[asterisk-users] Hobart/Tasmanian humans

2008-12-07 Thread Paul Hales
Is there anyone is Tasmania (esp Hobart) doing Asterisk work? PaulH ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] callcenter supervisor system

2008-12-02 Thread Paul Hales
Have you looked at AMS? http://www.intuitivecreations.com/contributions/AMS/ PaulH David fire wrote: my budget is 0 rigth now and i want opensource because i want to customice it... can program in Java PHP C C++ .NET (i am not proud of it) so i want to customice it for my clients

Re: [asterisk-users] Disabling Call-Waiting

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Hales
Benny Amorsen wrote: Elliot Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wondering if a queue feature that blocks call-waiting should be submitted. Doesn't Queue() already disregard busy phones? I must admit that we run with callwaiting turned off, so it isn't something I get to test

Re: [asterisk-users] half channel audio after upgrade to 1.4.18

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Hales
Jerry Geis wrote: I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.4.18 After upgrading I get half channel audio on SOME phones. I have Cisco 7960 that works, I have a wireless polycom 8002 phone that works. However, my polycom 501's are getting half channel audio on EXTERNAL calls. Internal calls are OK. I

Re: [asterisk-users] presence with polycom DND

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Hales
You might have to look at writing a forward macro on the server that would be dialed by the DND button - that also changed the device status to busy(via the devstate app?). My guess is that it would be less than 10 lines of dialplan code, but maybe 1.6 only PaulH cfh wrote: hi, I have

Re: [asterisk-users] Caching Asterisk SIP useragent info?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Hales
. Is it configurable via asterisk or is it just the re-register settings on the SNOM phone? Thanks again Paul. Veselin K On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:21:14AM +1100, Paul Hales wrote: The process for upgrading would greatly depend on how Asterisk was installed in the first place. If Asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] Caching Asterisk SIP useragent info?

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Hales
for the reply. Could you please tell me what is the process called so I can research it further. Thank you. Veselin K On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:47:47AM +1100, Paul Hales wrote: This process has been greatly improved in the latest versions of Asterisk - might be time to upgrade. PaulH

Re: [asterisk-users] Caching Asterisk SIP useragent info?

2008-11-16 Thread Paul Hales
This process has been greatly improved in the latest versions of Asterisk - might be time to upgrade. PaulH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running an Asterisk 1.4.14 on a linux machine. Serving SIP Snom users. I've noticed that each time Asterisk is restarted, for the first 5-10

Re: [asterisk-users] tired of midget packet received warnings

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Hales
Rob Hillis wrote: Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:42:52AM -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Your monitoring app is not sending valid IAX2 packets to the server. If it was sending a true IAX2 POKE, it would be a valid packet and wouldn't generate this

Re: [asterisk-users] SPA-962 Asterisk

2008-11-06 Thread Paul Hales
The linksys phones annoy me because they cannot implement southern hemisphere DST properly. Grr. (yes, you can do it with a hack - but why can't the phones just work?) PaulH Steve Anness wrote: Good Day, I have been tasked with fixing the time on our asterisk server. I am having a hard

Re: [asterisk-users] Question regarding keywords in sip.conf/users.conf

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Hales
It should ignore the keywords, but you will get lots of errors in the CLI. My guess is that if you put it all in a DB (and use realtime) you can probably do whatever you want. PaulH Rob Hillis wrote: Hi guys, I'm about to embark on a small (undoubtedly to get much larger) project to

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hales
Separate cabling is also useful if the phone system is being deployed by a separate company - it avoids the 'your computer network is generating rubbish traffic' arguments. (been there before, sadly) PaulH Andrew Latham wrote: Alex I see a fair bit of separate physical networks because of

Re: [asterisk-users] Decent Voip Phones for enterprise

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hales
I know a business that tried those phones, and removed them. They found that Polycom phones were 'more' perfect. PaulH Bruno Castelo Branco wrote: hi O use around 500 atcom530, they are work perfect www.atcom.com.cn Gordon Henderson wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Kev Szaszvari wrote:

