Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Terry, People are doing this kind of thing, but I am not. I don't know quite how they do it. Hopefully someone will pipe in with a wonderful solution :-) Regards, Steve Terry Goodwin wrote: Damn! :-( Now that I have spandsp working on my * I was going to try and get it working with hylafax.

Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle?

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Stingel wrote: Not to mention that the Digium T1/E1 cards are about 1/5 the cost of Dialogic's. That said, it should be noted that the Dialogic cards allow scaling to a much larger size within one chassis, thanks to heavy DSP horsepower helping out with the low level chores. The Dialogic

Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle?

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Jason Williams wrote: At 09:16 27/05/2004 -0500, you wrote: Maybe the time and effort would be better spent finding out why the Digium card won't work on the NTL's PRI and either fixing it or providing the information and testing facility to someone who can. NTL's PRI uses ISDN 85 not q931 so a

Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle?

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle? Scott Stingel wrote: Not to mention that the Digium T1/E1 cards are about 1/5 the cost of Dialogic's

Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle?

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
tim panton wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Jason Williams wrote: At 09:16 27/05/2004 -0500, you wrote: Maybe the time and effort would be better spent finding out why the Digium card won't work on the NTL's PRI and either fixing it or providing the information and testing facility to someone who can

Re: dialogic was RE: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asteriskhandle?

2004-05-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Stingel wrote: Hi Steve- Just briefly: I was mentioning the old days to illustrate what an even low clock rate DSP can do. More recently (2000-2001), using D/600's we were able to drive a large number of channels (8-12 E1's) for IVR. Ah, the D/600 - damned big heat sink, lots of heat,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion

2004-05-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lewis wrote: I appreciate all the support SpanDSP is getting on this list, and the work that went into developing it. It's nice to see that Asterisk actually supports sending and receiving faxes now. One thing I was expecting to see here is that HylaFax works with SpanDSP, but I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax/sandsp segfaulting asterisk

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Dan, Any just as with those others, the cure is the same. Don't use libtiff 3.6.1. Its fax image support is broken. Regards, Steve Dan Cunningham wrote: Like some others on the list spandsp is segfaulting asterisk when recieving a fax. I'm on debian testing/unstable with freshly checked out

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Terry, You could have tried following the instructions at fttp://www.opencall.org/instructions.html rather than guess how to build the software. :-) If you are using the latest CVS there is a build problem with app_rxfax and app_txfax. If you use the latest *stable* CVS it should build OK.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Remote Disconnects

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: Using the fxs_ls settings, the TE410P does not see when the remote side drops the call. Is em signaling a more reliable way to go? em signaling was designed years ago to address the problems that existed with loop start, so yes it is more reliable. Eh? EM predates loop

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Glare condition - How well does asterisk handle?

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Stingel wrote: A little more research on this: I found a Dialogic flow diagram that seems to indicate what happens when glare occurs on an IDSN line. So it looks like perhaps it can occur? Re-phrasing my original question: Does the asterisk PRI driver properly re-try an outgoing call that

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-24 Thread Steve Underwood
an obvious way to detect./observe these events? -Darren -- Darren Nickerson Senior Sales Support Engineer iFax Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.215.438.4638 +1.215.243.8335 (fax) - Original Message - From: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-24 Thread Steve Underwood
the frame slips you say we all have' ;-) -d -- Darren Nickerson Senior Sales Support Engineer iFax Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.215.438.4638 +1.215.243.8335 (fax) - Original Message - From: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-23 Thread Steve Underwood
://www.psknet.com 866.477.5638 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file Hi Troy, People had a lot of problems like

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-23 Thread Steve Underwood
receiving 1/3 pages from faxis ? who is a problems-) I Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Troy, People had a lot of problems like this with earlier versions of spandsp. However, the latest version is pretty solid, and people are using it in high volume production applications. If you are getting these bad results

