RE: [Asterisk-Users] Call Center software opensource or commercia l

2005-03-15 Thread mattf
Hello, We use and develop the astGUIclient suite. It is Open-source(as in GPL) and offers Inbound and Outbound call center functions with reports, ACD, monitoring, recording and very basic IVR scripts. Complex IVR functions need to be custom programmed within Asterisk but that is not really that

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Call Center software opensource or commercia l

2005-03-16 Thread mattf
Hello, We tried a Dual Processor AMD system last year and were greatly dissapointed. A single P4 system was much cheaper and actually outperformed the Dual AMD. Is anyone actually running an octal AMD system out there? In our experience having more processors doesn't really matter on the x86

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Caller ID on EM Wink

2005-03-17 Thread mattf
With a RBS(Robbed-bit) T1(in other words, not a PRI) the CallerID(Called ANI) is sent in the digits and come across in Asterisk as part of the extension. It is not standard, you do need to ask for it to be enabled and you usually have to specify how you want it. A standard way of receiving ANI on

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Manager API - Redirect command

2005-03-18 Thread mattf
You should be able to get the full channel values by doing a "Action: Command Command: Show Channels" and picking your SIP extension out of the list it gives you of active channels. Then you can take that and the channel that you are currently connected to, also taken from the "Show

RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Mexico area codes

2005-03-19 Thread mattf
Hello, We created an areacode, country code, GMT offset, country code file for the astGUIclient project last year. I believe it has all Mexican area codes in it. If you find any errors we've love to hear about it. http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/phone_codes_GMT.txt Hope this helps, MATT---

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk/Zaptel on Mac G5 or Xserve

2005-03-22 Thread mattf
I've been trying to get a test G5 in our office from Terrasoft for the last few months. They are very interested and we have offered to give them a deposit for the machine while we test it for a week, but they don't seem to have a machine that they want to send us. Anyone else know of another

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Hardware Requirements for a 50-100 Seat Call Center

2005-03-24 Thread mattf
You're going to have to go a little more in depth into what you are doing in this call center. - Are you going to be doing inbound or outbound? (if so how much of each) - What kind of phones are you planning on using? - What is the maximum number of concurrent conversations you plan on having? -

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

2005-03-31 Thread mattf
Hello, I need to correct myself on one of the points I made in my reply last night. As a very polite developer from Sangoma stated to me(with evidence I might add)they have in the past and continue to today contribute code to GPL Asterisk. It doesn't say so on their website but their developers

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

2005-03-31 Thread mattf
Here's an idea, Digium buys Sangoma with the massive amounts of cash they are getting from venture capitalists and just integrate Sangoma designs into their boards. Not sure how Sangoma would feel about this idea though. MATT--- -Original Message- From: Matthew Boehm [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

2005-03-31 Thread mattf
. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:00:48 -0500, mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an idea, Digium buys Sangoma with the massive amounts of cash they are getting from venture capitalists and just integrate Sangoma designs into their boards. Not sure how Sangoma would feel about this idea though. MATT

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Petition for IAX firmware

2005-04-06 Thread mattf
We target Sipura because they are relatively a small company, the core developers at Sipura used to work for Cisco and worked on their ATA product before they started their own company. A small company is much more likely to try something new with little lead-time. Also access to decision-makers

[Asterisk-Users] My Sangoma Experience - Review

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
My Sangoma Experience in Asterisk: 2005-04-07 Having pushed my Digium Asterisk systems to their capacity many times and figuring out the limits of the Digium hardware I decided it was time to test an Asterisk-compatible Sangoma Quad T1/E1 card(AFT-A104u) to see if they live

RE: [Asterisk-Users] open source Asterisk Application of the year ?