Re: [asterisk-users] Decent Voip Phones for enterprise

2008-10-28 Thread Paul Hales
There are some decent third part central management systems for the Linksys phones (the company I work for write one of them) - the same piece of software will also manage Polycom and Snom phones (As well as Aastra phones and a few others) With regards to programmable buttons, the snoms are

Re: [asterisk-users] Extremely OT: I need someone who can parse a MS Word or PDF or RTF document

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Hales
I know of someone who was involved in a software project like this - scanning paper documents and importing files into a massive searchable database for a large legal company. Many of the documents were more than 1000 pages long. The amount of money spend on the project was stunning. PaulH

Re: [asterisk-users] ZAP not answering call

2008-09-25 Thread Paul Hales
Just to check - have you got the right modules plugged into the right sort of lines? Also - some analog phone interfaces are NOT standard. :( But the line modules have to be (to work with standard phone lines, of course) PaulH Daniel Johnson wrote: Hi, I am trying to interface our old

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6

2008-09-24 Thread Paul Hales
I would think 1.6 = Windows Vista :) PaulH Steve Totaro wrote: 1.6 = Windows Vista :-P On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to upgrade my Asterisk, currently I'm using 1.2.27 from Gentoo portage but I think this

Re: [asterisk-users] How to notify an event to every user

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Hales
Not at the moment but, just in case, I will try to use tear gas, first ;-) I have found that with the right diet, teargas is not necessary. PaulH ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 -

Re: [asterisk-users] How to notify an event to every user

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Hales
I have found that with the right diet, teargas is not necessary. That interesting to know. Maybe we should open a new thread on that and let everyone contribute ;-) I still think it's a valid idea - with the right lunch, you could guarantee that the office was empty (except for

Re: [asterisk-users] How to notify an event to every user

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Hales
Gordon Henderson wrote: Arrange the building to have a master lights off switch. Push it, then wait for the screams. This was used in a place I worked some years back. This was exactly what was used in a large company I used to work for. I have a strong memory of being in the toilets

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI E1 Inbound calls hangup with busy after a few seconds

2008-09-19 Thread Paul Hales
When does the call actually hang up? The final line of this (started music on hold, class 'default', on Zap/6-1) acutally looks successful. If the next line after this reads something like 'music on hold stopped' you have a MOH problem. PaulH Daniel Johnson wrote: Here is the rest of the

Re: [asterisk-users] PBX appliances

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Hales
Femi wrote: Great! How stable was the Digium appliance? Solid Did it ever lock up or reboot without explanation? No Did you have any issues with phones locking up or rebooting? No I need to get a feel for how stable the appliances are so I can make a decision on which to go with

Re: [asterisk-users] PBX appliances

2008-09-16 Thread Paul Hales
I have worked with both hand-built appliances running Astlinux and the Digium appliance. PaulH Femi wrote: Thanks for all the pointers What I need is real world experience though Femi *From:* [EMAIL

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco + Asterisk

2008-09-16 Thread Paul Hales
Guilherme Loch Waltrick Góes wrote: We tried to setup SIP between Asterisk and the Router, but the SIP stack in this IOS version is broken and causes the router to reboot. My biggest problem is, I can't upgrade de IOS version of the router. Why not? Surely that would be the easier option.

