Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Hello Tiago, I think that this is the route I will be trying to go as its a proof of concept sort of project. After that - we'll see. Thank you! On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Tiago Geada tiago.ge...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there! If your box has a live Internet connection, then all you need is a sip provider. Back to when I lived in the UK, there was this voipuser.org which gave me a fixed british number for free, and some outbound call minutes too. I'm sure that if you search around for SIP Providers, you may be able to find some free stuff. I believe that Outbound calls cost money, not incoming calls. I'm not totally sure tho. Anyway, you should find a provider and try to register with them, - Regards, Tiago Lourenço Geada 2010/1/5 UIT DEVELOPMENT uit...@gmail.com Jamie - I will check that out! Thanks! It is just for testing and yes, the Asterisk box is connected to the Internet. Cool. -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jamie A. Stapleton jstaple...@computer-business.com wrote: Could use the free http://www.sipgate.com/one for some testing (assuming that Asterisk is connected to the Internet) -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie Hello All - I've been poking around the past few weeks, trying to familiarize myself with all of this. I am new to Linux, VoIP and Asterisk -- to be complete. This is my first exposure to all of these technologies. I installed AsteriskNow on my old dual Pentium 833mhz Dell PowerEdge 2400 and the install went well. I can log in and poke around in Linux and I even configured the box to be recognized on my windows network. However, is there a GUI that I can access to help me set things up? I've gotten so far as what looks to me like DOS windows that I can change various things in the OS... I do not have any other hardware installed. No cards and no VoIP phones. I havent got to the point where I can make a test call or anything like that. I dont know how to tell if Asterisk is up and running and how I can tweak it, etc. I've been reading a lot of different things, and have become a bit confused. I think that in time it will come to me but I needed to stop and ask because I need to know if I am on the wrong path for what I'd like to do someday My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things first I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here. Sorry for what might seem as really silly questions, but I am not sure how to proceed. Thanks in advance for any insight that you folks can provide! Mike ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Cool - thanks! On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ira i...@extrasensory.com wrote: At 05:31 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote: Ah, good idea. :-) Are you saying that if I got a number that was in my parents area code then they could be making a local call to my Asterisk, which is physically a 1000+ miles from them? Now that is cool. Once you have Asterisk set up you can essentially get local numbers anywhere, Some countries are harder than others but almost any area code in the US for $1.50/month + 1.4 cents/minute or less is possible. The free one I pointed out will likely give you one in a useless place to you, but it's free, number and minutes, perfect for calling home from a cell. Also, the cheapest ATT cell phone will let you call each other unlimited for free. Ira ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Hello All - I've been poking around the past few weeks, trying to familiarize myself with all of this. I am new to Linux, VoIP and Asterisk -- to be complete. This is my first exposure to all of these technologies. I installed AsteriskNow on my old dual Pentium 833mhz Dell PowerEdge 2400 and the install went well. I can log in and poke around in Linux and I even configured the box to be recognized on my windows network. However, is there a GUI that I can access to help me set things up? I've gotten so far as what looks to me like DOS windows that I can change various things in the OS... I do not have any other hardware installed. No cards and no VoIP phones. I havent got to the point where I can make a test call or anything like that. I dont know how to tell if Asterisk is up and running and how I can tweak it, etc. I've been reading a lot of different things, and have become a bit confused. I think that in time it will come to me but I needed to stop and ask because I need to know if I am on the wrong path for what I'd like to do someday My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things first I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here. Sorry for what might seem as really silly questions, but I am not sure how to proceed. Thanks in advance for any insight that you folks can provide! Mike ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Will do Barry. Thanks for the links! Downloading now.. Mike On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Barry L. Kline blkl...@attglobal.net wrote: UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: Sorry for what might seem as really silly questions, but I am not sure how to proceed. Thanks in advance for any insight that you folks can provide! Hello Mike. Welcome to the wonderful world of Asterisk. Before you sludge through a GUI and all the attendant bad habits that can produce, I suggest that you download what we consider to be the Bible of Asterisk. The infobot on IRC says: thebook is Asterisk: The Future of Telephony 2nd Edition (ISBN 0-596-51048-9) --- Order yours at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510480/ --- Free downloadable PDF http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf --- HTML at http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org; Download that and read the first few chapters. It will make your Asterisk experience a lot more enjoyable and will help you understand what you're doing. This list, and the IRC channel #asterisk, are good resources when you finally get to the point where you're stuck and need some help. Regards, Barry ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Thanks Randy! On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Randy R randulo2...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:53 PM, UIT DEVELOPMENT uit...@gmail.com wrote: I've been poking around the past few weeks, trying to familiarize myself with all of this. I am new to Linux, VoIP and Asterisk -- to be complete. This is my first exposure to all of these technologies. I think one of the best things to do is to read this book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009625 It will allow you to ask specific questions about stuff you may not get but in the meantime it will tell you all the basic things about what asterisk can do in terms a newbie can easily assimilate. There are also a lot of web sites out there with tutorials about the world of VoIP and Asterisk, and of course the IRC channel #asterisk on Freenode.net /r ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
