Re: [asterisk-users] Voicemail.conf

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hillis
It is possible, kind of. The only way I was able to get this to work for me (and only for two email addresses) was to specify one email address as normal, and the second email address as the pager email address. Possibly not what you're looking for, but the best solution (short of email

Re: [asterisk-users] Agent Callback Login in 1.4

2007-09-17 Thread Rob Hillis
But as mentioned in the same email, the feature set just isn't the same and it's a /lot/ more difficult to implement. I'll be extremely disappointed if it /does/ get removed from Asterisk without a suitable /easy/ and /equivalent/ function being made readily available. Matt Riddell wrote:

Re: [asterisk-users] Is anyone successfully using IMAP storage

2007-10-18 Thread Rob Hillis
Not using IMAP storage here, although that was one of the primary drivers for upgrading to Asterisk 1.4. Why? The short answer is that it's too confining. There are too many caveats that don't fit into our existing IMAP structure and make the entire project rather iffy. Security is a

Re: [asterisk-users] Friday Feb 29th Leap Year Special wih Aastra

2008-02-28 Thread Rob Hillis
If anyone has managed to compile and run Asterisk on a server from this particular era, I'd /love/ to know about it. :) What's the performance like? For that matter, what phones were available at the time? randulo wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 05:13:06 randulo wrote: Will your

Re: [asterisk-users] which phones to use ??

2008-02-29 Thread Rob Hillis
For your own sanity's sake, steer as far away from Grandstream as possible. The firmware is appalling and isn't improving a great deal. They make great steps in one area while another gets worse and worse. randulo wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Agnello George [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [asterisk-users] which phones to use ??

2008-03-01 Thread Rob Hillis
wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For your own sanity's sake, steer as far away from Grandstream as possible. The firmware is appalling and isn't improving a great deal. They make great steps in one area while another gets worse and worse. I

Re: [asterisk-users] which phones to use ??

2008-03-01 Thread Rob Hillis
cost models. Although the lesser models are still over $100. Michael --Original Message Text--- *From:* Rob Hillis *Date:* Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:07:58 +1100 For your own sanity's sake, steer as far away from Grandstream as possible. The firmware is appalling and isn't improving a great deal

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

2008-03-01 Thread Rob Hillis
The 601 is powered by PoE with 2 sidecars, so Polycom wants us to put an actual Power Supply on the phone - thinking the voltage is dropping and causing the reboot. I don't buy that, but we are putting one on next Monday. We'll see. That's almost certainly your problem. When you

Re: [asterisk-users] which phones to use ??

2008-03-02 Thread Rob Hillis
I'll admit in my case, the main reason the boot time of the Polycom drives me nuts is that I don't see the phones unless I'm installing them for the first time or supporting them when something isn't quite right. It's for this reason that I very much appreciate a phone that either (a) boots

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in the call center - how do you do it?

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Hillis
Interesting. Which type of SIP packet did you send? The method Paul is referring to below is a page you get GET with certain parameters to reconfigure the phone via HTTP... Matt Florell wrote: I have done integrations with sipsak to do this with Snom phones as well: http://sipsak.org/

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: how to effect change in sip.cfg?

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Hillis
Polycoms need to reboot if you do much more than pick up the handset and dial a number. A change of config of /any/ scale certainly qualifies here. If you alter the sip.cfg file on your TFTP/FTP/HTTP server, the Polycoms /should/ pick up the fact that config file has changed and reboot when it

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in the call center - how do you do it?

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Hillis
this is just an example, in the application messages are posted on the phone display dynamically by the server depending on agent status. MATT--- On 3/5/08, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. Which type of SIP packet did you send? The method Paul is referring to below is a page

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: how to effect change insip.cfg?

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Hillis
Unfortunately the Polycom's propensity to reboot at the drop of the hat is one the things I really dislike about the phone - especially when coupled with the fact that they take so /long/ to reboot. I must admit, I'm surprised that they don't handle the config file changing for them on the server

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in the call center - how do you do it?

