shouldn't have done that

Well, I committed the sin of "implementing feature B before testing feature A," and now here's where I am at:

Whenever I try to connect a call (either via clicking the answer button or via letting the mailbox pick it up) I get "java.net.BindException: Address already in use." This also happens when I try to create an outgoing call. This is caused by one of the following:

-something I did while trying to move some values to the configuration files
-something I did while trying to get the incoming message to wait for the outgoing message to finish before recording starts
-something else entirely.

Right now neither scenario is looking very likely.

check one more thing off my list

The Mailbox now loads the settings for the outgoing message location, incoming message location, and wait time from the config file.

At least I think it does. I haven't had time to test it yet.

It does compile, though, so I am checking in and going to bed.

can you hear me knockin?

Outgoing message works. Incoming message works. Neither of them try to run when you pick up the phone.

This is good.

Anyway, I've got two things to fix right away:

1. The incoming message starts recording as soon as the call connects, so it picks up some of the outgoing message as well.

2. I need to move the settings for the location of the outgoing/incoming messages out of the code and into the config file.

Leave a message after the tone

After messing around with all the quirks in manager.createDataSink, I finally got incoming audio to record to a file. Very exciting.

Now I need to have the mailbox tell the media service which calls it needs to record and which it needs to play as normal.

breaking rocks in the hot sun

Yesterday I did some code tidying to get my project ready for some additional midterm eyeballs. This included removing the unnecessary Mailbox Service that I was exporting and changing the outgoing message to a location inside the repository instead of /home/ryan. Eventually I will use a config file entry to point to the outgoing messsage, but in the mean time at least it will work after a fresh checkout.

the internet is nice sometime

Tried to get sip-communicator recording all incoming audio to a file today (figured that was a good first step in getting it to record incoming audio to a file some of the time). My first go at it came back with an empty file and a NoDataSinkException. It turns out that someone else had a similar experience and the process for creating a data sink is a bit more complicated. However, it does appear fairly straightforward to create a processor and do a transcode, so hopefully I'll have incoming audio working soon.

in your head, in your head. zombie

Had a major setback the last few days in the form of a rather nasty sinus/throat/sneeze/cough thing. Tried to sit down and hack a few times but I'm more or less useless in my sick/medicated state. On the bright side it feels like it's about to pass, so I should hopefully be able to get some definite progress on getting an incoming message recorded over the weekend. Hopefully.

At the very least, I'll try to keep posting more, even if it's a few more days of "too sick to code, drank lots of tea and watched movies all day."