HOWTO for installing ChanSkype on Trixbox

Someone emailed me about a mistake in the howto. If anyone tried it and it did not work I updated the first wget to:

wget http://www.geek-pages.com/articlepages/downloads/trix-skype.tar.g...

This corrected the problem.

Sorry,

Kevan

Hi Kevan,
Thanks for all the info on your website. I got the first part working and can call my extension 421 and I get the British accented gal for the echo test but I never hear myself back as after about 20 seconds it just hangs up. I have my ports opened up in my router as you suggested.

any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jeff

Update: this takes longer than 15 seconds so it hangs up before it can echo back my message. it's a non-issue once paid for.

Kevan, you the man! I got it working using your instructions on your website. Good job! Is there anyway to get the guys at Chanskype to follow your lead and roll the package like you did?

The scripts will no longer work now that ChanSkpye has been updated to 1.2.10 and Trixbox has been updated to 2.2.

It would be great to update these.

Hi,

I hope that this helps anyone trying to install ChanSkype?

This is a work-around to Kevan excellent script.

Use at your own risk!!

If you have success (or not) would you please let me know.

Kind regards

Nick

1/ On Trixbox go to the Packages page and install the following: -

asterisk-devel.i386
kernel-devel.i686

2/ Reboot

3/ Download the Geeks Script into /usr/src/ at: -

cd /usr/src/
wget http://www.geek-pages.com/articlepages/downloads/trix-skype.tar.g...
tar zxvf trix-skype.tar.gz
cd trix-skype

4/ now type: nano installcs.sh

5/ Make changes to the file so that it looks like the code below: -

wget http://www2.chanskype.com/chanskype/download/packages/chanskype-1...
chmod 755 chanskype-1.2.10-FC3-RHEL4.bin
./chanskype-1.2.10-FC3-RHEL4.bin

6/ now type: nano install.sh

7/ Comment out the line that says: yum -i update asterisk

8/ back at the command prompt type: ./install.sh

9/ Now follow the rest of the tutorial at:

http://www.geek-pages.com/articles/asterisk/setting_up_asterisk_t...

Hi,

Did you update, via the Package manager, kernel-devel.i686?

May be you are on i586?

I had this error when I did not update kernel-devel.i686.

Let me know

Regards

Nick

My Major problem with chanskype is the voice quality.

Person A - (On SIP Phone)

Person B - (On Skype Phone)

The incoming voice is fine for person A. (100% fine, no issues what so ever)
The incoming voice for person B is honorable. (The actual voice can be heard. so its not garbled.. Its that it does not sound human, (Distant and very computerized) (Like no high or low frequency)
- If need be i can make a recording of it.

Skype to Skype call is 100% Fine.
SIP to SIP Call 100% Fine.

Is this normal for chanskype, or is everyone else getting no voice problems through it?

What SIP Codecs does chanskype work well with?
And whats the best way to use it.

I have installed it as per the walk through
http://www.geek-pages.com/articles/asterisk/setting_up_asterisk_t...

If you try to run skype manually do you get an error?

If you do, delete the skype files in ~/.Skype

and then reset up your account.

i have found if you stop vncserver with out stopping asterisk first your skype gets screwed.

I followed this but when I go to ./installcs.sh I get the following:

[root@asterisk1 trix-skype]# ./installcs.sh
--22:28:08-- http://www2.chanskype.com/chanskype/download/packages/chanskype-1...
=> `chanskype-1.2.11-FC3-RHEL4.bin.3'
Resolving www2.chanskype.com... 200.186.125.147
Connecting to www2.chanskype.com|200.186.125.147|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 386,588 (378K) [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 386,588 150.33K/s

22:28:11 (150.03 KB/s) - `chanskype-1.2.11-FC3-RHEL4.bin.3' saved [386588/386588]

Verifying package integrity... OK!

It appears ChanSkype had trouble detecting what Asterisk version is installed.
Try using 1DOT2 or 1DOT4 at the end of the command line, depending on what
version of Asterisk is installed on this machine. If the problem persists,
take a look at the file /tmp/install-chanskype.log before contacting support.

Error installing ChanSkype

[root@asterisk1 trix-skype]#
----------------------------
When I go to the log file it shows:
if [ -d objs ]; then cp objs/*.o . ;fi
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-34.0.2.EL/build M=/tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs LDDINC=/t$
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs/main.o
CC [M] /tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs/pipe.o
LD [M] /tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs/ivcs.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST
CC /tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs/ivcs.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/scraparea-4097/ivcs/ivcs.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-i686'
chan_skype.c:311: error: unknown field `send_digit_begin' specified in initiali$
chan_skype.c:311: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
chan_skype.c:321: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
chan_skype.c: In function `skype_new':
chan_skype.c:1069: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1073: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1077: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1082: warning: implicit declaration of function `ast_strdup'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-i686'
chan_skype.c:311: error: unknown field `send_digit_begin' specified in initiali$
chan_skype.c:311: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
chan_skype.c:321: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
chan_skype.c: In function `skype_new':
chan_skype.c:1069: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1073: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1077: error: too many arguments to function `ast_channel_alloc'
chan_skype.c:1082: warning: implicit declaration of function `ast_strdup'
chan_skype.c:1082: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
chan_skype.c:1083: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
chan_skype.c:1086: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
chan_skype.c:1120: warning: implicit declaration of function `ast_string_field_$
chan_skype.c:1120: error: `language' undeclared (first use in this function)
chan_skype.c:1120: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
chan_skype.c:1120: error: for each function it appears in.)
chan_skype.c: At top level:
chan_skype.c:2117: error: syntax error before string constant
chan_skype.c:2117: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `AST_MODUL$
chan_skype.c:2117: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
----------------------------

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff

Where do I find the Kernel?
I´ve installed TRIXBOX, and there is no source files on it, and I can not find it anywhere.
Where do I download it? How do I install it?

On the Chanskype Reamd, there is a text mentioning this probable error:

"Another thing that may happen is when you installed Asterisk from a RPM or
DEB package (Trixbox, for example, comes with a RPM version of Asterisk) and
it didn't come with the development files. In this case you have to locate the
asterisk-devel or asterisk-dev package, install it and retry installing
ChanSkype."

I can not find the asterisk dev package on my system.

tks,