Re: [asterisk-users] Read Command

2008-08-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I've search the world over but I haven't figured out a way to have valid/invalid options for entry when using the Read command... I need to set a variable, but only want to allow certain values to be valid options for that variable... I hope I understand your question. You can

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: Code your own queuefor AgentCallBackLogin

2008-08-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
There's actually a document included with the source code which will take you through setting up an agent callback system. You can find it in 'doc/queues-with-callback-members.txt'. The 'AgentCallBackLogin' application has some issues, and since you can do the same thing with your

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-08-20 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am really grateful to all the experts on the mailing list who gave me some very good advice on this problem which I experienced in China. I think we have fixed the problem and the card is no longer reporting any problems. We are able to dial out successfully and we will continue to test. Here

Re: [asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non root user

2008-08-17 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Check this one out... http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+non-root From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shaun Wingrin Sent: Sunday, 17 August 2008 6:51 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users]

[asterisk-users] Newbie: Queue and CDR Reporter and Analyser

2008-08-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am trying to look for a software (open source or proprietory) that could do reporting on both queue and CDR in Asterisk 1.4.* Could someone give me some suggestions? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-31 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
if after you tried both straight through crossover cables and it still give you RED alarm. just tell them you can't get any clocking signal. they'll probably send someone on site and test the line. Yes, I tried all sorts of cables and ended up getting the local contact to complain to NETCOM.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-31 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Sounds like you're making progress. I would try the above span definition without the crc4. That might do the trick. Thanks Brad. I already tried it without crc4 but it makes no difference. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-31 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Ensure that in file indications.conf you have [general] country=cn ; not usa ! or if you are in Australia shortcut for Australia Uros, that was a good reminder. However, I don't think it is related to this problem. ___ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-30 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You don't need to install it. Just run kernel/xpp/utils/genzaptelconf directly from the source directory. Thanks Tzafrir. My local contact is away today and so I could not get him to plug the line to port 4. So, it is still in port 1. Here is the output after running genzaptelconf. #

[asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: Code your own queue for AgentCallBackLogin

2008-07-30 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am trying to build a simple queue with several agents using AgentCallBackLogin. From what I read on the Internet and tried briefly, it seems to suggest that I should be coding my own queue system for AgentCallBackLogin using AEL2 instead of using the AgentCallBackLogin command because it is

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I think it can't hurt to try a different release. Let me know how it goes. Thanks Igor. I just upgraded zaptel to 1.4.11. However, I am still seeing red in the alarm in zttool and the LED on port 1 also shows red. --- cat

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Wow - that's nasty. Almost like a broken card or MB. Ouch. Should you call the supplier of the card and ask them about warranty? PaulH Thanks Paul. The TE412P card is fine and the zaptel error in dmesg is fixed by 1.4.11. However, the red alarms are still there.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Hi, just for (all of) you to know this is a known bug of zaptel 1.4.11, the firmware upload procedure is taking some time, operating like a freeze during the process, so this message appears. But this isn't a real problem, as it doesn't have any consequences appart from the message.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
The test for that is simple: head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/* Let's look at all four spans. Not just the first one. Thanks Tzafrir. # head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/* == /proc/zaptel/1 == Span 1: TE4/0/1 T4XXP (PCI) Card 0 Span 1 (MASTER) HDB3/ RED == /proc/zaptel/2 == Span 2: TE4/0/2 T4XXP (PCI) Card

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I tried the suggestion on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+MFC+R2 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+MFC+R2 but the red alarm is still on. An output of 'head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/*' after the fact might help us help you. Did you re-run ztcfg after editing zaptel.conf ?