James, Thank you for the reply. I do not have phone service in my home. I've been 100% cell since 2003. I do have an old analog phone - big heavy thing... If I connect it to the wall outlet there is nothing. I've tried every outlet in the house. I didnt expect to find a tone as we've never connected phone service here. My assumption, however stupid it might be, is that I could set this up to make calls but as I began to read more and more I started reading about gateways and other costly services that I was hoping to avoid -- for now at least. This all began when my wife went food shopping around the holiddays and wanted to know if we had something or not already, and I wasnt home to confirm or not. So I got to thinking, if she could call the VoIP box and get one of those press 1 for spices... press 2 for dry foods, press 3 for canned goods, press 4 for snacks, press 5 for drinks. and it would access a database that I already have set up with our groceries already in there. Yea - geeky, I know. :-) So that was the plan but first I needed to be able to get this thing set up. I THINK you're saying I need to purchase another service to get myself to make calls. I dont know anyone with a SIP server.. I'd rather keep it all inside our home if possible. I've got a lot of old hardware laying around and I do have MODEMs - internal and external 56k types. Thanks for the hints. I'll check into Magic Jack type stuff and see how it can help. -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:19 PM, James A. Shigley j...@answeringserv.com wrote: I can't help you two much with configuration of linux, but as to the call question. You will need some route for the server to be capable of sending/receiving calls. There is a couple of ways to do this cheaply. Buy a standard telephone modem (usb, pci, or serial). And plug into wall a jack. This will only allow you one call at a time. But if this is just a proof of concept that sounds like it will be plenty. Your number would be whatever the phone jack corresponds to. Integrate it with something like skype. Buy one of the products similar to a magic jack which will work with linux. Or if you know someone who has a sip server already running. And is amiable to letting you piggy back off of it. Your phone number would point to that person's Server (be it one of the friends that the person is lending you, or a number that you have forwarded/ported at/to them) with it set to forward to your asterisk server. from there you could use your dialplan to do whatever you wanted it to. And for outbound you would send the calls out thru the friends server via sip or iax. James Shigley Monroe Telephone Answering Service 409-981-9213 Infinity 5.51,UC 4.02.3803, Blink 3.0.104 Ecreator:2.21, eResponse 1.1.7 Webportal,WebApps, CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information =is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply to sender only message and destroy all electronic and hard copies of the communication, including attachments. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie . My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things first I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here. ... ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options
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Steve- Got an iPhone but no SIP client that I am aware of. I just make regular calls to other others/receive calls as usual. Nothing fancy. I was hoping to create the fancy stuff in my home here. As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another monthly charge... I checked the link you provided but no pricing info and I started to search on VoIP Service and found this, amoung hundreds+ others, http://www.whichvoip.com/Cheap-VoIP-Phone.htm and see monthly charges as I feared.As I said, I was hoping to create it all in-house (not have to create an account anywhere or pay fees for fooling around with a test setup, etc) but it is beginning to appear that I have not researched enough. Its much bigger an experiment than I had imagined! Thanks! -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? You need to get an account with a VOIP provider -- someone to accept your call via the Internet and place a call on the PSTN to call your cell number -- or any other number. Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? With the same account you can rent a PSTN number. When someone calls that number, they will call your server over the Internet. This is assuming you don't have a fancy-dancy smart phone with a SIP client. I use www.vitelity.net. I don't know their current pricing, but outbound calls are less than US$0.015 per minute and renting a PSTN number is around US$1.50 per month. -- Thanks in advance, - Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Thank you Danny. I shall investigate that. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: There are some free-trial and low-cost services out there. Gizmo comes to mind but buyer beware; look through this site for recommendations and warnings. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:48 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie James, Thank you for the reply. I do not have phone service in my home. I've been 100% cell since 2003. I do have an old analog phone - big heavy thing... If I connect it to the wall outlet there is nothing. I've tried every outlet in the house. I didnt expect to find a tone as we've never connected phone service here. My assumption, however stupid it might be, is that I could set this up to make calls but as I began to read more and more I started reading about gateways and other costly services that I was hoping to avoid -- for now at least. This all began when my wife went food shopping around the holiddays and wanted to know if we had something or not already, and I wasnt home to confirm or not. So I got to thinking, if she could call the VoIP box and get one of those press 1 for spices... press 2 for dry foods, press 3 for canned goods, press 4 for snacks, press 5 for drinks. and it would access a database that I already have set up with our groceries already in there. Yea - geeky, I know. :-) So that was the plan but first I needed to be able to get this thing set up. I THINK you're saying I need to purchase another service to get myself to make calls. I dont know anyone with a SIP server.. I'd rather keep it all inside our home if possible. I've got a lot of old hardware laying around and I do have MODEMs - internal and external 56k types. Thanks for the hints. I'll check into Magic Jack type stuff and see how it can help. -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:19 PM, James A. Shigley j...@answeringserv.com wrote: I can't help you two much with configuration of linux, but as to the call question. You will need some route for the server to be capable of sending/receiving calls. There is a couple of ways to do this cheaply. Buy a standard telephone modem (usb, pci, or serial). And plug into wall a jack. This will only allow you one call at a time. But if this is just a proof of concept that sounds like it will be plenty. Your number would be whatever the phone jack corresponds to. Integrate it with something like skype. Buy one of the products similar to a magic jack which will work with linux. Or if you know someone who has a sip server already running. And is amiable to letting you piggy back off of it. Your phone number would point to that person's Server (be it one of the friends that the person is lending you, or a number that you have forwarded/ported at/to them) with it set to forward to your asterisk server. from there you could use your dialplan to do whatever you wanted it to. And for outbound you would send the calls out thru the friends server via sip or iax. James Shigley Monroe Telephone Answering Service 409-981-9213 Infinity 5.51,UC 4.02.3803, Blink 3.0.104 Ecreator:2.21, eResponse 1.1.7 Webportal,WebApps, CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, contains information which may be confidential or privileged. The information =is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply to sender only message and destroy all electronic and hard copies of the communication, including attachments. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie . My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into setting up an IVR using a database so I can call
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Gotcha on the MODEMs.. thanks. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: I've got a lot of old hardware laying around and I do have MODEMs - internal and external 56k types. None of your externals will be of any use and I suspect you will spend more time than it is worth trying to get any of your internals working. A buck-fifty a month and a penny a minute is pretty darn cheap. You will have to be consuming thousands of minutes per month before you will reach the break-even point of the cost of the land-line you need to plug into the modem. Thanks for the hints. I'll check into Magic Jack type stuff and see how it can help. MagicJack does not work with Linux or Asterisk unless you plan on spending a bunch of time hacking (see google.com) to extract the SIP credentials out of your device. -- Thanks in advance, - Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Really? A buck-fifty a month is going to kill the project? I live in San Diego, California where SDGE screws us for thirty cents a kilowatt-hour. Yea. Sort of. I am recently unemployed. Got plenty of time on my hands now and I am trying to not incur any more costs than I need. How much is that dual Pentium space heater costing you a month :) We're not paying much over $50 a month right now in the dead of winter. Nat Gas is a different storyWe're in Charlotte, NC - Duke Power. We're quite diligent about our electric use. Right now nothing is on except the PC I am sending from - not even that server. I have the temp set to 68. At night it goes to 63. At the height of summer with AC running nearly 24x7 we'll be suprised if its over $100. I guess nuclear out here is cheap, I dont know. WATER is a different story. The water bill sucks. Actually, I've had that thing on 24x7 in the past and the difference in electric costs is not much. That doesnt mean I would want to tack on even more, another subscription that I really dont wish to have right now... Its just for fun. If need be I have another Dell - a 500SC w/2GB RAM, 1 CPU at 1400mhz.Not sure if its capable. Thanks for the advice and such.. -Mike On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. -- Thanks in advance, - Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Jamie - I will check that out! Thanks! It is just for testing and yes, the Asterisk box is connected to the Internet. Cool. -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jamie A. Stapleton jstaple...