Re: [Asterisk-Users] Solution for 1 time blast of 200, 000 recorded calls

2006-02-14 Thread Peter Corlett
Ron Senykoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm helping out with a political campaign and would like to use asterisk
 to blast out about 200,000 calls with a short message from the candidate.

Can you tell me which party this is for, so I can ensure I never vote for
them?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] LiveVoip is Bankrupt

2005-06-26 Thread Peter Corlett
Matt Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Looks like the Daily Asterisk News will need a new host. So, unless
 anyone can donate space for a custom php and mysql based site, it
 will be hosted in either New Zealand or Italy.

 Offers?

How much bandwidth does it consume?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Corlett
David John Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I quite like the idea that came about earlier with regards to Romand
 and Greek gods, I am thinking (if I ever get off the phone to google
 today) of findind the roman and greek gods of communication..

You are thinking of Mercury and Hermes, the Roman and Greek names
respectively for the same god.

You may have heard of Mercury Communications Ltd., so your idea
isn't entirely original ;)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P delayed ring on incoming calls?

2005-04-25 Thread Peter Corlett
Joseph Gutowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I wasn't suggesting Asterisk should magically be able to pick up the
 call before it rings at all, just that if my old roommate could
 manage to dive across the room and pick up half way through the
 first ring 99% of the time, surely a computer could do it (if it
 wasn't waiting for caller ID or distinctive ring determination).

This tangential thread was referring to the UK. Your roommate would
have to be very alert and fit to be able to realise the phone is
ringing and answer it within 400ms :)

With a 20Hz ringing current, that's just eight cycles of AC per ring.
A piece of kit that tries to detect ringing without just leaving it to
finish ringing is likely to suffer from false positives.

 And the 1 ring wasn't constant -- sometimes it's one ring,
 sometimes it's 3 -- with no apparent reason (test server with
 nothing to do except answer one X100P and play an IVR menu).

Well, the X100P (or at least a clone) is an unreliable piece of junk
anyway, so this doesn't surprise me. Mine has now taken to randomly
answering the line even when there's no inbound call, and has now been
relegated to being just a Zaptel timing source.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P delayed ring on incoming calls?

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Corlett
Joseph Gutowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Either way, the best I've ever managed on the X100P's was 1 ring
 before Asterisk picks up and starts doing its thing.

Well, when you think about it, it's hardly going to pick up after zero
rings, is it? :)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P delayed ring on incoming calls?

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Corlett
Gavin Hamill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Friday 22 April 2005 12:07, Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
 In the UK it's entirely possible - the CallerID info comes through
 as encoded data before the first ring has taken place :)
 Polarity change, a burst of V23 data, then the normal rings 

A good point, but I gather the X100P can't detect a line inversion, so
it's pretty much still got to wait until it sees loads of RICH, CHUNKY
VOLTS to know there's an incoming call.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP to PTSN provider

2005-04-16 Thread Peter Corlett
Chris Hills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 There are some providers who can terminate some, but not all, 1800
 numbers for free. (If they could terminate all 1800 numbers for
 free, then we'd use them!)

 I don't understand - I thought all 1800 numbers were free?

They're not like UK 0800s - the costs to the recipient vary depending
on where the caller is calling from, so access can be restricted based
on area. If your PoP isn't in the allowed area, you're SOL.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] how can i connect a cost display on asterisk

2005-04-06 Thread Peter Corlett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Johannes,
 I would be curious to know if there is a solution for this. Another
 solution is that you buy a call meter. Which is a small box that
 can be placed in front of phone phone and that can display costs.

 FXS-- call meter -- analog phone

 This call meter needs to be programmed with a table inside and a
 rate for each destination.

It depends on the type of cost meter. One of BT's products is the
Meter Pulsing Facility which sends a short 50Hz longitudinal tone on
supervision, and just before a unit has been consumed. BT scrapped
unit charging in the mid-90s but this particular bit of legacy
remains. It's intended for payphones where you charge, say, 10p for a
unit and want to know when the 10p has been consumed.

