Re: [asterisk-users] Writing CDR's to two database servers

2017-06-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/6/17 4:47 pm, Tech Support wrote: I know that there are probably several solutions to this problem, but what I am trying to do is provide some redundancy for my customers CDR data. I know that doing simple backups of MySQL is probably the easiest way to go, but I'm thinking that there may

Re: [asterisk-users] Call List Campaign to an IVR

2017-02-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/2/17 5:24 pm, Tech Support wrote: Basically, two calls are made. ... When the first call is made for such a short period, the remote end still goes off hook, but the call will end before it starts to ring. Then, halfway through the first call, a second call is made. Since the remote end

Re: [asterisk-users] Phone provisioning template Snoms

2015-05-07 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 7 May 2015, at 23:45, Tafadzwa Nyabasa tnyab...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a phone provisioning template for Snom phones, Yealinks and Polycoms. I am always doing deployments of many phones and usually configure each phone one by one for each installation. Any help will be highly

Re: [asterisk-users] Anonymous SIP calls

2015-03-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 27/3/15 8:03 pm, James B. Byrne wrote: One only accepts VOIP calls from known correspondents. I am not clear why this is so other than vague warnings respecting (admittedly real and serious) security issues. Because on the whole most people don't *want* to receive calls from random

Re: [asterisk-users] BlindXfer Sensitivity

2015-02-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 16/2/15 4:13 pm, Andrew Colin wrote: The strange thing is its only sometimes my dial string is as follows exten = s,1, Dial (SIP/200,, tT) For that particular route but obviously s,3 as have Ringing () first etc. After she pushes ## 6 times it will go thru sometimes. Are you sure it's a

Re: [asterisk-users] Query on connecting 3G MSC with Asterisk PBX Server via SIP Interface.

2014-10-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/10/14 12:59 pm, A J Stiles wrote: Imagine what would have happened to the human race if Ugg the Caveman decided not to share the secret of making fire with everyone freely, but instead went around demanding shiny beads with menaces from anyone who just wanted to keep themselves warm .

Re: [asterisk-users] PBX hacked: why hundred of calls to the same number ?

2014-10-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/10/14 6:52 pm, Rainer Piper wrote: the attacking server changed the destination Number at 18:53 CEST and he is still blocked ... LOL 972597438354 callto:00972597438354 It's pretty much an everyday occurrence for any internet-connected SIP system these days... Oct 3 19:46:20

Re: [asterisk-users] how to strip +1 out of incoming number

2014-10-02 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 2/10/14 6:52 pm, motty cruz wrote: Hello, our VoIP send us caller ID +1(area)(number) for instance +16024224334 is there a way to strip +1 out of caller ID? ${CALLERID(num):1} should do what you're after (or :2 if you need to strip the + as well) Kind regards, Chris -- This email is

Re: [asterisk-users] Playback/background audio from MySQL BLOB

2014-09-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/9/14 10:36 am, A J Stiles wrote: But personally, I'd just store the filenames in the database; and rely on the unix filesystem for storing the actual file contents. After all, that's what a filesystem is for. This. Shocking as it might appear, filesystems are remarkably good at storing

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk secure fine tune - stop attack

2014-09-04 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 4/9/14 4:58 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: If we don't need to allow access from outside the USA we block access from all non-ARIN IP addresses by using iptables. This takes care of at least 80% of attacks. Likewise here (though RIPE rather than ARIN, since we're the other side of the pond).

Re: [asterisk-users] Internal timing under load is critical ?

