Re: [asterisk-users] meetme conference using g729?

2007-10-05 Thread Peter Fern
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2007 06:09:01 Peter Fern wrote: Of course, I could be missing something obvious, please correct me if that's the case. I invite you to try it. You could make a lot of really smart people look like fools if you're able to mix

Re: [asterisk-users] meetme conference using g729?

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Fern
Tilghman Lesher wrote: Or, in other words, you cannot mix compressed data. You must first decompress the data for mixing, then recompress it for transmission. During both operations, there is a potential for signal degradation. Ummm, why?? Unless you can explain some technical reason

[asterisk-users] app_read prematurely bridges channels

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Fern
searched the bugtracker to no avail, full debug gives no useful data that I can see - is this a known bug, and does anyone have a workaround? Regards, Peter Fern ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Announcement Haiku

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Fern
Scott, you know you really have too much time on your hands when... :) Scott Gifford wrote: This extremely useful dialplan requires the standard Asterisk sounds, plus the additional ones in the asterisk-sounds package. Scott. [haiku] exten = s,1,Playback(privacy-please-dial) exten =

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Get sysdate + 5 minutes

2006-04-21 Thread Peter Fern
${EPOCH} * Current unix style epoch Add your 5mins as seconds, and convert if necessary, you could do it like this in the dialplan to give the same format as ${DATETIME} (which is deprecated by the way): ${STRFTIME($[${EPOCH} + 300],,%d%m%Y-%H:%M:%S)} Read doc/README.variables to find out

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voice mail issuse when pressing 0

2006-04-21 Thread Peter Fern
Yeah, I got it a couple of times. Doug Lytle wrote: An outside caller started to leave voice mail. The CLI shows: Recording the message -- x=0, open writing: /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/sip/4232/INBOX/msg format: gsm, 0x8295d40 -- x=1, open writing:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Background() and Read()

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Fern
You should use the 'filename' parameter of Read to play the audio so that it captures the input. Currently what's happening is that digits entered whilst background is running are passed into the dialplan context, since there's no match in the dialplan and you don't have an 'i' extension it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] channels change names

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Fern
Probably because the Local proxy channel drops out once the two sides have been bridged. If you want the Local chan to stay up, use the /n parameter and the local channel won't perform the native transfer. This does have it's own problems, but should do what you want. eg: Channel:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] queues and the '*' key

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Fern
From: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+AgentCallbackLogin More info Unlike with AgentLogin the agent is not permanently off-hook (on-line). Instead the agent will be called at the designated extension when a new queue caller has been assigned to him. The agent goes off-hook

Re: [Asterisk-Users] channels change names

2006-04-20 Thread Peter Fern
own variable (shortterm). On 4/20/06, Peter Fern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably because the Local proxy channel drops out once the two sides have been bridged. If you want the Local chan to stay up, use the /n parameter and the local channel won't perform the native transfer. This does have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SIP channel unavailable/busy/really not there

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Fern
Steve Kennedy wrote: Is there a way to differentiate between a SIP address which hasn't registered (but is within sip.conf) and one that's not there at all (i.e. not in sip.conf) using a straight dialplan. I'd like to differentiate actions depending the state of a SIP device and whether it's

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Who is on a call?

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Fern
Douglas Garstang wrote: The 'sip show channels' and 'show channels' command aren't exactly easy to interpret, especially if one of the numbers has pic codes and rate centers inserted (the rest is truncated on the output), or you have a proxy involved in the call. Wish someone with some C

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dial out .call files File permissions??

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Fern
Tomislav Vojvodic wrote: If you put 777 on some file, that means that anyone can read/write/execute that file.. I think that file ownership isn't important in that case, but if you want to set 'precise' permissions so that only user 'asterisk' can deal with it.. then type chmod 644 filename

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dropped calls

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Fern
Chris Mason (Lists) wrote: I have been experiencing dropped calls on my iax2 connections between my Asterisk server and my ITSP providers, I use Teliax and Voxee but it seems to happen on both so I don't think it is the provider. I don't see any packet loss at the time so I don't think it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] CHINA DID

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Fern
Should be posted to the -biz list? Steve Ducat wrote: CHINA DID I am once again in search of China DID's. Either Shanghai (021) or Guangzhou (020). Please advise if you can supply. Steven Ducat. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with chan_iax.c implimentation causes bad audio?

