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Hi there, in case anyone is interested, I've just taken ownership of a small home network (3 handsets) of the brand new Siemens DECT PSTN/VOIP phone. It works great with Asterisk. Here's my overview and review so far... http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/ Cheers Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

Hello list, after spending the best part of an afternoon trying to build Asterisk on an old EPIA VIA C3, I thought that writing a tutorial would make life easier for future compilers: http://astrecipes.net/index.php?n=356 I had never compiled Asterisk for a different architecture, and I'm pretty disappointed at how complex it is - building Zaptel, Libpri and Asterisk requires

...the box with config files in /etc/asterisk and logs etc going into /var. I notice a great many of the contributors here seem to use a db backend (is this also called Real Time Asterisk?) and I'd like to know why if anyone cares to comment. Thanks Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

...he dialplan as I go. But having to dial-in on my PSTN line each time is going to cost me money. Can I connect to my zap_incoming context from my locally connected SIP phone? I'm sure this is possible but it's late and I'm a bit brain dead. Cheers -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

Hi, Some days ago I spent about US$700,00 in a Tormenta III board in www.govarion.com. I used credit card. I didn't receive any answer for my emails and there is no telephone number to contact them.. Now, I'd like to cancel this order, because I couldn?t wait so long, and my credit card was billed. Is www.govarion.com a fraud ???? Does anybody know something about them ?? Thanks.

...blishing approached me a few weeks ago and asked if I would like to review a book or two for them on my blog. The first one they sent me is called Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming and has only just been released. It was written by Nir Simionovich. You can read my review here: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/04/16/asterisk-agi-programming-with-packt/ They have also sent me a book on Trixbox CE 2.6 which I will get round to reading and reviewing over the coming month or so. Cheers Alan

Is anyone out there using Druid? After the switchbox announcement today I've been looking into some other gui's and as I'll probably do a trial install this weekend of the free switchvox iso but I thought I'd ask is there any other guis I should be burning trial ISO's of as well? Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at

...n a few other posts regarding these - some quite old - but no clear resolution or explanation. Could someone attempt to explain what it means and how I stop it? 10.0.0.2 btw is the IP address of the asterisk server. I'm running Asterisk 1.4.13. Cheers Al -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

...interact with an AA, such as "to register for the event please press 1 and leave your details"... Can I chain or aggregate voicemail boxes so my SIP client will be informed if there is voicemail in any one of "n" mail boxes? Thanks Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

Hi, I've followed instructions of the book "AsteriskFutureOf TelephonySecEdit" on page 295 onwards ) Link to the Asterisk book: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf) and get an error when running service asterisk start. The error is: cat: /var/run/asterisk.pid: No such file or directory . I can run aserisk fine from the non-root user. Please help Code Snippet: 1:

Hi, I have three Snom M3s at the moment but getting pretty fed up with the issues :( I am UK based and would be interested to hear of other peoples recommendations. Key features :- * VM Notification * Good Range * G729 codec support * Common/Private Address Books per Handset(s) TIA, Best Regards, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content and is believed to be

...context, ${ARG2} is the context from which this call came exten => s-BUSY,1,Voicemail(${ARG2}@business,b) exten => _s-.,1,Goto(s-NOANSWER,1) ============================== Can anyone see where the problem is? Or suggest a better way? Many thanks. Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

I am very new to Asterisk, it was a weekend project of mine that I jumped into this weekend. I have it up and working on a box at home, and I am nearly half way through the book I purchased friday "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony 2nd Edition". Anyway, I started this out so I could help a friend who wanted a VoIP PBX solution for his small business. I have been working with Cisco

...; http://www.lusyn.com/resources/asterisk/usehist.htm ;callerid=asreceived ; propagate the CID received from BT ;rxgain=1.0 ;txgain=1.0 ;define channel context=main_menu language=en signalling=fxs_ks channel => 1 ;Our x100p -------------------------- Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with a CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. I've only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what surprises I'd run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, something like FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does that come with asterisk?

...escribe set to 'dynamic' if the phone should register itself... hmm. I?ve seen similar posts from other users on the exact same subject. Sources as follows: Voip-Info http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Siemens+Gigaset+S675IP (see 'Discussions' tab). The Open Sourcerer: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/comment-page-3/ Siemens Forums: http://www.siemens-gigaset-forum.com/de/posts/list/13788.page Siemens Customer care: http://www.siemens-gigaset-forum.com/de/posts/list/13788.page (people with aged open support calls) Siemens support via phone were rathe...

Hi List; Is Digium the best telephony cards to be used with Asterisk? The prices are some how high, any suggestion? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

...lot better strangely. Any ideas or suggestions? I did try installing the software on wine but it failed miserably! I recall reading something about planned USB driver support in wine sometime ago but have not follwed this list for a while now. Cheers Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

...a lot better strangely. Any ideas or suggestions? I did try installing the software on wine but it failed miserably! I recall reading something about planned USB driver support in wine sometime ago but have not follwed this list for a while now. Cheers Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com

Hi friends. I am using Asterisk like voicemail of a great system with many users, How do I can get statistics of each box in the voicemail system? something like space, number of messages, etc. A lot of thanks. -- Linux User Registered #232544 Jabber : pepo at jabberes.org Ekiga : pepo at ekiga.net ICQ : 337889406 GnuPG-key : www.keyserver.net