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
An output of 'head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/*' after the fact might help us help you. Did you re-run ztcfg after editing zaptel.conf ? On a sidebar, let me suggest head -1q; it's neater. Thanks Jay for your neater suggestion! # head -n1 /proc/zaptel/* == /proc/zaptel/1 == Span 1: TE4/0/1 T4XXP

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Thanks Steve for your suggestions. In China you will generally get either MFC/R2 or EuroISDN. MFC/R2 is much more common. This is exactly my current problem. NETCOM in Shanghai just told my local contact it is an E1 and that's it. I have no idea whether it is MFC/R2 or EuroISDN and so there

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
If you're interested, our working circuit in Chengdu with a China Telecom PRI is configured as: /etc/zaptel.conf: span=1,0,0,ccs,hdb3 bchan=1-15,17-31 dchan=16 loadzone = cn defaultzone=cn /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf (just including the pertinent lines): switchtype=euroisdn

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
i've installed several Asterisk systems in Shanghai Beijing. Thanks Edwin. The remote site is in Shanghai and NETCOM is the telco. Do you know if their E1 line is MFC/R2 or EuroISDN? red alarm usually means there's no clocking signal. check all your cables (crossover vs straight through)

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Yes, to try port 4 again. Thanks Tzafrir. Why do I have to plug it into port 4? Backup the existing zaptel.conf and run genzaptelconf (no need to unload / reload any modules). What is the output of 'head -n 1 /proc/zaptel/*' after that? I could not find genzaptelconf probably because I

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You don't need to install it. Just run kernel/xpp/utils/genzaptelconf directly from the source directory. Yes mate - I was just 1 sec away from reinstalling zaptel. Why do I have to plug it into port 4? Do I have to plug the line into port 4 instead of port 1?

[asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-28 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
This time, I am trying to remotely install Asterisk in China. I was told that an E1 line has been installed and so I plug it into port 1 of a TE412P. On the box, first of all, I just installed Zaptel 1.4.10.1. # service zaptel restart Unloading zaptel hardware drivers:ERROR: Module zaptel is in

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-28 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
My best guess from looking at that is that its a driver bug. The last thing that happens before the lockup seems to be an ioctl call to the device. Hope it helps, Igor H. Thanks Igor. Does it mean that I should install a later release of zaptel?

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie in China: Red alaram in Zaptel for E1

2008-07-28 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Are you sure that they're plugged into port 1 and not port 4? It is a rather common mistake to believe that the port numbers start at the bottom of the card and not at the top. Thanks Tilghman. I checked with the guys in the remote office and he is certain that he has plugged the E1 line

Re: [asterisk-users] how to incorporate open hours

2008-07-16 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
exten=7000,n,GotoIfTime(9:00-17:00,mon-fri,*,*?rcl_off_opn) 7000 is the extension of main menu Where do I put the reference to open hours menu in the statement above. exten=7000,n,GotoIfTime(9:00-17:00,mon-fri,*,*?rcl_off_opn) [...code for office close...] exten = 7000,n(rcl_off_opn),

Re: [asterisk-users] how to incorporate open hours

2008-07-16 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Do you do contract work? Thanks for making my day :-) I am sure there are lots of much more experienced Asterisk people out there who will respond to your email. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008

Re: [asterisk-users] how to incorporate open hours

2008-07-15 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
What do I have to code in the main menu to do the following. If between the hours of 9am - 5pm go to open hours All other hours go to after hours You can do something like: exten = main switch no,n,GotoIfTime(9:00-17:00,mon-fri,*,*?rcl_off_opn) ___

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Dialplan: Best Practice in usingContext - Do not use Default??

2008-07-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You should probably avoid giving incoming access to outgoing.. Thanks Paul. [incoming] ... include = internal include = outgoing The thing is if I don't have this include = outgoing in [incoming], I will not be able to dial out at all. Any thoughts?

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Dialplan: Best Practice in usingContext - Do not use Default??

