asterisk users - May 2015 - Asterisk as "Proxy" and more device for a number

Kevin Larsen <kevin.larsen at pioneerballoon.com> schrieb:

Hi Kevin,
> If you want to go the Asterisk from scratch route, you would do well to 
> pick up a book on the subject. Since you seem comfortable with English, 
> "Asterisk: The Definitive Guide" is a good place to start. This
will teach
> you how to build an Asterisk system from the ground up. Depending on what 
> you want to do, this may also be overkill.
Maybe I got it...
I installed an asterisk on a VM with Ubuntu 10.04 and I got it connecting to
another Test-VM with AsteriskNOW and with an italian VoIP-provider.
The very difficult was to understand, that my phone just can manage ONE
profile at time, so I had to configure Asterisk to receive all calls from the
different providers an send them ONE profile (on my phone).

Next step is to configure Asterisk for the other phone (for my wife) and
having all calls of her number forwarded to my phone and her phone.

Next step again is to manage outgoing calls going to the right provider.

Then it would be nice if I can forward calls from a phone to the other.

Last but not least, I need to use HylaFAX on an account on Asterisk.
I had many problems with T38Modem, so I'll try with IAXModem, maybe I'll
got
it...

Regards
Luca Bertoncello
(lucabert at lucabert.de)

> Maybe I got it...
> I installed an asterisk on a VM with Ubuntu 10.04 and I got it 
connecting to
> another Test-VM with AsteriskNOW and with an italian VoIP-provider.
> The very difficult was to understand, that my phone just can manage ONE
> profile at time, so I had to configure Asterisk to receive all calls 
from the
> different providers an send them ONE profile (on my phone).
> 
> Next step is to configure Asterisk for the other phone (for my wife) and
> having all calls of her number forwarded to my phone and her phone.
> 
> Next step again is to manage outgoing calls going to the right provider.
> 
> Then it would be nice if I can forward calls from a phone to the other.
> 
> Last but not least, I need to use HylaFAX on an account on Asterisk.
> I had many problems with T38Modem, so I'll try with IAXModem, maybe
I'll
got
> it...
Glad you have it working. You should only need one Asterisk server to do 
what you want unless you just want to have one with the GUI and one for 
testing purposes. I would recommend starting with something newer than 
Ubuntu 10.04 as it is pretty much at its end of life. 14.04 would be a 
better choice at this point.

Regardless of how you end up directing your incoming calls, that KE1020A 
phone is pretty old and it might be worthwhile to see about upgrading it 
to something newer. The Thomson ST2022 you have does seem to have the 
capability to have two lines on it. Haven't used one before, so hard to 
say how good it handles that. Whatever you do, though, having two 
identical phones will be helpful to you (and your wife) as you won't have 
to try to remember how each phone works and troubleshooting problems is 
easier if you can look at a phone that is working of the same model.

There are a couple of ways you can approach directing your calls to the 
right outgoing provider. One would be to have two separate lines on your 
phone and just pick which one you want to use that will direct all calls 
to the right provider. If your calls follow a pattern (i.e. calls to this 
country go to this provider and calls to that country to to the other 
provider), you can have Asterisk recognize the pattern and automatically 
direct the calls for you. This is nice as others won't have to remember 
which line to use.

Asterisk has built in forwarding capabilities by dialing the right feature 
code during a call to initiate a forward to another extension. Many phones 
also have this feature built in. I use Polycom phones and can transfer 
calls just by hitting the transfer button and dialing who I want to 
transfer to.

I have used the HylaFax/IAXModem solution with a client and it worked 
fairly well. I will warn you that faxes over VoIP connections are 
inherently worse than over a regular phone line. They can be made to be 
almost as good or they can just be horrible, but either way, faxing is no 
fun, especially considering that the problems can be caused before the fax 
ever reaches your system. Hopefully your provider supports T.38 properly, 
in which case faxing will be much nicer.
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Kevin Larsen <kevin.larsen at pioneerballoon.com> schrieb:

Hi Kevin!
> Glad you have it working. You should only need one Asterisk server to do 
> what you want unless you just want to have one with the GUI and one for 
> testing purposes. I would recommend starting with something newer than 
> Ubuntu 10.04 as it is pretty much at its end of life. 14.04 would be a 
> better choice at this point.
Please NOT! I've seen the 14.04 and I DON'T want to have this
distribution on
my PC...
Too many problems...
Maybe the 10.04 is old, but it works... :)
> Regardless of how you end up directing your incoming calls, that KE1020A 
> phone is pretty old and it might be worthwhile to see about upgrading it 
> to something newer. The Thomson ST2022 you have does seem to have the 
> capability to have two lines on it. Haven't used one before, so hard to
> say how good it handles that. Whatever you do, though, having two 
> identical phones will be helpful to you (and your wife) as you won't
have
> to try to remember how each phone works and troubleshooting problems is 
> easier if you can look at a phone that is working of the same model.
Maybe the phones are old, but I don't want to pay more money for a change I
didn't want (changing to VoIP with no ISDN anymore).
If I get them working with Asterisk on my OpenWRT-Switch, it's enough..
> There are a couple of ways you can approach directing your calls to the 
> right outgoing provider. One would be to have two separate lines on your 
> phone and just pick which one you want to use that will direct all calls 
> to the right provider. If your calls follow a pattern (i.e. calls to this 
> country go to this provider and calls to that country to to the other 
> provider), you can have Asterisk recognize the pattern and automatically 
> direct the calls for you. This is nice as others won't have to remember
> which line to use.
What I really need is that the phones make call using the "right"
account by
Deutsche Telekom, so that my phone works using my account and the phone of my
wife (another number) using her account.
> Asterisk has built in forwarding capabilities by dialing the right feature 
> code during a call to initiate a forward to another extension. Many phones 
> also have this feature built in. I use Polycom phones and can transfer 
> calls just by hitting the transfer button and dialing who I want to 
> transfer to.
I'll see if it is possible by me...
> I have used the HylaFax/IAXModem solution with a client and it worked 
> fairly well. I will warn you that faxes over VoIP connections are 
> inherently worse than over a regular phone line. They can be made to be 
> almost as good or they can just be horrible, but either way, faxing is no 
> fun, especially considering that the problems can be caused before the fax 
> ever reaches your system. Hopefully your provider supports T.38 properly, 
> in which case faxing will be much nicer.
I know, but since I don't had a choice, I must try...
Hopefully, it works...

Regards
Luca Bertoncello
(lucabert at lucabert.de)