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF call pickup on Linksys SPA932

2008-09-11 Thread Paul Hales
From memory, this is an issue with Asterisk 1.2 which can be fixed by moving to 1.4 PaulH Chris Bagnall wrote: Greetings list, We recently installed some Linksys SPA962 + SPA932 sidecars into a client's offices. The BLF functionality works fine, but call pickup using the BLF is

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Network Monitoring

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Hales
Nagios? PaulH Jacobus van Niekerk wrote: Dear Asterisk Users I'm looking for a solution that can be used to monitor Asterisk and the Telco lines aswell as the network (Servers, WAN LAN links, Router Switches) Thanks ___ -- Bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Network Monitoring

2008-09-09 Thread Paul Hales
I have used both munin and nagios - both are cool. PaulH EdPimentl wrote: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+monitoring ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: ARI

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Hales
ARI really only let people check their voicemail via a web interface - for CDR's you can install areske cdr interface as that bolts on to vanilla asterisk with a small amount of work. Recordings - how complicated an interface do you need? From memory there's something in the contribs folder

Re: [asterisk-users] Help needed creating gateway

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Hales
The DISA application should do what you are looking for. PaulH Rudolf Ladyzhenskii wrote: Hi, all Can someone give me an example on how to do following: Asterisk receives incoming call from SIP Asterisk asks for a pin number Astersisk provides dialtone Asterisk collects digits from the

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: ACD AgentLogin display on phone

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Hales
I played with the Polycom login/logout function about a year ago, and it looked brilliant. I could never get it to work, but at the time I had both Polycom and Digium agree that it would be worth getting running. I ran out of time on that project, and have never re-visited it. But it would

Re: [asterisk-users] All calls want to go out only on interface ZAP/g0

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Hales
Slightly confused - this isn't to hard to do (I have done it quite a few times before ) The dialplan to do this should only be several lines long. Can you provide a copy of your dialplan? PaulH Mark Best wrote: I have a legacy PBX that I want to slowly move off of. Below is a diagram of

Re: [asterisk-users] All calls want to go out only on interface ZAP/g0

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Hales
To provide a better example: (this is untested hack work - as I usually provide to this list) exten = _2XXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}) exten = _3XXX,1,Dial(ZAP/G2/${EXTEN}) exten = _X.,1,Dial(ZAP/G0/{EXTEN}) Clean up and test as appropriate. :) PaulH Mark Best wrote: I have a legacy PBX

Re: [asterisk-users] Console softphone

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Hales
Call files can do something like this - you can choose the number to call and where to connect the call to (within the dialplan) PaulH Julien Claassen wrote: Hello all! Is there a way to (mis)use asterisk itself as a softphone? Can I make a call from within the CLI? Can asterisk from

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

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Hales
One of the Asterisk people down here in Melb set it up for the company they used to work for, and I played with it once and it seemed to be usable. PaulH Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: Doesn't Queuemetrics run on a license basis? Anything else that's probably open source and free? Does

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI Splitter

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Hales
Asterisk? PaulH Jeremy Mann wrote: Does anyone know of a pri splitter device? Something that would take an incoming PRI, and based on DID send that out one of other multiple PRI ports? I’m needing to take a single PRI from the telco, and send it to two separate phone systems(one

Re: [asterisk-users] Pri to sip interfaces

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Hales
Asterisk. PaulH Tom Moore wrote: Hi guys, What are your suggestions to people who have pbx systems that interface with the world over pri and want to convert them to sip interfaces so that they can use sip trunking? Tom ___ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] Pri to sip interfaces

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Hales
Are you looking for a hardware suggestion or a software suggestion? PaulH Tom Moore wrote: No, these are mainly Samsung pbx systems. I know I can use Asterisk to do this but what be a solid platform to go with that can go in the phone closet? tom

Re: [asterisk-users] Limit to the length of string ?

2008-08-26 Thread Paul Hales
Is there a maximum string length for use with the legacy interface chan_string? Does it depend on the type of cup used? Does styrofoam give better range than paper? regards, Drew A lighter material for the cup will give better dynamic range than a heavier one, at the

Re: [asterisk-users] Read Command

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Hales
Joe Carroll wrote: 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… Any ideas? Thanks in advance..

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem with Qualify sip peers...