2014-07-31 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 30/7/14 10:08 am, babak wrote: I am evaluating some voice broadcasting solutions based on Asterisks for more than 1000 simultaneous calls. As a matter of curiosity, what do people use these voice broadcasting solutions for? I'm genuinely struggling to think of (legal) reasons why you'd

Re: [asterisk-users] Limit Asterisk

2014-07-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/7/14 10:29 pm, Steve Edwards wrote: Don't buy hardware until you've identified (either empirical or calculated) the bottleneck. If you've plenty of spare RAM (and at 16GB I'd suggest you probably do), I'd throw in the possibility of recording to RAM disk, then moving the calls to hard

Re: [asterisk-users] Voicemail message to text

2014-05-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20 May 2014, at 15:35, Ishfaq Malik i...@pack-net.co.uk wrote: I was wondering if anyone has implemented voicemail to text and if so, what package is being used to do so? With the huge variety of different accents and intonations in human speech (even in one country), my experience of all

Re: [asterisk-users] cdr viewer for csv

2014-04-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:36, binary dreamer dreamer.bin...@gmail.com wrote: I am running asterisk and all of my CDRs are in the default csv. the system is so limited to ram (only 256) and I cannot run MySQL or any other program to give CDRs a fancy view. As an aside, have you considered running

Re: [asterisk-users] Open Source Asterisk Polling Solution

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/4/14 11:44 am, A J Stiles wrote: Firstly, be warned: Are you sure that is even legal to do in your jurisdiction? You could be setting yourself up for a hefty fine! Check applicable local laws before proceeding. This. I'm glad someone else thought it worth mentioning as well :-) Even

Re: [asterisk-users] Old Asterisk Release wanting to upgrade ...

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17/4/14 3:53 am, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote: I have written a lot of AEL2 script in Asterisk 1.4.x and I am not sure if it will still run in 11. If I'm honest, this is why I still have so many 1.4.x boxes around as well. I've been using 11 for new installs, but the thought of having to

Re: [asterisk-users] Live Recording on the Storage Server?

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17 Apr 2014, at 16:14, Paul Belanger paul.belan...@polybeacon.com wrote: hi. I would not do that due to network issues. My approach is to record everything locally and every hour or so to move everything to a storage. +1 save yourself the headache and do this. I'll add another +1 to this.

Re: [asterisk-users] Old Asterisk Release wanting to upgrade ...

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17/4/14 4:53 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: I had little problem converting my AEL scripts from 1.4 to 11 Did they have lots of macros in them? If so, then you, sir, are a better man than I, and I take my hat off to you :-) (and any hints you might want to share in converting 1.4 AEL macros to

Re: [asterisk-users] Replying to Posts

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/3/14 6:27 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: This is an example of why I top post. Who wrote what? Of course, if you use a mail client that's capable of quoting correctly, it all works beautifully. On 13/3/14 5:13 pm, Ron Wheeler wrote: -1 Prefer top posting. Easy to see if I want to scroll

Re: [asterisk-users] High Availability with Asterisk

2014-03-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/3/14 3:21 pm, Thorolf Godawa wrote: The idea would be having a HA-cluster of two servers with Xen, each of them runs one instance of an Asterisk-system in a single VM and on a failure the VM will be restarted on the other node. This might result in a much higher load on this node, because

Re: [asterisk-users] G729 Licensing Revisited - I'm Sorry!

2014-02-28 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 28/2/14 9:04 pm, Jayson Devor wrote: That being said, will purchasing 23 licenses (one for each channel that we use), and continue to use the open source g729 sorftware keep us legal? I know at least half a dozen people who do this so that they can more effectively balance their licence

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk NAT

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/2/14 4:53 am, Gholamreza Sabery wrote: Hello, a few days ago I sent a question: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2014-February/282241.html but no one answered me! I just want to know is it possible or not? I can't help on the can Asterisk detect they're behind the same

Re: [asterisk-users] Want Queues to ignore mobile operators voice mails and continue ringing...?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/2/14 9:21 am, Gareth Blades wrote: I would suggest using the 'M' option on the Dial command to run a macro. The macro can just wait fir a key to be pressed and until it is pressed the Dial is still effectively ringing. So if it does go to voicemail then the call wont get put through. You

Re: [asterisk-users] Want Queues to ignore mobile operators voice mails and continue ringing...?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/2/14 10:54 am, Tiago Geada wrote: How does one detect the 'divert' to voicemail? If you're using the mobile network's voicemail service, you can't as a general rule; you've no reliable way of knowing whether that call was answered by the user or their voicemail service. However, if

