[asterisk-users] Choppy calls on IAX trunk but no problems on internal calls

2006-08-23 Thread Carl Youngblood
We are running the default asterisk package on Ubuntu Dapper. Our connection to the PSTN is over an IAX trunk with our provider. We are getting really bad call quality on calls over the IAX trunk--voice seems to be garbled or out of order and often completely breaks up. But on internal calls

[asterisk-users] Choppy calls on IAX trunk but no problems on internal calls

2006-08-23 Thread Carl Youngblood
We are running the default asterisk package on Ubuntu Dapper (which has the advanced timing options used by ztdummy). Our connection to the PSTN is over an IAX trunk with our provider. We are getting really bad call quality on calls over the IAX trunk--voice seems to be garbled or out of order

[asterisk-users] Do zttest results matter without telephony hardware?

2006-07-31 Thread Carl Youngblood
I'm running an asterisk server that uses an IAX2 trunk with our voip provider for its PSTN gateway. We have no telephony hardware in our server. We are consistently getting 99.975% or better when we run zttest. I have heard that this is bad in some cases, but I'm wondering if it matters, since

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid

2006-06-17 Thread Carl Youngblood
of the dialplan. On 6/16/06, Doug Lytle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Youngblood wrote: No, ${EXTEN} contains i at that point in the dialplan. exten = 123,1,Set(_TMPEXTEN=${EXTEN}) exten = i,1,SayDigit({$TEMPEXTEN}) You need to read the document in the Asterisk source directory on the subject of variable

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid extension is dialed

2006-06-16 Thread Carl Youngblood
No, ${EXTEN} contains i at that point in the dialplan. On 16 Jun 2006 01:41:30 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does SayDigits(${EXTEN}) not work in this case? I would imagine that it would still maintain the dialled extension in that variable, would it not? Undrhil ---

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need to track dropped calls

2006-06-16 Thread Carl Youngblood
there. Thanks, Steve Totaro Carl Youngblood wrote: Of course I'm trying to deal with the network problems, but it's nice to have another method of verifying that everything is working. Frequently there are people who don't complain, so we don't realize that their call quality is sub-par. We

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid extension is dialed

2006-06-16 Thread Carl Youngblood
Thank you! Thank you! I had been trying all sorts of convoluted ways to get that information. That was very easy. On 6/16/06, Lacy Moore - Aspendora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Variables Use ${INVALID_EXTEN} On 6/15/06, Carl Youngblood

[Asterisk-Users] Problem trying to SayDigits when an invalid extension is dialed

2006-06-15 Thread Carl Youngblood
I am trying to modify a fairly complex digital receptionist dialplan that has a number of included contexts. Right now the system is not announcing the extension that the caller attempted to dial, so callers get confused when they think they dialed a valid extension but asterisk didn't pick

[Asterisk-Users] Need to track dropped calls

2006-06-14 Thread Carl Youngblood
I have been getting occasional reports of dropped calls from the users of our asterisk system. Is there anything I can monitor in my logs or in the console to see when a call is dropped? I'd like to see if these drops coincide with network traffic problems. Thanks, Carl

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need to track dropped calls

2006-06-14 Thread Carl Youngblood
somewhere if a call was terminated abnormally. Thanks, Carl On 6/14/06, Steve Totaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Youngblood wrote: I have been getting occasional reports of dropped calls from the users of our asterisk system. Is there anything I can monitor in my logs or in the console

[Asterisk-Users] Are zttest results relevant on a system with no telephony hardware?

2006-06-13 Thread Carl Youngblood
Our asterisk system gains access to the PSTN through a voip provider. We have no digium or other telephony hardware in our system. Do the zttest results still matter to us? Our results were as follows: --- Results after 1007 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.780273 -- Average: 99.975763

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Are zttest results relevant on a system with no telephony hardware?