2008-07-09 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
With an ISDN10/20/30/etc, I would just put all the lines into an 'incoming' context - and make sure that incoming context doesn't have any includes (unless you really need them...) Can someone please have a look at below to see if this would be the best and secure practice of using context in

Re: [asterisk-users] time on asterisk

2008-06-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
i'm using 64-bit Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04 I just use GMT+0, but i'm on Singapore whcih should be at GMT+8, but if i use GMT+8 the system does not give the correct time. You should actually be using Asia/Singapure rather than guess. i'm not using ntp, coz when i do i also don't get

Re: [asterisk-users] odd error compiling zaptel-1.4.10 - XPP

2008-06-10 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
http://bugs.digium.com/12426 There's also a fix there that I don't fully understand (and I'm not sure that that fix does not cause damage, so don't just apply it). I am installing Zaptel 1.4.10.1 and I encountered the same problem. As Jerry said, compile problem goes away if I uncheck xpp in

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom SIP and DHCP problem

2008-06-10 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
For posterity, always make sure that some junior admin hasn't used a home router/gateway as an emergency hub stuffed underneath somebody's desk.  Those pesky extra DHCP servers don't play nice with others. Just a suggestion, will defining a special VLAN just for the Polycom phone be able to

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Instant Messaging

2008-05-22 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Just want to know if anyone has used instant messaging using Polycom and Asterisk. From Google, I did not really see IM being mentioned at all. It appears no one is interested to implement it in Asterisk. Or I guess people would rather use Jabber or other IM messengers.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Voicemail: Just use one[context]invoicemail.conf?!

2008-05-21 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Tilghman, you are spot on! As it turns out, this parameter is not documented at all in http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config+voicemail.c onf or anywhere on Internet. Also, in that voicemail wiki, there seems to be a lot of parameters that wasn't explained at all. I

[asterisk-users] Newbie Voicemail: Just use one [context] in voicemail.conf?!

2008-05-20 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was thinking about dividing my users into different groups (contexts) in voicemail.conf so that I could use voicemail show users for [context] to manage them easier. However, I found out that I should not do that because if I am using [macro-stdexten] in extensions.conf, I will need to

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Voicemail: Just use one [context] invoicemail.conf?!

2008-05-20 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
As a result, I just go back to put all users in [default] in voicemail.conf. Am I missing anything? What do those contexts mean in your setup (beside being arbitrary groups)? I just want to group the mailboxes by say department rather than putting them all under [default]. So, I could

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Voicemail: Just use one [context]invoicemail.conf?!

2008-05-20 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I haven't been following the conversation, but why don't you use searchcontexts=yes in voicemail.conf? As long as you don't specify a particular context when calling Voicemail, it will look through all contexts until it finds a matching mailbox. Tilghman, you are spot on! As it turns out,

Re: [asterisk-users] Wireless headsets for Polycom phones

2008-05-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Anyone have recommendations for wireless headsets that work well with Polycom phones and Asterisk? I am waiting for delivery one of the following types: Plantronics CS351 Monaural SupraPlus Wireless Professional Headset System Voice Tube

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You should probably clean it up and put it up on the wiki. I don't think anyone has put up a step-by-step like you did before. There might be much easier additions/modifications done to it, and it will be available to everybody. Done. No problem - glad to be of service to the open-source

[asterisk-users] Recall: Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Lee, John (Sydney) would like to recall the message, [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You should probably clean it up and put it up on the wiki. I don't think anyone has put up a step-by-step like you did before. There might be much easier additions/modifications done to it, and it will be available to everybody. Done. No problem - glad to be of service to the open-source

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-16 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
First of all, thanks Philipp, Alan, Tzafrir and James for your valuable comments. I have listed below the exact list of commands to run for reinstalling asterisk 1.4.* as non-root on a Redhat / Fedora distro. Hope others can benefit. I have the following comments/questions though: 1) #What

[asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

2008-05-15 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was following the instruction on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: 1) Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: Red Hat: adduser -c Asterisk PBX -d /var/lib/asterisk -u

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Cannot Disable Services button

2008-05-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was able to disable the DND button (no 9) on IP60x by putting the following line in sip.cfg. keys key.scrolling.timeout=1 key.IP_600.9.function.prim=Null/ However, I could not do so for the Services Button (no 29) on IP600 (or Applications button on IP01) keys

[asterisk-users] Newbie Dialplan: Best Practice in using Context - Do not use Default??

