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Hello there, I'm a new Asterisk user and I wonder if it is possible to associate a voicemail box with a group of users, i.e., a single recorded message is sent to everyone in that group. If so, where can I find more information about that? Thanks in advance, Leo Burd

Hello everyone, Where can I find instructions on how to install PHPAGI? BTW, what's the difference between PHPAGI and PHPAGI2? Are they different products? It's hard to tell from voip-info.org... Best, Leo

Dear Moises Silva, Chris Thompson and others, I've finally managed to find the problem with my PHP AGI script! Apparently, my machine has 2 versions of PHP installed. One for CGI and the other for CLI. Without knowing, to hand test my script I was calling the CLI version (/usr/local/bin/php), whereas Asterisk was calling the CGI version (/usr/bin/php). It turns out that my script

Hello there, I'm new to Asterisk and I'm trying to figure out a way to make the Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) accessible to multiple users at the same time. Would anyone recommend an AMI proxy that could be accessed from PHP code? Thanks in advance, Leo

Hello everyone, I'm having all sorts of problems with my PHP AGI scripts... Basically, my scripts run fine from the command line and don't do anything well called from Asterisk. Here are my questions: a) Does Asterisk require PHP CLI or CGI? From the command line, my script seems to work fine with PHP 4.3.11 (cli) but not with PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) b) How to debug my script? According

Hello there, I'm a new Asterisk user and I'm having difficulties to connect to and from my Asterisk server. Can anybody give me a hand? Here's some background information: * I'm running RedHat Linux Enterprise 4.0 * When iptables is stopped, my server can register with IAX service providers and receive registrations from IAX softphones. However, it does not succeed in

Hello there, Somehow, Asterisk log files are consuming all the space that I have in my hard disk... They've already eaten 14GB and are still hungry!! What shall I do? I'm not even logging anything in verbose mode!! Help really appreciated!! Best, Leo

Hello there, I'm trying to figure out how to run a PHP script on a remote machine and still have access to the audio stream associated with the call. Ideally, I'd love to play/record audio files directly from/to the remote server without having to copy them back and forth to the Asterisk server. What is the best way to do this? Is it possible to combine EAGI with FastAGI in PHP?

Hello there, I'm trying to configure my voicemail system and I have a couple of questions: * Is real-time voicemail already working? If so, where is it that I should specify the database name, user and password? Where can I get more information about the different options that exist and the different files that need to be changed? * Is it possible to setup the voicemail interface to

Hello everyone, I'm a new Asterisk user and I wonder what people usually do to keep track of who is doing what in the system. For instance, I would like to keep track of who is calling certain contexts/extensions and when that happens. I'm also interested in logging customized status messages to a text file. Suggestions would be extremely welcome!! Best, Leo

Hello everyone, Is it possible to ask the VoiceMail command to play the user greeting before recording a new voice message? I've looked at the documentation and I don't see how to do that... Any help would be really appreciated! Best, Leo

Hello everyone, I'm trying to send debugging messages to the console. However, although my system seems to be working fine, it does not seem to be printing the NoOp messages on the console... Are there any flags that prevent that to happen? BTW, how to log specific debug messages to a log file? Any suggestions? Thanks for your help, Leo

Hello everyone, Sorry for sending so many questions to the list. I'm currently implementing a telephone system for kids and I wonder if it is possible to minimize the number of options presented by Asterisk's voicemail tool. For instance, my users do not need access to multiple folders, advanced settings, and the like. Any suggestions? Best, Leo

Hello there, I'm new to PHP AGIs and I'm having problems with a particular script that has a "include_once" statement on it. If I remove that stament, the script runs until the section of the code that depends on the include and then returns. If I include that statement, the script does not seem to run at all. What shall I do? Thanks in advance, Leo

Hello everyone, I'm writing a macro to use the telephone keyboard as a means for users to type in text. For some weird reason, I'm having problems with Asterisk command Read ... If I dial "0", the asterisk debugger prints "User entered nothing." If I dial "OO", asterisk recognizes both digits... Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks in advance, Leo

Hello there, I'm successfully using Asterisk Realtime to access information about voicemail users from a MySQL database. Now I'd like to read static voicemail information (such as format, serveremail, etc.) also from a database. Is that possible? If so, I'm assuming one would need to attach voicemail to 2 different database tables, one for users and the other for general

Hello there, I'm writing an application to display asterisk voicemail on a webpage. Since Flash only handles MP3 files, I wonder if it is possible to configure asterisk voicemail in such a way that it would record and play MP3 files... Would anyone give me suggestions on how to do this? Is format_mp3 stable enough for something like this? Thanks in advance, Leo Burd

Hello there, For some reason, Asterisk is crashing everytime that my system tries to do anything related to ODBC. I would really appreciate if anyone could give me ideas or pointers to the solution of this issue... Here's what I've found out so far: * I can run isql -v <my_dsn> <username> <password> without any problems * Asterisk seems to crash everytime it finds

Hello there, I'm new to Asterisk and I'm wonder what's the best way to combine multiple VOIP lines into a single phone number... I currently have 4 incoming VOIP lines, each one with a different number. Ideally, I would love to provide my customers with a single number for all those lines. Is that possible? If so, would anyone give me directions or send me a dialplan example

Hello there, I'm having difficulties to configure Asterisk to handle multiple Gizmo accounts. Ideally, I'd like each account to go to a different context/extension. Can anyone help me out? Sample configurations are welcome!! Best, Leo