2008-03-05 Thread Rob Hillis
. Matt Florell wrote: That sounds great, could you post an example? MATT--- On 3/5/08, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh... our method actually set an alias on the phone for the first identity rather than simply sending a message to the phone. This means that whenever the phone would

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP600 Headset Problem

2008-03-07 Thread Rob Hillis
...and that's saying something! ;) Then again, we just need to remember the old saying... to err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Paul Hales wrote: It was one of those moments in life where I felt a lot less smart than I usually do... PaulH On Fri, 2008-03-07

Re: [asterisk-users] Call flows of conference

2008-03-07 Thread Rob Hillis
That's because A is the joining point between B and C. If either B or C hung up, the remaining party would still be left. This is a phone function, not an Asterisk one. From Asterisk's perspective, phone A is simply on two simultaneous calls to B and C - it has no idea that A is bridging the

Re: [asterisk-users] replace astdb with a cluster-capable sql database engine

2008-03-09 Thread Rob Hillis
To be perfectly honest, the REALTIME function is absolutely hideous when it comes to reading data from the RealTime database. What on earth the Asterisk developers were thinking when they replaced the perfectly usable RealTime (which sets a channel variable for each field in the database) with

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP601 console with expansion module

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Hillis
Special dialplans for reception are entirely up to you. The only reason reception phones have different dialplans to normal extensions is that often people want the receptionist's phone to behave a little differently. The Polycom 601 (nor any of the other common IP phonse designed for

Re: [asterisk-users] queue log vs. cdr

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Hillis
Yes it is. The reason you get more entries in queue_log is that there are several queue_log events per call - most commonly you get an ENTERQUEUE, CONNECT and COMPLETECALLER/AGENT for each call. Vieri wrote: Hi, Surely, I must be overlooking something. If I run the following SQL queries I

Re: [asterisk-users] voicemail and needed language to be selected

2008-03-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Not ideal if you've got people who speak multiple languages using the phone system. You may want to review http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+multi-language - I suspect this is going to do what you want it to. Alex Balashov wrote: Replace the vm-* recordings in

Re: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

2008-03-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Maybe the Alison voice is better, but I've found Cepstral to be a bit too mechanical. I'm using Ceptral Millie (since a UK accent is more acceptable in Australia than an American one) The best TTS engine I've /ever/ run in to was Nuance Realspeak (see http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/) though

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF and Snom phones

2008-03-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Bill Hackensack wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Philipp Kempgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5014 The response on that issue from Russell is the kind of response that really ticks me off. No, no, no, we don't

Re: [asterisk-users] How to capture destination number when receive call through ZAP

2008-03-24 Thread Rob Hillis
The only method I'm familiar with for an analogue line to signal which number was called is a very old service that loops the line first and then dials the number. The only way to capture this would be to handle the incoming line as a standard extension with a different context. I've only

Re: [asterisk-users] How to capture destination number when receive call through ZAP

2008-03-24 Thread Rob Hillis
) in new stack It still does not give me the dialed number. Could you explain how to match it again the zap channel to extract the dialed number? Will I be able to get the dialed number if I am using a E1 line? Thanks, Mark On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [asterisk-users] How to capture destination number when receive call through ZAP

2008-03-24 Thread Rob Hillis
Distinctive ring is still not going to provide the line that was called in the ${EXTEN} variable, so you're still stuck with dialplan trickery to figure out which number was rung. Mojo with Horan Company, LLC wrote: Distinctive Ringing might be available from your telecom provider. mark

Re: [asterisk-users] Menuselect?