@computer-business.com wrote: Could use the free http://www.sipgate.com/one for some testing (assuming that Asterisk is connected to the Internet) -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:54 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie Hello All - I've been poking around the past few weeks, trying to familiarize myself with all of this. I am new to Linux, VoIP and Asterisk -- to be complete. This is my first exposure to all of these technologies. I installed AsteriskNow on my old dual Pentium 833mhz Dell PowerEdge 2400 and the install went well. I can log in and poke around in Linux and I even configured the box to be recognized on my windows network. However, is there a GUI that I can access to help me set things up? I've gotten so far as what looks to me like DOS windows that I can change various things in the OS... I do not have any other hardware installed. No cards and no VoIP phones. I havent got to the point where I can make a test call or anything like that. I dont know how to tell if Asterisk is up and running and how I can tweak it, etc. I've been reading a lot of different things, and have become a bit confused. I think that in time it will come to me but I needed to stop and ask because I need to know if I am on the wrong path for what I'd like to do someday My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things first I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here. Sorry for what might seem as really silly questions, but I am not sure how to proceed. Thanks in advance for any insight that you folks can provide! Mike ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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Yep. Its called unemployment. Got the iPhone a little less than a year ago. Someone in India got my job in mid-November. I got stuck holding the 2-year contract.Oh well. Such is life. Look - I am going to retire from this thread. Everyone's been a great help and I know you and others dont know my situation and I am not one to broadcast it - but when prodded. there it is. Yes, several bucks leads to more than several bucks and being unemployed and living off the wife's income - its not an option. Hopefully you'll not encounter sucky times, else you'd know..That couple of bucks a month will never just be a couple of bucks.. :-) On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Max McGraw max.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010, UIT DEV wrote: Steve- Got an iPhone [...] As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another monthly charge. [...] wow ! are you serious ? you can afford an iPhone but your entire project is dead in the water over a couple of bucks. I know there is a contradiction somewhere in there. -- ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Thanks and no problem. There was no way you would have known. Thank you for the info - it really is helpful and I have learned a LOT in this thread. This is a great list with a lot of helpful folks on it! Mike On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Max McGraw max.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: my apologies, I do understand. sorry. -- On Tue, Jan 5, 2010, UIT DEV wrote: Yep. Its called unemployment. Got the iPhone a little less than a year ago. Someone in India got my job in mid-November. I got stuck holding the 2-year contract. Oh well. Such is life. Look - I am going to retire from this thread. Everyone's been a great help and I know you and others dont know my situation and I am not one to broadcast it - but when prodded. there it is. Yes, several bucks leads to more than several bucks and being unemployed and living off the wife's income - its not an option. Hopefully you'll not encounter sucky times, else you'd know.. That couple of bucks a month will never just be a couple of bucks.. :-) On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Max McGraw max.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010, UIT DEV wrote: Steve- Got an iPhone [...] As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another monthly charge. [...] wow ! are you serious ? you can afford an iPhone but your entire project is dead in the water over a couple of bucks. I know there is a contradiction somewhere in there. -- ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
No Android phone. But I will read up on this anyhow. The softphone is probably all that I need then, and of course a functioning Asterisk setup. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:29 PM, meetmecall i...@meetmecall.nl wrote: Siax is a pretty good working sip and iax2 softphone for the iPhone. Easy to connect to your own Asterisk box If you have an Android phone (I have HTC Hero with Android 1.5) ASip is a good choice. It is working and and calls using umts are working surprisingly well. Erik They are both available on the markets fot his phones. On 5 jan 2010, at 22:03, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: Steve- Got an iPhone but no SIP client that I am aware of. I just make regular calls to other others/receive calls as usual. Nothing fancy. I was hoping to create the fancy stuff in my home here. As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another monthly charge... I checked the link you provided but no pricing info and I started to search on VoIP Service and found this, amoung hundreds+ others, http://www.whichvoip.com/Cheap-VoIP-Phone.htm and see monthly charges as I feared. As I said, I was hoping to create it all in-house (not have to create an account anywhere or pay fees for fooling around with a test setup, etc) but it is beginning to appear that I have not researched enough. Its much bigger an experiment than I had imagined! Thanks! -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone using a soft- phone? If so, how can I do that? You need to get an account with a VOIP provider -- someone to accept your call via the Internet and place a call on the PSTN to call your cell number -- or any other number. Also, can I use my cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? With the same account you can rent a PSTN number. When someone calls that number, they will call your server over the Internet. This is assuming you don't have a fancy-dancy smart phone with a SIP client. I use www.vitelity.net. I don't know their current pricing, but outbound calls are less than US$0.015 per minute and renting a PSTN number is around US$1.50 per month. -- Thanks in advance, - Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Ah, good idea. :-) Are you saying that if I got a number that was in my parents area code then they could be making a local call to my Asterisk, which is physically a 1000+ miles from them? Now that is cool. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ira i...