[Asterisk-Users] Where is the archive?

2004-04-01 Thread Matt Lawson
I've been trying to search the archives for older messages, but the archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.html only seems to go back a few days. Is there another archive somewhere that goes back farther? ___

[Asterisk-Users] 800 Numbers (was Re: NuFone?)

2004-03-17 Thread Matt Lawson
I have been having the same problem with 800 numbers. NuFone and VoicePulse always behave the same (when one can't connect, neither can the other). I have so far found no explanation for this. Some other 800 and 877 numbers I can call. Can you elaborate on this at all? Thanks! o I

[Asterisk-Users] RE: 800 Numbers (was Re: NuFone?)

2004-03-17 Thread Matt Lawson
Ah, I was hoping to find the silver bullet, but no such luck so far. I have tried every combination of SetCallerID and SetCIDNum in my extensions.conf, both with and without the |a option, on both services with no luck still. When I call myself on our 877 number, I can see that the caller ID

[Asterisk-Users] How can I use the # key normally?

2004-03-11 Thread Matt Lawson
Is there a way to disable the transfer function of the # key? When calling other services, we often need it to access other menus, other voicemail, etc. Does this have anything to do with the T and t options in the Dial string? Thanks. ___

[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail has hard-coded limit of 100 messages?

2004-03-04 Thread Matt Lawson
I got bit by this today and was surprised to see the limit of a measly 100 messages hardcoded into voicemail. Is that right or am I missing something? Obviously, this should be moved to voicemail.conf. Does anyone know if there's a reason why this hasn't been done, or if there's already a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail has hard-coded limit of 100 messages?

2004-03-04 Thread Matt Lawson
Ah, so in a normal Asterisk world, the messages are supposed to be moved to another dir.? In our deviant Asterisk world, the voicemails are never checked through the phone, only through a custom web interface, so they stay in INBOX until they're deleted. Thus they collect quickly to over 100

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users digest, Vol 1 #2879 - 10 msgs

2004-02-23 Thread Matt Lawson
I think international number dialed through voicepulse have to start with 011... (even if you're located in another countery). I asked them about that once, and that's what works for me (We've been dialing Spain and Germany recently, but never Japan) HTH, Matt --__--__-- Message: 4

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicepulse Connection

2004-02-23 Thread Matt Lawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users digest, Vol 1 #2879 - 10 msgs Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the UK it's 00 then the country code. So a call from the UK to my phone would be 0013036742575. Miie Matt Lawson wrote: I think international

[Asterisk-Users] Zombies got me!

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Lawson
After 2 weeks on bug #981 (Dropped Channels during dual redirect), I just posted 2 patches and almost have it fixed. The only problem is, the patch has a side effect of leaving some zombies. That is, the zombie channel that is created during the masquerade process doesn't get hungup. If I

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Zombies got me! - Fixed!

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Lawson
Never mind about the zombies. I fixed 'em real good... I didn't think I would find the solution so quickly. Thanks anyway. - Matt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To

[Asterisk-Users] What can cause a Red alarm?

2004-02-16 Thread Matt Lawson
I know having it unplugged from the line will cause this, but it's not. It's an X101P single port FXO card. Most of the time it works fine but occasionally wigs out. In this case zttool shows a red alarm. Other times I call into it and it answers but I just hear a buzzing sound. In a day

[Asterisk-Users] Please Explain newchan-pvt-pvt

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Lawson
I'm into my 4th or 5th day of working on bug #981. I know that part of the problem is that the fixup routine is called in chan_sip.c. Well in there is a line that says p=newchan-pvt-pvt. Problem is, that doesn't exist in this case. I see pvt described as private lock but that doesn't mean I

[Asterisk-Users] Re: speex with VoicePulse

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Lawson
Ours are setup to allow GSM or Speex, and I see that using VoicePulse it chooses GSM. Don't know the official policy. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update

[Asterisk-Users] port number keeps changing

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Lawson
We have an asterisk installation that's on a residential-grade DSL and its port number (as visible from the outside) keeps changing, every time it registers. fuser indicates that asterisk is only using port 4569 for IAX2 (as it should), but when it goes out over the Internet, the port number

[Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Lawson
Hmm. Both Voicepulse and Nufone don't seem to be able to dial out 800 numbers. Are 800 numbers treated differently somehow? Or is there a business reason for disallowing them? It makes the ringing sound but never connects. ___ Asterisk-Users

[Asterisk-Users] Re: MeetMe Video option

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Lawson
That's one of the things that's been on our (1control, I have nothing to do with Digium) wishlist/to do list that just hasn't gotten done yet. Currently, video in meetme is not supported. What we experience is the audio will conference with the other audio streams but the video just freezes.