2008-03-24 Thread Rob Hillis
Only if you're trying to compile Asterisk 1.2. Asterisk 1.4 also has the menuselect configuration, though for most applications you don't really need to fiddle with it. James M Kupernik wrote: There actually is no menuselect, its just a simple ./configure make make install in that order

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk not hanging up after voicemail

2008-03-27 Thread Rob Hillis
Most likely, you don't have any hangup detection available or configured. If these are analogue lines, you will almost certainly need to configure busy detection in order to figure out that the call has been terminated. Do some Googling for asterisk busy detection mark morreny wrote: Hi,

Re: [asterisk-users] SPA-962+ SPA-932- blf function

2008-03-27 Thread Rob Hillis
We have BLF buttons working fine on the SPA932 side-car. What does show hints tell you under Asterisk, and what syntax did you use when configuring the side-car buttons? John Meksavan wrote: Asterisk Users, I am running Asterisk 1.4.11 on Debian Etch system with the TDM03B wildcard. I

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

2008-03-27 Thread Rob Hillis
All Polycom phones use the same firmware and bootroms - one reason why the sip.ld is so damn large for them. 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] SPA-962+ SPA-932- blf function

2008-03-28 Thread Rob Hillis
Have you set a call limit for each SIP peer? This is now required as of version 1.4. It took me a while to figure out all the issues when migrating to 1.4. John Meksavan wrote: Thanks for you guys help. The status LED on the sidecar takes an awfully look time to change from GREEN to RED

Re: [asterisk-users] interrupting MOH

2008-04-01 Thread Rob Hillis
You may be able to achieve the desired result using queues rather than Dial statements. Overkill perhaps, but it's the only way I can think to implement it at the moment. John Millican wrote: Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:14:25 Pete Kay wrote: I am hoping

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

2008-04-05 Thread Rob Hillis
For a receptionist, you generally want to go with a quality phone since they're going to be the heaviest user of the phone system in the building. (Inbound/outbound call agents may take/make more calls, but their requirements are far more simple than the complex call juggling a receptionist

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

2008-04-05 Thread Rob Hillis
I'd find that very strange considering that the 57i itself has facility for at least 20 BLF buttons and /each/ attendant console has facility for another 60! Matt Watson wrote: We are using 57i + 560M combination as well... though we are not using the 57i ct... but the idea of giving them a

Re: [asterisk-users] Paging for analoge devices

2008-04-07 Thread Rob Hillis
Google is your friend. I discovered very quickly what they were talking about by googling. bilal ghayyad wrote: Dear Steve Doug; Sorry I did not understand any thing from your reply. --- Bogen Rulez On 4/5/08, bilal ghayyad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; Anyone

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: Where isSoundPointIPWelcome.wav used?

2008-04-08 Thread Rob Hillis
That would at least be long enough to cover the entire boot process. ;) Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: It's played at the completion of the boot process. It's always been very quiet on the models I've worked with. Thanks Erik. I can probably replace it with my beloved Mozart Symphony no 40

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

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Hillis
: Guys thanks a lot. I should be going with a Polycom 650 for all such jobs. If grandstream receives such bad reviews- how are they selling anything? Phones hanging or voice cut-outs are simply unacceptable!! On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 14:12 +1000, Rob Hillis wrote: I'd find that very strange

Re: [asterisk-users] Message waiting indication(MWI) for voicemail - to H323 endpoints

2008-04-09 Thread Rob Hillis
Alex Balashov wrote: Anisha Kumar wrote: Please provide the required Setup / comfiguration details or redirect to appropriate to resource. You are decreasing your chances of getting a favourable response with an imperative tone like that, which also suggests that you are

Re: [asterisk-users] X-Lite and Presence?

2008-04-15 Thread Rob Hillis
Configure the extension as a softphone using the format extension@asterisk.ip.address. Works fine for me - and works even better for agents! Simon wrote: Hi There, We have some users using x-lite as their SIP phone... but im wondering how to get the Calls Contacts to show as being

Re: [asterisk-users] X-Lite and Presence?

2008-04-15 Thread Rob Hillis
X-Lite. Of course, Asterisk will need a hint configured for that extension as well... Simon wrote: Thanks for the reply.. Sorry for the lame question.. Do i do that in X-Lite or Asterisk? On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configure the extension

Re: [asterisk-users] X-Lite and Presence?