That's why you can sometimes hear a buzz on a BT payphone a few
seconds before the credit drops, because the longitudunal pulse
sometimes breaks through into the audio path, even though shouldn't. I
suspect this is because they payphone isn't properly earthed.

A cost meter (or paypgone) that determines cost without exchange
assistance will suffer from inaccurate pricing information and an
inability to determine the start of supervision. Still, given that BT
charge a hefty wedge for the MPF, some people just stick a COCOT on a
standard exchange line and hope it's good enough that they don't get
ripped off.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] country/city codes

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Corlett
VoIP Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Some country codes are three digits long.  Some are two.
 e.g. UK 44 , Bermuda 441

I think you'll find that the country code for Bermuda is not 441.

I'd have to find a telephone directory to check, but I bet the country
code is actually 1, and 441 is the area code.

 Does anyone know a formula for determining which part of a dialled
 number is the country code and city code ?

There's no formula - you need to use a look-up table.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] CDR writing incorrect data to pgsql tables

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Corlett
James Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Every outgoing call regardless of whether or not it is answered or
 busy or just rings out in the database the entry has the disposition
 as ANSWERED, instead of BUSY or NOT ANSWERED.

 As a test I intentionally rang numbers that would be busy or
 wouldn't be there to answer the call. Anyone got an idea where it
 might be going wrong?

Are you using analogue lines? Such lines are considered answered as
soon as the number has been dialled by the Zaptel interface.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] CDR writing incorrect data to pgsql tables

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Corlett
James Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I am sorry I did not see anything in any of the docs about analogue
 lines causing ANSWERED response on all calls. Could you point me in
 the right direction to a fix or setup that fixes this situation?

The only real fix is to get some form of digital service, either ISDN
or VoIP. There is no reliable means to detect when a call has been
answered on an analogue line, so Asterisk doesn't bother trying.

The usual kludge for analogue PBXes is to assume that a call was
answered only if the recorded time is longer than a certain number of
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] CDR writing incorrect data to pgsql tables

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Corlett
James Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Is the kludge done at the software side when the data is pulled out
 for accounting and being under say 45 seconds is a no answer or
 busy? Or is there a tweak that can be done at the database itself?

Since you're using PostgreSQL, you can use a trigger to mangle the
data before it hits the database. In fact, there's no reason why you
couldn't log to a view rather than a table (but again, you will need a
trigger for the actual INSERT.)

For MySQL and other glorified flat-file databases, you would need to
postprocess the data. You may feel more confident skipping triggers
and doing this anyway.

 So by that any calls that go out over the net using IAX to the telco
 are considered digital and will report correctly?

Yes. You will probably be able to make the simple assumption that if
dstchannel ILIKE 'Zap/%' , you're going to have to fudge it, otherwise
it's correctly recorded.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] loader.c:301 __load_resource: libpt_linux_x86_r.so.1.8.1: cannot open shared object file... [solution found, but quick question]

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Corlett
Paul Belanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 My question is, how come the LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined in /etc/profile
 did not link the libs properly?

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is occasionally ignored for security reasons.

If you wish to globally add a directory to the library search path,
you should put it in /etc/ld.so.conf. You may want to re-run ldconfig
afterwards to clean up and correct symlinks.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Swap Memory get used totally

2005-02-04 Thread Peter Corlett
Angel Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Time to time, my asterisk goes down.Verifying with TOP, I see the
 swap memory of the computer get used totally but, I don't see what
 the process is using it. Hereis a copy wath I see doing top. Does
 somebody have an idea ?

I have no idea, because there's no problem with your swap space:

  08:49:19  up  5:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.50, 0.70, 0.64
 35 processes: 33 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
 CPU states:  19.4% user  11.2% system   0.0% nice   0.0% iowait  69.4% idle
 Mem:   222992k av,  191988k used,   31004k free,   0k shrd,   68604k buff
 120700k actv, 464k in_d,2384k in_c
 Swap:  457844k av,1060k used,  456784k free   67764k 
 cached

You've just 1MB of your 447MB of swapspace. It looks perfectly normal
to me.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] DIDs anywhere but here?