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Mike, Your log seems to be incomplete. It stops in the middle of the call. Regards, Steve Mike Heininger wrote: Hi, I am trying to receive a fax with the spandsp library. The sending fax says success but there is no tiff file generated. I use exten = 7000,1,rxfax(/tmp/testfax.tif) in my

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Troy, People had a lot of problems like this with earlier versions of spandsp. However, the latest version is pretty solid, and people are using it in high volume production applications. If you are getting these bad results with the latest version I would be interested to see the audio log

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX generates no tiff file

2004-05-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Mike, How do you run rxfax? You problem is probably something to do with that. Your's is the first report I have had of no TIFF file whatsoever. Regards, Steve Mike Heininger wrote: Am 22.05.2004 um 20:09 schrieb Troy Settle: Dunno about not being able to generate a tiff, I got rxfax to do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] .gsm voice format

2004-05-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Sergio Serrano Revuelto wrote: Gsm is wav in 8/mono srsergio Oh, no it isn't Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fwd: [ISN] Voice Over IP Can Be Vulnerable To Hackers, Too

2004-05-14 Thread Steve Underwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks seem to have forgotten that the original hackers were hacking stable and secure traditional PBXs with captain crunch whistles! Mitnik ran wild through PBX's and mobille networks. Let's work to set up secure VOIP, but don't let anyone kid you about the golden

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 support

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Underwood
on what I can do to fix this problem? Looking forward to your responses. Regards, Jorge On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 22:58, Steve Underwood wrote: jorge verastegui wrote: Hi i have successfully downloaded and compiled libr2 from source. But i dont seem to find how to properly configure

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DASS2 support

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Peter Corlett wrote: My employer wants to use Asterisk, but the E1 circuit providing the current phone system is DASS2 rather than ISDN30. Converting the E1 to ISDN30 is not a practical proposition at this time as it'd stop the legacy phone system from working. Is there any sort of hardware

Re: [Asterisk-Users] g.729 - licenses and opinions

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:07, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: 17 years for software patents is FAR too long, IMO, but that's an entirely different story. IMO software patents shoudln't be for more than ~24 months since the industry moves so blazingly fast. I'm of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] g.729 - licenses and opinions

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Chinese DVD player makers can ship a player for $25. Of that, they pay up to $5 in IP royalties to foreign companies. The development of their own EVD standard was specifically to sidestep this burden. Patents do cause harmful splintering. We need stuff that interworks, far more than we need

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Low Bit Rate Codecs

2004-05-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, DTMF will not pass reliably through *any* low bit rate codec, with the exception of some forms of ADPCM. GSM certainly does not work. When a VoIP system is configured properly it works just like a cellular telephone system, which suffers the same problem. It doesn't send the DTMF tones.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Low Bit Rate Codecs

2004-05-10 Thread Steve Underwood
brian k. west wrote: nasty. The higher rate (6.something kbps) sounds more reasonable. Using 30ms blocks, it is not so compatible with *, which is geared to 20ms block processing. A lost packet causes a 30ms hole, so it tends to be less tolerant of packet loss than something working in smaller

Re: [Asterisk-Users] 729 licence on scsi

2004-05-08 Thread Steve Underwood
Jeremy McNamara wrote: Togan Muftuoglu wrote: and what will happen if the box has more than one ethernet card Mark is smarter than Voiceagehe will make it work. Jeremy McNamara That isn't saying much. The village idiot is smarter than VoiceAge. :-) Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Low Bit Rate Codecs

2004-05-08 Thread Steve Underwood
Craig wrote: Greetings all, I have searched all over and have found bits and pieces on low bit rate codecs, however I have found it very difficult to compare apples with apples. The conclusions I have come to are as follows, I would appreciate if anyone has some feedback, or point me to where I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can Asterisk support R2 signaling

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Bartosz Jozwiak wrote: Hi All: I'm a newbee to Asterisk. I currently working on a project and want to know if Asterisk does support R2 Signaling. Thanks Begra8fl Yes I think so. But you have to download libr2 and compile it, if I am not mistaken. You are mistaken. Regards,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] D/41 ESC dialogic ISA CARD