[Asterisk-Users] Re: MeetMe Video option

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Lawson
No, there is no video output once the call goes into a meetme room. What I was talking about is a case where you have a regular video call between 2 video phones, then you try to send them to a conference room. The audio still works but the softphone's (Linphone in our case) behavior is to

[Asterisk-Users] Re: failover (was Re: voicepulse)

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Lawson
But this is not to say _you_ can't built a reliable VOIP based system. Get _two_ providers and set up your dial plan in extensions.conf to fail over if one service fails to connect to dial via the next one and finally if both fail use pstn. your users will see a system the just works. Now there's

[Asterisk-Users] Re: failover (was Re: voicepulse)

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Lawson
OK, so I answered my own question. Turns out case #2 just goes to extension 2. Still trying to figure out the optimum arrangement so I don't have an inordinate number of extensions. Maybe like this: 1. First outgoing try 2. Second outgoing try 3. Third ougoing try 4. Play a message

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Voicepulse

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Lawson
I was just about to write the same thing. It says busy. Is is REALLY busy or is something else wrong? This on the heels of switch-1.nufone.net being missing out of DNS. We have customers that expect their VOIP to work. Is there anybody that's reliable? I am having probelms connecting to

[Asterisk-Users] Broken DNS makes Asterisk whacky!

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Lawson
Check this out. I recently closed a bug I had written, #495 ExtraChannel in transfer causes crash Now I've been able to reproduce it, and somewhat narrowed down the culprit. But before I write another bug report, I wanted to see if anyone else had experienced the following (or would like to

[Asterisk-Users] Re: 486 Busy message - SNOM 200

2004-01-05 Thread Matt Lawson
I have observed this also. Try downgrading the firmware on the Snom to 1.16x. That usually fixes it for me. Although that's obviously a workaround and not a true fix. It is the Snom phone sending the 486 message; I just don't know why. - Matt Hello All,=0A=0AWhenever I try calling SNOM

[Asterisk-Users] Excessive VNAK's and jitter over IAX2

2003-12-18 Thread Matt Lawson
Howdy, I recently saw something strange with a call between *'s over IAX2. There are actually 3 *'s involved. The setup is like this: SIP phone --(ulaw over LAN)-- *1 IAX2 (ulaw over Internet) -*2(GSM over Internet) ---*3(ulaw over LAN)--

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Sphinx (Karl Putland)

2003-12-18 Thread Matt Lawson
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:40, Kevin Bockman wrote: Hi. I just started trying to play with Sphinx. I followed their site as far as running sphinx-server. It is listening on the default port. I copied sphinx2-simple to another file and changed sphinx2-continuous to sphinx2-server. So, I ran

[Asterisk-Users] Help: codecs and bandwidth

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Lawson
In an attempt to reduce bandwidth usage, I tried forcing my Asterisk to use Speex. I did a disallow=all then an allow=speex. The crazy thing is, it didn't reduce the bandwidth usage at all! I can do an IAX2 show channels and it shows the call being in format 512 (Speex, right)? Then I

[Asterisk-Users] Need help with jitter buffer/quality settings

2003-12-09 Thread Matt Lawson
I'm using Asterisk to do audio as well as H.263 video over SIP. Actually the video works pretty well but I have trouble with the audio. I'm wondering if someone can suggest codec/jitter settings or other tweaks. The system looks like this: Softphone ---ulaw Asterisk #1 --IAX (usually

[Asterisk-Users] Echo cancel in MeetMe?

2003-12-03 Thread Matt Lawson
I'm trying to put multiple Linphones and Snom 200's into a Meetme room. With two devices, echo is quite noticeable. With 3 or more it degenerates into white noise. Which part of the software is responsible for echo cancellation in a MeetMe room? Is it a setting on the phones themselves, or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Echo cancel in MeetMe?

2003-12-03 Thread Matt Lawson
Oops, my bad. Turns out it was just mixer settings, feeding back through the soundcard. Sorry for the noise. Message: 14 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:43:16 -0500 From: Matt Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Echo cancel in MeetMe? Reply-To: [EMAIL

[Asterisk-Users] IAX port numbers?

2003-12-02 Thread Matt Lawson
I see that when an Asterisk connects to another one via IAX, it seems to use port 4569 for the first one. But if it has multiple IAX connections the additional ports seem to be chosen at random. Is there anyway to predict, or specify which ports or range of ports to use, for the sake of

[Asterisk-Users] RE: Solved! Snom 200 Busy signal

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Lawson
to CVS. I would definitely like to check on this one patch though. Thanks. - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Lawson Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 7:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Solved! Snom 200

[Asterisk-Users] Snom 200 stuck on Busy

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Lawson
With a recent update to Asterisk CVS, and versions 2.02r and t of the Snom 200 firmware, I'm getting the Snom phones stuck reporting Busy.: -- Got SIP response 486 Busy Here back from 10.12.34.248 -- SIP/3064-b07d is busy They're on-hook, not doing anything. They are registered fine. I

[Asterisk-Users] Solved! Snom 200 Busy signal

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Lawson
As a follow up to my earlier posting, the problem with the Snom 200 Busy signal was the firmware! I reverted back to 1.16x and everything's OK. That made today pretty complicated, since I already had a new kernel and a new Asterisk build I was trying all at once Hopefully someone else

[Asterisk-Users] FXO card still won't pick up...