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Fern
I've had terrible audio quality with IAX2 on Asterisk 1.2, there was a thread about it some time ago and many people reported the same thing. I think the thread was entitled 'problem with new jitterbuffer implementation' or something similar. However, it did not appear to be the jitterbuffer

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with intermittent one-way audio

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Fern
I've had the same problem with all boxen running the same version. We ditched IAX2 for SIP and it has been working fine since. Doug Lytle wrote: Barry Flanagan wrote: Hi, I have a 1.2.4 asterisk box at a remote location, which is using IAX2 to connect to a 1.2.5 box for PSTN. There are 15

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problem with chan_iax.c implimentation causes bad audio?

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Fern
asterisk 1.0.9 ish. So perhaps the IAX issue is only recent in 1.1-- ? On 3/20/06, Peter Fern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had terrible audio quality with IAX2 on Asterisk 1.2, there was a thread about it some time ago and many people reported the same thing. I think the thread was entitled

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk download file locations

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Fern
Still, if you mirror them yourself, this problem all but goes away. Alistair Cunningham wrote: Colin, Because having the logic is not the correct thing to do from an engineering point of view. Consider: - What if Digium change the directory structure again? Having a published directory

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Matching '*'

2006-02-27 Thread Peter Fern
Use of '_.' is discouraged. In this case, '_[*X].' should work I think Douglas Garstang wrote: I'm trying to find a way in extensions.conf to match ANYTHING dialled, including characters such as *. The following works for numbers... exten = _X.,1,AGI(script) but doesn't catch when

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.4 IAX2 New Jitterbuffer Tuning

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Fern
I had exactly the same experience running IAX2, but also experienced half-duplex calls on top of that (though I think that's a different but with IAX handoff), and in the end dropped it completely for SIP. We run g729 over dedicated fibre, and the resyncs were occurring all over the place

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Queue Messages not playing when caller is inside queue

2006-02-19 Thread Peter Fern
In queues.conf: [queuename] announce-frequency = XX ; where XX = number of seconds Rajkumar S wrote: David Ankers wrote: Don't you need an exten = s,1,Answer The full sequence is: [ivr] ; Voice Menu exten = s, 1, wait(2) exten = s, 2, Answer exten = s, 3,Goto,MainMenu|s|1 [MainMenu]

Re: [Asterisk-Users] 79xx's and call queues

2006-02-16 Thread Peter Fern
We disabled call waiting to stop the beep. Gary Richardson wrote: Hey, I'm testing out some call queues. I have 7940's and 7960's with the SIP 7.4 image. I have a queue that looks something like: [testqueue] strategy = rrmemory timeout = 15 retry = 5 weight = 0 announce-frequency = 0

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can I escape queue with a '*'?

2006-02-16 Thread Peter Fern
Use a context=blah line in your queue config with an extension * in it? Joseph Rothstein wrote: I am trying to exactly this using 1.2.4, and it doesn't happne. DTMF works fine for VM and IVR. Joe ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dial command to connect two channels and bypass asterisk server

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Fern
You can enable this on a per-peer basis with: sip peers: canreinvite=yes iax peers: notransfer=no Check the iax.conf.sample and sip.conf.sample files for usage. Nitin Gupta wrote: Hi I was wondering if its possible to make Dial command bridge two channels and after bridging bypass asterisk,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] sip channel status - how?

2006-02-09 Thread Peter Fern
It errors when you ask it for the channel 'test-1' because the parameter is the channel name, not the peer name. I've used 'show channels concise' and then parsed the output in the past. Peter Hoppe wrote: Hello! I have an asterisk setup where several sip devices are connected to an

Re: [Asterisk-Users] dummy Technology/resource for Dial

2006-02-06 Thread Peter Fern
The 'local' technology might be what you want, you can use it to dial an extension/context, and handle call direction there. It will actually always answer technically though, and will split your CDRs. You will also want to watch out for variable inheritance when using local channels. Brian

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Networking voicemail

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
You could give each of your users a 'home' asterisk machine by an extension numbering convention and route voicemail based on their number. It would mean that voicemail messages won't be able to be forwarded to a user homed on another machine though I would imagine. We went for a centralised

Re: [Asterisk-Users] determining if a call to a SIP extensions is from a queue

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
Just set one in the dialplan as you enter the queue? Damon Estep wrote: I am using agentcallbacklogin for queues I have a desire to modify the call behavior to the agents extension if the call is from a queue (opposed to from a PRI or another extension). Is there a channel variable that can

Re: [Asterisk-Users] changing cisco 7940/7960 standard menus ?