2008-08-20 Thread Paul Hales
This is a known issue with 1.4.21 - see bugs.digium.com - http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12921 later, PaulH Carlos Chavez wrote: I am having a very strange problem with a new Asterisk installation. I am using Asterisk 1.4.21.2 on a CentOS 5.2 server. The problem is that when

Re: [asterisk-users] Linksys SPA3102-NA firmware upgrade on Linux

2008-08-19 Thread Paul Hales
Joseph wrote: Does anybody know if the process of upgrading firmware on Linksys SPA3102-NA in Linux is the same as on Sipura 3K as described on voip-info.org http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Sipura I'm pretty sure it works - I used it to upgrade a (god help me) SPA 9000 the other

Re: [asterisk-users] ZTDUMMY Running but IAX2 message:Unable to support trunking on peer 'XXXXXXXX' without zaptel timing

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Hales
Most likely Asterisk has been built without zaptel support. (if you built Asterisk first then zaptel second, this will happen) Rebuild Asterisk. PaulH Shaun Wingrin wrote: Hi All, Hope someone can help. Asterisk version 1.4.14 is running and just installed zaptel-1.4.11with only

Re: [asterisk-users] Unable to create ZAP Channel

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hales
Ouch - upgrade. PaulH Jay Ray wrote: Yes, I am running 1.0.5 --- On *Thu, 8/14/08, Tzafrir Cohen /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Unable to create ZAP Channel To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date:

Re: [asterisk-users] Unable to create ZAP Channel

2008-08-14 Thread Paul Hales
Output of 'zap show status' (in asterisk) Run 'ztcfg' from the command line and check that out too... PaulH Jay Ray wrote: Here it is: [asterisk]# asterisk -rx 'zap show channel 1' Unable to find given channel 1 Verbosity is at least 20 --- On *Thu, 8/14/08, Tzafrir Cohen /[EMAIL

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF functionality

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Hales
There is no BLF state for 'off hook' (at least in Asterisk) - so what you have here is what you are going to get. regards, PaulH Dan Peters wrote: We have had Asterisk up and running for a while now and it works very well. Recently we tried to integrate a Linsys SPA962 with the

Re: [asterisk-users] FC2 and Zaptel

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Hales
Which versions of Zaptel have you tried to build? PaulH Jay Ray wrote: Any ideas, please they are highly appreciated --- On *Mon, 8/4/08, Jay Ray /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: From: Jay Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [asterisk-users] FC2 and Zaptel To:

Re: [asterisk-users] phone rings once before playing message

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Hales
Joseph wrote: On 08/11/08 14:38, Joseph wrote: My phone rings once and stops before playing message; how to stop this behavior. I think it has something to do with Linksys SPA 3201 with Setting under: PSTN-To-VoIP Gateway. PSTN-To-VoIP Gateway Enable: Yes PSTN Ring Thru Line

Re: [asterisk-users] Phone system layout suggestions

2008-08-11 Thread Paul Hales
Bill Andersen wrote: I am thinking about a change to our company's phone layout and would like to get comments from people who have done something similar. Currently, we have 3 locations - each with their own Asterisk PBX. The corporate office has a PRI. Each remote location has a SIP

Re: [asterisk-users] in-call start monitoring

2008-08-04 Thread Paul Hales
I suppose the bit to check is the features ('show features') and then try to record a call (*1) and see what the terminal says... PaulH Bill Michaelson wrote: My client needs call recording features and would like to initiate the process in-call (typically *1). I'm installing Asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] Slighly OT?.. headset for Linksys SPA922

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Hales
Plantronics. PaulH Simon wrote: Hi there, Is anyone using a headset with one of these phones? If so, can you recommend any? Thanks Simon ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September

Re: [asterisk-users] Slighly OT?.. headset for Linksys SPA922

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Hales
That's a good question - the plantronics are available with interchangeable ends - which makes them easy to move between different phones. PaulH Simon wrote: So any 2.5 headset will work with the SPA922? On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Paul Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plantronics

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

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Hales
Dan Austin wrote: John wrote: 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

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

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Hales
Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

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

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Hales
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 Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

