corrected for PlugPBX 2.0. I've seen others mention fixing it...trying to find the solution. is it as simple as ensuring the rtp module is set in modules.conf?