@extrasensory.com wrote: At 12:48 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote: So that was the plan but first I needed to be able to get this thing set up. I THINK you're saying I need to purchase another service to get myself to make calls. I dont know anyone with a SIP server.. There are services that will give you free incoming minutes and a number. I just got one from www.ipcomms.net which seems to work. The number is in nowheresville, NY and I'm in Los Angeles, but cell phones have free long distance so I don't care. Ira ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Thank you for these. I will be reading up on these sites shortly. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:59 PM, hin lee hi...@yahoo.com wrote: You can practice Asterisk using free SIP phones. This way you can call from extension to extension. SJ Phone http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html X Lite http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite.html From: UIT DEVELOPMENT uit...@gmail.com To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 2:04:20 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie Yep. Its called unemployment. Got the iPhone a little less than a year ago. Someone in India got my job in mid-November. I got stuck holding the 2-year contract. Oh well. Such is life. Look - I am going to retire from this thread. Everyone's been a great help and I know you and others dont know my situation and I am not one to broadcast it - but when prodded. there it is. Yes, several bucks leads to more than several bucks and being unemployed and living off the wife's income - its not an option. Hopefully you'll not encounter sucky times, else you'd know.. That couple of bucks a month will never just be a couple of bucks.. :-) On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Max McGraw max.mcg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010, UIT DEV wrote: Steve- Got an iPhone [...] As I got to reading I began to see things like provider, as you've said here, and unfortunately if that is the only way then I will have to stop here as I do not have funds to further this little experiment. I guess I was under the impression that with a lot of configuring and reading and technical assistance, etc - I could create what I suppose the VoIP provider is basically doing, trying to avoid yet another monthly charge. [...] wow ! are you serious ? you can afford an iPhone but your entire project is dead in the water over a couple of bucks. I know there is a contradiction somewhere in there. -- ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie
Thank you Steve. It is clear that I've only hit the tip of a massive iceberg with this stuff. Its all very cool, I've got the time so I might as well make good use of it when I am not out on interviews and such. It is all such an interesting topic. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Steve Edwards asterisk@sedwards.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: Are you saying that if I got a number that was in my parents area code then they could be making a local call to my Asterisk, which is physically a 1000+ miles from them? Now that is cool. See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DID+Service+Providers Setting up IAX has fewer potholes than SIP. If your Asterisk server registers with the provider you can skip all of the firewall and routing issues as well. You can have any number of PSTN numbers ring your Asterisk server. You can assign (in your dial plan) custom ring tones to each so you know if it is your friends family number, your wife's business number, your I'm looking for a job number, etc. A lot of the free DIDs are in the middle of nowhere because of the funny FCC tariffs that say that the long distance carrier has to pay the rural telephone company above market rates for the call. That's how some of the cheesy, late-night cable TV chat services work. You can get DIDs in other countries as well. I have 5 in England so that when my wife is home she can call me or each of our kids with a local call. The numbers are registered to my Asterisk server in San Diego. When a call comes in, it dials (using Vitelity) the real cell numbers. -- Thanks in advance, - Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Newbie Looking For Login/Password
Sorry for such a silly question but I am VERY new to Linux, Asterisk, and so forth. I just downloaded and burned the AsteriskNOW ISO to CD and installed it. Everything went great. I removed the CD and rebooted and there is a prompt for me to login. I hate to ask but after searching for a few hours, what on earth is the initial login and the password?!? And, please, where is this information so that I may read further about the installation and so forth. Thank you so much! Mike ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Looking For Login/Password
John, Thank you! That was it. I was trying admin, login...I should have searched google more. Thank you and thanks for the link - I've got lots of reading ahead of me this evening! Mike On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:00 PM, John Novack jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org wrote: UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: Sorry for such a silly question but I am VERY new to Linux, Asterisk, and so forth. I just downloaded and burned the AsteriskNOW ISO to CD and installed it. Everything went great. I removed the CD and rebooted and there is a prompt for me to login. I hate to ask but after searching for a few hours, what on earth is the initial login and the password?!? Wasn't this supplied by you on install? I have no experience with this product, and two Google searches give somewhat different answers. If you log in through freepbx, then the answer is here: http://www.asterisk.org/AsteriskNOW-1.5-QuickStart Console Login as user root uses the password supplied by you when you did the initial install. Best of luck Find the PDF book Asterisk the Future of Telephony, free for downloading for help with configuration. Though it doesn't address your specific product, there are many good concepts there. John Novack And, please, where is this information so that I may read further about the installation and so forth. Thank you so much! Mike ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.119/2585 - Release Date: 12/24/09 03:11:00 -- Dog is my co-pilot ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