2005-01-17 Thread Peter Corlett
Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [...] I'd prefer to have a number somewhere outside the NANP,
 preferably an asian country. This number will (obviously) be
 low-volume (minutes/month at the most), and shouldn't cost more than
 a couple of bucks. Maybe a list member knows and/or is using one?

How about sipgate.co.uk, who dish out numbers for free? For non-UK
residents, you can choose your number from:

+49 1801 777555
+44 845 004   (Local)
+44 870 478   (National)
+44 7094 820xxx

That's probably in order of likelihood of being reachable from outside
the UK. +44 8xx is generally diallable from the civilised bits of the
world. +44 70xx may have issues.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Detect line is busy with Zap?

2004-12-16 Thread Peter Corlett
Ian Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Is there any way of detecting whether something else is on the line
 before picking up on this channel?

No, but you could insert a privacy adaptor device to prevent the
FX100P from attempting to dial out.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Instances of Asterisk

2004-12-09 Thread Peter Corlett
B. J. Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have a quick question for the list. For what reason would you have
 multiple instances of asterisk running on a single box? I can maybe
 see it if you have multiple IP addresses, but other than that I am
 drawing a blank.

It could be useful if you're testing different versions, or the box
has been partitioned in such a way (e.g. with UML) that there are
different administrators for the multiple instances.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] PrivacyManager 10 digit limit.

2004-12-08 Thread Peter Corlett
David J Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I thought the standard for the UK was 11 Digits in length, (save
 some old 0845, 0800, 0870 numbers), but most of these are
 transported to normal 11 digit numbers.

The UK number plan contains 8, 10 and 11 digit numbers if you count
the leading zero access digit as part of the number, as is the
convention. More specifically:

- 0845 is all 11 digits, except for 0845 46 47.
- 0800 is a mix of 10 and 11 digits, except for 0800 .
- 0870 is all 11 digits, no exceptions.
- 0500 is all 10 digits.
- 01xxx is almost all 11 digits, but there are some 10 digit exceptions,
  e.g. 01527 6.
- Everything else (01/02/05/07/08/09) is 11 digits.

One thing to note is that the Oftel/Ofcom codelist.zip is not reliable
for determining digit length of 0800 numbers.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call files

2004-11-09 Thread Peter Corlett
Gary White (Network Administrator) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Is there a way to use the call files with the dial plan rather that
 directly specifying the channel and number? I have a notify
 application that I would like to get calls form whenever I transfer
 calls.

I don't know if it's the right answer, but the first thing I'd try for
this would be the Local/ pseudo-channel. I'd be quite surprised if
it didn't work, to be honest.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] calculating bandwidth on DSL?

2004-10-12 Thread Peter Corlett
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 when calculating bandwidth requirements on DSL, does the DSL
 technology used (bridged,PPPoE,PPPoA,whatever) matter?

The techonology won't affect bandwidth as much as it affects latency
and jitter which are rather more important for VoIP.

 Will PPPoE include Ethernet headers included in the user's purchased
 bandwidth? etc..

That's presumably down to what the billing department thinks it can
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Corlett
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Could some clever wag that deals with the language bits of * create
 some other languages like British, Aussie, SouthAfrican. I'd also
 be looking for Welsh too (anyone here speak Taff?)

I don't, but I know people who do. I get the distinct impression that
Plaid Cymru could put up a candidate in Birmingham and win a seat.

 How about Georgie (I'm kidding about that one).

You may be kidding, but at least when I was calling Newcastle in
1998-ish, Digital Dot (as we affectionately call BT's spoken
announcements) had a completely different accent in the 0191 exchange
to the rest of the UK. It wasn't a SysX/SysY thing, but apparently
special announcements just for that exchange.

(I've also heard custom announcements on 01902, but thankfully not in
Wulv'rumpt'n dialect.)

If I were commissioning a voice, I'd probably go for an educated
Scottish, Welsh or Irish accent. The London and Essex voice seems
overused and also irritates me. The bonus is that a provincial voice
actor should be cheaper than a London-based one.

