[Asterisk-Users] Automatic setup of calls between two external lines

2005-07-26 Thread Rob Scott
Is it possible to automatically set up a call between two external lines? I would like Asterisk is call a cellphone number, wait for it to answer, and then call another cellphone, when that answers connect the two together. I assume it is possible but can someone point me how to do it. Thanks.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] IAX2 attempts native bridge when notransfer=yes

2005-07-22 Thread Rob Scott
This comment comes up fairly regularly and is confusing people. Why doesn't it say that it failed so we know? The way it is now it kind of leaves you hanging there and you don't know if the transfer happened or not. And why was it even attempted if it is obvious that transfer is off? (I know it

[Asterisk-Users] IAX over HTTP

2005-07-21 Thread Rob Scott
For work environments where you only get HTTP or HTTPS access, what is the feasibility of doing IAX over HTTP? I have heard of projects such as stunnel. Has anyone tried something like this? I did a quick search but didn't come up with much. ___

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: IAX over HTTP

2005-07-21 Thread Rob Scott
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: IAX over HTTP HTTP uses TCP. Too much overhead. Add SSL on to that and you have a huge amount of overhead. The end result would be poor and choppy sound quality. Jason On 21/07/05 21:58 +0200, Rob Scott wrote: For work environments where you only get HTTP or HTTPS

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with DTFM and complex international setup

2005-07-12 Thread Rob Scott
: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with DTFM and complex international setup Do you think this might have an impact on http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=4631? Mark On 7/3/05, Mohit Muthanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right... that's the one. My mistake.On 7/1/05, Rob Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[Asterisk-Users] Problem with DTFM and complex international setup

2005-07-01 Thread Rob Scott
We have some guys working in the US who can't always dial back to our company in Europe easily (lots of clients require authorization to make international calls), so I set up the following: - ipkall.com number links to a FWD number - office Asterisk box registers with FWD Then I

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with DTFM and complex international setup

2005-07-01 Thread Rob Scott
Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with DTFM and complex international setup Try compiling Asterisk with RELAX_DTMF (See Makefile). Mohit. On 7/1/05, Rob Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have some guys working in the US who can't always dial back to our company in Europe easily (lots

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to Configure a H323 Phone (newbie here)

2005-07-01 Thread Rob Scott
I would also be interested. I've tried several times unsuccessfully to set up H323 with Asterisk. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adeel -31Sent: 01 July 2005 23:32To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [Asterisk-Users] How to Configure a H323 Phone

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Debugging zaphfc + PBX integration

2005-04-15 Thread Rob Scott
If you your board into an ISDN wall socket and it works then you are acting as a terminal so you are in terminal mode. Now, how are you connecting to the PBX? If you are connecting to an ISDN extension on the PBX, then still you have to match the kind of connection, whether it is point-2-point or

RE: [Asterisk-Users] cannot dial two phones using zap

2005-04-14 Thread Rob Scott
Looks normal to me. What Dial with the '' means is that both lines ring, but the first one to answer is connected on the call. From you trace it looks like Zap/3-1 which is your number 206 answered the call, so the other line goes to hangup. The Dial with '' is used to implement call teams where

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Acceptable voice time delay

2005-04-12 Thread Rob Scott
Around 250ms max. Over that and you will have the walkie-talkie effect you are experiencing. So with you 600ms delay you are way over the top. There is also the delay on the call on the PSTN side you have to take into account. For example, I am in Europe and making a call to the UK via Voipjet is

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Zap - What is going on?

2005-04-04 Thread Rob Scott
For a start it should be ${EXTEN} You have to realize that ALL variables look like that. Dollar-open-curly-brackets-variablename-close-curly-brackets. So it didn't see your text as a variable and it tried to call the number $EXTEN on Zap/g2. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[Asterisk-Users] LDAP and Asterisk

2005-04-01 Thread Rob Scott
I am looking to roll out an Asterisk VoIP implementation to our 200 employees. So far I have hooked up the Asterisk box to our Elmeg PBX via a PRI interface card and have that working, plus about 30 test users on Xlite softphones. Up til now all the configuration has been done by hand editing

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Does IAX supports silence suppression?

2005-03-25 Thread Rob Scott
Short answer is no. You should always turn it off on any client you have. Longer answer is that is is being worked on and should be available any day now (although that has been the case for some months). Also someone is working on porting it to SIP as well as IAX2. No idea if the new work will

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Zaphfc + PRI card problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rob Scott
over time especially with answering calls, with the zaphfc drivers before. A reboot usually cures it for a while, but it would be great if such a thing wasn't needed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rob Scott Sent: Wed 3/23/2005 7:39 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing

[Asterisk-Users] Zaphfc + PRI card problem

2005-03-23 Thread Rob Scott
I have the latest bristuff, a zaphfc card for external calls and a PRI card for connecting to a PBX as a channel bank. With a BRI I would expect to be able to have two incoming calls going at the same time, but when I try it, one call connects and the other gives the following console message, a

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Voice getting cutoff

2005-03-19 Thread Rob Scott
Looking at that list, the easiest way would be to disable all your USB ports in your BIOS, reboot and see if the card has its own IRQ. Assuming you don't need USB. In general, just turn off all the things you don't need that use IRQs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Goto and E1 line

2005-03-19 Thread Rob Scott
You should have set up the two cards as zaptel as a different group in the zapata.conf. Then if you want to dial your pbx you are dialing out of Asterisk, so you use the Dial command. Assuming that the PBX PRI link is in group 2 in zapata.conf Something like: exten =

[Asterisk-Users] Any 24 (or 30) way FXS PCI cards?