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
As an Asterisk-related Open-Source project developer I would very much like this idea :) We could have a competition that ends yearly during Astricon at which point the application is chosen. But who would judge which is best? I'm pretty sure that the front runners if this was done this year

RE: [Asterisk-Users] My Sangoma Experience - Review

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
Several of these RBS T1s have been here for many years and before we moved to Asterisk a few pieces of phone hardware we used were not PRI-compatible. There is also the fact that we still use Channel banks which are also RBS. We have started a long process of switching to PRIs as our RBS T1

RE: [Asterisk-Users] My Sangoma Experience - Review

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
Hello, This would be software since I still don't see the Digium echo-cancellers anywhere for sale and don't know how to get one. If Digium wants to send me one I would gladly test it. The overall machine load is also affected by the way interrupts are used and the fact that Sangoma uses

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Using manager interface to play aanouncments in a MeetMe

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
just create an extension that plays the message and hangs up and use the manager interface to drop it into the meetme room. Let me know if you would like an example and I'll whip one up. We do this kind of thing in astGUIclient to play DTMF tones automatically in meetme rooms. MATT---

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Using manager interface to play aanouncments in a MeetMe

2005-04-07 Thread mattf
A sample would be great. I'm hoping that the Official MeetMe2 will have provisions for this, but until then I'll have a fully functional scheduler. Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattf Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:31 PM

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Using manager interface to play aanouncments in aMeetMe

2005-04-09 Thread mattf
off from 127.0.0.1 So it appears that my variable ${confNo} is not being set, or at least honored. Any thoughts? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattf Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:40 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma A101 + Rhino channelbank

2005-04-11 Thread mattf
Keep on bugging the Sangoma guys, I know they are working on several RBS T1 issues right now(They called me Friday to go over a few things) They just need help from users like you and I to find the bugs in their drivers. Have you tried any other signalling types other than LOOP? MATT---

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Predictive dialer

2004-12-26 Thread mattf
Hello, The asGUIclient suite has a predictive dialer component to it(VICIDIAL) and it can function well on multiple Asterisk servers at once using a single MySQL server backend. It performs on par with several mid-level commercial dialers that we have compared it to(Nobel, TripleP, DataTel,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Predictive dialer

2004-12-26 Thread mattf
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Predictive dialer mattf wrote: Hello, The asGUIclient suite has a predictive dialer component to it(VICIDIAL) and it can function well on multiple Asterisk servers at once using a single MySQL server

RE: [Asterisk-Users] is deadlocking with the Manager API still a problem?

2004-12-26 Thread mattf
This was pretty much fixed several months ago, but on a heavily loaded system you can get manager API pauses(output just stops and then floods out all at once) of upto 20 seconds if your Asterisk system is under very heavy load. Even in those cases the system will not deadlock, so the manager API

RE: [Asterisk-Users] API manager - Redirect with ExtraChannel

2004-12-27 Thread mattf
We use this in the astGUIclient to transfer an active conversation(both parties) to a meetme room: Action: Redirect Channel: Zap/73-1 ExtraChannel: SIP/199testphone-1f3c Exten: 8600029 Context: default Priority: 1 where 8600029 is a meetme room. Works very well. Sadly like most obscure

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Recording/Monitoring a call mid-stream?

2004-12-29 Thread mattf
Hello, You just need to send a simple Monitor command to the Manager interface to start or stop recording(Monitor) on a channel. This can be easily accomplished within PHP or some other basic web scripting language. But you need to have the full channel name to make the recording work. Are you

RE: [Asterisk-Users] call transfer to conference call

2005-01-03 Thread mattf
You need to send a Manager command(Redirect Action) to the asterisk server. (BYou can do this by connecting to the manager API through any kind of (Btelnet-type connector in any number of programming languages: Perl, C, PHP, (Betc.. (B (BTake a look at the WIKI for more info: (B

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Manager API

2005-01-03 Thread mattf
There really isn't a solid description of every Manager API function, even in the source code. And some of the features listed may not work the way you think they should. As for Monitor, there really isn't much more than to say that you send it a channel and optionally a filename and it will

RE: [Asterisk-Users] manager API

2005-01-04 Thread mattf
Hello, You are correct, it's a lot of data for each client to parse through and a lot of data for the se5rver to be sending out. It would just be easier to use an AGI to trigger an action on the client computer, or you could just use astGUIclient which already does what you are trying to do:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] telemarketing application

2005-01-10 Thread mattf
Take a look at the VICIDIAL component of the astGUIclient suite. It handles inbound calls through an independant ACD as well as allowing outbound dialing from a database of leads. It can be configured to grab callerID info from inbound calls and populate a web form that can tie it into your CRM

