Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-16 Thread Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
Peter Svensson wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hardware, possible. Unlikely to be cabling. It's usually a timing setting. The blue alarm is really a very specific alarm condition normally. It cannot quite see how it can be generated accidentally. Something along the pat

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-15 Thread Geoff Manning
Now that I've looked back over my work for the past few days I realize that I was trying to play with the txgain/rxgain to adjust the levels and hope to smooth out the line noise. Well, any integer other than zero for either of those values causes BLUE alarms and all the channels to reset in Asteri

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-15 Thread Geoff Manning
> A red alarm means "I don't see any signal". A blue alarm means "I > see a signal and something downstream (repeater etc) is saying they > don't see > a signal". > > I used this as my reference: > http://www.fratec.com/FAQ/NFO/NFO_WAN_009.HTML > > > Slips sometimes cause an LOF condition, som

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Peter Svensson wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hardware, possible. Unlikely to be cabling. It's usually a timing setting. The blue alarm is really a very specific alarm condition normally. It cannot quite see how it can be generated accidentally. Something along the pat

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Peter Svensson
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > Hardware, possible. Unlikely to be cabling. It's usually a timing setting. The blue alarm is really a very specific alarm condition normally. It cannot quite see how it can be generated accidentally. Something along the path from the TE110P transmit

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Jon Pounder
> > I have the asterisk t1 card providing the timing as I understand it: > span=1,0,0,d4,ami make sure the d4/ami match up with what the pbx is expecting. without docs its impossible to guess. > > I found these settings on the legacy PBX as well, not sure if they mean > anything: > > drop puls

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Jon Pounder wrote: >> Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> >>> You need to be looking at a "lower" level >> >> Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost >> reasons. > > no - the stuff you found relates to configuring one 64k channel of > the T1, you need to find the settings to con

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Jon Pounder wrote: >> Geoff Manning wrote: >>> Bruce Ferrell wrote: >>> >>> You need to be looking at a "lower" level >>> >>> >>> Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost >>> reasons. > > just out of curiousity - what are you paying for a T1 cable that you > ar

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Jon Pounder
> Geoff Manning wrote: >> Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> >> >>>You need to be looking at a "lower" level >> >> >> Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost >> reasons. just out of curiousity - what are you paying for a T1 cable that you are worried about cost ? you do realize

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Jon Pounder
> Bruce Ferrell wrote: > >> You need to be looking at a "lower" level > > Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost > reasons. no - the stuff you found relates to configuring one 64k channel of the T1, you need to find the settings to configure the overall t1. - someon

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Geoff Manning wrote: Bruce Ferrell wrote: You need to be looking at a "lower" level Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost reasons. Hardware, possible. Unlikely to be cabling. It's usually a timing setting. ___ As

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Bruce Ferrell wrote: > You need to be looking at a "lower" level Like hw/cabling errors?? If so, that's what I was afraid of for cost reasons. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Geoff Manning wrote: Peter Svensson wrote: I am not that familiar with T1, Are you sure the signalling between the pbx and asterisk is set the same on both? I have unearthed some documentation on the programming side of the legacy PBX. I can set the following on the PBX for each line on th

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Peter Svensson wrote: > I am not that familiar with T1, Are you sure the signalling between > the pbx and asterisk is set the same on both? > I have unearthed some documentation on the programming side of the legacy PBX. I can set the following on the PBX for each line on the T1 card: Line Type

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Peter Svensson wrote: > Which side shows the slips? The slips are seen on the legacy PBX side (Isoetec 228) > I am not that familiar with T1, Are you sure the signalling between > the pbx and asterisk is set the same on both? > Unfortunately I am not aware of the signalling set on the Isoetec s

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Peter Svensson
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Geoff Manning wrote: > OK. So I changed it to: > > span=1,0,0,d4,ami > > And the Blue Alarms are still occurring but now in conjunction with Slip > errors. I feel like I am on the right track though. Which side shows the slips? I am not that familiar with T1, Are you sure

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Crocker
Well that would explain the choppy/stuttering sound we get on these calls since there is no audio during those error transmissions. According to Kevin's reply I had my timing logic backwards. Should I be using any other timing settings on the Asterisk side?? The tech for our legacy PBX say

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Geoff Manning wrote: > >> The TE110P card in the Asterisk server is set as the sync source: >> >> span=1,1,0,d4,ami >> e&m=1-24 > > That is incorrect. You have your span configured to recover timing > from the T1 and use that as the source for the card. If you want this

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Peter Svensson wrote: > A blue alarm sounds really strange. That indicates that the remote end > (asterisk) in this case does not want to play at all. On a T1 it is > sent as a continous series of unframed 1:s. I am not sure if asterisk > ever sends a blue alarm (Alarm Indication Signal). > > Rece

RE: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-12 Thread Geoff Manning
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Geoff Manning wrote: > >> The TE110P card in the Asterisk server is set as the sync source: >> >> span=1,1,0,d4,ami >> e&m=1-24 > > That is incorrect. You have your span configured to recover timing > from the T1 and use that as the source for the card. If you want this

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Svensson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Geoff Manning wrote: > We are having line noise issues in our Asterisk to legacy PBX integration. > All SIP calls originating from IP phones sound crystal clear. All calls that > originate from the legacy PBX (Isoetec 228) and route through the Asterisk > and out SIP have a lo

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to fix a Blue Alarm?? Line Noise?

2005-08-11 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Geoff Manning wrote: The TE110P card in the Asterisk server is set as the sync source: span=1,1,0,d4,ami e&m=1-24 That is incorrect. You have your span configured to recover timing from the T1 and use that as the source for the card. If you want this span to be clocked using the onboard clo