2008-05-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
In The future of Telephony, it says ... We should also note for security's sake you should always make sure that your [incoming] context never allows outbound dialing. (If by chance it did, people could dial into your system and make outbound toll calls that would be charged to you!) The book

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie IVR: How to read() beforeplayback()is finished?

2008-05-08 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
The only things I set in relation to echo cancellation is in zapata.conf where I put echocancel=yes Ouch...any idea what echo cancellation your system is using? PaulH On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:55 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: the relaxdmtf (or similar) option in zaptel can make

[asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: tricky problem with MOH

2008-05-08 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I have this simple queue for the reception set up such that the console queue has only one agent. I checked the number in the queue and if there is someone there, I play back a busy please be patient message and then join the call to the queue. If there is no one in the queue, the caller will go

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: tricky problem with MOH

2008-05-08 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Queue(console,r) would do what you want, but so you would need to have two entry points to queue. Thanks Atis. Your suggestion did magic! ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie IVR: How to read()beforeplayback()is finished?

2008-05-08 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
dmesg | grep -i zap Should give you a version, and an echo cancellation technology. Thanks Paul. # dmesg | grep -i zap Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196 Zaptel Version: 1.4.6 Zaptel Echo Canceller: MG2 Zaptel Transcoder support loaded

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie IVR: How to read() before playback() is finished?

2008-05-07 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Besides the Background() app mentioned, you might like the WaitExten() app Thanks guys for your response. I have had much success with Read() as below so that whenever I press a key before the sound file finishes playing, it will read the digit and move to the next line. exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie IVR: How to read() before playback()is finished?

2008-05-07 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
the relaxdmtf (or similar) option in zaptel can make this work a bit better...but it's a try at your own risk option! PaulH Thanks Paul. I have further findings into the problem. While the message is being played, if I press a key during the pause or break between words, then the key will

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie: How to remote test a call prolem in anAsterisk site?

2008-05-02 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
If you have access to the console you can do many things. For instance, you can originate test calls. Tzafrir, thanks for your response and sorry for not being specific. You raised a very good point about accessing the console. For example, I made a major change to some of the config files

[asterisk-users] Newbie: How to remote test a call prolem in an Asterisk site?

2008-05-01 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I will be installing Asterisk in a few offices which I don't have any colleagues over there to help me. Let's suppose I installed Asterisk in such a site. I tested it to my satisfaction and I went back to my home office. One day, a customer called me to say that he had a problem calling out or

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: greetings when first joiningqueue

2008-04-29 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Check the number of calls waiting in the queue, then play the message if more than 0 example code (written in the TBird IDE) Exten = 100,1,Answer() Exten = 100,n,Set(NumWaiting=${QUEUE_WAITING_COUNT(${QUEUENAME})}) Exten = 100,n,GotoIf($[${NumWaiting} = 0]?JoinQueue) Exten =

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: can Speed Dial display last name first?

2008-04-24 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am trying to find out if Polycom (I am using IP601) can display the speed dial list using last name first instead of first name first. Currently, the speed dial list displays first name first. Thanks. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Instant Messaging

2008-04-24 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Just want to know if anyone has used instant messaging using Polycom and Asterisk. From Google, I did not really see IM being mentioned at all. It appears no one is interested to implement it in Asterisk. Or I guess people would rather use Jabber or other IM messengers.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Subscription/Presence Problem

2008-04-20 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
DND does not do anything for me BLF-wise either (shame). Simply picking up the handset won't do, at that point the phone is giving you a dialtone but nothing is sent to the server. You actually have dial out. Try actually calling somebody, the state should change to InUse. Thanks Mike and

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Subscription/Presence Problem

2008-04-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am working on Polycom IP601 console with expansion module. I want to put on the BLF (busy lamp field) feature on all the contact/speed dial names I put on the console but I could not get it to work. *CLI core show version Asterisk 1.4.13 built by root @ hostname on a i686 running Linux on

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Subscription/Presence Problem

2008-04-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
If I understand correctly (and that's my experience) the BLF will only light up when the phone is ringing/on a call. Asterisk doesn't support all those fancy status that you can select from the phone. Mike, thanks for your response. I think my test is worse than that. I pressed DND on one

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Will a big 0000-directory.xml crash the phone?

