[asterisk-users] Paging Application - Polycom 601

2007-08-08 Thread Bill Andersen
Asterisk 1.2.13 - Evolution PBX from Intuitive Voice Technologies We have an installation of 35 SIP phones (Polycom 501) and one receptionist phone (Polycom 601). I have 15 of the 501s set up to accept a Page. From what I understand, the Page is done using the asterisk page application that

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging Application - Polycom 601

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Andersen
Asterisk 1.2.13 - Evolution PBX from Intuitive Voice Technologies We have an installation of 35 SIP phones (Polycom 501) and one receptionist phone (Polycom 601). I have 15 of the 501s set up to accept a Page. From what I understand, the Page is done using the asterisk page

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom question - removing a soft keyfunctionality

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Andersen
I don't know how to keep the MyStatus and Buddies from showing up when presence is turned on, but if it helps, you only need to turn it on for phones that NEED to see the OTHER peoples presense. For example, turn presence on for your secretaries phones, but not on for the bosses. At least the

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging Application - Polycom 601

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Andersen
OK, now I know for sure... This is roughly 20 minutes after the 601 crashed... There is an abandoned 'meetme' hanging around in asterisk as seen below. Conf Num PartiesMarked Activity Creation 1913938683d0006 0001 00:19:07 Dynamic * Total number of MeetMe

[asterisk-users] RAW asterisk!

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Andersen
I'm a network admin that maintains 3 commercial Asterisk servers for my employer. I am wanting to move away from the pre-packaged commercial PBXs to a more pure asterisk setup. The systems I have utilize a nice web GUI to make changes, but it really limits what I can do beyond what they have

Re: [asterisk-users] RAW asterisk!

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Andersen
Barry L. Kline wrote: My first deployment was TrixBox. The two I am currently working on are Plain Old Asterisk. Keep in mind that I'm an old Linux jock, and a 30-year veteran of programming, so the only thing I had to learn was Asterisk. If you pick that route, you'll need to learn Linux

Re: [asterisk-users] RAW asterisk!

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Andersen
Gordon Henderson wrote: I started with (a). But since you have a dial-plan that does most of what you want, why not extract the dialplan (extensions.conf, etc.) and start with that? I may be showing my ignorance here, but from what I 'understand', there are two ways to save config

Re: [asterisk-users] RAW asterisk!

2007-08-16 Thread Bill Andersen
Gordon Henderson wrote: Out of curiosity, what's the GUI you are currently using and what do you feel are it's limitations? It is a commercial product called Evolution PBX by Intuitive Voice Technology (IVT). I don't want to imply I'm unhappy with it, because I like it better than any of the

[asterisk-users] CLI Question

2007-08-21 Thread Bill Andersen
When I use the CLI (asterisk -r) I get all sorts of info scrolling past about current activity such as... -- Executing Macro(SIP/7110-b1d316e0, callrecord|7134) in new stack -- Executing NoOp(SIP/7110-b1d316e0, Call Record Macro REC7134 ) in new stack -- Executing GotoIf(SIP/7110-b1d316e0, 0?4:3)

Re: [asterisk-users] CLI Question

2007-08-21 Thread Bill Andersen
Gordon Henderson wrote: Either start asterisk with no -v's or type: set verbose 0 at the prompt. Thanks. Exactly what I needed. Bill ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To

Re: [asterisk-users] Ping

2007-09-05 Thread Bill Andersen
Dave Fullerton wrote: Same thing happened to me a while back. I sent a new message asking a question ..twice.. and neither made it through. However replies to other peoples messages went through just fine. This may not be the problem, but I've seen this on my NEW post a few times and it was

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging in Asterisk

2007-10-09 Thread Bill Andersen
I could not tell you in asterisknow but I use this feature with Polycom phones on all of my installs. It is very well documented in voip-info.org Do you have any problem with the Paging when there are say 20 phones in the page group? We have a IP601 that is used by the receptionist and has 2

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging in Asterisk

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Andersen
I use a mysql script to dynamically generate the page command and page about 70 phones, and I have never had a reboot problem. Sometimes there is a slight delay waiting for all the phones to join the page conference. I am using a mix of 650's, 550's, and 330's. It must only be an issue if

Re: [asterisk-users] Page app, Polycom IP 601, 60 SIP peers, Interesting Issue

2008-02-29 Thread Bill Andersen
Oh yes! This has been killing us for about a year. We've had several conference calls with my phone vendor and Polycom and it's still not fixed (or even determined why it is happening). Polycom keeps saying, upgrade to the next version of the firmware. We upgrade, still a problem. (again, for