 All these modes of English are more than just a dialect. My 7 or so
 years as an Ex-Pat in the US have taught me that American really is
 a valid language. Whilst most of us English speakers can cope with
 American we'd be a bit suprised when calling a VM system in Slough,
 Cooperpedy or Pretoria only to be spoken to in American.

I *think* most people are aware that it's the voicemail system that's
American, not the company they're calling. I'm usually more surprised
to hear a British speaker in voicemail prompts :)

 Am I just ranting here or does someone get my point?

Well, it'd definitely be nice if all our voice prompts were
consistent, but as it is there's an occasionally jarring mix of the
Digium lady and a bloke from our office. It works though, and callers
don't get confused, which is the main thing.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] English vs American voice files

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Corlett
Bill Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 My wife has been recording the text published on the wiki. A couple
 of questions for you:

 1) One of the recordings says please enter the full 10 digit number
 starting with the area code.  Any opinions on whether this should be
 changed for the UK and, if so, to what?

I'd probably go for please enter the full national number, including
the area code.

A play with BT's automated services on 150 (I'm thinking particularly
of the Friends and Family number change section) should be fruitful as
to what BT thinks is the best wording.

 2) The recordings seem dull on playback even though we are
 recording using a good quality microphone with matching impedance.
 Initially we recorded using 16 bit/8K sampling on the basis that
 this is what is required by Asterisk but that was really terrible.
 So we're sampling at higher rates on the basis that we can use sox
 to change it as necessary. Any thoughts on what we can do to make
 the recordings sound sharper?

How about making the recordings on a telephone? Leave yourself a
voicemail containing the choice phrases, then edit them out using
something like Audacity.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Crossed lines - a worrying problem.

2004-09-07 Thread Peter Corlett
Nick Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I just made a call via BT to a mobile. Then an incoming call came
 in and Ann else answered it - it made my call go completely fuzzy
 and I could hear what the woman on the other line was saying to Ann
 but I couldn't hear my conversation! When Ann's call finished - mine
 went even fuzzier and all I could hear was computer and internet
 noises.

Yeah, I've had that happen too, even on a bog standard POTS call.

 Has anybody got any ideas what could possibly be causing this
 worrying problem?

I'd blame the mobile network.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] couple basic questions

2004-08-19 Thread Peter Corlett
John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 For example, walmart.com has microtel boxes with no OS. Will RH9 and
 Asterisk run on these boxes?

I can't see why not. The only thing that fouls up Linux on generic
cheap PCs is some of the weird video chipsets, but who cares that X
won't work? You don't want X on a server anyway.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Free MOH MP3

2004-08-15 Thread Peter Corlett
Wiley E. Siler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 Does anyone know where I can get some royalty free, cost free music
 for my music on hold?

The stuff at www.zongoftheweek.com is CC-licensed so should be fair
game. Whether you want to inflict some of it on callers is another
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call List

2004-08-13 Thread Peter Corlett
Chris Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 That is a matter of opinion and not in any way factual SQL, just
 as everything else, is as secure as YOU make it... As you said, it's
 a language for querying relational databases, it has no knowledge of
 security. That's what firewalls, encryption and strong passwords are
 for...

 However, for the purpose of blocking numbers based on a do-not-call
 list, it will work perfectly fine. It's lightweight, fast and
 relatively efficient...

You seem to be conflating SQL and MySQL, which is confusing your
thoughts and arguments somewhat.

You are correct that my opinion that MySQL is a poor quality product
that's worth avoiding is just that, opinion. It is however formed over
many years as a professional developer having to use and manage other
people's MySQL databases and watching how they tend to get corrupted
over time, and I just don't trust it any more.

I don't think I said that it was a bad idea to put a DNC list in a SQL
database, although I did propose a more efficient alternative that
might appeal to some people.

If you're looking for a good Open Source database, Postgres is rather
nice.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Corlett
Christoph Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 That's right. Here in Hamburg, Germany one day before our elections
 my phone rang and there was a recording from one of the big parties
 that reminded me to vote the right ones ;-(

It could of course have been a joe-job by another party...