2008-04-15 Thread Rob Hillis
their app. But not free/busy type changes.. Any idea why here? Simon On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X-Lite. Of course, Asterisk will need a hint configured for that extension as well... Simon wrote: Thanks for the reply.. Sorry for the lame question

Re: [asterisk-users] Parsing incoming extension till first @

2008-04-22 Thread Rob Hillis
Using _. is going to result in warnings. A much better practice is to use _X. Ali Jawad wrote: Thx again patrick it worked, I used [google-in] exten = _.,1,Set(dst=${CUT(EXTEN,@,1)}) exten = _.,1,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) while it should have been [google-in] exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] how to copy a variable without interpretation of the content

2008-04-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Try TEST=${X-CALLID}; and see how you go. Eric Dantie wrote: Sorry, bad expressed, what I want to know is how can I do this in AEL: I've already got a variable X-CALLID with the content ctprueba-123456789.12 How can I copy the content X-CALLID to the new variable TEST? something like

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

2008-04-24 Thread Rob Hillis
Every CPU core shows up as a separate CPU under Linux. For those that have hyperthreaded processors, a single core processor will show up as two processors - assuming you have hyperthreading enabled. linuxian iandsd wrote: top says asterisk 1.2.25 is using multiple cores: Cpu0 :

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

2008-04-25 Thread Rob Hillis
To the best of my knowledge, multi-core processors are not hyperthreaded - certainly my Core 2 Quad processor isn't. I would expect a Core 2 Duo to be the same. Steve Totaro wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every CPU core shows up

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

2008-04-25 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Totaro wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Doug Lytle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Totaro wrote: That is interesting. I have an intel C2D and I can only see two procs, not four, is that normal? Are you sure what you are saying is I believe Intel removed HyperThreading

Re: [asterisk-users] Upgrading to 1.4

2008-04-25 Thread Rob Hillis
As is just about always the case, posting twice to the list within three hours is not only unlikely to get a faster response, I would in fact imagine it would /reduce/ your chances of getting a response at all. lotusscript wrote: A good while back when installing 1.2 there were major issues

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

2008-04-26 Thread Rob Hillis
No, a dual core processor has two cores. :) My Quad core shows four processors. Steve Totaro wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Benny Amorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Totaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My dual proc, dual core AMD boxen show as four procs. I guess the AMD

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Queue: greetings when first joiningqueue

2008-04-29 Thread Rob Hillis
Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: Check the number of calls waiting in the queue, then play the message if more than 0 example code (written in the TBird IDE) Exten = 100,1,Answer() Exten = 100,n,Set(NumWaiting=${QUEUE_WAITING_COUNT(${QUEUENAME})}) Exten = 100,n,GotoIf($[${NumWaiting} =

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-03 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Totaro wrote: Man that is an ugly hack, but I guess it may be required in some rare situation, I guess if the power supply of the server is already nearing it's rating. I would still go with a sata to molex connector and even a Y molex splitter if at all possible. Actually I can see

Re: [asterisk-users] Asending or Round robin with trunks sip

2008-05-03 Thread Rob Hillis
SIP channels can't be grouped. What you need when you're dialling is the following if you want to use all three SIP channels:- Dial(SIP/troncal-1/${number}) Dial(SIP/troncal-2/${number}) Dial(SIP/troncal-3/${number}) That way if the first Dial fails, it will try the second one and so on.

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-04 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Totaro wrote: Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful. I can think of at least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted on having a TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know can't provide enough power to the card where it's being used as a collection of

Re: [asterisk-users] UK BT ISDN30e PRI Problem

2008-05-09 Thread Rob Hillis
Probably for the best - you'd look mighty silly otherwise. (spoken by someone who's done his own share of jumping around, yellng YES!) Steve Totaro wrote: I never kick myself on issues like this. I enjoy the challenge and the eventual success by jumping around and yelling YES, YES, YES!

