[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 Streaming MOH timing interface

2013-02-04 Thread Bob Pierce
We are running Asterisk 1.8.5.0 with an uptime of 40 weeks. Just today our streaming music on hold stopped working. I remember when we had first installed 1.8 we had an issue where the streaming music on hold would not work because Music On Hold was using the DAHDI timing module. We needed the

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom and auto answer

2011-08-08 Thread Bob Pierce
Here's what I have and it works for me in 1.8.5: in sip.cfg voIpProt voIpProt.SIP voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.class=ringAutoAnswer voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.1.value=Ring Answer voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.2.class=autoAnswer voIpProt.SIP.alertInfo.2.value=Auto Answer /

[asterisk-users] use ILBC installed from asterisk yum repositories

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Pierce
I would like to try the ILBC codec on one of our systems. The system is currently running Asterisk 1.8.5.0 installed from the Asterisk provided repositories for Centos 5. Is there a process for installing the ILBC codec under this environment, or will I have to un-install the RPMs and build

Re: [asterisk-users] use ILBC installed from asterisk yum repositories

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Pierce
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Lefteris Zafiris zaf@gmail.com wrote: You can write a short makefile for just codec_ilbc module, build it and install it on your running asterisk system. You will have to install the asterisk18-devel package and get the asterisk source code either from a tar

Re: [asterisk-users] Macro issue under 1.8.5

2011-07-15 Thread Bob Pierce
I'm still using macro with Asterisk 1.8.5.0 On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Paul Belanger pabelan...@digium.com wrote: On 11-07-15 02:18 PM, Doug Lytle wrote: --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: I back leveled to 1.8.3 and that works fine. What am I missing as app_macro has been installed okay? Macro

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 Paging without DAHDI or MOH Shoutcast with DAHDI

2011-07-11 Thread Bob Pierce
I agree that call files are not an appropriate way to solve this. I would like to move back to using the original Page() application which had always worked for us with 1.4 My initial testing found that MOH from a streaming source such as Shoutcast only worked if I disabled the DAHDI timing

[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 Paging without DAHDI or MOH Shoutcast with DAHDI

2011-06-27 Thread Bob Pierce
We just finished an upgrade of our Asterisk system to an HA environment on a pair of servers using Linux-HA. As part of the upgrade, we also moved to Asterisk version 1.8.4.3 Most things are working quite nicely on the new system. However, I’m having trouble getting a paging feature to work. In

Re: [asterisk-users] Aastra, Asterisk 1.4 and Voicemail

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Pierce
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Mike l...@virtutel.ca wrote: This seems like a basic thing to set up, so I have no doubt many people have done this. Anyone care to point me in the right direction? In our config files, we have: softkey1 type: speeddial softkey1 label: Voice Mail softkey1 value:

Re: [asterisk-users] Astricon

2009-10-21 Thread Bob Pierce
Or charge for full access! Leave a few teasers, and charge some amount to see them all. I would pay - even close to attendance price... could only help you get past break even ;) I agree, I would be quite willing to pay for full access to all the videos from the Conference. Bob

Re: [asterisk-users] Dail in modem

2009-06-19 Thread Bob Pierce
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:45 +0500, ABBAS SHAKEEL wrote: I am required to do some thing like Dail in modem . User will have to call a modem just like we do in dail up connection now we need to handle that request and retrieve some parameters from that send a HTTp request to a web server

[asterisk-users] Switchvox HA options

2009-06-19 Thread Bob Pierce
What are the HA options for Switchvox systems? Is it possible to set up redundant systems with DRBD? I know on the digium website they talk about Optional cold spare failover What does this mean? Is this an active spare ready for some sort of automated failover? Thanks for you help, Bob

Re: [asterisk-users] show pri usage

2009-03-26 Thread Bob Pierce
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 07:19 -0700, Vieri wrote: Maybe I could simply do something like: asterisk -rx show channels | grep -c -i zap to get the number of zap/dahdi channels in use. I was actually using a command similar to that up until a few months ago. /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx 'show

Re: [asterisk-users] Aastra 480i repair?

2009-03-06 Thread Bob Pierce
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:41 -0500, m...@njycamps.org wrote: Anyone know where I can get an Aastra 480i repaired? The phone works on speakerphone, but when you lift the receiver offthe hook, the phone does not engage. There is something wrong with the hook. The receiver works fine, on another

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 Configuration

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Pierce
Mark, Are you still having trouble with your 8002? I had a lot of trouble with mine initially, but after playing with it for about 8 hours I figured it out. Now it works great all around our office. Our NOC technician loves it! There is a problem with the sample configs that Polycom publishes. I

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 Configuration

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Pierce
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 15:13 +, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Aha! Mind posting that config? My sip_allusers.cfg looks like this: CODECS = g711u, g711a PROXY1_TYPE = Asterisk PROXY1_ADDR = 192.168.8.1:5060 #PROXY1_KEYPRESS_2833 = enable PROXY1_KEYPRESS_INFO = disable PROXY1_HOLD_IP0 = disable