Re: [asterisk-users] Visual Dial Plan

2008-07-27 Thread Paul Hales
randulo wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Matt Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen it before infact there is a website setup where people can post stuff made with it... kind of super nerdy! http://www.ratemydialplan.com Cannot find lib path too nerdy! Agreed

Re: [asterisk-users] Connect Asterisk PBX to Traditional PBX and retain functionality

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Hales
Ricardo Melendez wrote: Hi to All, I have a PBX (MAINPBX) from a Telecomm Provider, which have the feature to transfer calls (Incoming call - Answer - FLASH - Dial Number to transfer - Answer - FLASH+4) and the call is transferred, but I have the need to implement an internal ACD using

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dimensioning

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Hales
Alex Balashov wrote: Conrad Wood wrote: Unless I am mistaken and there *is* some way to run 400 simultaneous calls over 2 PRIs... Traditionally, there hasn't been. But now that they've got that Large Hadron Collider going... :-) Are you thinking that with dark matter we

Re: [asterisk-users] 1.4.21.1 SIP failing, requiring reboot

2008-07-20 Thread Paul Hales
David Nedved wrote: Interestingly enough, I've had my Grandstream suffering from the same problem since I upgraded to 1.4.20, although my config is static rather than realtime. I'd actually written it off to typical Grand-heap-of-$#!+-stream behaviour. :) I didn't say because I

Re: [asterisk-users] 1.4.21.1 SIP failing, requiring reboot

2008-07-18 Thread Paul Hales
David Nedved wrote: Hi David, It may be IAX2 bug, do you use IAX? In my case downgrading back to 1.4.19 did the job. No IAX for me. I don't recall ever having this issue on 1.4.19 so unless I hear any other suggestions as to how to troubleshoot this I'll go back to that version

Re: [asterisk-users] Magnetic door locks

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Hales
I remember driving past a building with a magnetic door lock (where a friend worked) late one night, and he noticed that their door was open and swinging in the breeze. Turns out that if you lost power, this particular door would open up as well. PaulH Steve Totaro wrote: One of the last

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

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Hales
Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

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

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Hales
Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

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

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Hales
guys. Thanks anyway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hales Sent: Wednesday, 16 July 2008 5:12 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] how to incorporate open hours Lee, John

Re: [asterisk-users] How to monitor Asterisk logs ?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Hales
Zach Segal wrote: Paul Chambers wrote: It's probably total overkill, but nagios is a very sophisticated system monitoring tool. The learning curve is quite steep, but once there, it'll be able to monitor just about anything of concern. Paul I have to second this while

Re: [asterisk-users] Experience with Vicidial

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Hales
Ein Bielaczyc wrote: While I respect and appreciate your biased opinion, I was hoping for more input from objective users. Thanks :-) I object to your objective of finding objective users. In fact, I find it objective.;) PaulH ___

Re: [asterisk-users] gui issue in asterisk aa50

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Hales
Have you upgraded to the latest version? We found a few bugs went away on our test unit when we did that. PaulH Sydney Web Hosting wrote: HI all, I am having issues with the gui on my AA50. under Voice Menus Add new Step Go to Time based rule. It allows me to select “Go to Time based

Re: [asterisk-users] Agent channel...

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Hales
From memory, I have seen something similar done with the SIPPEERS function (curcalls) but it's too fuzzy for me to remember it fully. Paul Hales NTS Carlos Chavez wrote: I have a customer with a small outgoing call center. Usually only 3 to 5 agents online. We are still using Agent

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

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Hales
You should probably avoid giving incoming access to outgoing.. PaulH Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

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

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Hales
You should probably look at having another context - maybe even 'sip-phones' for your sip phones. Then include everything you need there. PaulH Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: You should probably avoid giving incoming access to outgoing.. Thanks Paul. [incoming] ... include =

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

2008-07-13 Thread Paul Hales
You really want to avoid people making incoming calls being able to make outgoing calls. Especially international ones. PaulH Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: You should probably avoid giving incoming access to outgoing.. Thanks Paul. [incoming] ... include = internal include =

Re: [asterisk-users] Click to Dial Service Providers in Australia

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Hales
H...you could build a site that used a voip service provided to hook into people's mobiles or home phones That way there's very little software development needed, and it 'just works'. You could deliver the full 'net phone' stuff as phase 2. later, PaulH Dean Collins wrote:

Re: [asterisk-users] new install of asterisk appliance.