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Recording a meetme conference

2005-01-21 Thread mattf
We record meetme rooms by sending a manager Action to place a call from the meetme room to an extension that is defined to start recording for a predetermined amount of time, to end that recording we just send an Action to Hangup that channel. Been working great for over a year now with over

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom IP 600 - 1.3.1

2005-01-26 Thread mattf
The 1.4.1 firmware and the 2.6.1 bootrom are also now on http://www.freedomphones.net/polycom/files/ MATT--- -Original Message- From: mattf Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:02 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Polycom phones

2005-01-27 Thread mattf
Hello, When I talked with the VP of VOIP phone sales at Polycom about a year ago, he was offering a dedicated engineer for the Asterisk community that would work through issues like people have here. BUT they would ONLY do this if a reseller came forward and committed to be the Polycom authorized

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Single or Dual Processor? High volume MeetM e

2005-01-31 Thread mattf
I'm trying to get a souped-up test machine(G5 Xserve) from Terrasoft to do some testing in a few weeks. If/when I actually get it I'll certainly post the results here. In theory the G5 should mop the floor with the Intel for high-volume Asterisk Zaptel usage, and I have heard from several

[Asterisk-Users] astGUIclient users should not upgrade to Asterisk 1.0.5

2005-02-01 Thread mattf
Hello, Just confirmed this on my end, because of the massive changes that have been made to callerID handling in asterisk 1.0.5 many of the features of the astGUIclient suite will not work on this new version. The latest stable version recommended is Asterisk 1.0.3. We will work on trying to find

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: astGUIclient users should not upgrade to Asterisk 1.0.5

2005-02-02 Thread mattf
, February 02, 2005 11:07 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: astGUIclient users should not upgrade to Asterisk 1.0.5 Hello, I'm not a astGUIclient user, but I'm puzzled by the following statement: mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: astGUIclient users should not upgrade to Asterisk 1.0.5

2005-02-02 Thread mattf
dial out). Or if you are using Asterisk 1.0.5 simply use the patch mentioned before to eliminate callerid altering completely. Thanks Mark! MATT--- -Original Message- From: mattf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:32 PM To: 'Nicolás Gudiño'; 'Asterisk Users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Callerid problems with 1.0.5

2005-02-04 Thread mattf
http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0003490 apply the patch: app_dial_CID_nodelete.patch and the deleting of the original callerid will stop in v1.0.5. Also in CVS_HEAD preserving original callerid has been given a flag 'o' in the dial string. MATT--- -Original

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Callerid problems with 1.0.5

2005-02-04 Thread mattf
mattf wrote: Also in CVS_HEAD preserving original callerid has been given a flag 'o' in the dial string. I have to wonder why the default behavior was changed to this non-standard usage though; in what situations do we want the CLID/CNAM of the _recipient_ to be passed to them

RE: [Asterisk-Users] vicidial and mysql ........help

2005-02-04 Thread mattf
Hello, First, there is a mailing list for the astGUIclient suite: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astguiclient-users As for your problem, If you have everything set up correctly you should just be able to run the AST_VDhopper.pl script from your Asterisk server to fill your lead

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Callerid problems with 1.0.5

2005-02-04 Thread mattf
Hello, patching v1.0.5 on my system removed the problem for me. But yes it seems strange that this feature was inserted into a final release with very little documentation of the wide implications that are caused by the change. This was corrected in CVS with the addition of a diabling flag for

RE: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk GUI's that supports zap fxs extensi ons

2005-02-10 Thread mattf
by GUI do you mean a configuration utility or a User Interface? MATT--- -Original Message- From: Jon Gabrielson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:48 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk GUI's that

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Monitoring Conferences

2005-02-16 Thread mattf
Use the manager API to send a call from the meetme room to an extension that does Monitor for a specified period of time. That is how we do it in the astGUIclient suite and it works great. ; extensions.conf entry: ; this is used for recording conference calls, the client app sends the filename ;

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Monitoring Conferences

2005-02-16 Thread mattf
stop the recording if it is set for a period of time? Eg if set the period as 30 minutes and the call finishes early will it cease recording or hold up the line for 30 mins -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattf Sent: Wednesday, February 16

