[asterisk-users] Planning 48 Station Install, Need advice on several topics

2007-01-25 Thread John French
I'm planning a new * system which will utilize 48 stations (Polycom Soundpoint 501s mostly) and a dual span PRI card and I have some questions. The system will host MeetMe conferences of 10-15 users on a regular basis and see fairly high usage as it is going into a medical setting. 1. I haven't b

[asterisk-users] Panasonic Hybrid Integration Advice Needed

2007-01-24 Thread John French
I have a client who has a Panasonic Hybrid system. They are taking in another company as a building tenant and the tenant will be on a new 12 station Asterisk system. This new asterisk system will have 4 FXO ports plus ITSP. The two systems will be separate except that they should tie together f

RE: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 and CDR

2007-01-17 Thread John French
I have the same problem. Please reply to the list if you figure it out. I'll do the same. _ From: Pablo Almido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:43 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 and CDR Hi guys, I have recent

RE: [asterisk-users] TDM400P, fxotune and ADSL filters - Just a FYI, FWIW

2007-01-15 Thread John French
/2004-November/064312.h tml) After bumping the txgain to 6 (!), I got it to 13500 and that was all I could get. However, The echo has disappeared. Sorry to answer a question that hasn't been asked, but maybe this will save someone some serious frustration! _ From: John French Se

[asterisk-users] TDM400P, fxotune and ADSL filters - Just a FYI, FWIW

2007-01-15 Thread John French
This may be commonly known but I haven't come across it so here goes, maybe it'll help someone: I have terrible echo with asterisk 1.2, zaptel 1.2.12, and a TDM400P with 1 FXS and two FXO modules. The Mark2 echo canceller with Aggressive turned on was the only setting that would make it acceptab

RE: [asterisk-users] fxotune Error - Found a solution in my case

2007-01-14 Thread John French
-d values? - Original Message - From: Gordon Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sun, 1/14/2007 3:28am To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] fxotune Error On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, John French wrote: > I'm trying to learn to use fx

[asterisk-users] fxotune Error

2007-01-13 Thread John French
I'm trying to learn to use fxotune and am getting the error: Could not fill input buffer - got -1 bytes, expected 4000 bytes Failure! when I run it. This is a new install of Asterisk 1.4 and zaptel 1.4. Also I can't really find an up to date how to on it. Am I supposed to place fxotune on my s

[asterisk-users] Possibleto use zaptel 1.4 with asterisk 1.2?

2007-01-13 Thread John French
Is it possible to use zaptel 1.4 with asterisk 1.2? I'd like to try to resolve some echo issues but have some applications which aren't yet compatible with asterisk 1.4 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing l

[asterisk-users] Need help getting anterisk application to load

2007-01-11 Thread John French
This is probably a newbie question: I'm trying to get the asterisk weather app at http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=136 installed on Centos 4.2 x86_64 SMP ( Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:28:26 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) rpm -ihv flite-1.3-1.a

[asterisk-users] Any quiet 24 port POE switches out there?

2007-01-03 Thread John French
I have an upcoming install which places the switch close to some employees in a quiet work environment. Can anyone recommend a quiet 24 port POE switch? The Linksys SRW224P behind me right now would be objectionable, I'm sure. ___ --Bandwidth and Coloc

[asterisk-users] Is chan_zap.so loaded?

2007-01-03 Thread John French
Newbie question for sure... I'm unsure of how to tell if chan_zap.so is loaded. Also, does autoload in modules.conf take care of it or is it done explicitly? output of lsmod | grep zap: zaptel208388 16 wcusb,wctdm,wcfxo,wctdm24xxp,wcte11xp,wct1xxp,w

[asterisk-users] MeetMe() not recording calls

2007-01-03 Thread John French
When I try to record a call the console shows: www*CLI> > Starting recording of MeetMe Conference 1 into file > meetme-conf-rec-1-1167836078.0.wav. www*CLI> The code being executed in extensions.conf is: exten => s,n(record),MeetMe(,rDMpc) ;Make new Room and record call. exten => s,n(bye),Playbac

[asterisk-users] Help needed with Polycom dialplan pattern matching

2007-01-01 Thread John French
I'm using Polycom Soundpoint phones and I want to use some extensions beginning with # for features setup. I'm getting the fast busy "can't match it" signal. I want to match #50 for call forwarding, for instance, and #505551212 to set the call forwarding number and turn it on. I have tftp set up

[asterisk-users] Need advice on dual core processing with *

2006-12-29 Thread John French
I have CentOS 4.4 x86_64 running on an Pentium D 830 dual core processor with the smp kernel. Does Asterisk need to be compiled in any special way to gain performance benefits from this setup? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com

[asterisk-users] Parsing Area Code from CallerID

2006-12-19 Thread John French
How would I parse the area code from this variable? Number=2515551212 Sorry for the dense question, I don't seem to be able to find an appropriate function for parsing left to right. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-

[asterisk-users] zapata.conf channel variable question

2006-12-15 Thread John French
The setvar command below works fine in iax.conf and in sip.conf but not here in zaptel.conf. I need it to retrieve info from the AstDB. Advice is apreciated, can't seem to find an answer. ; define channels group=1 context=longdistance_users signalling=fxo_ks ;FXO Sig for Phone callerid=

[asterisk-users] Trying to forward calls by using the Callee's context as the forward dial context

2006-12-15 Thread John French
I'm simply trying to forward calls to users who have the call forwarding feature enabled (FWD Status and FWD Ph Number kept in the astDB). The problem is that I want users to be able to forward calls to numbers that they would normally be allowed to dial within their own context. (I don't want

[asterisk-users] Playing a sound file on handset pickup

2006-12-13 Thread John French
I've added the ability for a user to record a custom message associated with a special IVR menu for occasions when business will be closed for some non-standard amount of time (Maybe 4 days at Christmas...) They just dial 800, record the message then hang up and dial 801 to enable it. Presum