2008-04-10 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am exploring the contacts directory in Polycom and I am wondering if a big -directory.xml on the boot server will eat up the memory and crash the Polycom phone once downloaded onto the phone. The asterisk directory extension is good but because users cannot see the names I thought to

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Where is SoundPointIPWelcome.wav used?

2008-04-07 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
When I downloaded the sip and bootrom from Polycom website, I noticed a file called SoundPointIPWelcome.wav. However, I have no idea where and when it was used. I played the wav file but I have never heard the phone using this wav file before. Does anyone know what it is used for?

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Where isSoundPointIPWelcome.wav used?

2008-04-07 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
It's played at the completion of the boot process. It's always been very quiet on the models I've worked with. Thanks Erik. I can probably replace it with my beloved Mozart Symphony no 40 :-) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Headset Suggestion for IP601

2008-04-06 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Any suggestion for a headset (cord and cordless) for IP601? Any good (and economical) ones from Polycom or Platronics? Thanks. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: [asterisk-users] One Touch Recording

2008-04-06 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I had this problem before...the following appeared in a previous post... For some reasons, the * and 1 must be pressed pretty quickly together on the Polycom phone before it can be transmitted successfully to Asterisk. Does anyone know if that can be tuned? Sure... go to features.conf, and change

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones

2008-03-28 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
All Polycom phones use the same firmware and bootroms - one reason why the sip.ld is so damn large for them. Thanks Rob. Alleluia! Rob, I will take your word for it - it solves all my worries in deploying different models to the same environment like IP5XX and IP6XX.

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DHCP/boot server supporting 2 models of phones

2008-03-27 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I have a question about DHCP and boot server supporting more than 1 model of Polycom phones. According to Polycom standards, Polycom phone boots up to get a DHCP address and at the same time getting a boot server string (with username and password) to logon to boot server to download SIP, bootROM

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I assume span 2 is set ti T1... Thanks James. I will check. Also you should be using a crossover if your going from the card direct to the channel bank. Remember an RJ48 crossover and an RH45 crossover are not the same.. It you are using an RJ48 crossover and your span 2 is T1 then try

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Have you tried setting the card as being T1 instead of E1 for the port connected to the channel bank? Thanks Paul. I was thinking about the same thing as I was leaving work today. I will try to set the jumper just on port 2 and let you know. ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was thinking about the same thing as I was leaving work today. I will try to set the jumper just on port 2 and let you know. Yes, that fixed the problem. Thanks James and Paul. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Good to here, I know the time off set US - AU is terrible when you need support. I have continued to configure the analogue phone by just adding new extensions (just like any VOIP phone) to extensions.conf as follows: exten = 5162,1,SetMusicOnHold(cpwr) exten = 5162,n,Dial(Zap/32,20) exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-24 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Any luck with the channel bank? Thanks for the reminder Paul but so far no luck. I have been getting: 1) *** Initialising: Trying to frame D4 / ESF on the channel bank 2) Red flashing light on port 2 of the TE412P card I have checked a few things here and there but I think I must have missed

[asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: greetings when first joining queue

2008-03-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was trying to find out how I could put in a greeting when a caller ***first*** joins the queue. I searched high and low but could only find (in queues.conf): . announce, which is announcement to the agent . announce-frequency which is announcement of queue position .