Re: [asterisk-users] IOPS required by Asterisk for Call Recording

2014-01-27 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/1/14 5:26 am, Amit wrote: How do I derive the requirement? I need to size IO system to record multiple calls concurrently. I suspect this might be your problem: 250GB SATA disk (No RAID) Is there any way to tune / optimize / configure for better write performance? Perhaps consider

Re: [asterisk-users] stopping unwanted attempts

2014-01-19 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/1/14 2:57 pm, Ron Wheeler wrote: fail2ban is so easy to set up, there is no reason not to set it up. One of the dangers with fail2ban - at least in its default configuration - is that a legitimate SIP phone with an incorrect password can quite easily send dozens of registration

Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine

2014-01-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10/1/14 8:16 pm, Jai Rangi wrote: Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. We recently used Ivona for a fairly complex IVR project (multi-lingual, including pronunciation of

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Mass exodus

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13 Nov 2013, at 18:29, Mike Diehl mdiehlena...@gmail.com wrote: I've been seeing some strangeness lately on my 10.2.1 server. It's gotten to the point that a few times each day, I see masses of SIP clients becoming unreachable. They're not all on the same network, and we don't see any

Re: [asterisk-users] What linux distro most popular for Asterisk

2013-10-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
Is there a recent survey of that Linux distro and version people are using for the Asterisk installations? I recall seeing a pie chart over a year ago (I think on a wiki but I can't find it again)also hoping for something more current. Mix of Gentoo and Ubuntu here (Gentoo mostly on old

Re: [asterisk-users] Using sqlite3 for CDR logging

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/10/13 5:52 pm, Tech Support wrote: I was thinking of using sqlite3 to log CDR's, thinking that would be faster than using MySQL. Has anyone ever benchmarked this to quantify just how much faster sqlite3 is? Are there any drawbacks to using it? Lack of multi-user concurrency is the big

Re: [asterisk-users] Dialplan MySQL inserted ID

2013-08-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/8/13 5:00 pm, A J Stiles wrote: Why not write an AGI script in your favourite language (Perl, Python, PHP, Java all have AGI and MySQL bindings) to perform the INSERT query for you? +1. It would also give you somewhere to perform sanity checks on your ${ARGS} to avoid SQL injection

Re: [asterisk-users] Paltel subscribers as called parties for SIP attacks

2013-08-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
FWIW, we routinely see dodgy traffic from: ovh.net hetzner.de But since those are 2 of the larger short-term contract dedicated server vendors, I'm not surprised about that. It's so frequent that I don't even bother reporting it any more - when an abuse report is acted upon and the server

Re: [asterisk-users] include directory with multiple files in it

2013-08-05 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 5/8/13 2:18 pm, Jonas Kellens wrote: is it possible to use the #include - syntax to include several configuration files situated in one directory ? Something like : extensions.conf : #include extra/* #include addons/* Is this possible ? Yes. You can also do crafty things like: #include

Re: [asterisk-users] Dongle or extra channel and sip SMS

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 15/7/13 3:00 am, bilal ghayyad wrote: I need to be able to send SMS messages for campaign or for specific users, also I need to be able to receive SMS messages and do automatic reply. In my experience, SMS is something best done out of Asterisk. That's not to say that Asterisk can't do

Re: [asterisk-users] PoE module

2013-07-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/7/13 8:12 pm, bilal ghayyad wrote: We have a cisco switches but they are not PoE and we need only to have PoE device so the cables come for it first to provide the power and then goes to the switch (to be like batch panel), is there something like this that can be used for the IP

Re: [asterisk-users] PoE L3 Switches

2013-07-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/7/13 11:45 pm, Gregory Malsack wrote: I've used a lot of Dlink DES-1228p and 1210-28p. Primarily with polycom phones. Seem to have pretty good luck with them for the last 7 years or so. +1. We've used quite a few DES-1228P units in the past, and apart from 2 early unit failures, we've

Re: [asterisk-users] I need a second opinion on a new phone system deployment

2013-06-15 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 15/6/13 7:00 pm, Carlos Alvarez wrote: Interesting product that I was very interested in, but the licensing has one huge glaring problem. Be sure to read the FAQ carefully. If your hardware fails and you replace almost anything in the machine, you have to pay for the product again. Not to