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

2008-05-12 Thread Rob Hillis
There are krone blocks designed for CAT5, and I've seen them in use as well. However, there's no way I'd be using them for today's networks. /Especially/ having seen one of these krone blocks used to double-punch two network ports together. Bill Andersen wrote: Oh, yes. I saw an entire

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF Compatible Phones

2008-05-13 Thread Rob Hillis
SPA942s do not currently support BLF keys. The four lit buttons are line keys only with the current firmware, although our Linksys rep has assured us that it's a feature to be supported soon. John Signorello wrote: We use the linksys 942's and they work flawlessly and are easy to setup The

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-18 Thread Rob Hillis
At this stage, I've only seen one machine that didn't come with the old style power connectors. SATA power connectors may be a standard, but they haven't (yet?) supplanted the older power connectors. In fact, most power supplies I've bought recently have had more molex style connectors than

Re: [asterisk-users] T38 fax solution with Asterisk possible?

2008-05-21 Thread Rob Hillis
mark morreny wrote: Hi, I am looking for a very low cost way of receiving and sending T38 fax reliably. Is there any possible solution using Asterisk as the PSTN SIP gateay and Digium E1/T1 card? Is there other open source package that can help to accomplish this purpose? Asterisk is

Re: [asterisk-users] T38 fax solution with Asterisk possible?

2008-05-22 Thread Rob Hillis
Some. Apparently not complete - and not capable of acting as a gateway. Olivier wrote: I thought that 1.6 carried along T.38 origination-termination capabilities. Is it true ? 2008/5/22 Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: mark morreny wrote: Hi, I am

Re: [asterisk-users] H.323 video support

2008-05-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Remind me to pick on your poor Spanish next time I see you for a mid-morning meal. :) Steve Totaro wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Diego Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When and where is the 1.6 brunch? ;-) ___ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] Dear asterisk-users@lists.digium.com May 80% 0FF

2008-05-24 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Totaro wrote: Darn, it was 87% off just yesterday! But with all that wonderful value-adding spam, it's worth paying more for isn't it? (then again, I guess that very much depends on /what/ you're paying for!) ___ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 vs 1.4?

2008-06-04 Thread Rob Hillis
Brent Davidson wrote: We're currently using Asterisk 1.4.19, Zaptel 1.4.10, Oslec SVN, Rhino R4FXO-EC cards, and Snom 300 Phones. Why on earth are you running two layers of echo cancellation - hardware and software? To be honest, I think this is asking for trouble - I've seen two occasions

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 vs 1.4?

2008-06-05 Thread Rob Hillis
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:00:01AM +1000, Rob Hillis wrote: Why on earth are you running two layers of echo cancellation - hardware and software? To be honest, I think this is asking for trouble - I've seen two occasions where having Oslec and hardware echo

Re: [asterisk-users] init.d script no longer uses safe_asterisk

2008-06-05 Thread Rob Hillis
I believe Ubuntu is in the process of migrating from sysvinit to Upstart. Upstart is supposed to be capable of monitoring services to ensure they don't fail, so I suspect this is likely to be the reason behind the safe_asterisk script not being used. Paul Belanger wrote: I noticed

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 vs 1.4?

2008-06-05 Thread Rob Hillis
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:40:14AM +1000, Rob Hillis wrote: If you use a hardware EC (or technically: a span-specific echo cancellation method) the generic Zaptel echo canceller (software-based, OSLEC in this case) will not be used. That's not always been my

Re: [asterisk-users] Bad ringback tone on zap channel

2008-06-07 Thread Rob Hillis
In my experience, the ringback you get over a zap channel (be it analogue or digital) is generated by the remote end, /not/ Zaptel. The ringback you get over a SIP or IAX2 channel is often generated by either Asterisk or the SIP/IAX2 device you're calling from. James Lamanna wrote: Hi, I've