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Underwood
This is not a duplex card. It won't work with * Regards, Steve Alejandro Acosta wrote: Hello, I just wanted to know if any of you has successfully (or know about) installed the Dialogic 4xFXs ISA CARD D/41 ESC? Does it work with *?, if so, how is the driver called? Thanks a lot for your

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TxFax/SpanDSP problems

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Most Canon models seem to be working OK. Serge's Canon drops the line every time during negotiation, as though it has decided spandsp doesn't support compatible capabilities. It is not clear why this is happening, though. The modes which spandsp is asking to use are the most widely used ones.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] D/41 ESC dialogic ISA CARD

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Technology, Inc. Palo Alto California London England www.evtmedia.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] D/41 ESC dialogic ISA CARD

Re: [Asterisk-Users] libspandsp.so.0

2004-04-18 Thread Steve Underwood
If you used the default build and install configuration it will install the library in /usr/local/lib. Is that in yout library paths? Regards, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I successfully compiled installed the spandsp-0.0.1k.tar.gz modules for faxing and patched the asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel 536ep as a FXO?

2004-04-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: [...] Not at all. Any of the channel banks I've tested have better echo and audio quality than the X100P. I believe it comes down to the Part68 interface being better able to accomodate different lines but YMMV. I have never had decent results with an X100P. All of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Line install.. (UK Muppet)

2004-04-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: When we had a MCI ct1, they couldn't send us proper supervised hangup on a loopstart encoded DS0. They claimed it to be a problem with the software on their switch. Their solution was to switch to groundstart. Our end solution was to drop them and switch to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Strange T1 Problem - FIXED plus new question

2004-04-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Mike Machado wrote: cvs HEAD did infact fix the ringing problem. Thanks Eric! I have another question for all you T1 buffs out there. The T1 I am working with goes into our local phone switch (Excel switch). Currently we are using E M Wink signaling. The problem is we cannot set callerid on the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers Revisited

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Some people have some really wacky ideas about how sampled systems work :-) Regards, Steve Michael Welter wrote: Just when I thought I couldn't be wrong, I was wrong. We have woodpeckers that drill into the arial telephone cables, and water seeps through the holes and partially grounds the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P and NTL (ex Cable + Wireless)

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Stephen Davies wrote: Hi Alex, Indeed the call end termination doesn't work on an NTL line. I'm not so sure it works too well on other lines either. I did some work a while back to add detection of the UK busy/hangup signal on the line, but I never got it working well enough to depend on it.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] CallerID in Australia

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Duane wrote: Adam Goryachev wrote: I am in Australia, which I think expects callerid at a different time to other countries Although other people have told me callerid is working correctly for them Forgot to mention there is a patch for this, but it won't patch cleanly against current

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers Revisited

2004-04-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Michael, I tried to reply to your prive e-mail, but it seems like your mail service blacklists the whole of Hong Kong. :-\ Regards, Steve Michael Welter wrote: Just when I thought I couldn't be wrong, I was wrong. We have woodpeckers that drill into the arial telephone cables, and water

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADPCM 4-bit, 6 kHz

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Underwood
Critchfield wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:49, Steve Underwood wrote: Why do people get this uncontrollable urge to post, when the don't know the correct answer? :-) Having the absolute correct answer isn't always important if it steers the requester in the right direction of self

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADPCM 4-bit, 6 kHz

2004-04-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Why do people get this uncontrollable urge to post, when the don't know the correct answer? :-) Regards, Steve Leo Ann Boon wrote: I think that's the IMA ADCPM format. Steve Underwood wrote: Yves Chouinard wrote: I found some posts regarding this issue dating of September 2003, but no real

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADPCM 4-bit, 6 kHz

2004-04-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Yves Chouinard wrote: I found some posts regarding this issue dating of September 2003, but no real answer. The ADPCM format supported by Asterisk (the .vox files) is 4-bit, 8 kHz. I need 4-bit, 6 kHz, which is also a widespread Dialogic format, to help migration. Is there an existing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] European and/or US DTMF Tones?