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk HA

2013-06-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/6/13 4:53 am, Gopalakrishnan N wrote: Any other HA applications available or the lsyncd with pacemaker is good? I generally use Pacemaker with Heartbeat, which seems to work pretty well. Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons --

Re: [asterisk-users] Issue in transcoding

2013-06-02 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 2/6/13 2:01 pm, Muhammad Yousuf wrote: I am trying to use asterisk as transcoder between voipswitch 2.0 and gsm gateway. Voipswitch supports g723.1 but gsm gateway does not. Now I have g723.1 codec in my asterisk. call leg from voipswitch is using codec g723.1 and call leg from gsm gateway

Re: [asterisk-users] Auto dialer scripts and software

2013-05-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/5/13 10:54 am, A J Stiles wrote: You do know that sort of thing is against the law -- or at least requires a permit from the authorities -- in most civilised countries, right? And it's worth adding that even if it is legal in your country, you're almost guaranteed to offend/annoy your

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Log rotate not working

2013-05-21 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 21/5/13 4:19 pm, Ahmed Munir wrote: Last year, I installed Asterisk 10.4.2 and enabled logrotate on daily basis which was working perfect. Now in couple of months back, the logrotate feature is not working at all but simply appending the logs in 'messages' file. Listing down down the

Re: [asterisk-users] Performance Asterisk large installation on Vmware/Xen

2013-05-18 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 18/5/13 8:09 pm, Mitul Limbani wrote: Not recommended to run Asterisk on Virualization I used to share that view, but having done a few medium-sized installs recently in virtualised environments and encountering no problems to speak of, I'm not sure it's necessarily the case any more.

Re: [asterisk-users] Monitoring SIP trunk status on call by call basis

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 14/5/13 4:30 pm, Ishfaq Malik wrote: I'm using asterisk 1.8.7.0 and adding a fail over trunk in case my primary goes down. I'm wondering what the best method of checking if the primary being up is. Well, the obvious start point might be ChanIsAvail() - that'll at least weed out an upstream

Re: [asterisk-users] looking for a way to do appointment reminders

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/4/13 10:38 am, jg wrote: they are currently calling patients. I think these calls apply only to a certain fraction of the patients, who are difficult to contact by other methods. I suspect there will be different requirements depending on how 'helpful' to patients you wish to be. At the

Re: [asterisk-users] looking for a way to do appointment reminders

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/4/13 10:14 am, Hans Witvliet wrote: Only reasonable option is to send them an SMS. Given the likelihood that a sizeable percentage of people attending a medical establishment are going to be at the upper end of the age scale, it's possible they may not have mobile phones, and even if

Re: [asterisk-users] looking for a way to do appointment reminders

2013-04-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/4/13 12:24 pm, jg wrote: This way the callees would always talk to a human being If possible, this would definitely be a Good Thing. Many people (myself included) will disconnect a call as soon as they realise it's a recorded message. It also means the human caller can confirm they

Re: [asterisk-users] Network based transcoding

2013-04-12 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 12/4/13 4:38 pm, Nick Khamis wrote: We were looking more into the lines of a scalable multi server router like a cisco 3745. Perhaps it might help to tell the list just how many concurrent calls you're looking to transcode? Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled

Re: [asterisk-users] Serviced Office operator panel

2013-03-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 11/3/13 11:07 pm, Andrew Yager wrote: Basically, if you know of a product, open or closed source, and would like to sell it to me and you think it does the job, or you've seen something that works, contact me off list ASAP! Actually, please post *on* the list if you know or have used

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk with 1000 extensions

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 7/3/13 6:50 am, Bharat Lalcheta wrote: You can use ATA box with pstn phone to reduce cost. I would caution against that approach. Analogue to Digital conversions often seem to have 'problems' - mostly related to hangup detection and/or echo. If you really do want to use analogue phones,