Re: [asterisk-users] PoE budget

2008-06-07 Thread Rob Hillis
Chris Bagnall wrote: have used many fsm7326p to power 24 phones or 726tp to power 12 phones and they work great On the Linksys side, we have a load of SRW-224P switches out in the wild powering 24 Snom 370s (around 7W each) off each switch. Likewise, we sell these things by the

Re: [asterisk-users] PoE budget

2008-06-08 Thread Rob Hillis
for /any/ switched network. Jerry Jones wrote: On Jun 7, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Rob Hillis wrote: On the Linksys side, we have a load of SRW-224P switches out in the wild powering 24 Snom 370s (around 7W each) off each switch. Likewise, we sell these things by the bucket load and have

Re: [asterisk-users] Bad ringback tone on zap channel

2008-06-08 Thread Rob Hillis
. James Lamanna wrote: Hmm ok. This was a call from a SIP phone registered with Asterisk outbound on a Zap trunk. So would Asterisk or the phone be generating the ringback tone in that case? It also happens very intermittently (maybe 1 in 10 calls at most...) -- James Rob Hillis wrote

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP call, updated with CID as it becomes available

2008-06-11 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Totaro wrote: If you ever have problems with a call dropping after 30 seconds, Answer() is usually the cause. Answer is the /cause/? Or do you mean it's the solution? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Idiot's Question

2008-06-15 Thread Rob Hillis
core show function SPRINTF does work on my 1.4.20 system. Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Oddly core show function SPRINTF works on my 1.6. SPRINTF function does not seem to be in 1.2 and I don't have any 1.4 systems. Venefax wrote: Believe it or not, I cannot find online a single piece

Re: [asterisk-users] GXW 4108 asterisk configuration

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Hillis
Doug wrote: There is a bug in these units that won't let you put punctuation in the extension name. A Grandstream product with a bug... what an unusual concept. cough Seriously, with all the grief I've had with GXP-2000s, BT-200s and GXV-3000s, I wouldn't touch Grandstream gear with a

Re: [asterisk-users] need ata suggestion

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Hillis
like a seperate line tied to the same DID in a hunt group. Eric On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Rob Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO, yes - sort of. :) Since Linksys bought Sipura, you're probably looking at the Linksys PAP2 - the functional

Re: [asterisk-users] GXW 4108 asterisk configuration

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Hillis
and after a week their answer is . use udp. Rob Hillis wrote: Doug wrote: There is a bug in these units that won't let you put punctuation in the extension name. A Grandstream product with a bug... what an unusual concept. cough Seriously, with all the grief I've had

Re: [asterisk-users] Recommendations for Motel Instalation.

2008-06-20 Thread Rob Hillis
80 rooms? I guess you and I have slightly differing opinions as to what a small motel is. :) If you have 80 analogue channels, then you'd need 4 TDM2400P cards. Unless your server is powered by a small nuclear reactor, you'll be better off with either 3 E1 or 4 T1 channels banks or 2 32

Re: [asterisk-users] Chef-secretary scenario

2008-06-25 Thread Rob Hillis
Can I assume you're using Asterisk 1.4 and that you've configured your phones as peers? If this is the case, then you need to set limitonpeers to yes and call-limit to some value in sip.conf. Once this has been done, you should find that BLF behaves as you expect. Vazquez David wrote: Hi

Re: [asterisk-users] Chef-secretary scenario

2008-06-25 Thread Rob Hillis
Vazquez David wrote: Yes, I'm using 1.4. And I don't really use sip.conf, but have all my phones on users.conf. Should I put limitonpeers and call-limit on the general section of sip.conf? or on each entry in users.conf [general] should be sufficient, so long as having them set as default for

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

2008-07-02 Thread Rob Hillis
Yeah, it's a real pain in the proverbial. Short version is that if you're not planning on using the LAN interface for phones then you need to enable provisioning on the WAN interface, allow access to the web interface from the WAN interface and configure the provisioning URL with your WAN

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

2008-07-03 Thread Rob Hillis
. but as Rob hillis said. It will work via WAN which ive now got. SO I can access the asterisk appliance via 192.168.1.15 The problem is now…How do I connect the phone. Ive got the phone (Ethernet) connected from the LAN port on the phone to a LAN port in the asterisk appliance. im

Re: [asterisk-users] removing == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/manager.conf': Found from CLI!