Re: [asterisk-users] Page app, Polycom IP 601, 60 SIP peers, Interesting Issue WORKING NOW

2008-03-03 Thread Bill Andersen
That's almost certainly your problem. When you run sidecars with the Polycom 601, you can't rely on PoE - there isn't enough power supplied. Connect your powerpack to the phone and the problem should go away. Semi random reboots are not uncommon on the 601 with sidecars if you're running it

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk based UNIX

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Andersen
Alex Balashov wrote: Linux is UNIX, for intents and purposes related to Asterisk. Well... not so much! If you want real UNIX, go for a BSD or God forbid, SCO OpenServer. Their pedigree is from ATT UNIX (SYS V Rel 4?) which is considered to be the real UNIX. However, as time has gone by,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk based UNIX

2008-03-06 Thread Bill Andersen
Actually, UNIX [tm] Describes meeting a standard, and not development history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix#Branding Absolutely! Which is why I referred to Linux as Unix-like and not UNIX. Linux is NOT licensed to use UNIX(r) per The Open Group's specs. BSD and Mac OS X are licensed

[asterisk-users] IP650 console with expansion modules

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Andersen
I just replaced an IP 601 with a new IP 650. We have 2 expansion modules attached. The lights on the expansion modules light up if a users gets an INBOUND DID call, but the lights don't light up if the user makes an OUTBOUND call. Sip: 2.1.1.0052 Has anyone seen this? Bill

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bill Andersen
This is not a troll. I've used my real email because I want this taken seriously. I'm not trying to make anyone mad, I just want some real discussion on this issue. Please bare with me... I'm a USER of Asterisk. We purchased 3 commercially available Asterisk Based PBXs a little over a year

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bill Andersen
Senad Jordanovic wrote: However, I will say that it is not asterisk but people/company deploying it. Generally speaking after deployment, and as long users are using the system normally, no reboot is required. I'm thinking part of the problem IS the company deploying the commercial product we

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bill Andersen
Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote: If you're continuously restarting Asterisk, there is something wrong with your setup: hardware, software or both. I have many installs out there on commodity hardware (either pure-voip or digital (PRI) only with Polycom handsets) and none of them need to be

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bill Andersen
Thank you to everyone that replied to my post. I started to reply to most of them, but it is getting a little out of hand. Again, thank you. It actually makes me think the problem is not so much with Asterisk as it is with implementation. (My Vendor) Although this is a users list, I think it is

[asterisk-users] EvolutionPBX from Intuitive Voice

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Andersen
Is anyone on the list reselling (or just using) EvolutionPBX from Intuitive Voice Technologies?? If so, please contact me off list. Thanks. bill at mwdental.com Bill ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] EvolutionPBX from Intuitive Voice

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Andersen
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. bill at mwdental.com Bill ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] Advice on best operator phone (with attendant console)

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Andersen
Faraz R. Khan wrote: One of our clients is using a Grandstream GXP2000 with an attendant console. We have used the same phone with past clients successfully however this particular operator processes around 200 calls a hours and the GXP2000 for sure does not like the quick line shuffling and

Re: [asterisk-users] Drag and Drop transfer application

2008-04-16 Thread Bill Andersen
Bob G wrote: Why the guy asked a question? Yes. But the question was about Drag and Drop transfer applications for Asterisk. Can 1EZphone do that? If not, your SPAMMING the list! ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Quality problems with ISDN PRI

2008-04-28 Thread Bill Andersen
But then that gets back to my Intel C2D show as two procs. 2 x 2 = 2. Or is C2D not four cores? If I'm not mistaken, there was a Core Duo - which was dual core processor. Now there is a Core 2 Duo - which is a second generation dual core processor. Still just 2 cores though... (which would

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk - CRM Integration

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Andersen
Michiel van Baak wrote: Have a look at Covide: http://sourceforge.net/projects/covide /shameless_plug Wow, what a disaster of an open source project. Install docs are impossible to use. Many, many inaccuracies. I Never could get it working. If you want acceptance, better make it easy to

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk - CRM Integration

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Andersen
i think you just need someone set it up for you ... think of it as an air conditionning system, you can use it but can never install it on your own unless you're from the field. I installed Linux on my own. I installed Asterisk on my own. I installed Apache on my own. I installed MySQL on my

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk - CRM Integration

2008-05-01 Thread Bill Andersen
Tilghman Lesher I think you just missed the point of open source. Projects are almost always I made this to satisfy a need for myself, and it's open for others to examine and contribute. If you see a need for an easy installation process, then by all means, you should contribute that. Oh,