2005-03-19 Thread Rob Scott
It seems to me silly to have a T1/E1 card to connect to a channel bank when you could just have a 24/30 way FXS card in the slot in the first place. Does such a thing exist? Wouldn't Digium have a lot of customers if they could produce one for say $1000 retail?

[Asterisk-Users] Rhino channel banks

2005-03-14 Thread Rob Scott
Anyone have any experience with the Rhino T1 channel bank? It looks very cost effective at around $1300 for 24 lines but I haven't seen it mentioned on the Asterisk list yet. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

RE: [Asterisk-Users] TE110P experiance

2005-03-11 Thread Rob Scott
I have noticed the following: - the PCI ID of the card seems to change over time which means that loading the module does not always recognise the card, only way to reset this is to power cycle the machine - you cannot unload the module once it is loaded, it hangs the machine, which also

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk provides ring tone?

2005-03-08 Thread Rob Scott
I have an Asterisk box with TE110P PRI connected in net mode to a PBX. Both are PRI EuroISDN. The connection seems to work OK but when calling from Asterisk to the PBX through an Xten, the Xten client does not get a ringing tone when the PBX phone rings. Is it possible to set this up? Is there

[Asterisk-Users] Why Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression?

2005-02-16 Thread Rob Scott
OK I have to ask. Why is it that Asterisk can't cope with silence suppression? All the clients seem to be able to but not Asterisk. What would be needed to get it to work with silence suppression? What is the problem? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

[Asterisk-Users] zaphfc buffer underflow/overflow messages

2005-02-16 Thread Rob Scott
I get a ton of these messages, a pair every 4 or 5 mins. Is it a problem? I am wondering where they come from and if they are important. I have a zaphfc card running in TE mode connected to a PBX. Feb 16 20:23:04 epbw202 kernel: zaphfc: b channel buffer underrun on card 0 Feb 16

[Asterisk-Users] Using zaphfc and wcte11xp at the same time problem

2005-02-16 Thread Rob Scott
I am having problems loading the zaphfc from bristuff and wcte11xp drivers at the same time. If I load zaphfc then all works fine. If I then load wcte11xp, the card using the zaphfc doesn't pick up calls anymore. I am using bristuff 0.2.0-RC5. Anyone else seen this problem, know of a fix, or can

RE: [Asterisk-Users] X-Lite Softphone

2005-02-15 Thread Rob Scott
Turn of Silence Supression. If you have already done that then I think you are having the usual Xlite - Asterisk experience. At least I have the same problems with it. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

[Asterisk-Users] HFC-S and TE110P at the same time

2005-02-15 Thread Rob Scott
I guess it is possible to have an HFC-S card and a Digium TE110P card working at the same time? The TE110P will work in E1 mode. I think the zaptel.conf is probably right but the zapata.conf not (I just tacked on another group at the end but I don't really know what I am doing). Can anyone help?

RE: [Asterisk-Users] jitterbuffers - suggested settings

2005-02-08 Thread Rob Scott
Any idea when that is likely to be ready? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joachim Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] jitterbuffers - suggested

RE: [Asterisk-Users] jitterbuffers - suggested settings

2005-02-08 Thread Rob Scott
Apparantly the new one will do things like interpolation so that if packets are lost it will generate new ones to fill the gap. The current jitterbuffer doesn't do that so you get silence on packet loss. There are a bunch of other features too that I don't remember, but that was the most

RE: [Asterisk-Users] zaphfc

2005-02-07 Thread Rob Scott
I am also interested in sound quality with respect to the zaphfc drivers. What is your physical setup? Where are you listening for the noise? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corvin Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 7:54 PM To: Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Bristuff and incoming call problems

2005-02-04 Thread Rob Scott
I have exactly the same problem. It was also the same with RC3. It seems that after a couple of days of working fine, at some point incoming calls fail but outgoing calls still work (or I would hear user complaints earlier). For the lack of ring problem, I do the following in extensions.conf:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Odd behaviour between Grandstream and Xlite

2005-02-04 Thread Rob Scott
I allow them to us any codec except speex (which seems to crash Asterisk when used from an Xlite). But it would be good if the user could choose their preferred codec because with a softphone on a laptop sometimes you are on a connection with good bandwidth to Asterisk and sometimes somewhere

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Bristuff and incoming call problems

2005-02-04 Thread Rob Scott
:) Are these bugs known at Junghanns? On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Rob Scott wrote: I have exactly the same problem. It was also the same with RC3. It seems that after a couple of days of working fine, at some point incoming calls fail but outgoing calls still work (or I would hear user complaints earlier

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0.5-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC5 caller id?

