Registering Spark as the default telephone dialler

Openfire Plugins Asterisk-IM
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Hi,

I have correctly configured Asterisk-IM and am able to dial other Spark users and external telephone numbers with the ‘‘Dial Number’’ action.

I would now like to be able to dial telephone numbers from my Zimbra e-mail client using the phone zimlet which basically adds the phone number into a callto: command.

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to dial telephone numbers from external Windows applications via Spark/Asterisk-IM using the “callto:” URL protocol handler as we can in Skype for example?

If this is not yet possible, can anybody suggest any alternatives.

Thanks

Colin

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Same question here, any updates/ideas?

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The callto functionality uses TAPI to do the calling. As spark does not install a TAPI provider this will probably not be possible.

The way to do this is to install asttapi or activa TSP (telephony service providers) and configure them to dial through your asterisk server.

(this info may not be entirely correct but it is going in the right direction)

R

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HI:

Colin.

You said you had correctly configured Asterisk-IM and am able to dial other Spark users and external telephone numbers with the ‘‘Dial Number’’ action.

And i have a long times to call by Spark, and i feel it is correctly configured of mine, but every time called was failed.

why? Can you show the configured of them to me?

eMail me: ouyangyu139@163.com

Thanks your help!

Best Regard!

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I would assume that you would not need TAPI to make the calls if you could call the ‘‘Dial Number’’ action from the command line. Basically this would make Spark + Asterisk IM your TAPI.

You can register callto as a url in the Windows registry (I have no idea how to do this in any other OS). I would assume that you could just edit the \HKLM\software\classes\callto\shell\open\command key in your registry. It looks like by default it runs NetMeeting (conf.exe). The only thing I can’‘t tfigure out is what you would put in the command key as the actual command. I don’'t know how to call a java function from the command line like that.

I’'d be much obliged if someone would figure that out for us. It would be pretty easy to write a firefox or thunderbird extension that would pick out phone numbers and make them into clickable call links. (Or just edit the Snap extension to get the callto link in the right format).