vocp-announce — Low traffic announcement list for new VOCP releases

[Vocp-announce] VOCP 0.9.3 is out and about

[Pat D. <pr...@vo...>]

Greetings all,

VOCP 0.9.3 has been released.  If you are having any types of issues,
you should upgrade before reporting problems.

Upgrade procedure described at
http://www.vocpsystem.com/vocp_upgrade.php
Read it, follow it.

Even if you do not upgrade, it is recommend that you install the version
of Modem::Vgetty included with 0.9.3 (in
prog/dependencies/Modem-Vgetty-0.04/) using the standard

perl Makefile.PL
make=20
make install

In addition, if you've had any weirdness with your box configuration be
sure to have the latest version of XML::Mini.  Do a

# perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::Mini'
as root.


New features include:

* New location of files
We've finally moved out of the mgetty-dependent location for config
files.  They're all in /etc/vocp/ now and vocp.pl has been moved out of
there and is with the rest of the executables in /usr/local/vocp/bin/.


* New DTMF input algo
Big changes in the interaction with vgetty during DTMF input and
reflected in vocp.pl

* New box attributes
A few new box attributes have been added and BoxConf has been updated to
reflect the changes.  These include:

- name
Will mainly be useful later but can help you remember which box is which
- shows up in the boxconf main interface.

- numDigits
Multi digit mode is still the same: * XXX# will work at any time.=20
However, single digit input has been replaced with /fixed/ digit input.=20
Defaulting to 1 digit, boxes can now have their numDigits attribute set
to some other number and will timeout immediately after receiving that
many key presses.

One user wished to have a series of boxes numbered according to user
initials.  Setting the root box to have 2 numDigits allows this.  The
branch can still be set, for instance to allow a "press 1 for english, 2
for spanish, etc" although there will be a slight delay for users who
enter only 1 digit on a box with numDigits set > 1.


- restrictFrom/restrictLoginFrom
If you have caller ID, you can use these to restrict public access/login
access respectively.  The values of these attributes are treated as
regular expressions, same as for CID filtering.  See
http://www.vocpsystem.com/callerid_filter.php for details on these
regexes.

* Fax reception

Some users where still having troubles receiving faxes.  These should be
resolved by installing 0.9.3.

* BoxConf command shell fix

Command shell edits were wiping out the selections in existing command
shell boxes.  This has been fixed.



Yet to come:
- update to the site and docs to reflect changes
- VOCPweb interface=20
- possible fixes to txttopvf for some
- surprises?


Enjoy and let us know if you have any troubles.

Regards,
--=20
Pat Deegan,
http://VOCPsystem.com/
http://www.psychogenic.com/

[Vocp-announce] VOCP 0.9.2 Available

[Pat D. <pr...@vo...>]

VOCP AoP patch level 2 is available for download at
http://www.vocpsystem.com

This release addresses a few issues some were having with faxing and a
few other things but the major advance is that, for the first time since
0.5, we are using vgetty's autostop feature.

The autostop automatically stops message play when DTMF input is
received.  The advantage is that bargein is faster, so the caller spends
less time waiting and is quickly aware that his/her action has had an
effect.  It also means there's less chance of having nested command
errors with vgetty.

The downside to autostop is that multi-digit input is a little harder to
catch.  So when you want to jump to a box or log in from a location that
is expecting single digit input (by using *DDD#), you may need to wait
until the message has stopped after pressing * before entering the rest
of the digits.


Also, the website has been updated.  Check out the new call center use
page for details on the new icons and how to set up call in progress
transfers to VOCP.


For those who are having issues of any sort and for those who are simply
tired of seeing those filehandle errors in the vocp.log, please get the
updated version of Modem::Vgetty available at=20

http://vocpsystem.com/Modem-Vgetty-0.04.tar.gz

and=20
perl Makefile.PL; make ; su; make install
it.

If you are experience problems of any sort, don't hesitate to let us
know about it.

Enjoy,
--=20
Pat Deegan,
http://VOCPsystem.com/
http://www.psychogenic.com/

[Vocp-announce] VOCP 0.9.1 is out

[Pat D. <pr...@vo...>]

Greetings all,

This is to let you know that VOCP 0.9.1 has been released.  It sports a
pretty new Call Center and addresses a couple of bugs and requests.

New in the release:

- Transfer call in progress to VOCP through the Call Center.  If you've
answered a call and you decide to send it to the voice messaging system,
you can do so using the Call Center (the "telephone off-hook" icon).

- New rootbox_DEVICE option in vocp.conf to override the default root
box (001) on a per-line basis.  See vocp.conf for details.

- Incorporation of Dan Rich's fix to boxconf which gets rid of the
"xhost +" issue

- Got rid of the tempdir overrides - the tempdir is set in vocp.conf or
in the VOCP::Vars::Defaults hash and defaults to /tmp


and maybe a few other things I've forgotten... The website will be
updated this afternoon to reflect the changes - in the meantime, you can
head to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D13121 for
all your VOCP downloading needs.

Thanks go out to all who provided input, suggestions, bug fixes and
complaints.

=20
Regards,
--=20
Pat Deegan,
http://www.psychogenic.com/
PGP: http://www.keyserver.net 0x03F86A50