2008-07-04 Thread Rob Hillis
RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: hi all, /is there any way of removing this line from showing on the console? my verbosity level is 3. and this is the following output on cli 24/7 unless its interrupted by the msgs tht really counts like connected sip and so on../ [...] [Jul 4 10:32:38]

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk dimensioning

2008-07-09 Thread Rob Hillis
voip crazy wrote: Hello all, I need to install asterisk for 900 sip users with 2 PRI ports. Is this correct? 60 channels (assuming an E1 connection, not a T1) between 900 extensions means only 1 in 15 people can be on the phone at once - which is a pretty low ratio. If this is indeed

Re: [asterisk-users] change E1 link from ISDN to Q.SIG

2008-07-09 Thread Rob Hillis
Klaus Darilion wrote: Hi! I want to test Asterisk--Siemens HiCom integration using Q.SIG instead of ISDN. I did not find any documentation about Asterisk und Q.SIG. Thus, I wonder is it sufficient to set switchtype from euroisdn to qsig or are there any other things which I have to take

Re: [asterisk-users] Dial function exit, go to line n+1

2008-07-09 Thread Rob Hillis
Jared Smith wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 13:42 +0200, Jerome Poggi wrote: I use them before some patch. But this example work : exten = s,5,ChanIsAvail(SIP/604,s) exten = s,6,Dial(SIP/604,15,wotr) exten = s,7,NoOp(Nopnopnopnopnop) exten = s,10,NoOp(Matthieu) and this not : exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

2008-07-10 Thread Rob Hillis
Steve Underwood wrote: marek cervenka wrote: hi, there is T.38 fax gateway for asterisk http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12931 please test it and report bugs for people from http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+T.38+Bounty if you still want donate t.38 development please contact

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk conference call with a HuntGroup

2008-07-10 Thread Rob Hillis
Alexander Olekhnovich wrote: I just think because of the Asterisk design it can not be implemented. On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Alexander Olekhnovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm interested if it's possible to configure Asterisk the following

Re: [asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

2008-07-10 Thread Rob Hillis
Matt Watson wrote: That being said... i;m also quite pleased to see T.38 support being worked on for Asterisk... its a pretty important area to further develop IMHO. I absolutely agree. It's been a notable omission for some time. Unfortunately getting it written isn't the major part of

Re: [asterisk-users] zap not getting callerid any more

2008-07-15 Thread Rob Hillis
Brian J. Murrell wrote: One thing I have noticed is that in the cases where the wildcard cannot determine the CID (i.e. because the rxgain is up around 10.5), I get this in my asterisk console: [Jul 15 08:04:09] NOTICE[26696]: chan_zap.c:6670 ss_thread: Got event 18 (Ring Begin)... And

Re: [asterisk-users] zap not getting callerid any more

2008-07-15 Thread Rob Hillis
Brian J. Murrell wrote: Unless you want to invest in a better card, you may just have to live with the problem. Which means what, a multiport and multi-hundreds of dollar card? I'm just a home user. I don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on a single piece of phone hardware.

