I am contemplating installing Asterisk on LinHES 6.02. Has anyone had any success and lessons learned from installing Asterisk on LinHES? I only plan to use two Jabber \ XMPP channels on Asterisk.

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R7.3: 0.22.20091023-1, Hauppauge PVR-500 (Philips FQ1236A MK4), Gigabyte Gigabyte EG45M-UD2H, E5200 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 256MB

G'day,

I would say...

don't!

Mythtv is pretty resource hungry and so is Asterisk

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as of 17-May-2018
R8.2 - sort of working.
MB: gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G | RAM: 2GB
VGA: PNY Nvidia GT240 1GB
4 x Technisat skystar 2 dvb | 1 x TBS6981 dvb-s2
pata: 1x300Gb | sata: 2x1Tb 2x2Tb
Problems:
TBS6981 Does not work.

Not sure what you are planning to use Asterisk for, but if you're looking to use it for VOIP calling, consider the OBI110. I use mine with Google Voice -- works like a champ. Supports many other VOIP services and is highly configurable. I think it is running Asterisk, but I can't be certain about that...

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Thanks for the suggestion. Does the Obi support the G729 codec? I have heard that the Obi has significantly lowered the learning curve for JABBER / XMPP (GV) VOIP calling. Hopefully Google will continue to keep the service free and fund it with the long distance toll calls. I use GV for overseas long distance in the hope that they will continue to keep US \ CA calling free.

I currently have * running on my DD-WRT \ optware router: a good learning experience. I thought it would be nice to shift the load to LinHES because, LinHES uses less than 15% of CPU resources while recording. I would imagine that transcoding hammers the CPU, however, I don't use this feature, though I probably should becaue 30 min of SD TV is 1GB.

Because my DSL bandwidth only 120 Kilobits per sec, I like prefer to use the G729 codec, which uses half the bandwidh of the more prevelant 711, found in most applications.

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Based on this thread I think it does support G729, but best to double check.

In terms of compressing -- given how cheap disk space is these days I would not bother compressing if you are recording at 2GB/hour -- while the quality is quite good, there is typically some quality loss and you can pick up a 2TB drive for $80 when they go n sale...

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