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Angus Berry wrote: My business is somewhat trans-atlantic. Does anyone know if Asterisk's DTMF processing is: a) European OR US b) European AND US c) It's hardware dependent you fool. d) here's a better answer thanks :-) The DTMF specs vary between countries, but not in ways that really

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp cvs access

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Alex Volkov wrote: That would be great. Steve, please also consider using sourceforge.net to host the project. Alex. OK, I considered it. No. Steve, first thanks for the great work (especially the bugfixes). As development on SoftFAX/spandsp is especially fast and from the source it appears

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp - txfax

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Alex, Alex Zarubin wrote: Hi Steve and all, 1. Faxing from asterisk back to the same asterisk (from one Zap channel to another) doesn't work for us. Txfax called with the 'caller' parameter issues CED, while the receiving side needs CNG in order to switch to fax extension

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp - txfax

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Alex, Alex Zarubin wrote: Hi Steve and all, 1. Faxing from asterisk back to the same asterisk (from one Zap channel to another) doesn't work for us. Txfax called with the 'caller' parameter issues CED, while the receiving side needs CNG in order

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: RxFax/spandsp: not disconnecting

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Reynaldo Simbulan wrote: Hi Steve, I am having this problem in which RxFax is still holding the file after receiving a complete fax. Somehow the zap channel is still active but on the fax client it was sent successfully. If you call the line it is still busy. There are disconnect issues if

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hot plug PCI?

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Laird wrote: On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Nicolas Bougues wrote: - hardware : you must have hotplug capable boards and bus. I believe the only option there is CompactPCI, and of course cPCI boards and chassis are very different from your day-to-day PCI stuff. Of course Digium

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: RxFax/spandsp: not disconnecting

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Reynaldo Simbulan wrote: Hi Steve, I am having this problem in which RxFax is still holding the file after receiving a complete fax. Somehow the zap channel is still active but on the fax client it was sent successfully. If you call the line it is still busy. spandsp-0.0.1k.tar.gz and updated

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp - txfax

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Alex, Alex Zarubin wrote: Hi Steve and all, 1. Faxing from asterisk back to the same asterisk (from one Zap channel to another) doesn't work for us. Txfax called with the 'caller' parameter issues CED, while the receiving side needs CNG in order to switch to fax extension

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Rob, The modem training is not even close to correct. It looks like the FAX software is not seeing good audio from the FAX machine. However, it might be a strange problem in my modem software. The way to investigate something like this is to look in spandsp-0.0.1/src/t30.c The first line

[Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, spandsp-0.0.1h.tar.gz seemed to get a lot more FAX machines talking, but a number of people are getting rather high error rates on the images. spandsp-0.0.1i.tar.gz addresses this, and should give much better bit error rates for fax machines whose timing at the extremes the spec

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Underwood wrote: Hi all, spandsp-0.0.1h.tar.gz seemed to get a lot more FAX machines talking, but a number of people are getting rather high error rates on the images. spandsp-0.0.1i.tar.gz addresses this, and should give much better bit error rates for fax machines whose timing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi James, James Golovich wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Florian Overkamp wrote: gcc -O2 -g -Iinclude -I../include -c -o app_rxfax.o app_rxfax.c In file included from /usr/local/include/spandsp.h:40, from app_rxfax.c:29: /usr/local/include/spandsp/arctan2.h: In function

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Eric Wieling wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:33, Steve Underwood wrote: exten = 5678,1,txfax(/tmp/testfax.tif|caller) There are a zillion fax and tiff formats. I'm trying to figure out what output format I should tell GhostScript to use. Any suggestions on which format to try