[Asterisk-Users] PRI and echocancel

2005-02-17 Thread mattf
Hello, I have a crossover PRI(Asterisk server to PBX) and a regular telco PRI T1 line and currently have echocancel=yes and echocancelwhenbridged=yes on those spans in zapata.conf. I was discussing CPU load with another Asterisk user and he mentioned that PRIs don't need echo cancelation and that

[Asterisk-Users] Zap call bridge drops randomly

2005-02-21 Thread mattf
Hello, We have a call redirection system setup inhouse to send calls from an incoming line on a T1 to an external dialed out number: Zap(call comes in) - Asterisk - Zap(call dials out) The call comes in on a Robbed-bit T1 (d4/ami EM Wink) and goes out on a PRI. We are using Asterisk release

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Zap call bridge drops randomly

2005-02-21 Thread mattf
Would enabling Busydetect really help if Asterisk thinks it detects an On-Hook? MATT--- -Original Message- From: Rich Adamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:10 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zap

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk-HEAD more stable than Asterisk-1.0. 5

2005-02-22 Thread mattf
We are running HEAD from last night and 1.0.5 and 1.0.3 and 1.0.2 and they all are running just fine in production environments each handling thousands of calls a day. I suppose reliability depends upon what you are using, but for our purposes they all are very stable. I could do without the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] listening to gsm files

2005-02-26 Thread mattf
The free utility WavePad for Win32 will play and edit GSM files as well: http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/ To convert to/from GSM on Win32 you can use DBpowerAMP: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm And for Linux or Win32 you could use Sox of course: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ MATT---

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Wierd asterisk-perl compilation problem

2005-02-26 Thread mattf
Hello, A good rule of thumb for heavy perl users is to not use Fedora/RedHat. Or at least not use rpms or the preinstalled perl on the OS. RedHat has done a lot to screw up how perl works in the last several versions and there are a lot of angry perl developers that have just given up on the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] astguiclient gives me Object not found

2005-02-27 Thread mattf
Hello, The astGUiclient suite has it's own mailing list for questions like this: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astguiclient-users The easy fix is for you to set PHP globals to on and see if it works like that first, also you could try making that directory writable. MATT---

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager API - multi Originate cal ls

2005-03-02 Thread mattf
Hello, You can do either, you can send multiple Originate actions in a long line without waiting for a response back(although the responses do usually come back very fast) or you can open multiple connections using each one to Originate a new call. We use the multiple connection method in the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager API - multi Originate cal ls

2005-03-02 Thread mattf
ActionID does not return in all events related to an Action sent, sometimes it will just send you a success message and nothing more. Just try Originating a call from a meetme room over an outside line. You will get about 150 lines of output and only one message will have the ActionID in it,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager API - multi Originate cal ls

2005-03-02 Thread mattf
as possible) if the calee phone number is ringing. Thanks, Tom --- mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ActionID does not return in all events related to an Action sent, sometimes it will just send you a success message and nothing more. Just try Originating a call from a meetme room over an outside line

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk URL and Callcenter Apps

2005-03-02 Thread mattf
We use astGUIclient suite, it has this functionality. Hard or soft phones SIP, IAX or Zap http://astguiclient.sf.net MATT--- -Original Message- From: Anton Krall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 4:40 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Management API

2005-03-08 Thread mattf
The best way to figure out the manager protocols is through looking at the manager.c source code and trial and error. Some things just don't behave the way you think they should, some things are not fully documented and some actions do not work in certain cercumstances while others will. And

[Asterisk-Users] New astGUIclient version released 1.1.0

2005-03-09 Thread mattf
Hello, We've released another update to our Asterisk GUI Client suite: 1.1.0 http://astguiclient.sf.net/ Screen shots: http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html The client suite runs on both Windows and UNIX, includes the VICIDIAL auto-dialer and is free as in GPL. (the suite is not

RE: [Asterisk-Users] * For Call Center

2004-01-15 Thread mattf
Hello, I think you need to do a little more looking around on the Asterisk resources and on Google. What you are trying to do is mostly possible if you have the time, patience and money to follow through with it. One thing you need to learn is that a great many on this list despise