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Hales
The Asterisk appliance is a but naughty - is really like the idea of handling DHCP on it's lan ports (and having the phones on them) and hooking up the WAN port to your local network. I have heard you can get around this, but it's a bit of work. (no personal experience) Paul Hales NTS Dean

Re: [asterisk-users] Using Asterisk Only as Voice RecordingSolution.

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Hales
Basically, you run the phone lines into the asterisk box, then out of the Asterisk system into the PABX. This works reasonably well, and gives you the option to migrate to a full asterisk setup in the future. PaulH Syed Nasruddin wrote: Thanks Steve, How I can use it Asterisk as Man In

Re: [asterisk-users] Error Wile starting AsterFax

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Hales
You really should discuss this at the Asterfax forums: http://forums.asteriskit.com.au/ later, PaulH On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:17 +0530, Sukhbir Singh wrote: Hi All, I am getting following error when i start AsterFax: Please help me to solve this issue: [EMAIL

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

2008-05-22 Thread Paul Hales
The plantronics dect units are great - bluetooth units are cheaper, but worser. PaulH On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:47 -0400, Mike Clark wrote: Anyone have recommendations for wireless headsets that work well with Polycom phones and Asterisk? Thanks, Mike Clark

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

2008-05-12 Thread Paul Hales
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...) PaulH On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 09:43 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: In The future of Telephony, it says ... We

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

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Hales
dmesg | grep -i zap Should give you a version, and an echo cancellation technology. PaulH On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:05 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: The only things I set in relation to echo cancellation is in zapata.conf where I put echocancel=yes Ouch...any idea what echo

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

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Hales
Which is reasonably new, but an upgrade to the latest version (1.4.10.1) will only take 5 minutes and is worth a shot. PaulH On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:24 +1000, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: dmesg | grep -i zap Should give you a version, and an echo cancellation technology. Thanks Paul.

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

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Hales
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 this work a bit better...but it's a try at your own risk option! PaulH Thanks Paul. I have further

Re: [asterisk-users] Looking for a Snom expert

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Hales
Where are you located? That will help with getting contacted by someone local PaulH On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:31 -1000, Thermal Wetland wrote: I would like to hire someone to help us tweak our asterisk system for Snom phones. We would like to enable things like: One touch

[asterisk-users] Melbourne Asterisk night

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Hales
Tomorrow night is the monthly Asterisk night...in melbourne (australia)... The usual stuff - get together, eat, show off tech toys. At the Pint on Punt, from 7pm. later, PaulH ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] [OT] wireless headphone that can answer a call?

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Hales
Snom make a headset box, which does the same thing. Far, far better than a lifter. PaulH On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 19:28 -0400, Mike wrote: If you want to avoid a mecanical lifter, the only option I know of is a Jabra GN9350 with a Polycom EHS (electronic hookswitch) cable. It came out only

Re: [asterisk-users] e164 Format Numbers

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Hales
I did some dialplan work with numbers starting with + (outlook) and from memory things like exten = +X.,1,Answer Seemed to work fine... PaulH Melb, Australia On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:25 +1000, Rod Bacon wrote: This is probably a very simple question, but I can’t for the life of me work it

Re: [asterisk-users] e164 Format Numbers

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Hales
) Paul Hales wrote: I did some dialplan work with numbers starting with + (outlook) and from memory things like exten = +X.,1,Answer Seemed to work fine... PaulH Melb, Australia On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:25 +1000, Rod Bacon wrote: This is probably a very simple question

