AsteriStickies

This is a project I have been working on for a few months for the open source community. I have written some articles documenting its evolution and now have decided to release it into the wild.

Basically it is a web interface that pops up stickies upon incoming calls. It was written to be supported on PBX in a Flash and Trixbox however there currently is no documentation for Trixbox. Allow me to outline the whole procedure :

A call is received and the details are passed to an AGI script
The AGI inserts the information into a database which is polled once per second using a simple AJAX call.
A CID lookup is performed on the information provided and a Post-It style sticky pops up in the web interface.
You can choose to dismiss the message or add the contact to your phonebook.
If the contact is already in your phonebook you will have the option to take notes for that call – the history can be viewed in the contacts table.
Once a contact has been added to the phonebook – a new XML file is generated that is parse-able by Grandstream and Cisco devices.
You endpoints (phones) will now all have up to date contacts.
You can place a call from the web panel simply by clicking the number you want to dial.
Using click to dial – you are redirected to the call notes page – this application supports logging incoming and outgoing calls!
You can configure Cisco SIPDefault.cnf and SIP<mac>.cnf files directly from the interface.
All ringtones found in your /tftpboot directory are automatically added to RINGLIST.DAT (Cisco devices only).

As you can see this system really streamlines contact and endpoint management into one easy to use application.

Update – Sunday March 15, 2009

Call notes have been added to incoming as well as outbound calls – definitely useful for call history and tracking.

Update – Tuesday March 17, 2009

Working tirelessly with Andy on some advanced options – Asteristickies now support a fancy new Calendar as well as Jabber notifications! See post here.