2003-11-19 Thread Matt Lawson
I recently updated (fresh checkout) to the newest zaptel and Asterisk. The one I was using before was a couple of months old. After updating, my zap channels don't work. They won't pick up incoming calls or dial out. When I try to dial out I get: -- Executing Dial(SIP/3064-564c,

[Asterisk-Users] Re: chan_zap won't load after CVS update

2003-11-18 Thread Matt Lawson
Ah ha. That's *almost* got it. It will now load and * will run. The only big gotcha is it won't pick up or dial out on a POTS line. ztcfg shows both channels configured OK, as does 'zap show channels.' If I try to dial out I get: -- Executing Goto(SIP/3063-74d0, outside|9555|1) in new

[Asterisk-Users] chan_zap won't load after CVS update

2003-11-14 Thread Matt Lawson
I've just finished updating my Asterisk to the CVS version. Unfortunately, chan_zap won't load anymore. The hardware has not changed and the config files have not changed. I can re-install the two packages back and forth. The old one will still work. The new one won't. I tried updating to

[Asterisk-Users] Help with include files current CVS

2003-11-11 Thread Matt Lawson
Hello, I'm trying to compile a brand new CVS Asterisk and running into trouble with include files. I have an older version of Asterisk that I can compile (2-3 months old) that I can compile fine, but the new one gives me this: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/asterisk_update/stdtime'

[Asterisk-Users] Transferring to Meetme

2003-11-04 Thread Matt Lawson
Hi all, I'm wanting to take an existing call, and transfer both sides of it into a meetme room (yes I know the phones have a conference ability built-in but humor me). What seems to happen is I can transfer one half of it fine, but as soon as I do that the other half hangs up. Do I have to

[Asterisk-Users] No 'ringing' sound to outside callers

2003-10-15 Thread Matt Lawson
Most of the time, when someone calls in from the outside on a POTS line, and possibly over IAX as well, they don't hear any ringing sound while the internal SIP phones ring. If you call from an inside SIP phone, even forcing it into the incoming context, you hear the ringing. The outside

[Asterisk-Users] Turning a regular call into a conference?

2003-10-14 Thread Matt Lawson
What steps would have to happen, in order to take an already-connected call and move both parties into a conference room? i.e. do both parties have to be parked first, or can one or both of them just be immediately transferred to a MeetMe extension?

[Asterisk-Users] Loop counter variable in dialplan?

2003-10-08 Thread Matt Lawson
How can I loop through something x number of times in the dialplan? i.e. if I get an invalid extension I want to re-play the menu, but not forever. Maybe 3 tries or something. I'm pretty sure that I've seen it before, where you can increment a variable and do Gotos based on it. But I've

[Asterisk-Users] Alternatives to FXS cards?

2003-10-06 Thread Matt Lawson
Hi everyone, I know someone makes a product that's a POTS phone to SIP converter, where you just plug your POTS phone in one side and the network cable in the other. Has anyone successfully used any of these with Asterisk, and if so how expensive were they? I ask partly out of frustration

[Asterisk-Users] Auto-detect of fxo vs. fxs channels?

2003-09-12 Thread Matt Lawson
Is there a way to determine which channels belong to fxo vs. fxs devices? I need to write an auto-configuration program that can match up channel numbers to types. I have to assume there's an unknown ordering of fxo and fxs cards. Suggestions? TIA

[Asterisk-Users] * Picks up line during outgoing call

2003-09-09 Thread Matt Lawson
We have some regular POTS phones connected to our incoming line as well as the machine that runs Asterisk. Sometimes during an outgoing call from the POTS phone, the Asterisk will pick up also, and play its menu. The FXO card is set to fxs_ks signalling; I'm told this might be the culprit but

[Asterisk-Users] Noisy/Clicky hangup

2003-09-05 Thread Matt Lawson
When I call in from an outside POTS line to a Zap channel, and the call ends, it seems like the hangups are very sloppy. I see Asterisk give the hangup command, but on my phone there's lots of clicks and the line acts like it's staying open for several seconds, then I hear a phone ringing

[Asterisk-Users] chan_zap Cannot handle frames in 2 format

2003-09-05 Thread Matt Lawson
I have discovered something quirky in our Asterisk. If I call in to a Zap channel (from an outside POTS line), then transfer the call around several times, I get the above error, after which it will hangup. I believe Asterisk may issue a SIP CANCEL to the extension it was starting to dial.