2005-02-03 Thread Rob Scott
I use pritrustusercid = no In zapata.conf and then it seems to work. No idea if it is a bug or not or if this is a proper solution. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Barende Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:11 PM To: Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0.5-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC5 caller id?

2005-02-03 Thread Rob Scott
Also just adding callerid=asreceived To zapata.conf also seems to work. Works for local or national calls where I am. I don't know about international calls. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Barende Sent: Tuesday, February 01,

[Asterisk-Users] Odd behaviour between Grandstream and Xlite

2005-02-03 Thread Rob Scott
Hi, I've got an Asterisk box with grandstream and xlite clients on it. No here's the thing: - I grey out all the codecs on the Xlite except for GSM - I call the Grandstream from the Xlite, the Xlite uses the GSM codec and the Grandstream uses ulaw, with Asterisk doing the conversion,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Odd behaviour between Grandstream and Xlite

2005-02-03 Thread Rob Scott
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:26 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Odd behaviour between Grandstream and Xlite Hi, I've got an Asterisk box with grandstream

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Soft phone sound quality help

2005-01-28 Thread Rob Scott
I've tried setting the QoS settings on the card and using the Microsoft QoS packet scheduler, in all combinations, but no changes. I don't think these applications use QoS anyway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Adamson Sent: Friday,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Re: New Firefly version

2005-01-27 Thread Rob Scott
Also sound quality seems to be poor using the ULAW codec. I am using: - latest Firefly on Windows XP SP2 - Asterisk 1.0.5 patched coupled with Bristuff-0.2.0-RC5 with Florz patch for zaphfc - Linux kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 Fedora Core 3 (obviously) - connecting to FWD dialing 411 info

[Asterisk-Users] Soft phone sound quality help

2005-01-27 Thread Rob Scott
Anyone got any tips on improving sound quality on soft phones running under Window XP SP2? I have tried Xlite, SJPhone and Firefly. They all seem to have significant sound quality problems. We have a reasonable sized network of several hundred devices connected together using Layer 2 switches,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] zaphfc no callerid incoming to SIP phone butvisible in logfile

2005-01-24 Thread Rob Scott
Try commenting out the line pritrustusercid = yes Or set it to 'no'. That worked for me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:18 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion

RE: [Asterisk-Users] chan_misdn 0.0.3-rc5 - new release ! Please testit.

2005-01-21 Thread Rob Scott
What are the advantages in using mISDN over other solutions? If I knew why it was a good idea (like does it have better sound quality than alternatives?) then I would put the time in to test it, and also improve the Wiki. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[Asterisk-Users] Poor sound quality on ISDN BRI calls

2005-01-20 Thread Rob Scott
I've been struggling with connection Asterisk to ISDN BRI lines for a while. I have it working with the latest bristuff and compatible Asterisk version: Asterisk 1.0.3-BRIstuffed-0.2.0-RC3a I am using a cheap Centronics ISDN card and the zaphfc drivers. It works but users complain that the

[Asterisk-Users] Sound quality poor everywhichway

2005-01-20 Thread Rob Scott
I am hoping someone is going to bite on the sound quality issue. I have Asterisk connected via a Conceptronics HFC-S card to an Elmeg ICT880 PBX internal extension line. Running Asterisk 1.0.3 and latest Bristuff. I have firefly and Xlite clients running on Windows XP. Calls between Xlites

[Asterisk-Users] Is an unregistered phone busy?

2005-01-18 Thread Rob Scott
Asterisk seems to regard an unregistered phone to be busy. Is that correct? Is not an unregistered phone unavailable? It is odd to me that if someone dials an unregistered extension, then the dialplan jumps to busy and voicemail kicks in saying that the person is on the phone, when clearly they

[Asterisk-Users] Sounds cut out problem - HFC-S card, zaphfc, Xlite

2005-01-11 Thread Rob Scott
channel in case it is too quiet. Nothing so far has helped. Calling directly through the PBX from a normal extension phone doesn't seem to have any problems. Anyone have any idea what I should look at? Thanks Rob Scott EPAM Systems Ltd. ___ Asterisk-Users

[Asterisk-Users] Problems with Devkit Lite setup

2003-10-10 Thread Rob Scott
At one point I did have this kit working but since upgrading to the latest Asterisk, it no longer seems to. I had the following problems after several reinstallations: - USB adaptor had a proper dialtone, asterisk recognised the pickup, but pressing keys on the handset had no effect - USB

RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE:911, networks of * servers, etc. (was: VOIP Dialtone?)

2003-08-22 Thread Rob Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Todd Sent: 21 August 2003 21:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RE:911, networks of * servers, etc. (was: VOIP Dialtone?) Yes, I'm familiar with the E911 platforms and their