RE: [Asterisk-Users] NO DTMF detection in the Outgoing call with GW Cisco5300

2004-01-16 Thread mattf
Hello, I noticed this as well on a supira connected phone through Asterisk when I upgraded from CVS 10-10-2003 to CVS 01-10-2004, nothing else changed in the setup. MATT--- -Original Message- From: Steve Dolloff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:57 PM To:

[Asterisk-Users] doublehash patch doesn't work in asterisk 0.7.1

2004-01-16 Thread mattf
Hello, I was using the doublehash.patch that Iain Stevenson had created back in August to change the transfer key from a single hash # to a double-hash #. It always patches properly, but when I went from CVS 2004-01-12 to Asterisk 0.7.1 it doesn't seem to work anymore. I've attached the patch to

RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Latest version of asterisk

2004-01-19 Thread mattf
Hello, I've had Asterisk installed on HT capable machines in both HT mode(with SMP) and non HT mode (with non-SMP) and did not notice any differences functionally between them. The processor load was always less in HT SMP mode than non HT and I have experienced Asterisk deadlocks in both modes so

RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Latest version of asterisk

2004-01-19 Thread mattf
? Like, customers sending me H323 or SIP fax calls and the Asterisk will pass through to another gateway? Anyone successful in doing that? Tommy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mattf Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:32 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Latest version of asterisk

2004-01-20 Thread mattf
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mattf Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:21 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Latest version of asterisk Hello, Our max for a single machine is 40 concurrent SIP - Zap conversations for about a 12 hour period and over 5000 total

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sip phones transfer not working.

2004-01-21 Thread mattf
Hello, You can try the doublehash.patch linked on this bug: http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=885 it makes it so you have to dial two hashes ## in quick succession to trigger a transfer. It works very well, but the problem is that it won't work with asterisk 0.7.1 and no one

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Mailing List Lag

2004-01-21 Thread mattf
Hello, Ditto here, it seems to be the worst 9am to 5pm in the USA, any other time than that messages get posted right away. Ping times from both of my network connections to digium.com domains are horrible at 300-700ms but the last hop before entering the digium.com land is always really good

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom Soundpoint IP400

2004-01-21 Thread mattf
Hello, As far as I've heard the IP400 doesn't have enough physical memory to store all of the files necessary to run SIP. For those familiar with SIP, H323 and MGCP protocols, SIP files are huge while MGCP takes up very little space and H323 is in the middle. The IP400 phones were designed for

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Transfer problem

2004-01-21 Thread mattf
Hello, I'd love for the doublehash option(two ## in succession to transfer) to be available as a config flag. I would think this would be trivial to add to Asterisk, we just need someone to do it. It would solve one of my major problems with 0.7.1 and would give another option for those can't use

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom Reboot Script - Please wiki-size me

2004-01-23 Thread mattf
It's been added to the wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Polycom+reboot+hardphone+script MATT--- -Original Message- From: John Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom Reboot Script -

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Does anyone manage the wiki?

2004-01-28 Thread mattf
Go ahead and edit the page. I've fixed several little errors on pages that I didn't create. The voip-info.org Wiki is like the total-open-source Asterisk manual. Although the total-access may be a problem in the future because all someone has to do to delete everything is just to register and

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Mailing List Lag

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
Hello, My reply posts are getting posted right away, but I tried posting a new message and it hasn't appeared in over 6 hours. What kind of filter do you have on new threads now? MATT--- -Original Message- From: Brian West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:53

RE: [Asterisk-Users] good job on the list server!

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
I've tried posting a new message 3 times since midnight last night and it won't post, but as you can see my replys always make it on very fast. What's up? am I doing something wrong? I thought you just had to email a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your member email account and it would be

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager Interface notes

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
Hello, After battling with the Asterisk Manager interface(and getting it to pretty much do everything I want to do with it) I thought I'd share my experiences with those who are developing or are thinking of developing applications using it. First here's a list of some of the things the manager

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager Interface notes

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
Hello, After battling with the Asterisk Manager interface(and getting it to pretty much do everything I want to do with it) I thought I'd share my experiences with those who are developing or are thinking of developing applications using it. First here's a list of some of the things the manager