Re: [asterisk-users] Exiting the queue doesn't work

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 4/3/13 12:27 pm, Gertjan Baarda wrote: After extensively googling the issue, I've found everything (also bug related), accept my answer. What am I missing here? It sounds like the call is being caught by a retry cycle on the queue. Try adding n to your queue command from your dialplan.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8, Siemens C610IP with 3 handsets: all are ringing on incoming calls

2013-02-18 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 18/2/13 5:39 pm, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: on incoming call we have exten = 100,n,Dial(SIP/Handset_102SIP/Handset_103SIP/Handset_104,,) and always only Handset_102 is ringing, we receive busy back from the 2 others but they are not. Any clue? It depends which base station you're using -

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8, Siemens C610IP with 3 handsets: all are ringing on incoming calls

2013-02-17 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 17/2/13 5:02 pm, Administrator TOOTAI wrote: customer102/Handset_102 xxx.yyy.zzz.153 D N 5062 OK (80 ms) customer103/Handset_103 xxx.yyy.zzz.153 D N 5062 OK (70 ms) customer104/Handset_104 xxx.yyy.zzz.153 D

Re: [asterisk-users] SayDigits

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8/2/13 12:11 pm, Doug Lytle wrote: Is there a way to slow down or speed up the speed at which SayDigits So, I'd have to say no. I suppose potentially you could re-record the sound files to 'say' each digit faster (and with shorter rolloff at the end of each word), then put those into a

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd question - Give me your opinion please

2013-02-05 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 5/2/13 11:45 am, Jared Baxley wrote: The closest building is 950 ft, the second is 1850 ft. These two buildings are connected via LRE's using existing 6 Pair, Unfortunately re cabling isn't an option. Other buildings are even further from the office, about 15 or so scattered about that only

Re: [asterisk-users] How to connect a POTS robo alert dialer to asterisk with email notification

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/2/13 4:59 pm, David Smiley wrote: I finally found the perfect solution for me:http://www.amazon.com/La-Crosse-D111-101-E1-WGB-Wireless-Monitor/dp/B0081UR76G/ref=dp_ob_title_def The device is $69, plus $10/month for alerts. And I get to monitor the temperature online, which is a great

Re: [asterisk-users] RTP timeout if the asterisk box behind NAT

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 3/2/13 11:38 pm, bilal ghayyad wrote: What should I do? Given that you said: This problem was not appearing when Asterisk machine was having static real IP address because I was enabling the rtptimeout paramters. I do believe the solution is simple: put it back on a public IP. For what

Re: [asterisk-users] RJ11 x RJ45

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 1/2/13 12:41 pm, Luis H. Forchesatto wrote: Como que se faz um conector RJ45 em uma ponta e RJ11 e outra. Pretendo conectar a linha de um ATA em uma placa Khomp KFXO IP. A ponta que tem o conector RJ45 está crimpada com a sequencia 568B e vai ser conectada na placa Khomp, mas a ponta RJ11 eu

Re: [asterisk-users] AGI command

2013-01-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 20/1/13 4:15 pm, Eric Wieling wrote: Personally, I use the PHPAGI library and don't worry about all the low level stuff. This. It also gives you a nice logging function you can use to output debug information to the asterisk CLI so you don't have to kill and start asterisk interactively.

[asterisk-users] Voicemail and recordings storage: best practices

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I'm currently building a new cluster to replace our ageing Asterisk 1.4 infrastructure - it's easier to start from scratch then migrate users across than it is to upgrade 1.4 to 1.8 in situ. Anyway, it got me thinking about audio recordings in a multi-server environment and

Re: [asterisk-users] recrding calls

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 19/1/13 1:25 am, Joseph wrote: I would like to outgoing/icoming calls and email the files. This is what I have: exten = _7.,n,Set(CALLFILENAME=${EXTEN:1}-${TIMESTAMP}) exten = _7.,n,Monitor(wav,${CALLFILENAME},m) How do I email these file? You probably want to use MixMonitor() instead of

Re: [asterisk-users] DIDForSale spam

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10 Jan 2013, at 22:09, C. Savinovich c.savinov...@itntelecom.com wrote: Unfortunately, there is a fine line between being a forum where people can exchange ideas, and being a forum where people can find asterisk consultants, and both don't seem to co-exist well together. Isn't this

Re: [asterisk-users] Need help designing implementation

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/11/12 6:33 pm, Dyweni - Asterisk-Users wrote: I want to setup two Asterisk servers that are linked to each other: - The first server would be my external (public) server and would live in a real data center. The second server would be my internal (private) server and would live in my

Re: [asterisk-users] Noise on phones while speaking...