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom Spectralink 8002 Configuration

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Pierce
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 11:37 -0500, M Hulber wrote: So I'm thinking, would this work if I had a sip_.conf as well as a sip_.conf? What the relationship between the LINEs in the sip_.cfg and the Reg on the phone? What's the relationship between the AUTH and the LINEn_AUTH? This

Re: [asterisk-users] don't get 2.0 gui to run on asterisk 1.6.0.5

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Pierce
I found that after moving to Asterisk 1.6 and the latest SVN of ASterisk-GUI, the link changed from: http://localhost:8088/asterisk/static/config/cfgbasic.html to: http://localhost:8088/static/config/cfgbasic.html I don't know if you'll find the same or not... Bob On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:17

Re: [asterisk-users] GUI interface to manage business edition

2009-02-13 Thread Bob Pierce
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:24 -0500, Miguel Martinez wrote: I am new to the Asterisk world, but have decided to use the business edition, but am looking for a cost effective gui interface to manage the software. Does the Asterisk-GUI work with Asterisk Business Edition?

[asterisk-users] Broadcast Phone system (for radio)

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Pierce
this link: http://www.telos-systems.com/techtalk/digiphones/digiphones_4.htm States the following: Generic PBXs will not do for our broadcast application – they just don’t have the features necessary. For example, while lines may certainly be shared to multiple phones, there is no way to switch

[asterisk-users] Asterisk Appliance

2009-01-13 Thread Bob Pierce
I'm looking for some info on the Asterisk Appliance. I understand it has a gui, but can I still do all the dialplan config that I'm used of doing by hand outside of the gui? If I really wanted to, could I even ignore that the device has a gui and do all my config in the files? I guess I'm just

[asterisk-users] Asterisk as MGCP client

2008-12-29 Thread Bob Pierce
Has there been any work done on using Asterisk as an MGCP client? I see the 'Asterisk MGCP channels' page on voip-info hasn't been updated since 2006, and I was wondering if anyone has been able to accomplish this yet. I have a situation where it might be helpful to have an Asterisk system

[asterisk-users] SendImage() to Polycom ip550 or ip670

2008-12-10 Thread Bob Pierce
I tried really quickly the other day to send an image to these phones from the dialplan like this: exten = 2821,n,SendImage(/var/lib/asterisk/images/asterisk-intro) or exten = 2821,n,SendImage(asterisk-intro) It didn't work for me. Should this work? Is anyone else using this with Polycom

Re: [asterisk-users] Call quality issue across VPN- POTS vs SIP

2008-11-03 Thread Bob Pierce
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 11:14 -0500, Lincoln King-Cliby wrote: Any ideas why the audio quality would be so markedly different when the only thing that seems to be different is where the call is originating from (POTS line vs. SIP phone)? Is it possible that calls from your POTS line are going

Re: [asterisk-users] Call quality issue across VPN- POTS vs SIP

2008-11-03 Thread Bob Pierce
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:17 -0500, Lincoln King-Cliby wrote: It's conceivable, but how would I verify this and how would I change it if that was the problem? There's a few things you can do here. 1) Check the sip.conf on both sides to see what is defined there for the trunk. Look for some

Re: [asterisk-users] hex b1 in CallerID sent by Asterisk On PRI

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Pierce
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:56 -0500, Bob Pierce wrote: Does anyone know what the significance is of the b1 being sent here? Or, is there a way to make Asterisk not send the b1 character as a test? As an update to this, I noticed the following lines in libpri.h near line 236: /* Network

Re: [asterisk-users] hex b1 in CallerID sent by Asterisk On PRI

2008-10-22 Thread Bob Pierce
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 12:11 -0500, Bob Pierce wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:56 -0500, Bob Pierce wrote: Does anyone know what the significance is of the b1 being sent here? Or, is there a way to make Asterisk not send the b1 character as a test? As a further update to this, I've

[asterisk-users] hex b1 in CallerID sent by Asterisk On PRI

2008-10-21 Thread Bob Pierce
I'm trying to send CallerID info to a MetaSwitch system over a PRI. The MetaSwitch gets the info exactly as it is sent by Asterisk, but I think it might be having trouble with the Hexadecimal b1 that is being sent just before the first character of the CallerID Name. Does anyone know what the

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX over T1 Question

2008-09-05 Thread Bob Pierce
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:19 -0700, Amaru Netapshaak wrote: I have a Sangoma A104d T1 card, a Rhino 24-port FXS box, and am running Asterisk 1.4.21.2 I think you're mostly right on this setup, but I wonder if your A104d is doing some hardware echo cancellation on these calls. If I'm not