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call List

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Corlett
mattf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 As for speed, AGI scripts that we use on a daily basis do thousands
 of searches a day through a 800,000 record table in less than a
 second(on a dedicated 3.2GHz MySQL DB machine) so looking through a
 million shouldn't be too bad. Asterisk will wait for the AGI to
 finish.

If less than a second implies best part of a second, then that's a
bit slow, although probably still good enough for this application.
(But I personally avoid MySQL for security reasons.)

If you want *really* fast, create a CDB from the phone number list
periodically, and search that. Doing a CDB lookup takes no more than 3
disk seeks, so you're talking 20ms at most for a search.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Blocking the 'Do Not Call List

2004-08-11 Thread Peter Corlett
Gabriel Millerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 If less than a second implies best part of a second, then
 that's a bit slow, although probably still good enough for this
 application. (But I personally avoid MySQL for security reasons.)

 how is SQL insecure?

SQL itself is just a standard for querying relational databases, and
does not in itself specify or require security, nor does it have
inherent security problems.

MySQL is a toy database that mostly ignores all but the most
superficial of the SQL standard and has a large catalogue of
bugs and misfeatures that can cause silent data corruption.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Zaptel doesn't see remote hangup ? euro-isdn

2004-07-30 Thread Peter Corlett
Walter Klomp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 However, if I dial-in from the SIP phone to my PSTN and then hang up
 my PSTN phone, the call does not get disconnected.

This is normal and expected behaviour, at least for POTS lines I've
used. When you receive a call on a POTS line, you can't clear it by
just hanging up.

On a POTS line from BT, you can force-clear an inbound call by hitting
recall/hookflash then hanging up at the dialtone. The phone will ring
for a few moments and then clear the call.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread Peter Corlett
Sebastian Nocetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 All distributions are based on same kernels... And in my opinion,
 Kernel is who does all work in an operative systemm.. I am wrong?...

Sort of. libc is the other thing that can affect performance. However,
any distribution worth its salt will provide a selection of optimal
kernel and libcs because of this.

The effort of building a custom kernel and libc is probably
worthwhile, but beyond that you should probably spend your efforts
elsewhere other than recompiling stuff for the sake of it. Gentoo's
performance improvements from recompiling the world are usually more
psychological than practical.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Peter Corlett
Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to
 run Asterisk?

Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;)

 I'd like to be able to run the Text To Speech apps and some of the
 extended functions of the software (no phone hardware needed, all
 Voice over IP stuff)... I'm currently running Asterisk on Mandrake
 Linux (vesion 10 I think?) but I'm having difficulty compiling the
 TTS stuff.

Yes, I found that the TTS resisted my attempts to make it work on a
Slackware box. However, it works fine on Debian 3.0 (which is also my
preferred Linux distribution.)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Desired Install in MotorHome

2004-07-28 Thread Peter Corlett
Paul Oster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've got a client who [wants VoIP working over a very high-latency
 link]. So whats everyones opinion, worth exploring further, or am I
 wasting my time trying?

Can you stick an Asterisk box at his end so you can speak IAX over the
link? It may not help with the massive delays (which is going to be
inherent in any kind of VoIP over the link) but the signalling should
be a lot more reliable.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to make * don't strip the leading 0

2004-07-12 Thread Peter Corlett
Roger Schreiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I have currently the same problem with my E1 card and I wonder, how
 I can get asterisk to append a leading 0 before forwarding the call,
 for my IP phones show the correct callee number with leading 0.

I ended up just writing a Perl AGI script to canonicalise incoming
CLI.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Divert to arbitrary number.

2004-07-05 Thread Peter Corlett
Jaun Terblanche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am looking for a way to allow users to dial *21*, followed by a
 number and the pound key. Asterisk must then divert all incoming
 calls to the user's extension to the number given.
[...]

