Aug 28 2008
How-To: Change the LED color on the WARP
The WARP has an LED beside the LCD on its front panel. People have asked how to access the LED and make it change color. Well, here it goes.
Archive for August, 2008
Aug 28 2008
Visit PIKA and the WARP appliance at an upcoming trade show
If you would like an opportunity to examine the WARP appliance up close or speak live to some of PIKA’s WARP experts, there will be two opportunities to do so in the very near future. PIKA will be exhibiting at IT Expo on Sept 17,18 being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Immediately afterwards, we will be packing up our gear and heading off to Astriconfor the following week. The Astricon event is being held Sept 23-25.
I hope to see you there!
David
Aug 27 2008
How To: Provisioning Polycom phones via the WARP Appliance
If you are provisioning more than 1 phone that will be connected to the WARP appliance, you may want to automate the way it’s done. A good source of information on how to commission a Polycom phone can be found in Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki Chapter 7 VOIP Phones.
The following instructions are used to commission the Poylcom phone from the WARP and are primarily based on the Asterisk@Home Handbook and Configuration File Management on SoundPoint IP Phones.
Aug 22 2008
New PADS GA Software Release – 1.1.0.62
There has been a new GA release of PADS, version 1.1.0.62, for the PIKA appliance. This new release is the one that will be flashed on all appliances that PIKA ships, replacing the current version. This release can be retrieved from the public svn repository here: http://svn.pikatech.com/pads/distro/tags/1.1.0.62 A tarball version of the package can be retrieved here.
The full Release notes for this release can be read here or they can be downloaded in pdf here.
Some of the hi-lights of this release are:
- Updated Asterisk GUI
- Upgraded to Asterisk version 1.4.21.2
- Echo cancellation improvements
- Fixes multiple issues, see release notes.
- Adds the two other available persistent partitions, as described here, to the build by default.
Lots of good things here. Enjoy everybody.
Skar
Aug 20 2008
How-to: Accessing your Warp Appliance from Windows
The purpose of this submission is to talk about WinSCP and Putty, which are two very useful and free utilities for accessing the warp appliance from a Windows machine. WinSCP uses the SCP protocol to allow you to easily browse copy or move files to and from windows and Linux. You can also edit files over the network on a Linux based system from a windows machine. The Putty application allows you to connect to any device that supports the SSH protocol; it uses this protocol to generate a command shell for the device. The first step is to download these free utilities; they can be obtained by following the links below:
Aug 20 2008
How much are the Applications taking in Persistent Storage
You may have been wondering how much persistent storage is a particular application taking. The easiest way that I have found is to delete the <PADS_DIR>/build_warp/root and build each package individually. I have compiled this information for a bunch of them. Please bear in mind that these numbers are rough measurements and may differ if a package is compiled with different switches turned on/off. But at least it will give you an idea as to how much a particular application is taking.
Aug 18 2008
Hey – my ‘make’ breaks
When compiling my 1.0.x version of PADS recently I noticed it was failing. Was it a change I made? (… which is usually the culprit) No, looks like the link to the Asterisk gui code has changed. Sneaky. The solution?
Well, one solution is to follow the steps below and modify the PADS framework. Here is how I have done that …