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Reynaldo, The is the only report of seg faults I have had with recent versions of spandsp. There was an older version (spandsp-0.0.1b I think) which had a silly bug that caused seg faults. Some people have had older versions of libtiff installed, which seem to cause seg faults. If you are

[Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, My SoftFAX is now up to spandsp-0.0.1h.tar.gz. This version has a number of changes in the way the V.29 modem works. It also has some missing functionality in the T.30 implementation filled in - it was not handling EOM messages. The previous version failed for several reasons with a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Alex Zarubin wrote: Hi Steve, We've got VFX/40ESC and VFX/40ESC plus, tried both. Can send faxes from our platform to your system if it helps. After this problem is (hopefully) solved we are going to try FaxLab http://www.qualitylogic.com/genoa_test_tools/fax/faxlab.html Do you know of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Alex Zarubin wrote: Hi Steve, We've got VFX/40ESC and VFX/40ESC plus, tried both. Can send faxes from our platform to your system if it helps. I have been testing with a VFX/40ESC. There is a chunk of the T.30 spec I forgot to implement. I am adding it now. However, the biggest problem with

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Ah. That is a bug. audiofile.h should not be included by any of the library source files. It should be fixed in the next update. Regards, Steve Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 18:26, Steve Underwood wrote: Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:10, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Softfax problems

2004-03-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Jon, It seems spandsp sees nothing meaningful from the remote modem, although the remote modem seems to see the initial message from spandsp. You are the first to report this. I have no idea what might be wrong. If spandsp received any kind of noise from the other end it would at least show

[Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, If you have had trouble with multiple concurrent channels running app_rxfax or ap_txfax, where was a silly bug. Updated versions are available at ftp://ftp.opencall.org/pub/spandsp The latest spandsp-0.0.1f seems to working for quite a lot of people. I guess there will still be plenty

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:10, Steve Underwood wrote: I have received more excellent problem report information, and I have resolved a number of issues affecting my soft FAX machine when working with various models of real FAX machine. The code now seems to be working

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Underwood
, Line 1744 (ast_pbx_run): Extension 8663222818, priority 1 returned normally even though call was hung up Thank you. Alex Zarubin Webley Systems -Original Message- From: Steve Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

[Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spandsp

2004-03-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I have received more excellent problem report information, and I have resolved a number of issues affecting my soft FAX machine when working with various models of real FAX machine. The code now seems to be working with a much greater range of fax machines. A problem affecting the

[Asterisk-Users] SoftFAX/spndsp

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I have investigated some more fax machines that did not work with spandsp, and made it more tolerant. ftp://ftp.opencall.org/pub/spandsp/spandsp-0.0.1c.tar.gz is the result. From what I have seen in today's investigations, I think this one will work with considerably more quirky fax

[Asterisk-Users] Softfax/spandsp

2004-03-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, It seems this week's release of spandsp fixed the major problems in the previous release, but still people have had a lot of trouble. Working with some of those who tried the software and gave me good feedback, I have identified some apparently common bugs in fax machines, and I have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] about voice conference system. I need suggests

2004-03-16 Thread Steve Underwood
wangji wrote: That's what Intel want to do, too. They guys have released a hardware emulation software works like an four channel IP board. And they want to use only interface board + host CPU instead of Dialogic products, so that they needn't use DSP etc. Have you actually tried playing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Most common CODEC

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Michael Shuler wrote: G.729 is just about everywhere. A lot of boxes use G.723 (and/or G.726) too but G.729 ends up with about the same quality but at a much lower bit rate. That's wrong. G.723 has the lowest bit rate amongst those codecs. Most inexpensive hard phones don't use G.723 because

Re: [Asterisk-Users] windows alternitives to Asterisk?

2004-03-08 Thread Steve Underwood
hank smith wrote: hello I am just curious if there is any windows alternitives to Asterisk? can I also use them with free world dialup? thanks hank No, but maybe you could port Asterisk to Windows. No, that's not a joke. The Zaptel drivers might be tough, but Asterisk's VoIP features would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic supported well?