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
Only using SCCP, SIP firmware is set in stone. Alex Ongena wrote: Hi, We are using Asterisk 1.2.1 with Cisco 7940 and 7960 phones. Most things are running fine ;-) But, when you are calling and you want to Transfer, you need to press first on the 'more' button (4th), then you have the label

Re: [Asterisk-Users] (newby) Is PING a good indicator of latency?

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Iperf Not just latency, but jitter, etc - basically you can simulate various types of traffic and generate statistics. You will need two ends to test with. Cosmin Prund wrote: As the subject line says: Is PING a good indicator of network latency? If not,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] MOH sourced from a sound card?

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
in your kernel. Mark Phillips wrote: How does the customer maintain the message if I have to capture it every time he changes it? This is not the solution. Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI Randolph, NJ http://www.g7ltt.com Peter Fern wrote: Using the classic MoH, use a custom moh player (see http

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digit timeouts vs includes in diaplan

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
Don't know why you would have been experiencing pauses beforehand, but you can specify a digittimeout with: Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=#) Michaƫl Gaudette wrote: Hi, I have a little situation with my dialplan, and I am wondering if what I want is even possible. Here it is: I have three

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk hangs on 1.2.1

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Fern
I'm pretty sure I've seen some commits dealing with channel locking since 1.2.1 Brent Torrenga wrote: Might it be related to the memory leak bug? Upgrade to 1.2.4? (shot in the dark, a brainstorm on my part is all) Here's what the logfile shows. Any ideas? And is there a way to fix the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] missing pre pattern matching feature

2006-01-31 Thread Peter Fern
_X. should do the job for you. Harald Holzer wrote: Hi, is there a way to executing commands in the dialplan regardless which number is dialed before the pattern matching starts ? when a call enters the first context it would be nice if i can set some variable or manipulate a callerid, or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] MOH sourced from a sound card?

2006-01-31 Thread Peter Fern
Using the classic MoH, use a custom moh player (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+config+musiconhold.conf) and sox with the alsa pseudo-filetype, and output to stdout with the correct bitrate and samples... see the sox manpage for instructions. Untested, but I think

Re: [Asterisk-Users] adress book

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Fern
This all depends on what your existing setup is, mainly where you are storing your sip users in the first place. No point duplicating your user list. The Ciscos consume XML, so just parse out the list of users via some scripting language from the DB/directory/flat-files or whatever you're

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Suddenly No audio

2006-01-25 Thread Peter Fern
Yep, I just got stung by this too - an hour of extreme pain, multiple * boxen all failed at precisely the same moment, and they're in different timezones, so must be a calc on epoch or UTC. Anyone shed any light on this? I'm hacking our CDRs currently to work around the difference in year,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] mpg123 removal

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Fern
That's been happenning since 1.2 - if the parent * process dies the mp123 process doesn't go with it like it should and will just eat your processor right up, if you're using 1.2, I'd definitely suggest using native moh. Robert La Ferla wrote: Chris Albertson wrote: Second even if there

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using local\number

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Fern
Either include the context containing the definition: [second-context] include = other-context or specify the context in the dial command: Dial(local/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Matt wrote: Hi, What do I have to do to get local\number to work in a context? It works from my [from-internal]...

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FastAGI available?

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Fern
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+FastAGI Mike Fedyk wrote: Is there anything like FastCGI for Asterisk so that AGIs can have persistent processes? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ChanSpy via external application

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Fern
Just implemented a similar feature here - apparently the chanprefix won't accept a full channel identifier, so I ended up dropping the last character (this works for me since all the sip delivery we want to monitor is to individual handsets - I won't be monitoring any channels that are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ChanSpy via external application

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Fern
Ahh, I'm running r7233, I'll update to the latest rev to pull in the changes, thanks Juan. Juan Jose Comellas wrote: This problem has been already corrected in Asterisk 1.2. See this bug: http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=6009 On Monday 09 January 2006 00:51, Peter Fern wrote: Just