Dial the Local interface. I have this:

; Macro to place a call to an internal number
;  ${ARG1} - Extension (e.g. 300)
[macro-dialexten]
; Look up divert-all number
exten = s,1,DBGet(DIVERT=divertall/${ARG1})
; Dial the diverted-to extension
exten = s,2,Dial(Local/[EMAIL PROTECTED],300)
exten = s,3,Hangup

; if the DBGet fails, we come here - jump to call attempt
exten = s,102,Goto(1001)
; if the Dial fails or is busy, we come here - jump to busy voicemail
exten = s,103,Goto(2001)


On a related note, how do you get a Cisco 7940 to dial numbers with a
hash in them, instead of just using the hash as a dial key. For
example, I have *#21# to check diverts, but the phone will just dial
* as soon as you type the # after it.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Divert to arbitrary number.

2004-07-05 Thread Peter Corlett
Jaun Terblanche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Not sure how to do on the Cisco, but I have found that in certain
 setups * picks up # as %23.

 Try putting *%2321%23,1, in the dialplan for *#21#,1,
 (or whatever your priority is)

That's not the problem I have. The dialplan works just fine with a
Budgetone. The problem is that the Cisco won't properly dial the
number because it has a hash in it.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Divert to arbitrary number.

2004-07-05 Thread Peter Corlett
Philipp von Klitzing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 In case a) you'll have your telco handle the diversion (an ISDN
 feature) i.e. none of your PBX connected lines will be used. Using
 the local interface, however, you run the call through Asterisk,
 consume two lines *and* pay for the 2nd call leg fees.

This does assume that your telco supports call deflection, and that
they don't charge for the outgoing leg.

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[Asterisk-Users] Eliminating silence suppression(?) on IAX2 calls

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Corlett
We have an Asterisk server that speaks IAX2 to Magrathea to get to the
PSTN. Our local phones are a mix of Cisco 7940s and Grandstream BT100s
all configured for SIP with silence-suppression disabled. Everything
is configured to use a-law encoding. The version is:

sip*CLI show version
Asterisk CVS-05/06/04-18:45:57 built by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a i686 running Linux

Incoming callers are complaining of calls sounding a bit odd. With a
bit of experimentation, it seems that there's some form of silence
suppression cutting in that clips the sides of words. This doesn't
happen on internal calls.

Since the problem is limited to external calls, I take it that the
problem relates to IAX2 and not some other part of Asterisk? Here's
a sanitised version of iax.conf:

[general]
port=5036
bandwidth=low
disallow=all
allow=alaw
allow=gsm
disallow=lpc10  ; Icky sound quality...  Mr. Roboto.
jitterbuffer=no

register = USERNAME:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

tos=lowdelay

[magrathea]
type=friend
trunk=yes
host=dynamic
auth=plaintext
username=USERNAME
secret=PASSWORD
context=inbound-magrathea
notransfer=yes

Does anybody have any suggestions as to how to clear this odd audio
issue, or pointers to what configuration options I should tweak?
Ideally, I just want a completely uncompressed 64k channel, as if we
were just using ISDN.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM to ISDN or TAPI

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Corlett
Chris Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I am going to have some remote machines which need to have
 adjustments made to their settings on occasion, the most cost
 effective and user friendly way I can come up with is a simple IVR
 system that says press 1 to set limits on flow, press two for flow
 status report etc.

I've got a better idea.

Stick the IVR system on a box with a wired telco connection. Not only
will this make DTMF more reliable and the audio will be clearer which
is useful when reading out lots of statistics, but it will also make
it much easier for you to test, manage and update. Unless you like
site visits to the middle of nowhere.

The backend AGI scripts on this system can then speak a lightweight
protocol to the remote system to query it. I'd be inclined to use GPRS
as it'd have a very low cost considering the minimal amount of data
that would pass, with CSD as a fallback if GPRS fails or the remote
handset runs out of credit.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM to ISDN or TAPI

2004-06-10 Thread Peter Corlett
Chris Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 I am in the UK and am looking for a device that will allow me to
 connect two sim cards (read wireless lines) to either the port on
 the back of my fritz card or any other connection direct to the PC
 that provides a usable telephony interface.

