Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller ID

2005-10-19 Thread Nathan Pralle
The question I have is, if an incoming call from the POTS line has caller ID information, does/is/can that information be passed onto the analog phone so it's caller id display will show the info? If so, is there anything I need to do to make this happen or does it *just work*? Thanks. It

[Asterisk-Users] Bulk Buys/Group Buys

2005-10-12 Thread Nathan Pralle
Hey folks, Anyone know of companies selling bulk SIP adaptors (phones, adaptors, etc.) or has the list ever considered doing something like a bulk buy? I was just curious...I'm looking to get another 5-6 Grandstreams or similar and I figured I'd ask the list. If we found something that lots

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk::AGI Alternate Download

2005-10-06 Thread Nathan Pralle
I see that the regular site for the Asterisk Perl AGI module is down (or something), so I've made an alternate download from my site: http://www.nathanpralle.com/downloads/asterisk-perl-0.08.tar.gz (just in case somebody was looking for it) Nathan -- -

[Asterisk-Users] Caching DTMF tones for get_data AGI?

2005-10-05 Thread Nathan Pralle
I'm using get_data in an AGI script and am having a problem when, after a long time in my IVR, when I ask for a 10-digit phone number, the first few tries are always invalid -- the number it reads back is very strange, almost like the DTMF tones from other answers were being cached and then

Re: [Asterisk-Users] CVS Head - Obtaining Newbie Question

2005-10-04 Thread Nathan Pralle
Can someone explain what is meant by CVS Head? Leigh, CVS Head is the latest-and-greatest development version of Asterisk. CVS stands for Concurrent Versioning System and is the system used by the developers to track and coordinate changes in the programming. You can obtain the CVS Head

[Asterisk-Users] Speed Up SayDigits?

2005-10-04 Thread Nathan Pralle
Is there a way to slow down or speed up the speed at which SayDigits rattles off a series of digits? Thanks, Nathan -- - Nathan E. Pralle Give the Director a Serpent Deflector www.nathanpralle.com -

Re: [Asterisk-Users] PBX 'Personalities' ?

2005-10-04 Thread Nathan Pralle
I'm curious if someone could point out a dirty trick to get the voice to play right, for internal and external callers, depending upon what number they dialed into, or what organization the user belongs to, without massive dialplan facelift. Asterisk goes and uses the value of the LANGUAGE

Re: [Asterisk-Users] call center software and asterisk

2005-09-29 Thread Nathan Pralle
AstGUIClient and VICIDIAL seem to be a good tool for the task. I cannot verify, as I have not used them before. http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net/ Nathan Bartosz Jozwiak wrote: Hi guys, Need some advise. Is there some kind of call center software which can interconnect with asterisk?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware Specifications

2005-09-29 Thread Nathan Pralle
Dan Journo wrote: Does anyone know where i can find out how powerful a machine has to be to handle a certain amount of call volume? This is a vastly complex question because there are many factors to consider. How are calls being terminated? Are they being trunked? What codecs do you plan

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to change ${VM_DATE} in voicemail.conf

2005-09-28 Thread Nathan Pralle
What exactly are you trying to do? Get it to say the date in French? Nathan gincantalupo wrote: Hi, I have * 1.0.7 and I have your same problem. I dunno what version you have but till 1.0.7 simply you cannot. We have to wait new * versions I don't find where you can setup the date

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Removing - (Dash) from Dialed Numbers

2005-09-26 Thread Nathan Pralle
I am trying to enable dial-by-email by using LDAPget to query an Active Directory server. I've got it retrieving the phone number fine. Unforunately, the numbers stored in active directory are either in the format: (xxx) xxx- or xxx-xxx-. Is there any way to parse

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk PBX

2005-09-21 Thread Nathan Pralle
Searchphrase + site:lists.difium.com The above is good when searching for information on Joe Diffie -- Otherwise, you'll want: Searchphrase + site:lists.digium.com :) Nathan -- - Nathan E. Pralle Give the Director a Serpent Deflector

Re: [Asterisk-Users] add 0 (zero) to incoming callerID - how?

2005-09-21 Thread Nathan Pralle
Pretty easy stuff. Something like this: exten = s,1,Wait(1) exten = s,2,Answer exten = s,3,SetCIDNum(0${CALLERIDNUM}) exten = s,4,Dial(Local/105) Nathan Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I have an asterisk box and SIP / IAX2 phones. To call out, users have to add 0 (zero) before a real telephone

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller ID and Call Parking on an analog PSTN line?

