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."

It works better!

Based on a conversation with Emil today, I changed the way that the DataSource is switched over to a file. Instead of changing the default data source, I have sip-communicator make a new instance of MediaControl, instantiate it with the outgoing message file, and place the mapping of that particular mediacontrol to that particular call in a hashmap. Once the call ends, said mapping is removed. In this way, calls that are picked up normally get the usual DataSource while calls that are picked up by the mailbox get the outgoing message.

And to top it all off, it actually works!

I suppose that My next goal is to get the input from the remote caller redirected to a file and save the incoming message. Wish me luck.