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium PRI and Echo cancellation

2008-07-16 Thread Rob Hillis
Loic Didelot wrote: Hello, I would like to double check what Echo Cancellation my Digium Card uses. I thought I bought the little more expensive card that integrates EchoCancellation. How can I check? Easiest way is to eyeball the card. If your card has a daughter board on it, then it's

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Recording Interface

2008-07-16 Thread Rob Hillis
Chris Bagnall wrote: Greetings list, Is ARI by Littlejohn Consulting still being maintained? Their website seems to have disappeared, and the only download links I can find through googling are back in 2005. If it has disappeared, what are people using as alternatives these days? A

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

2008-07-18 Thread Rob Hillis
Paul Hales wrote: I've just had half a day of wierd SIP stuff on 1.4.21.1 - most of it related to realtime. Sip peers showing up as UNKNOWN, but if you reboot the phone the problem goes away. For a while... Interestingly enough, I've had my Grandstream suffering from the same problem since

Re: [asterisk-users] Problems with IAX on heartbeat provided ip address

2008-07-21 Thread Rob Hillis
Florian Hackenberger wrote: Hi! I'm trying to build an HA system using heartbeat for failover. Everything works fine with SIP, but I cannot connect my IAX phone to the asterisk server using the managed IP address. I've had a similar issue with HA, although in my case SIP wouldn't register

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk

2008-07-22 Thread Rob Hillis
Philipp Kempgen wrote: Come on. People want simple answers. So: Can Asterisk duplicate CallManager? [y/n] *scnr* I think for questions like this, we should always consider the m (maybe) option. :) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] How can I Disable call-waiting

2008-07-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Alex Balashov wrote: It is known, as a matter of established fact, that it is possible to disable call waiting on the eyeBeam phone. How to do it is not something in which I can instruct you, but I gather it's a fairly straightforward process, especially if you are autoprovisioning via the

Re: [asterisk-users] How can I Disable call-waiting

2008-07-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Rob Hillis wrote: Since when does eyeBeam have any kind of autoprovisioning? I've not seen any reference to it in the manual or on their web site and I /have/ gone looking for it. If I've missed something, I'd be extremely grateful if you could point it out - this is a feature I've wanted

Re: [asterisk-users] Implementing an Asterisk Server behind a MeridianNorstar

2008-07-23 Thread Rob Hillis
Alex Balashov wrote: Although, oddly enough, a lot of them can do VLAN trunking, etc. Not odd at all as far as I'm concerned - I know a number of places that segregate LAN traffic from VoIP traffic using multiple VLANs over the one physical link. VLANs would be the best solution (short of

Re: [asterisk-users] announcement server using asterisk

2008-07-26 Thread Rob Hillis
ballamudi madhulika wrote: Can I use Asterisk as an announcement server. We want to build announcement server with ISDN PRI card terminating on our server and announcement being fed on the incoming calls. With the right dialplan and scripts or AGIs, I don't see why not. Shouldn't be a

Re: [asterisk-users] Addressbook solution for Cisco 7961?

2008-07-30 Thread Rob Hillis
Patrick wrote: Andrew Latham wrote: Read my hacks on the Cisco phones in Oreilly's VoIP Hacks book Why the sales pitch for a 3 year old book? Can't you just give some information? It's not a sales pitch - the book that he refers to is freely downloadable from the web. He

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime still reads from .conf files

2008-07-31 Thread Rob Hillis
J.M. wrote: I've followed the instructions here (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+RealTime) and other places, however, Asterisk still reads information from the .conf files. How can I get Asterisk to read from the database and not from the .conf files? I realize the information

Re: [asterisk-users] outgoing call file and agi detect busy

2008-08-07 Thread Rob Hillis
Jerry Geis wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I am using asterisk 1.4.21 with outgoing call files. I am call a line that is busy as you can see below. How can my AGI ask what the status of the last call was so I can tell if there was NO ANSWER or it was BUSY? Thanks, Jerry -- Attempting

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime Unregister

2008-08-11 Thread Rob Hillis
If a phone is unplugged, it's not likely to have time to send notification of this to Asterisk before it powers off. There's nothing you can add to your dialplan to overcome this, however you *can* set the qualify parameter within sip.conf (or it's equivalent realtime table) to overcome this.

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF functionality

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Hillis
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 associated SPA932 console. We can get the BLF lights to blink when a phone is ringing and we can get the BLF lights to go solid when that

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