2005-09-21 Thread Nathan Pralle
etc.). I know I can set up voicemail on * on this line. Can I also get caller ID by virtue of running Asterisk or is that information stripped out by the phone co before it gets to my box? That information gets stripped by the telco if you don't pay to have it. I find it well worth the $8 or

[Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
HooDaHek 0.6 has been released. So soon, you say? Well, the best laid plans of mice and men... Steven BerkHolz is a pretty sharp stick and said to me, Why don't you have HooDaHek change the CallerID when it looks up the name in the database on an incoming call? Much head smacketh ensued,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Paul wrote: Nathan Pralle wrote: HooDaHek 0.6 has been released. snip As always, information and download linkage available here: http://www.nathanpralle.com/software/hoodahek.html snip Does that mean I could use it with no instant messaging? I would like to have a local callerID database

Re: [Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Rene Kluwen wrote: Some websites allow you to look up a phone number and return a name/address. As a possible add-on to this, I have an agi script that looks up caller ID information on a few of these websites. It is written in C/C++. I'm not aware of websites like this in the USA or other

Re: [Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
(trimmed) http://info.yellowpages.com/asp/partner/whitepages/reversephone.asp http://www.whitepages.com/10001/reverse_phone http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Directories/Address_and_Phone_Numbers/ and lets not forget google itself (residential only aparently) phonebook:QUERY (smith, ca

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Steven wrote: I did find this other option http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050309.013714.2d1bf446.en.html , but I do not really want to imbed this info in the asterisk database if I can have it external. (note: this other option did work when tested) Yeah, I tried that when I first

Re: [Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Thou hast confused the present tense with the present participle. Thou couldest have written smacketh head smartly but perchance it is better to write there was much head-smacking and gnashing of teeth in this case, if thou so desirest to express thyself in the old tongue. The eth suffix is oft

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: HooDaHek 0.6 Released

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Steven, Do you think the below dialplan would be typical for almost any [EMAIL PROTECTED] setup? If so, I'll add it as supplimental documentation for HooDaHek for those wanting to use it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Nathan Steven wrote: I played around with finding the right place to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] MySQL and Asterisk

2005-09-20 Thread Nathan Pralle
Dan Journo wrote: Is there a guide anywhere which runs through how to set up asterisk with mysql? What, exactly, are you trying to do with MySQL and *? Access MySQL from the DialPlan: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+cmd+MYSQL CDR record keeping in MySQL:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Complete NPA-NXX list for USA/Canada npanxx,

2005-09-19 Thread Nathan Pralle
On a related note, I wanted our phones to display city, st for the caller-ID name in the event that none was provided. Interesting code. What sort of memory does * take up when you load up all those CLID values? Nathan ___ --Bandwidth and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Most desireable Linux distribution for Asterisk?

2005-09-19 Thread Nathan Pralle
We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues. Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus prefer any particular Linux distribution? Asterisk is really, really good at running on just about anything. Where you get into distributions that are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk CDRs

2005-09-15 Thread Nathan Pralle
Does anyone know if there is a way to get CDR info into database before call ends??? The only way I have figured out how to interact with the call before it hangs up is to use the AGI to do various things -- whether it be inserting DB rows or whatever -- both before and after the call.

[Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.4 Released

2005-08-26 Thread Nathan Pralle
HooDaHek, the caller ID and instant messaging notification service for Asterisk boxen, is now updated to version 0.4. Information/download here: http://www.nathanpralle.com/software/hoodahek.html Changes: - Changed the AIM bot to use Net::OSCAR instead of Net::AIMTOC since AOL managed to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Perl AGI

2005-07-26 Thread Nathan Pralle
To deal with this problem, I've used DeadAGI in the h, t, and i events (as appropriate) to detect and call the script again. As such: exten = h,1,DeadAgi,perlscript.pl|${UNIQUEID}|hangup I pass the word hangup as the second word to flag to the AGI script that this is a hangup event, not a

[Asterisk-Users] Call Quality Reporting

2005-07-26 Thread Nathan Pralle
From what I've searched in the archives, having Asterisk report call quality statistics for each call has been discussed and mulled a little bit, but it is not implemented in * and doesn't have a plan for it at the moment. For the time being, such things are a pipe dream. Is this correct?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need Advice