My initial thoughs are to use an X100P plugged into a Premicell, as
it's nice and simple, and it would clearly work well with Asterisk.
The downside is that it's an analogue connection, of course.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Early Dial

2004-06-08 Thread Peter Corlett
Aaron Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Has anyone managed to get Early-Dial working with the grandstream
 phones?

Yes, but it doesn't play nicely once calls are being gated to the
PSTN.

Early Dial works by attempting a call for each digit that is dialled.
Asterisk will try each such call across the dialplan and will give a
484 response if there's no matching extension but there might be a
matching extension if more digits are dialled.

Unfortunately, this algorithm doesn't work if you have any
variable-length extensions. For example:

# Internal extensions are 300-399
exten = 3XX,1,Macro(dial-exten,${EXTEN})
# Numbers starting 0 are PSTN calls
exten = _0.,1,Macro(dial-pstn,${EXTEN})

If I dial 333, Asterisk will return 484 after the first and second
3. On the third 3, the extension matches, and the call will be
made.

Now suppose I want to call 01234 567890. Asterisk will return 484 for
0. However, when the 1 is dialled, the extension matches, and a
call will immediately be attempted to 01 (and fail), without me
having had opportunity to dial the rest of the number.

Unfortunately, the UK does not have fixed-length numbering. While it
is *mostly* 10 digits (excluding the initial zero), there's some 9 and
7 digit numbers in the mix too.

No problem, I thought. It's just a case of converting the Oftel
codelist.zip into a large exception list of 7 and 9 digit numbers for
the dialplan, and assume 10 digits for everything else. The end result
of this was to discover just how lousy the data was. The number range
containing 0800 800 150 was listed as having ten digit numbers
(remembering that the initial zero doesn't count) as was the somewhat
famous 0800 .

Attempting to kludge round the problem just caused a number of other
issues elsewhere that weren't really Asterisk or the Grandstream's
problem, but made the whole idea of Early Dial impractical for our
setup.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Multi process of *

2004-06-02 Thread Peter Corlett
Matteo Brancaleoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 User Mode Linux is way better for that use, much more efficient.

VoIP-only Asterisk also works nicely under vservers (see
www.linux-vserver.org), which is even more efficient than UML.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hyperthreading?

2004-06-01 Thread Peter Corlett
Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 They can't? HT is detected in /proc/cpuinfo (flags) and I see two
 processors with 2.4.25 SMP kernels... What exactly isn't it using?

Linux doesn't realise that scheduling a process onto one virtual CPU
reduces the performance available on the other. There can be some
quite bizarre scheduling decisions made as a result that can slow
things down. On the other hand, for some tasks, it might not cause
problems and thus you'll get a boost.

As ever, the answer is to benchmark your configuration with and
without HT to see. There's no simple answer.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Receptionist manager program.

2004-05-31 Thread Peter Corlett
Kyle Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 We are designing it for a touch screen monitor for her to do
 transfers, see whose on the phone and a few other features. Its in
 the development stage and has bugs. but I think its gonna be really
 good.

Warning, heavy use of touch screens causes gorilla arm and careful
ergonomic design of the workspace will be required. Gorilla arm was
discovered in the 1980s and is a reason why touch screens aren't
ubiquitous, but litigation for workplace injuries is both contemporary
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] AGI Pascal

2004-05-28 Thread Peter Corlett
usedcanon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks, suddenly makes sense now. I guessed that is the case however
 was not sure. Any opinion on what is more/most efficient, using a
 scripting language like perl or a compile app in C/pascal.

Define efficient.

A C program would normally be expected to be about ten times faster
than a Perl script. But when it's 10ms to execute instead of 100ms, it
probably doesn't matter.

If your time is not free, it may be more efficient to write a quick
script in Perl and buy a faster server than it is to spend ages
writing in C.

