DoorPhone

Really hard to find any documentation on the video console.

So far this has been my best resource: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Video+Console

At this point I am completely rebuilding the software from the ground up on asterisk 11.

Asterisk has to be built from source to enable video.

No idea how I am going to trigger a video call via script as I did before asterisk video console seems to be intentionally built around using a mouse :( - this seems very odd to me.

Well the intercom has been installed and operational for over 8 months now and I am fairly confident in its design. My employer would like me to build a second intercom identical to this one but with two-way video. I've done a lot of reasearch and one way video seems to be fairly common but two way is not to be found, even in commercial products. I did find two products that supposedly did this but there wasn't a hint of tech specs on them or any way to purchase them; Worse yet I can't seem to find them again to share here.

So, over the next couple of weeks I will be working on a new intercom utilizing the video capabilities in asterisk console using chan_oss instead of alsa. I don't have any experience with oss but here we go.

Also, now that I actually have people following this project, I'm going to work to improve my documentation.

Having some issues with echo on the intercom side. Somehow I need to make the asterisk console ignore audio picked up from intercoms microphone IF it came out of the intercoms speaker....... Hopefully that makes sense. The echo isn't a huge deal and its not heard by people using the intercom to gain entry, just the people trying to allow entry. Its maddening to hear everything you say echoed back a second after you said it, very hard to carry on a conversation.