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager Interface notes

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
Hello, After battling with the Asterisk Manager interface(and getting it to pretty much do everything I want to do with it) I thought I'd share my experiences with those who are developing or are thinking of developing applications using it. First here's a list of some of the things the manager

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Manager Interface notes

2004-01-29 Thread mattf
This was the third posting (sent at 10:11 AM), you won't see any more, I promise. Thanks to Brian for de-spamming my posts. MATT--- -Original Message- From: mattf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:11 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Asterisk-Users

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Call quality questions

2004-01-30 Thread mattf
Hello, Did you set the flag in the makefile for zaptel for SMP kernels? 1. I have a couple Snom200 phones on my system running redhat with a P4 HT and haven't had any issues with horrible sound quality using 711ulaw. 2. As for the speakerphone cutout, that's to be expected, The snom200s are

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk Manager Interface notes

2004-01-30 Thread mattf
Hello, I was referring to the availability of the ExtensionState Action (see the wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20manager%20API ), even though I don't actually use it. For my purposes of status of an extension I wrote an updater script, that runs outside of Astrisk,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: sementation fault with mpg123

2004-02-03 Thread mattf
I'd love to have a non-mp3 music-on-hold option. Anybody put this as a feature request yet? MATT--- -Original Message- From: James H. Cloos Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: sementation fault with

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Minor Registration Problem With Polycom Soun dpoint IP 500

2004-02-04 Thread mattf
What firmware and sip versions are you using? I have several Polycom phones on my system right now and I've never had any registration problems with them. Instead of leaving the host as dynamic try declaring an IP address(that's the only difference I see between your sip.conf and mine). If you

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Minor Registration Problem With Polycom Soun dpoint IP 500

2004-02-04 Thread mattf
..(repeat until phone stops registering) David - Original Message - From: mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:59 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Minor Registration Problem With Polycom Soundpoint IP 500 What firmware and sip versions

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk GUI Client - New verison 0.9

2004-02-06 Thread mattf
--- -Original Message- From: Dustin Knuttgen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk GUI Client - New verison 0.9 -Original Message- From: mattf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Conference server

2004-02-06 Thread mattf
Currently Asterisk will cause a Kernel Panic if you are using the Linux SMP kernel and have about 30 channels in conference. Here's the bug listing: http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=963 MATT--- -Original Message- From: Paulo Mannheimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Asterisk-Users] System freeze

2004-02-09 Thread mattf
Did you have any active meetme sessions at the time of the freeze? What Asterisk version are you using? MATT--- -Original Message- From: Jonathan Biggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] System freeze

RE: [Asterisk-Users] alternative to mpg123 musiconhold was [Sys tem freeze]

2004-02-09 Thread mattf
I would like to request an alternative to the mpg123-only musiconhold. I could live with just about anything that isn't mp3. Just as an alternative for those of us who have had nothing but problems with mpg123 and would like to use the functionality of musiconhold. MATT--- -Original

RE: [Asterisk-Users] NIC card failure [was: System freeze]

2004-02-10 Thread mattf
to use. Are the bytes being read one at a time with programmed IO? With DMA? Is there a hardware ring buffer being used? How about packet filtering on the card? Take a look, the Reltek is not a bad choise. --- Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 07:01, mattf wrote

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Stuck TE410P cards

2004-02-11 Thread mattf
I had the same problem, Digium sent me a new card and now all is well. MATT--- -Original Message- From: Scott Stingel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Stuck TE410P cards Hello all- I have 3 TE410P

RE: [Asterisk-Users] TE405P and dual Athlon systems

2004-02-14 Thread mattf
I'd like to know why too. I'm using a TE410P card in a dual Athlon XP system right now and it seems to be playing nicely with the dual Athlons, should I worry about something going wrong with my TE410P since it is basically the same card as the TE405P except it runs at a different voltage?