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/11/12 6:52 pm, Carlos Chavez wrote: Why would a SIP to SIP call have this noise? Check to see what random stuff they have on their desk. We've regularly seen things like mobile phones (or cellphones to those of you across the pond :-) ) causing interference with VoIP phones. We've

Re: [asterisk-users] Sending calls from behind NAT

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 13/11/12 9:31 pm, Leighton Brennan wrote: It looks like you need to enable the sip application layer gateway or ALG on your router Quite often the reverse is true. Most routers (at least those I've used) seem to have such a lousy implementation of a SIP ALG it's often far better to just

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Support from Digium

2012-11-04 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 4/11/12 8:37 pm, Danny Dias wrote: For example, if i install a FreePBX/Elastix I'd be very surprised (no, actually, I'd be *amazed*) if Digium were prepared to provide support on a product from a third party, which is what FreePBX and Elastix effectively are. Kind regards, Chris --

Re: [asterisk-users] Multitenant opensouce application

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 31/10/12 6:20 pm, Darin Iv wrote: is another way to build Multi Tenant system, have to design like Company A: Context Company_A IVR Company A Extensions: 101,102,103,104 etc. snip Is there any particular reason why it needs to be _exactly_ like that? FWIW, we use companyA-201,

Re: [asterisk-users] high capacity analog - sip gateway

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/10/12 9:49 pm, Justin Killen wrote: What would be the advantage of using 100 single units vs. just buying VoIP phones? That doesn't seem very cost effective to me in the long run. In older buildings with existing single pair cabling, there might not be a great deal of choice. We

Re: [asterisk-users] Call Termination Provider Madness

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 2/10/12 6:51 pm, Carlos Alvarez wrote: Your traffic level, number of concurrent calls, etc would help us know what sort of carrier you should be talking to. Equally important, your geographic location, and the geographic location to which most of your calls are made will be useful in

[asterisk-users] Maximum messages in voicemail

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I've seen a few errors recently in our logs along the lines of: [Sep 10 17:41:41] WARNING[6719] app_voicemail.c: Save failed. Not moving message: destination folder full. maxmsg in voicemail.conf is set to 1000. I've checked the mailboxes on the server in question, and the

Re: [asterisk-users] Maximum messages in voicemail

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10/9/12 6:48 pm, Danny Nicholas wrote: What flavor of asterisk? Realtime or just files? Post your voicemail.conf. Flat files, latest 1.4.x Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons -- _ --

Re: [asterisk-users] Japanese voicefiles

2012-08-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/8/12 5:26 pm, Adrian Marsh wrote: I've a few questions around languages I'm on 1.4.18 (old yes I know, but upgradings not an option just yet). I've downloaded the gsm Japanese files from ftp://ftp.voip-info.jp/asterisk/sounds/ and put them in place I've found that when I switch to

[asterisk-users] qualifysmoothing

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I have a scenario where half a dozen phones at a site appear to be dropping offline for a few seconds every few hours, but the connection between them and the asterisk server remains up. It's been suggested to me that the problem might be to do with qualify - which is

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium IP Phone D40 quality, very bad

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bagnall
However, there's no reboot button in the web GUI of the phone. I have no experience with the phone in question and so will make no comment regarding the OP's original problem, but the absence of a software reboot function in the web GUI seems to be a pretty major oversight in my view. I do

Re: [asterisk-users] What TTS to use?

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 26/7/12 11:08 am, Ishfaq Malik wrote: I'm thinking about deploying TTS onto our asterisk servers and was just wondering which ones people use and like... We've tried Festival, Cepstral and Ivona. Ivona was by far and away the best. If you need free (or very low cost) then your only real

Re: [asterisk-users] What TTS to use?