[asterisk-users] echo on a B410p

2008-04-20 Thread Paul Hales
Any suggestions as to what improvements can be made with regards to echo cancellation on a B410p card... Ideas? PaulH ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: [asterisk-users] How to give user a prompt before connecting thecall

2008-04-01 Thread Paul Hales
parties at that point? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hales Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:34 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to give user a prompt before

Re: [asterisk-users] How to give user a prompt before connecting thecall

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Hales
It can be done via the 'visit a macro' part of the dial command... If anyone would like, i can post a code sample. PaulH On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:33 -0400, Dean Collins wrote: Yes it is. I'm remote at the moment so I can't send you the code but google for mobile remote receiver and you'll

Re: [asterisk-users] How to give user a prompt before connecting thecall

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Hales
, Jeremy Mann wrote: Please do! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:50 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How to give

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

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Hales
Can't you just use the same bootrom for all your polycom phones? PaulH On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:38 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

Re: [asterisk-users] EvolutionPBX from Intuitive Voice

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Hales
I thought you weren't going to let anyone know which Asterisk gui you were using? PaulH On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:25 -0500, Bill Andersen wrote: Is anyone on the list reselling (or just using) EvolutionPBX from Intuitive Voice Technologies?? If so, please contact me off list. Thanks.

Re: [asterisk-users] Menuselect?

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Hales
I have found 'make menuselect' useful to find out what is/isn't built and sometimes a hint as to why. PaulH On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:37 +1100, Rob Hillis wrote: Only if you're trying to compile Asterisk 1.2. Asterisk 1.4 also has the menuselect configuration, though for most applications

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Paul Hales
Have you tried setting the card as being T1 instead of E1 for the port connected to the channel bank? PaulH On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:33 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: Any luck with the channel bank? Thanks for the reminder Paul but so far no luck. I have been getting: 1) ***

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-25 Thread Paul Hales
I think you can set callerid's in zaptel.conf for each analog port - I did that for a client a while ago. (from memory) PaulH On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:53 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: Good to here, I know the time off set US - AU is terrible when you need support. I have continued to

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS channel banks

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Hales
Any luck with the channel bank? PaulH On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 18:09 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: 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

Re: [asterisk-users] Menuselect?

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Hales
Which version of Asterisk are you compiling? PaulH On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 21:47 -0400, Kyle Gibbons wrote: Hi, I hope this is not too much of a noob question. I am trying to compile Asterisk and I cannot figure out how to get into the Menuselect menu. I do #make clean #./configure #make

Re: [asterisk-users] FYI about my Mona Vie business venture

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Hales
I believe it is being merged into Asterisk 1.6, as it is a new feature. PaulH On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:28 -0400, Drew Gibson wrote: Does it work with Asterisk 1.2? BerkHolz, Steven wrote: Asterisk work does not pay all of my bills, so I have joined up with a company that has a very

Re: [asterisk-users] Call Screening feature using asterisk

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Hales
Have you looked at the privacymanager function in Asterisk? PaulH On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 10:31 +0530, Janu Mukherjee wrote: Hi, I have our software with SIP running on it.I configured asterisk server as proxy. How do I implement the call screening features(incoming and outgoing) using

Re: [asterisk-users] Call All

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Hales
Paging works fine on the snom handsets - call all can be a problem, especially if you don't want to key all the phones in manually. (but I do have a rough memory of a script that did that...) What are you looking at doing? PaulH On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 09:32 +1100, Rupert Utteridge -

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Hales
Our office PABX is a via low heat pc, with an ISDN10 and 15 IP handsets. It gets regularly used and abused by us linux idiots in the office, and runs like a charm. We test software on it, write silly dialplans and generally treat it badly. It could not be described as 'server grade' by any

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk ready for Prime-Time?

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Hales
I think some people here (like myself) started off as Asterisk users, then moved on to helping other people with their Asterisk systems. Which makes sense - once your Asterisk box is running well, why not share how nice your work is/was? PaulH On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 16:38 -0500, Bill

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