RE: [Asterisk-Users] TE405P and dual Athlon systems

2004-02-15 Thread mattf
Athlon systems On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 00:46, mattf wrote: I'd like to know why too. I'm using a TE410P card in a dual Athlon XP system right now and it seems to be playing nicely with the dual Athlons, should I worry about something going wrong with my TE410P since it is basically the same card

RE: [Asterisk-Users] max asterisk load

2004-02-17 Thread mattf
That is extremely depandant upon what you want to do. First we have to know what the job of the asterisk server is, will it be an inbound ACD, a SIP phone PBX, a T1-only IVR, a conference call system, a voicemail system, and office phone system with H323 phones, etc.. Also, we need to know what

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Record communication

2004-02-17 Thread mattf
Yep, you can use the asterisk manager interface to initiate Monitor(start recording) and StopMonitor(stop recording) Actions on any Zap channel(it won't work on SIP-only or any other VOIP-only calls). Look at the wiki for more info:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Registering Polycom IP 500 with Asterisk [re vised]

2004-02-19 Thread mattf
try putting something in for these values instead of leaving them blank in the phone1.cfg file: reg reg.1.displayName=2002 reg.1.address=2002 reg.1.label=2002 let us know if that clears things up. MATT--- -Original Message- From: James Treleaven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] About Grandstream ATA-286 and ring voltage

2004-02-23 Thread mattf
The only adapter that I know of that allows you to modify the ring voltage is the Sipura analog SIP adapter. I was able to get my old fax machine to answer after jacking up the ring voltage to 90V. http://www.sipura.com MATT--- -Original Message- From: Nicolas Bougues [mailto:[EMAIL

[Asterisk-Users] Processor load spikes

2004-02-23 Thread mattf
I always keep a terminal window open with top running for my asterisk servers. Since we've had Asterisk in production, for about 9 months, I've noticed with every platform and every card we've tried that the load average will be going along at about 0.1 to 0.5 with about 30 channels(15 SIP - Zap

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Processor load spikes

2004-02-23 Thread mattf
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Processor load spikes On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 09:19, mattf wrote: I always keep a terminal window open with top running for my asterisk servers. Since we've had Asterisk in production, for about 9 months, I've noticed with every platform

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Processor load spikes

2004-02-24 Thread mattf
load spikes On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 18:42, mattf wrote: Thanks for the response. I plan on trying Slackware on my backup/test asterisk server when I have a new backup server ready in a few weeks. I've noticed in some database machine testing that Slackware starts up in about half the time

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread mattf
Take a look at my GUI app: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astguiclient/ It'll run on Linux and Windows, it's written in perl and it'll list every channel(Zap/SIP/Local) that is active on your system updated every second. You can also do a lot of other things with it too. We've been using it

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread mattf
It actually has components that run on the Asterisk server as well as a GUI app that runs on the desktop(Win32 or Linux). astguiclient was really designed for a larger environment than most of the Asterisk client apps that are out there, and it is not as easy to set up. It was also initially

[Asterisk-Users] Core dump crash

2004-02-27 Thread mattf
I had my first production system Asterisk crash today with no apparent reason for the crash. This was on a production server that hasn't had anything changed on it for 3 weeks and is rebooted every night. The load was low when the crash occured and the logs give no indications as to what caused

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Core dump crash

2004-02-27 Thread mattf
, 2004 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Core dump crash mattf wrote: I had my first production system Asterisk crash today with no apparent reason for the crash. This was on a production server that hasn't had anything changed on it for 3 weeks and is rebooted every

RE: [Asterisk-Users] CPU load

2004-03-04 Thread mattf
What processor? What distro? What kernel(SMP, non-SMP)? What are you doing specifically with your Asterisk system? My personal experience is that I've had high-load crashes anywhere from 6.0 to 8.0 on a SMP P4 Single-processor with HT enabled. The load isn't the best indicator of when a crash is

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Kernel - TE410P

2004-03-05 Thread mattf
compiling zaptel is enough, I have one and it loaded up just fine on RH9, make sure you modprobe zaptel, modprobe wct4xxp and then ztcfg -vvv before you try starting the first time. MATT--- -Original Message- From: Tomica Crnek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004

[Asterisk-Users] New astguiclient release

2004-03-08 Thread mattf
Hello, We've made another release of the astguiclient suite of client GUI interfaces for Asterisk(please note this is not a config file editor). This release has a lot of bug fixes and includes the VICIDIAL one-call-at-a-time dialer. We have also finished our new website complete with a new

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