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: greetings when first joiningqueue

2008-03-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I would think you'll need to do a Playback() of this message before the caller enters the queue, as I'm not aware of such an option provided by app_queue. Exten=100,1,Answer() Exten=100,n,Playback(greetings-earthling) Exten=100,n,Queue(xyzqueue) Exten=100,n,Hangup Thanks Mark for your

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
What kind of information are you looking for? configuration or? If you look in our manuals our cards and the Digium cards configure the same in zaptel and zapata. Hi James, I have purchased a CB24-FXS-UNIV and am using a TE412P card with a Asterisk 1.4 box. One port of the card is connected to

[asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Disaster Recovery Proof Asterisk

2008-03-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am planning to roll out Asterisk to some offices and I have been thinking about how to disaster proof the box. For the production box, of course, it will have RAID 1 disk drives and 2GB memory at least. a) If the office burns down, there is nothing much I could do. b) If it is software error,

[asterisk-users] Newbie IVR: How to read() before playback() is finished?

2008-03-19 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am working on a menu to accept input from a caller like as follows: Exten = 100,1,Answer() Exten = 100,n,Playback(LONG-MESSAGE) Exten = 100,n,Read(OPTION,,2) ... When I tested it, I noticed if I start pressing a key before the Playback() is finished, the input is not buffered (simply ignored)

[asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: Simple Queue Problem

2008-03-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am trying to build a simple queue for the receptionist phone. In other words, there is only 1 agent and that is the receptionist phone. I just defined a few lines in queues.conf [console] strategy = ringall member = SIP/4000 ;4000 is the console extension In extensions.conf, it is:

Re: [asterisk-users] Turn off MusicOnHold for individual User

2008-03-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I might of got my wires crossed here, but I'm looking for a way to disable musiconhold for individual users. Good question Adrian. I never thought about that but I googled a bit and here seems to be the answer: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2007-August/193721.html

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: Simple Queue Problem

2008-03-18 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
So you either need to go a Goto(context,4000,1) or to drop it to the queue with Queue(console) etc. I have chosen to use Goto(context,4000,1) from a programmer's perspective although queue(console) works just as good. Thanks guys. ___ -- Bandwidth and

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: DND answered as on the phone instead of not available

2008-03-17 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am using Polycom IP600 phone. If I call a phone which has DND (do not disturb) enabled, the message to the caller will be The person on extension ... is on the phone, please leave a message Is there a way to pick the person ... not available message instead?

[asterisk-users] Newbie ASTDB: cannot replicate among Asterisk servers?

2008-03-16 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I am writing an extension to accept speed dial nos. However, I forgot that these speed dials are the same for all offices and thus would ideally be shared by offices which will host their own Asterisk box. I read from a few postings that this database cannot be replicated to other Asterisk box. I

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does not work

2008-03-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Does 'show features' display the correct information? PaulH Thanks Paul *CLI show features Builtin Feature Default Current --- --- --- Pickup*8 *8 Blind Transfer# # Attended Transfer One Touch Monitor

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does not work

2008-03-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
On our system i got: Zap/1-1 answered SIP/106-091a2750 -- User hit '*1' to record call. filename: wav| auto-1205385048-106-0434225491|m Our dialplan looks like: _0X' = 1. Dial(zap/g1/${EXTEN}||Ww) (from show dialplan) PaulH Thanks Paul. I think the problem is *1 is

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does not work

2008-03-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I think the problem is *1 is being ignored or cannot be transmitted successfully to Asterisk. Finally I resolved the problem. For some reasons, the * and 1 must be pressed pretty quickly together on the Polycom phone before it can be transmitted successfully to Asterisk. I think I cannot deny

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does notwork (more info)

2008-03-13 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I think if you install sox you will get soxmix. Thanks Paul I did yum install sox and Asterisk will automatically combine .in.wav and .out.wav together into .wav That is excellent! ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP601 console with expansion module

2008-03-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Special dialplans for reception are entirely up to you. The only reason reception phones have different dialplans to normal extensions is that often people want the receptionist's phone to behave a little differently. Thanks Rob. I talked to the receptionist this afternoon. She said it

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP601 console withexpansion module

2008-03-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
You could organise a system where people set their DND on the Asterisk server, then use devstate to generate a flashing lightbut it would be a bit of fiddling around, and if people used their DND button on the phone it would not be displayed We looked at this once, and decided

[asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does not work

2008-03-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I thought it was quite easy to implement but I cannot get one-touch recording to work. Here are the changes what I did: I restarted Asterisk after the change (because reload does not work for changes in features.conf). I press *1 on the Polycom IP600 phone to record a conversation but no new wav

[asterisk-users] Newbie One-touch Recording: Does not work (more info)

2008-03-12 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I thought it was quite easy to implement but I cannot get one-touch recording to work. Here are the changes what I did: I restarted Asterisk after the change (because reload does not work for changes in features.conf). I press *1 on the Polycom IP600 phone to record a conversation but no new wav

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP601 console with expansion module

2008-03-11 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was reading a Polycom brochure and it appears that there is really no special receptionist console and the console is basically a IP601. Is this correct? The only difference is to purchase an expansion module in order to have more shortcut keys for the girls. So, apart from the hardware, as

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie MeetMe: How to control max users in conference?

2008-03-10 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Yes, use your first solution, but precede it with a call to the Read() application for the user to enter their conference number. This will put it into a channel variable, e.g. ${CONF}, which you can then put in place of the hard coded number. Thanks Tony for your advice. Below is a working

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-06 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I have been told to use Rhino Channel Bank but I am yet to set it up and I appreciate if someone can show me some doco of using Rhino on an E1/T1 with TE410. Thanks. I've been asked to provide a system for 200 extensions, most of which will be existing analogue POTS handsets, not IP handsets.

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP600 Headset Problem

2008-03-06 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
We had a similar issue where the connector was not pushed in hard enough. I know that sounds like a joke, but it isn't! PaulH Thanks Paul - it also happened to my phone! Thanks so much. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] Newbie MeetMe: How to control max users in conference?

2008-03-06 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I was successful to control the max users (10) if I hardcode the conference room number (in this case 101) as follows: exten = 8600,1,Playback(conf-thereare) exten = 8600,2,MeetMeCount(101) exten = 8600,3,Playback(conf-peopleinconf) exten = 8600,4,MeetMeCount(101,CONFCOUNT) exten =

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: how to effect change in sip.cfg?

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I just want to confirm couple of things. a) If I change an entry in sip.cfg (voice.volumne.persist for example) on the boot server, the only way I could effect the change on the phone is to reboot it. b) What about if I set prov.polling.enabled, will the night time poll effect the change (even

Re: [asterisk-users] OT How to Change Polycom Web Admin User:Pass via Web

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
As far as I recall it can be done from the config file only. Here is the relevant line from sip.cfg: device device.set=1 device.auth.localAdminPassword.set=1 device.auth.loc alAdminPassword=YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE / What sip release are you referring to? I am looking at sip 1.6.x and sip.cfg

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: how to effect change insip.cfg?

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Polycoms need to reboot if you do much more than pick up the handset and dial a number. A change of config of any scale certainly qualifies here. ===That is a bit disappointing! If you alter the sip.cfg file on your TFTP/FTP/HTTP server, the Polycoms should pick up the fact that config file

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom IP600 + PC share same switch portwithVLAN

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
Without portfast, you're looking at about 30 seconds for STP to negotiate whenever the port bounces, during which time higher layer protocols are unavailable. This may interfere with CDP and DHCP, if you're using those. I am using DHCP and I could briefly recall my PC hanging for a short while

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: how to effect change insip.cfg?

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
especially when coupled with the fact that they take so long to reboot. It reminds me of the good old days of Microsoft Win95 and NT. I must admit, I'm surprised that they don't handle the config file changing for them on the server better - I had thought they were better than that. Yes, I just

[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP600 Headset Problem

2008-03-05 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
I have been testing with Polycom IP600 phones for a month or so. I found out that there are frequent problems with the handset. The problem is I can hear the other end but the other end cannot hear me. I have already downloaded the latest bootROM 3.1.3 and sip 2.1.2 However, there are no

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