Re: [asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-27 Thread Bob Pierce
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 11:21 +0300, Atis Lezdins wrote: If you doubt about some part, you're welcome to ask, i'll try to help you, but i don't want to provide complete backport to you, as i won't be able to test it :) Thanks Atis, I'll probably try this in a few weeks when I start rebuilding

Re: [asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-26 Thread Bob Pierce
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:47 -0500, Bob Pierce wrote: I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying Asterisk 1.4! Unfortunately, the shared_lastcall option is only in versions 1.6.0 and up. Does anybody have a workaround for this in 1.4? Or maybe a better question: How stable is 1.6

Re: [asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-26 Thread Bob Pierce
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:30 +0300, Atis Lezdins wrote: I'd say - go for backport instead. shared_lastcall is commited in http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/apps/app_queue.c?r1=86820r2=86985 and it seems that there are no bugfixes for it since. So, backporting should be fairly simple.

Re: [asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-26 Thread Bob Pierce
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:53 +0300, Atis Lezdins wrote: Are there any plans to back port this feature into upcoming 1.4 releases? No, new features are added only in trunk, and released in next major release (1.6). So what would be involved in back porting this feature for our system?

[asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-25 Thread Bob Pierce
We have just moved up to Asterisk 1.4.21.2 from 1.2.18 We are now dynamically adding and removing members from our queues. Just like before, our members are shared across multiple queues. Today was our first day with the system in full production, and the only minor glitch that I've run across

Re: [asterisk-users] is shared_lastcall available in 1.4

2008-08-25 Thread Bob Pierce
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 17:46 -0500, Mark Michelson wrote: I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying Asterisk 1.4! Unfortunately, the shared_lastcall option is only in versions 1.6.0 and up. Does anybody have a workaround for this in 1.4? ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] Reverse Scenario

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Pierce
I know you cannot describe the whole scenario in an email, what I need is a line or some words for each step :) Or if anyone can do the whole scenario, please send me an email for further discussions. Would a combination of call files and conference rooms achieve this? Quick thoughts

[asterisk-users] Sip or IAX device with professional balanced audio out

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Pierce
Hi all, I've been googling for a solution here and haven't really come up with anything yet. We're doing an Asterisk install for a local radio station, and we're looking for a phone that they can use in their control room hooked up to their mixer board for recording calls. So, when you phone in

Re: [asterisk-users] multiple simultaneous access to single voice mail box

2008-04-10 Thread Bob Pierce
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:25 -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: If you instead use a separate extension, you can use groups to restrict the number of people accessing a particular mailbox: Thanks Tilghman, I didn't think of that. I'm sure that will work just fine for what we need. Have a great

[asterisk-users] multiple simultaneous access to single voice mail box

2008-04-09 Thread Bob Pierce
We are using Asterisk 1.2.18 at this site. One of the users brought this to my attention today. We have a problem when we take the message off the voice mail. If I am taking off the messages it used to be [on the old phone system] that no one else was able to go in take off the message. Now I

Re: [asterisk-users] BRI card with PCI-E interface

2008-02-01 Thread Bob Pierce
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:01 +0100, Alberto Pastore wrote: Olivier ha scritto: Hi, Does such card exist ? It seems all existing models are designed for PCI buses. Regards

Re: [asterisk-users] Semi-OT: Best Speakerphone

2007-11-26 Thread Bob Pierce
We're using Aastra 480i phones, and their speakerphone is great. I even have one in our datacenter and the speakerphone is usable even with all the noise of the server fans. I also have a great contact if you happen to be in Canada wanting to buy some. Bob On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:30 -0700,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk on Pcengines Alix board

2007-11-19 Thread Bob Pierce
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 22:14 +0100, Giuseppe Barichello wrote: I have successfully compiled and installed Asterisk on an Alix board (AMD Geode 500 Mhz + 256 Mb RAM) on top of Voyage linux (a Debian variant). I'm using it at home for a month. That's very interesting! I've been curious about

[asterisk-users] Queue Statistics reporting

2007-11-05 Thread Bob Pierce
Anyone know of a good package for reporting on Queue statistics from Asterisk? Bob ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

[asterisk-users] reload manager.conf

2007-10-24 Thread Bob Pierce
I've made a change to my manager.conf file in asterisk 1.2.18 Is there a way to reload that config file from the CLI without restarting asterisk? Bob ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list

Re: [asterisk-users] reload manager.conf

2007-10-24 Thread Bob Pierce
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:31 -0700, Richard Lyman wrote: every time there is a new connection to the asterisk manager interface, the manager.conf file is reread. (meaning, it reloads itself) Great. Thanks for your help! ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] Which Asterisk version to use?

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Pierce
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:48 -0400, Eric B. wrote: I'm a complete newbie to Asterisk and have been reading through documentation and sites for the last couple of hours trying to understand what to do to start my learning curve with Asterisk, and am very confused. The best starting point IMHO