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Bagnall
UK English is exactly what we're after. Did you try flite at all? No, I wasn't aware of flite when we ran these tests. Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] click to call

2012-07-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
On the subject of click to call - admittedly not necessarily what the OP was after - I had some marketing blurb from VMware about Zimbra 8 this morning. Apparently one of the new shiny features is integrated C2C (and other unified comms stuff). Has anyone had a chance to play with the SDK as

Re: [asterisk-users] Trixbox or FreePBX or Elastix or PBX In a Flash

2012-07-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 10/7/12 7:46 pm, Tim Nelson wrote: Not to sound like a broken record or anything... but I'd say give Elastix a go. It is top notch in terms of release quality and features. And, being based on FreePBX, you can set it to 'Device and User' mode instead of the default extensions mode so users

Re: [asterisk-users] BT Fibre and 2701HGV

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/6/12 9:59 am, Ishfaq Malik wrote: Does anyone have any experience of connecting SIP phones to an asterisk server through the 2701HGV router that BT supply with their Infinity product? Good luck with that. The BT 'Home Hub' and 'Business Hub' routers they supply with retail ADSL and

Re: [asterisk-users] Intro to DECT vs IP

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 29/6/12 11:16 pm, Michelle Dupuis wrote: Can you really mix match any base station with any DECT handset? Yes and no. Do handsets have proprietary features which only work with their own basestations? (eg: transfer between handsets)? Yes. And that's the 'no' part of my answer above -

Re: [asterisk-users] Intro to DECT vs IP

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 30/6/12 12:12 am, Michelle Dupuis wrote: I like the look of the C610H. Is there a matching DECT base station by Gigaset? I use the N300IP. Supports 3 active SIP calls I believe - and yes, does have multiple SIP accounts (6, if I recall correctly). Kind regards, Chris -- This email is

Re: [asterisk-users] Running Asterisk on VMware ESX

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 8/6/12 9:17 pm, Hiers, Richard wrote: I don't expect to need to use any special hardware, just a sip trunk over our broadband connection. We have about 150 phones at present. Is ESX a viable platform for us? And second, what is the recommended virtual configuration (mem, cpu, etc.)?

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Incoming fax cuts ADSL line

2012-05-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
I've experienced this quite a few times, and after working with a local telco, it has become policy to not place ADSL on lines where fax is going to be used I too have seen this, and also with credit card processing machines in shops that 'dial' the merchant bank to process transactions (in

Re: [asterisk-users] Call Transfer not working

2012-04-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9/4/12 3:04 am, Takehiro Matsushima wrote: // I don't know what's difference t and T. T allows the caller to transfer. t allows the called user to transfer. You very rarely want Tt - since I doubt you want an incoming caller to be able to transfer their call all over the place. You

Re: [asterisk-users] Reliable SIP Trunk Provider

2012-03-15 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 15/3/12 3:45 pm, Jake Wicke wrote: I'm wondering if any other Asterisk users have a recommendation for a reliable SIP Trunk provider that supports Asterisk and offers decent support. You should probably let the list know what region/country you're in, as you'll want to be as close (i.e.

[asterisk-users] Low cost BRI gateway

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I'm trying to source a very basic ISDN BRI - SIP gateway. Unfortunately, everything I've seen seems to want to do lots of other things - registering handsets, IVRs, voicemail, etc. I only want it to present an ISDN BRI as a SIP account - I have an asterisk server for the

[asterisk-users] AGI: blocking script until playback complete

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I've done AGI scripting before, but in the past I've always wanted control to be returned to the dialplan as soon as possible. However, today I have a scenario where I want the script to remain running during the playback of a file so that I can read DTMF at the end of

Re: [asterisk-users] AGI: blocking script until playback complete

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/2/12 2:55 pm, Danny Nicholas wrote: You don't state the Asterisk version you are running, but personal experience tells me you'd better invest in some Rogaine if you're depending on the built-in stuff from AGI for DTMF input. I have personally wasted weeks trying it. Sorry, should have