2006-06-13 Thread Carl Youngblood
Thanks. What is it in the 2.6.13-based kernel that improves timing? Should I expect to see a significant improvement if I upgrade to it? On 6/13/06, Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IAX trunking and meetme conferences are some of the heaviest users of zaptel timing. I'd suggest if you

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Cell phone dialed digits too short to be recognized by asterisk

2006-05-15 Thread Carl Youngblood
FYI, the digit timeout was simply too short in my IVR. After increasing that everything worked fine. This problem only showed up on cell phones, many of which don't allow you to type long digits so your keypresses have more silence in between them. On 5/12/06, Carl Youngblood [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Asterisk-Users] Cell phone dialed digits too short to be recognized by asterisk

2006-05-12 Thread Carl Youngblood
I'm having a big problem where digits dialed from certain cell phones are too short to be recognized by my asterisk server. I'm running AAH 2.8. Some cell phones don't allow the caller to hold down the digits and have the tones play as long as they hold them down for. They just play a short

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to determine if a device is in a call

2006-05-12 Thread Carl Youngblood
Thanks to everyone who responded. I was able to modify the freepbx paging code to use something like the suggested macro and it worked well. For those who may be interested, the following Page macro works for Linksys SPA942 phones: [macro-page]; ; ; Paging macro: ; ; Check to see if SIP device

[Asterisk-Users] How to determine if a device is in a call

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Youngblood
I have gotten intercom working on my office phones (Linksys SPA-942s), but I have noticed that if someone is in a call, it places the call on hold and sends the intercom audio to the person holding the phone that is being paged. I'd like to add logic to my dialplan that doesn't send a page to a

[Asterisk-Users] Trying to set up automatic announcement upon transfer for IVR in AAH 2.8

2006-04-25 Thread Carl Youngblood
I am running AAH 2.8. I have an IVR for our main phone number that allows users to dial an extension directly. I would like to have a this call may be recorded announcement played before the call gets transferred. There is not a built-in option for this in the IVR web interface, but one way I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-14 Thread Carl Youngblood
Hi Jeff, I live in Provo and I think I understand the application you're referring to. Some folks in my neighborhood have been getting to be the beta testers for these cool new fiber links that the city is supposed to be laying out. If I only lived a few blocks over, I would be able to get

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse for outbound dialing

2003-12-09 Thread Carl Youngblood
hardware. Does a service like this let you make more than one phone call simultaneously, or must you pay an additional $8.00 for each line that gets used at the same time? Sorry if these questions are stupid but I'm new to asterisk. Thanks, Carl Youngblood

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse for outbound dialing

2003-12-09 Thread Carl Youngblood
What about the G.729 codec? From what I've heard it allows you to stuff an analog call into 8 Kbps. This would give you a theoretical maximum of 80 simultaneous connections on a 640 Kbps DSL line. I would expect this to be much lower in practice, say 20 simultaneous streams, but still,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoicePulse for outbound dialing

2003-12-09 Thread Carl Youngblood
From what I read here: http://www.globalipsound.com/pdf/gips_iLBC.pdf iLBC is free and better quality than G.729A, same quality as G.729E and offers substantially better quality over congested networks. Its bandwidth requirements are a little higher (13-15 kbps) but they aren't bad. Adam Hart

Re: [Asterisk-Users] unixODBCget/put/del/deltree

2003-12-06 Thread Carl Youngblood
Sorry, but would someone mind giving a brief explanation to newbies as to why this is cool? I am interested in creating call trees from a postgres database, so this looks like it might be useful, but I still don't understand much of what's going on here. Thanks, Carl Youngblood On Dec 6, 2003

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Internet-to-phone gateway?

2003-12-05 Thread Carl Youngblood
. www.deltathree.com Best regards, Chris HARIGA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 1:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Internet-to-phone gateway? On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Carl

[Asterisk-Users] Internet-to-phone gateway?

2003-12-04 Thread Carl Youngblood
a server with an internet connection and someone else provides the internet-to-phone gateway. Come to think of it, would asterisk even be needed for this kind of a solution? Does anybody do this? Thanks, Carl Youngblood ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

[Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-27 Thread Carl Youngblood
) After leaving message successfully, hang up. Anyway, if anyone could point out any work that has already been done in this regard, I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Carl Youngblood ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-27 Thread Carl Youngblood
Just a warning that you will not know when the line is picked up with a X100P. Later when you upgrade to T1/E1 service you will know when it is picked up. So I assume that means that I should just wait until I hear some level of noise and then I know that the line has been picked up? You may

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-27 Thread Carl Youngblood
What is EAGI? I will probably use festival for the time being, but I thing that I would eventually like to use ScanSoft's RealSpeak SDK because it is so life-like. Unfortunately our text alerts are fully customizeable, so we can't pre-record them. Beware the likelike TTS, that sucks up

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-27 Thread Carl Youngblood
Or maybe noise would have to last for more than a certain period of time before it triggered another waiting sequence. Like, say, if noise lasts for longer than 2 full seconds or something. That may be fine. Although you may have trouble with some line that also is feeding back echo. That