2005-07-25 Thread Nathan Pralle
I have a Dell SC400 on the shelf, and I'm considering just installing Asterisk and two TDM04B cards and shipping it down. Does anyone have multiple TDM cards in the SC400? FXO ports on a TDM card are about $75/FXO port. I have not run your Dell hardware, so I can't comment on that.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need Advice

2005-07-25 Thread Nathan Pralle
ACK! I forgot about that. You're right, my bad. Still, they seem to work well. Nathan Eric Wieling aka ManxPower wrote: Nathan Pralle wrote: However, for FXO ports, I'm using the Digium Wildcard X100P's which can be obtained on eBay for $9-$20, usually. Much cheaper price-per-port

[Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.2 Released

2005-06-27 Thread Nathan Pralle
HooDaHek 0.2 Released Just a few changes: - Added MSN Messenger support to the notification bot - Added debugging code to the dbhandler script. http://www.nathanpralle.com/software/hoodahek.html Nathan ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

[Asterisk-Users] HooDaHek 0.1 Released

2005-06-22 Thread Nathan Pralle
New software released from my monkeys to your computer: HooDaHek 0.1 Asterisk Caller ID Database, CGIs, and Caller ID AOL Instant Messenger Bot HooDaHek (hoo-dah-hek, as in 'who-the-heck?') is a collection of Asterisk AGI scripts, CGI scripts, and MySQL tables intended to implement your own

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Making Asterisk NOT Pickup a Line when Ringing?

2005-06-14 Thread Nathan Pralle
Strange, Matt. I have this setup here at home and I just have a [pstn] context for incoming on the landline; it looks like this: [pstn] exten = s,1,Wait(30) And that's it. The landline answering machine picks it up before the 30 seconds are up, so Asterisk never gets the call. Now...mind

Re: [Asterisk-Users] VOIP-INFO

2005-06-10 Thread Nathan Pralle
WHy not do it for free. Start the 'VoIP documentation project' on sourceforge. It provides bandwidth, filesystem for images and all, php, Erk! My vote is against Sourceforge, definately -- although it's free, you get what you pay for. Clumsy interface and *shockingly* slow load times.

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Exitstatus of 127?

2005-06-02 Thread Nathan Pralle
Anyone know what exitstatus 127 for Asterisk is? I can't find it on the wiki or anywhere. I have an install being started by safe_asterisk but it loops because of that error. However, if started w/o the script it starts fine. Thanks, Nathan ___

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Sounds Transcription in HTML

2005-05-24 Thread Nathan Pralle
Don't know if this had been done before, but I went and HTMLized for my own use (and anyone else's) the Asterisk Sounds listing(s). Here are the links to the finished pages: Asterisk 1.0.7 Sounds (sounds.txt) Transcriptions Listing: http://www.nathanpralle.com/software/ast_soundlist.html

[Asterisk-Users] Home Usage

2005-05-16 Thread Nathan Pralle
Hi all. I'm curious to hear about other people's HOME usage of Asterisk. Do you have a really neat setup for home use? Fun stuff with VM and/or forwarding and custom scripts? I'm working on my own solution; curious as to what others have/use. Nathan

[Asterisk-Users] Current status of voicemail monitoring?

2005-05-13 Thread Nathan Pralle
Hi all. I'm curious as to the current status and development of a way to monitor incoming voicemail in Asterisk. IE: The screen calls with the answering machine feature -- the ability to listen to and break into a currently-recording voicemail if you want to. This feature would be very

Re: [Asterisk-Users] cdr!

2005-05-12 Thread Nathan Pralle
As far as I can see in my installation, it does both. Nathan Altus Snyman wrote: Good day all I installed asterisk-addons and now its logging nicely in my database But I want it to log in my usual log csv as well -- - Nathan E. Pralle Give the director a serpent

[Asterisk-Users] CDR Exact Moment of Record

2005-05-11 Thread Nathan Pralle
Can someone tell me exactly when the CDR is written to the CSV (or recorded in the mysql DB if the plugin is being used)? I'm using the AGI to do some lookups, etc. when the call starts, but need to do things after the call is done, before the context is exited, but AFTER the CDR is written.

[Asterisk-Users] LookupCIDName on Outgoing

2005-05-10 Thread Nathan Pralle
Hi all. I've used LookupCIDName on incoming calls to tag them properly from the internal DB -- that works well. However, is it possible to use LookupCIDName or something else to tag Outgoing calls as well? Specifically, in the logs? Be nice to have the logs show the CID of the number I'm