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Scott Stingel wrote: If you'll be running commercial apps, I would recommend that you do a lot of testing, especially load testing, with the types of applications you'll be running. Dialogic boards, although incredibly expensive, do have lots of horsepower built in for the purposes of encoding

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SRTP: followup

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Underwood
If you want a freely usable implementation of SRTP look at srtp.sourceforge.net. Regards, Steve John Todd wrote: I have found few VoIP clients that support encryption. The only one that comes to mind is the Zultys devices (they have a softphone and a hardphone that support SRTP.) I spoke

Re: [Asterisk-Users] DPNSS and Asterisk

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Robert Boardman wrote: Hi Just one question do any of the Digium T1/E1 cards do DPNSS signaling? Robb Just one answer. No. :-( Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ISDN

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Jason Penton wrote: Hi all Does anyone know where I can get hold of the German 1TR6 ISDN signalling protocol specification. Thanks Jason Is that still used? I thought they were 100% CTR4 these days. Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Brazilian Protocol

2004-03-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Amaury Jacquot wrote: Daniel Bichara wrote: Hi Alex, Alex G Robertson wrote: Hi all, I would like to have some information about your TE410p and TE405p cards compatibility with telephony protocols adopted in Brazil. - When in E1 mode, does it support R2 DIGITAL MFC 5C ? You need a R2

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Pingtel Opensource PBX Announcement

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Underwood
WipeOut wrote: This is an interesting statement in the press release.. SIPxchange, the industrys first open source based enterprise communications suite, is grounded in the concept that a community of ideas provides a more fertile ground for innovation, progress and product development. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A missing argument

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Dave Cotton wrote: Just done a cvs checkout on 2 different machines 1 running Mandrake 9.2 with a 2.4.25 kernel the other Mandrake 10.0 and 2.6.3 the most 10.0 fails at this point chan_zap.c: In function `handle_init_r2_event': chan_zap.c:4773: error: too few arguments to function `zt_new'

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dual Xeon

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Costa Tsaousis wrote: Also I would turn off Hyperthreading (in the bios). It may cause problems. What problems? Are these digium H/W specific, asterisk specific or generaly Linux problems? I don't know if The HT problems are generic, or something quirky in the Zaptel drivers. However, if

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Chris Albertson wrote: Get a spectrum analizer. Software will do it. Record the humming connetion to a file and then run it through software that plots a power spectrum. THere is plent of good open source software. Even some audio file ditors have this feature. You should be able to see the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Greg Hill wrote: My first thought was an RC filter, too. But I'd suggest that 500 Hz is too high a cutoff, because a note like a middle C is 256 Hz. I don't think it's uncommon for a voice (especially a male voice) to be in that range frequently. Although (in English, at least) vowels generally

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Chris Albertson wrote: --- Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A power spectrum plot will tell him he has a 60Hz hum. I think he already knows that. I think he can definitely consider solutions without following your suggestion. :-) No, It's not a 60Hz hum. Yes, 60Hz is getting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
The left hand pedal on a church organ is around 16Hz. Below that things don't really sound like tones any more. Regards, Steve Matt Lawson wrote: The low B string on a 5-string bass guitar is approx. 31 Hz A power spectrum plot will tell him he has a 60Hz hum. I think he already knows

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: Notching may not be that effective, as it will not deal with the harmonics. The analogue to digital converter should already be filtering below 300Hz, so you probably have quite a lot of hum if it 300Hz is pretty high to filter out... it's still well within the rage

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Not Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Jose Quinteiro wrote: I live at sea level, and have never seen a woodpecker going at any telco equipment, but have a 60Hz hum on my POTS line through my Adtran 750. It goes away if I pick up the telephone I have cross-connected on the same line. Could it be the same problem (i.e., tip-ring

