Re: [asterisk-users] Refrigerator Alarms

2007-10-18 Thread Jim Canfield
Balu Raman wrote: Hi, I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the refrigerator storing vaccines. I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ? OWFS for sure! Here is a screenshot of a program I created a couple years ago to monitor refrigerators/warmers. It

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging in Asterisk

2007-10-11 Thread Jim Canfield
Joseph Begumisa wrote: I had the same problem with 45 polycom 601 phones in the same page group. It was just like you describe it and I got the same answer from polycom. What I did to go around that was add a second line key with a different extension number on each phone

[asterisk-users] Replace full PRI with SIP/IAX trunks...YES/NO?

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Canfield
I've been considering replacing a PRI with SIP or IAX trunks. The monthly cost difference is marginal, but it would save a bit on the hardware side and soft trunks would be easier to manage. I can't help but wonder what I would be giving up? I'd like to hear some lessons learned from those

Re: [asterisk-users] Replace full PRI with SIP/IAX trunks...YES/NO?

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Canfield
Jeremy Mann wrote: Without knowing more, Why fix what isn't broken? I should have stated, the PRI is on an existing PBX not asterisk. My goal was to reuse the existing PBX PRI card to interface with asterisk. I've been considering replacing a PRI with SIP or IAX trunks. The monthly cost

Re: [asterisk-users] Replace full PRI with SIP/IAX trunks...YES/NO?

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Canfield
Steve Totaro wrote: If your provider will be providing the SIP trunks then it might be OK. Otherwise I would stick with PRI. My lessons learned are that you cannot control the public internet and traffic shaping and QoS are not useful most of the time. I would only consider a point to

[asterisk-users] Executing commands even if user hangs up.

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Canfield
Greetings, I have a dialplan that calls the dictate application, but I want to do some post-processing on the RAW file created. The post processing is working fine as long as the dictation application exits gracefully, but fails when the user simply hangs up. How can I make sure the system()

Re: [asterisk-users] Executing commands even if user hangs up.

2007-10-03 Thread Jim Canfield
Mojo with Horan Company, LLC wrote: Have you tried adding an 'h' extension in addition? If the caller hangs up in the middle of priority 1 of extension 123, it should then jump to priority 1 of extension h and continue. Thanks, That works perfectly.

[asterisk-users] Nano syntax highlighting.

2007-09-28 Thread Jim Canfield
Greetings, I know the hardcore guys will laugh, but I put together a quick .nanorc config for asterisk. I tried to include all the applications listed on the latest install. Please feel free to send any suggestions/updates my why. I think this will go a long way to helping out the new guys

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

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Canfield
Eric B. wrote: site and got to chapter 4 or 5 and decided to take a break. Which is when I found AsteriskNow and TriBox and then started wondering if it was really necessary / worthwhile to figure out all the intricacies of the application if someones have already created the appliance

Re: [asterisk-users] Why does everyone seem to dislike *now?

2007-09-18 Thread Jim Canfield
James FitzGibbon wrote: On 9/17/07, Jim Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stuff useless. My real concern was the immediate '/ignore' for asking about an issue with the *now ditro that actually had nothing to do with the GUI itself. Truth be told, most of my

[asterisk-users] Why does everyone seem to dislike *now?

2007-09-17 Thread Jim Canfield
Greetings, Last week I began researching Asterisk for the first time. I did what most noobs would do; downloaded an image that seemed simple and straightforward and had some credibility (*now). I also downloaded the TFOT version 1 as a guide. As questions arose, I tossed a few

Re: [asterisk-users] Why does everyone seem to dislike *now?

2007-09-17 Thread Jim Canfield
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