Re: [asterisk-users] AGI: blocking script until playback complete

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/2/12 2:50 pm, Zohair Raza wrote: Try passing escape character GET DATA $filename $timeout $max_digits $escape_character Not sure I follow - according to the docs, there is no parameter $escape_character The problem seems to be that GET DATA returns control to the script before the

Re: [asterisk-users] AGI: blocking script until playback complete

2012-02-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 22/2/12 3:39 pm, Ron Bergin wrote: Have you tried increasing the timeout value in the command? To me, it appears to be too short. Try setting it to 5. Thanks for the suggestion - I tried 5, but no difference, it's not waiting at _all_ for the playback to complete. Just for

[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8 minimum modules/configuration

2011-06-07 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, Has anyone compiled (or could point me at) a list of the minimum required modules and conf files for a very basic 1.8 deployment? We have lots of 1.4 boxes in production, and I'm currently setting up a pair of 1.8 boxes to bounce calls coming in via IAX over IPv6 over to the

[asterisk-users] Preserving CDR(accountcode) in Local channels

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, Whilst running through a routine check of some CDRs, I've noticed that the originating channel's accountcode isn't preserved on creating a local channel. For example, if we start with: exten = 123,1,Set(CDR(accountcode)=foo) exten = 123,n,Queue(bar,nrtw,,,) And the queue 'bar'

[asterisk-users] Dahdi 2.3.0.1 fails to compile in Xen DomU

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Bagnall
Greetings list, I've compiled and installed dahdi countless times on standalone machines, but recently I've been trying to compile Dahdi in a Xen DomU without much success. The errors I'm seeing are as follows:

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: Bandwidth calculations

2010-06-25 Thread Chris Bagnall
ISP 10% rule is what you are asking about expected that average usage is 10% of total subscribers with bursts higher But remember to plan well for those bursts and ensure you have sufficient excess capacity. Certain events can have a significant effect on your burst pattern: some

Re: [asterisk-users] Blind transfer feature

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Bagnall
Am running 1.4.18 at the moment, and am trying to implement inline blind transfer. I have : [featuremap] blindxfer = *6 ; Blind transfer Do remember that asterisk needs to be in the media stream for this to work, so you'll want to make sure (in the case of SIP devices) you've set

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
I'm looking to build an Asterisk box that can run at a remote location. We've used the Asus eeeBox (desktop version of their little netbooks) quite successfully in past projects: Atom 1.6, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Generally we run Gentoo Linux with Asterisk 1.4.latest, but no reason why you

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-14 Thread Chris Bagnall
Actually, the Atom seems to be surprisingly powerful. We have a couple of Atom boxes with transcoding and conferences enabled without issue. I wouldn't pretend it'll cope with hundreds of conference participants, but with ~10 or so it seems to be fine. Likewise with transcoding - we've only

Re: [asterisk-users] [OT] Asterisk 1.6 and DECT Phones

2010-02-22 Thread Chris Bagnall
looking for your valued input on suitable suggestions for high quality VoIP DECT phones. I am having real issues with my Snom M3s and Asterisk 1.6 and looking to a new manufacturer. We've been using the Siemens Gigaset range for a few years now (specifically C475IP and S685IP). Not had any

Re: [asterisk-users] Snom Phones Registration/Failover Feature

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Bagnall
I was reading in the documentation about the SNOM phones (mainly 300) but I did not find anything in the users-pdf's or on there knowledgebase/website which would tell me if this is possible, there is something for failover configuration but it is not explained at all. It's highly appreciated

Re: [asterisk-users] SNOM 870

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Bagnall
Anybody tried one with Asterisk yet ? Views ? Apparently not available until the end of August. We've certainly used the Snom 820 with Asterisk without any issue in the past, and since both are based on (largely) the same software, I doubt there'll be any major problems with asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] SNOM Phones Displays NR Frequently

2009-08-08 Thread Chris Bagnall
First things first. You are running /very/ old versions of firmware - particularly on the 300 and 320. Upgrade them. I've been running 7.3.14 for some time without a problem, though it appears that 7.3.23 is now out. I concur about upgrading the software, but I'd stick with 7.3.14 for now

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