Either way, if you're spending anything bit a trivial amount of CPU
time executing AGI scripts (whatever the language), you've probably
misdesigned something. So the ultimate answer is that AGI scripts
should be written in whatever language you're most comfortable doing
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] 11 instead of Star

2004-05-26 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:37:25AM -0500, Greg Blakely wrote:
[...]
 + It's just as well that *8# isn't used for call pickup anymore. The #
 on the end really SHOULD mean end of dialing, and not have any other
 significance.

Unfortunately, BT and GSM service codes give significance to # in the middle
of the dialling sequence:

*NN# - Enable service with code NN
#NN# - Disable service
*#NN# - Query status of service

 Or has this already been discussed to death?

Possibly, but some of us are still arguing over the corpse :)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] 11 instead of Star

2004-05-25 Thread Peter Corlett
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:58:26PM -0700, Paul Crick wrote:
[...]
 *sighs* Yeah, that won't work.. which is a shame.. this goes back to the
 whole debate of should CLASS service codes be implemented in the dial
 plan or the channel driver?

The most compelling reason to me to have them in the dial plan is that CLASS
codes aren't universal. AFAICS, they're mainly limited to the USA and telcos
that source cheap switches from the USA and don't bother to customise them.

For my Asterisk setup, I'd rather my phone uses the same star codes as BT
and GSM than some foreign standard that nobody here knows.

 From memory and reading the mailing list for a while now, I think Mark's
 dead against having these features in the dial plan, but I can't remember
 why.

Let me guess, is he American? ;)

[...]
 I think the way it was going to go was a flag which would allow you to
 disable all channel driver features like this and rely on the dial plan to
 implement the features.

This is very much my preferred solution. If there is still some bizarre
obligation to support alien phone standards in the channel drivers, we
should have the option of disabling this undesired behaviour.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP Link on Web Pages

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Corlett
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:01:10PM -0400, Barry Fawthrop wrote:
 In Order to place a call Me button on a webpage which would you use ?

 [A]  a href=sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Call Me/a
 [B]  a mailto:sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Call Me/a

I don't know anything much about SIP/VoIP integration within browsers, but I
do know that [A] is valid HTML and [B] is not. So [B] will never work,
whereas [A] looks credible.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP in the UK

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Corlett
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 06:12:57PM +0100, Craig Waddington wrote:
 Voiptalk provide an excellent service and great support.

I would hope so, as for many types of calls they're more expensive than BT's
basic rates before any discounts!

I'll stick to a FXO card and Telediscount/18866, ta.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP in the UK

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:10:49AM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
 On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:57, Peter Corlett wrote:
[...]
 I'll stick to a FXO card and Telediscount/18866, ta.

 Ah, the indirect access ones.. may I point people in the direction of
 www.1899.com ? 0.5p/min anytime to the UK ... I have enquired if they
 offer a SIP service - but got no response :) It's a pity their website
 only seems to work with MSIE :(

Hmm, most interesting. The rates seem identical to 18866 apart from that
0.5p/min. I must admit that 1p/min was starting to look expensive - I've
been getting that rate since 1999 :)

It appears to be yet another front to the Telediscount empire. The complete
lack of customer service and the wxx.nl domain doing some backend stuff is a
hint.

 The pricing makes rather a mockery of most VoIP providers! :)

This isn't entirely difficult, unfortunately.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP in the UK

2004-05-18 Thread Peter Corlett
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:52:39AM +0100, Chris Stenton wrote:
[...]
 But 1899 is charging 3p setup fee per call where telediscount is not? So
 depends how long your average call is.

There's a 1p connection fee on 18866. So 1899 is cheaper for geographic
calls longer than four minutes, and 18866 is cheaper on everything else.

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[Asterisk-Users] DASS2 support

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Corlett
My employer wants to use Asterisk, but the E1 circuit providing the current
phone system is DASS2 rather than ISDN30. Converting the E1 to ISDN30 is not
a practical proposition at this time as it'd stop the legacy phone system
from working.

Is there any sort of hardware support for DASS2? I speculate that the E100P
should be able to deal with the electrical side of it, but I'm unsure of
driver support.

Has anybody got Asterisk to work with DASS2 circuits?

Thanks in advance.

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