[asterisk-users] What is field 'User/ANR'

2008-05-06 Thread Bill Andersen
*1.4 Sorry for a dumb question, but I'm working with my SIP provider on a problem and I can't answer this question for them. They don't know Asterisk. When I do a sip show channels What is the User/ANR field? Bill ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] Zap Channels Collide (Incoming Outgoing)

2008-05-12 Thread Bill Andersen
Eric Wieling wrote: People that try to wing it and install Asterisk when they don't know telecom just gives people a bad impression of Asterisk and VoIP in general. This helps nobody except the pocketbook of the consultant. I agree. But I think that comment is incredibly funny. I'd like to

Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom causes conference to fail

2008-05-12 Thread Bill Andersen
Sorry to be a pest, but does anyone have any ideas on this? I've opened a bug, but I was hoping someone else on the list has encountered this issue before. Jason Does the Polycom have the Buddy List turned on? We had an IP601 that would reboot (or lock up) about 60% of the time when IT

[asterisk-users] Phone system layout suggestions

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Andersen
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 provider for 5 channels of SIP

[asterisk-users] (no subject)

2008-09-05 Thread Bill Andersen
V 1.4 When I do a show channels I get the following. CLI show channels Channel Location State Application(Data) SIP/7110-b495d3b0[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2Up Page(Local/[EMAIL PROTECTED]Local/71 SIP/7110-afd286e0[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2Up

[asterisk-users] OT: Disable Polycom 650 Forward Softkey

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Andersen
I've got a problem that keeps popping up with my reception phone. It is a IP 650 and the receptionist - on three occassions - has accidentally hit the Forward softkey just before she enters the Page All keystrokes and then all future calls get routed as an overhead page. I will admit, the

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Disable Polycom 650 Forward Softkey

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Andersen
Of Bill Andersen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 13:12 To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [asterisk-users] OT: Disable Polycom 650 Forward Softkey I've got a problem that keeps popping up with my reception phone. It is a IP 650 and the receptionist - on three

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Disable Polycom 650 Forward Softkey

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Andersen
John Todd wrote: Instead of disabling the keys on the phone, why not just put logic in your dialplan that refuses calls to the paging extension except when the originator is a handset? If the call != handset originated, then send to the voicemail of the handset that bounced the call.

Re: [asterisk-users] fax / t38 gateway

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Andersen
Gordon Henderson wrote: I'd never say it was reliable enough to trust in a commercial setting, but I think your statements were just a bit too strong - I agree wholeheartedly about the V. protocols and copper, but I've found in practice that faxing over IP is not just theoretically possible,

Re: [asterisk-users] Role of asterisk

2008-11-20 Thread Bill Andersen
Jared Smith had written: To answer the second portion of your question (which I forgot to do in my earlier email)... yes, Asterisk can be a registration server as well. -- Jared Smith Training Manager Digium, Inc. Valentin Bud wrote: Hello Mr. Smith, snip If you know any kind of books

Re: [asterisk-users] top posting again [was: Re: CDR Design]

2008-12-17 Thread Bill Andersen
OR Q: What is the most annoying thing in email? Q: What is the most annoying thing in email? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in email? A: Top-posting. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Q: What is the most annoying thing in email? A: Top-posting. Q: Why is top-posting

[Asterisk-Users] New to *

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Andersen
I just ran across the * site. Looks great. I do not need a PBX at this time, but DO need to replace an old voice mail system. I'll do my homework and figure out the specifics, but before I dive into it all and spend a bunch of time only to find out I didn't understand, is it reasonable to think

Re: [asterisk-users] Happy Birthday Asterisk

2007-12-07 Thread Bill Andersen
Philip Prindeville wrote: So I'd venture to say that by August, the Internet will really be *30* years old. As Al Gore was born in 1948, I can see that the Internet could be as old as 30, but not much more. 35 years ago would put him at 25 years old. And inventing the whole Internet at 25 is

[asterisk-users] Asterisk Manager and Visual Basic

2008-02-13 Thread Bill Andersen
Has anyone tried to used VB6 to communicate with the Asterisk Manager? If so, would you be willing to share some basic code showing your approach to getting connected and parsing results? I've got a Telnet control that is allowing me to connect, authenticate and see the flow of status, etc., but

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Manager and Visual Basic

2008-02-14 Thread Bill Andersen
I don't know if it would be of any use to you but we have some C# code that handles the basics of communicating the the Asterisk Manager Interface. It doesn't do anything fancy just sends single commands and checks the responses. We don't use it for monitoring. Regards, Greyman. Thanks