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Michael, Michael Welter wrote: I live at 8000' in the Rockies. We have lots of woodpeckers--they especially love to drill 4 holes in the north side of my house. They also like to drill on the arial telephone cables. Water then gets into the cable and causes a partial grounding on the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cell Phones and Tone Recognition

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Brian, DTMF from a cell phone is rather different from DTMF from a land line, but not in any way that usually makes a difference. The cell phone codecs cannot carry DTMF properly, so the phone tells the base station, by a message, that a particular key is being pressed. The base station

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Analogical FXO vs. BRI dialing speed

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 07:39, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: When dialing out, will a call be established significantly faster by an ISDN adapter such as an Eicon Diva server compared to an analogical FXO such as Digium's X100P ? Analog, nothing logical there. ISDN

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voip in the EU

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Iain Stevenson wrote: The problem with the Ofcom consultation as I see it is that it seems to be regressive wrt to the position now being taken by the FCC. There are probably not many more than 250,000 VoB users worldwide so now is not the time to impose significant market constraints. Why do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic D300SC-E1

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Alessio Focardi wrote: Hello Jeremy, Anyone can help me starting the card ? JM List it on http://www.ebay.com/ and take the proceeds and purchase a JM Digium E100P card. It has been my first tought but guess what ? E100P is not CE certified and I'm fearing legal problems

[Asterisk-Users] GSM modems

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, I am interested in interfacing a GSM modem to *. I've seen a few comments about doing this, but I'm not clear whether people have actually made it work. I've used GSM modems for various data jobs, mostly high volume SMS (no, not nasty marketing stuff - high volume solicited SMS :-) )

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Has Nufone gone belly-up

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Don Feuer wrote: Hi Everybody, In regards to what I see here, this looks like a whole .com flash back. I started a phone company that went belly up (CentreCom, the first Unified Communications company) because of customer service issues, lack of on-line information, and a lack of caring for the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2004 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications The correct tone is 400*17 (383 + 417) according to the ITU specs. Actually, nothing would use a 17Hz tone

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Steve Underwood wrote: Actually, nothing would use a 17Hz tone - it doesn't pass through a 300-3400Hz channel very well :-) It's not a 17Hz tone. Australian (and others) tones are single-frequency tones that are amplitude-modulated

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bluetooth discussions

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Don, A large number of GSM phones and PDAs now have bluetooth. It looks likely that through 2004 the majority of GSM phones anywhere above entry level will have Bluetooth. My guess is that this will collapse in 2005, and bluetooth will be dead soon after. In the meantime, I don't seem many

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: Hi Steve, Interesting... I'm not sure! My copy of the original indications.conf had 400+17, and looking at the wiki it's the same there also http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20indications%20defaul t I tested 400*17 and it made a difference, but I still

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 or EM for E1 CAS pbx to pbx link

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
the developer of libr2, Steve Underwood to comment on this. its his code he knows best. Please comment I keep commenting, and nobody seems to listen. libr2 is a half implemented useless piece of rubbish. The real working R2 is not available from me just yet. Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Martin Pycko wrote: You have to contact www.openss7.org. The site may look dead but they sell ss7 together with asterisk. Yes and no. The sell access to the SS7 CVS. It does not work with Asterisk. There is a project page about OpenSS7 - Asterisk integration, but it is a project that never

Re: [Asterisk-Users] I got it (was: Cisco 7940 with asterisk)

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Jan Czmok wrote: Michael Devenijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan, Where can we get any technical documentation about sccp protocol i've searched with google and at cisco but i don't find anything useful ... The only useful resource is imagination :-) Skinny is a Protocol developed by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T400P / T100P with Hong Kong IDA-P Lines

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi David, David Liu wrote: Hi there, Anyone had any success deploying Asterisk with a T100P or T400P card in Hong Kong? To my understanding, Hong Kong carriers only provide IDA-P or IDA-M lines. I am looking to use IDA-P. Is this possible with the card? I know Cisco 2651XMV with a VIC

<    5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   >