asterisk users - Oct 2004 - SPA3000 as a replacement for X100P

I am still haveing problems (echo) with my X100P but I'm thinking it has
more to do with the server it is in which is not a negotiable item at
this time. My question then is to the use of SPA3000's as a replacement
from the FXO standpoint.

1. Can you setup the FXO port to recognize distinctinve ring and call a
different context like you can do with Zap channels? Being able to call
a different extension inside the same context would be even better.

2. What about fax? Can FXO recognize fax and send it somewhere
different? (Force codec, maybe just bridge gw0-gw1, etc.)

3. On the dialplan side, is there a mechanism for grouping FXO's like in
Zap so I could have a pool of these. (I recognize that you probably
want to go with something else for a quantity of FXO's but for the
home/soho a pool could mean as little as 2 and you still want to
leverage the functionality).

Thanks, dbc.
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David Cook

On Fri,  8 Oct 2004 09:09:33 -0400, David Cook <dbc_asterisk@advan.ca>
wrote:
> 2. What about fax? Can FXO recognize fax and send it somewhere
> different? (Force codec, maybe just bridge gw0-gw1, etc.)
I haven't tried this yet, but it is my understanding that the SPA does
recognise incoming FAX and you could for example then send it to a FAX
machine connected to the FXS port.
> 3. On the dialplan side, is there a mechanism for grouping FXO's like
in
> Zap so I could have a pool of these. (I recognize that you probably
> want to go with something else for a quantity of FXO's but for the
> home/soho a pool could mean as little as 2 and you still want to
> leverage the functionality).
If you have only two lines and use two SPAs, I tend to think that the
effort to write your Asterisk dialplan to do the grouping "manually"
so to speak would still be reasonable. In my view, the more lines you
are going to have, the less sense it makes using SPAs and you should
rather be looking into multiport FXOs with a built-in facility to
group the ports.

rgds
benjk

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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:09:33AM -0400, David Cook
wrote:
> I am still haveing problems (echo) with my X100P but I'm thinking it
has
> more to do with the server it is in which is not a negotiable item at
> this time. My question then is to the use of SPA3000's as a replacement
> from the FXO standpoint.
I just got a SPA3000 and I have some slight echo issues there as well although I
havn't upgraded the firmware yet so that may go away.
> 
> 1. Can you setup the FXO port to recognize distinctinve ring and call a
> different context like you can do with Zap channels? Being able to call
> a different extension inside the same context would be even better.
> 
No, the only distinctive ring feature of the SPA3k is to ring the FXS port
in different ways.  There are however cheap boxes on Ebay that will detect
distinctive ring and route the call to different phones/SPAs so this might
be an option.
> 2. What about fax? Can FXO recognize fax and send it somewhere
> different? (Force codec, maybe just bridge gw0-gw1, etc.)
Not so far as I can tell.  It does detect faxes but it doesn't seem to do
much with that info.

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Ray

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:40:48 +0200, Antoine Delaporte <adlp@adlp.org>
wrote:
> With mine no echo problem, but the sound level is very low... :/
> You have to speak higher to be heard...
Raise the TxGain setting on the SPA.

rgds
benjk

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>> With mine no echo problem, but the sound level is very low... :/
>> You have to speak higher to be heard...
> Raise the TxGain setting on the SPA.
and get echo

randy

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:16:04 -0700, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
wrote:
> >> With mine no echo problem, but the sound level is very low... :/
> >> You have to speak higher to be heard...
> > Raise the TxGain setting on the SPA.
> 
> and get echo
Raise and lower the TxGain until you find the right balance, then.

rgds
benjk

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