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New to asterisk so please be gentle. I'm guessing I'm among a number of recent additions to the list after the article in Linux Mag. I gotta say I'm *very* intersted in the project and will be doing lots of reading shortly. A couble quick questions first... How suitable is Asterisk for use as an IVR providing callers with textual data out of a database? Can it be combined easily

One of the suggestions I got for dealing with my analog FXO woes was to look into using a Voicetronix card instead of the Digium. They're more expensive but if it worked better it may be reasonable. They indicated they were compatable with the CVS HEAD version of *. Can someone share with me their experiences with Voicetronix OpenLine and/or OpenSwitch cards with *? I'm specifically

Hi all, Happy Wednesday! Got a 7940G off eBay to tinker with and, per the wiki, contacted Cisco about a service contract. Being just little ol' me, they won't deal directly and blew me off (I hate dealing with Cisco, Nortel, etc as a small-business person...) Again per the wiki, I hit CDW.com and found CON-SNT-CP7960 for $9.14. Looking for support for the 7940 (not 7960), I just

I've been struggling with a test * install for a couple months now in a small office and am just about ready to give up on it. It's not that the system itself is a problem. I've got everything (attendant, voicemail, FXS extensions, Cisco and Polycom hard-IP phones, and 2 VOIP carriers) working except for the frigging analog FXO interfaces. These things are driving me completely mad.

Been tinkering and found Zapateller appears to be answering when I didn't expect it to. I have something like so: [incoming] exten => s,1,NoOp ;Zapateller(answer|nocallerid) exten => s,2,PrivacyManager exten => s,3,Dial(${RING},20) ... I have a 1x1 analog * installation with a couple IP phones too. I've got the FXO interface connected to the home phone line. When I get an

I've got a single IAXy installed in a little office nearby and got a call from someone on site a finew mintues ago. Apparently they couldn't make a call on that extension. They'd pick up the phone and get nothing; no dial-tone. Running "iax2 show peers" showed the unit still registered and I could ping it too. Didn't try to call it while it was doing this; sorry. The

Running * CVS with a SPA-841 (0.9.5) and can't seem to get the message waiting light to come on automatically. There is a control in the web interface to turn it on and off (seems rather curious to me but whatever). Has anybody got an idea as to where I may be going awry? TIA, Paul -- Paul A. Dugas Dugas Enterprises, LLC paul@dugasenterprises.com 1711 Indian

In case it helps others, a couple gotchas that I had to dig and beat my head against to get past... - building on FC2, use "make linux26" when building asterisk - also for FC2, a couple links in /usr/src named linux and linux-2.6 and pointing to /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/build/ were needed to build - yes, the power connector on the TDM400P needs to be connected to the power

Looking to outfit a 8-person office shortly and am looking for IP phone recomendations. Saw recent threads and the wiki with all kinds of suggestions and notes on configs but little on the "feel" and sound quality. I have a PolyCom SoundPointPro analog desk/speaker phone and the Cisco 7940 here. How to the other business-class phones compare, from a user's point of view, to these?

In my search for a better analog FXO interface, I'm looking into the Voicetronix cards. Can someone let me know if they've been using the OpenSwitch cards with Asterisk? Also, can anybody comment on the differences in FXO performance between the OpenCall and OpenSwitch cards? Thanks in advance, Paul -- Paul A. Dugas Dugas Enterprises, LLC email:

Seems strange to me that I should be having this problem but I'm stumped. I'm still playing with a Voicetronix OpenSwitch6 card and Asterisk (development CVS). I using a dialplan that's derived from one on another running installation that's using Digium FXS/FXO interfaces instead of the OpenSwitch card. It seems that as soon as a user on an FXS interface dials 7 digits, a call

> Just wanted to let you know you were just left a 2236:45 long > message (number 1) in mailbox 1000 from an unknown caller, on Monday, > February 21, 2005 at 05:38:14 AM so you might want to check it when you > get a chance. Thanks! > > --Asterisk Hmmm... Call came in either via a SPA-3000 or an X100P Zaptel FXO interface. Got 2200 minutes of beep-beep-beep-...; the caller

Am I doing something wrong here? GOt a SPC-841 the other day and have it registering properly. Can place and recive calls as expected but when on the phone, a second call is immediately dumped to "busy" voicemail. Does this thing not support call-waiting? Or, have I just got my configs wrong? Paul -- Paul A. Dugas Dugas Enterprises, LLC paul@dugasenterprises.com

This is probably going to sound really silly and I must be confused about it. Maybe someone can set me straight. I've been tinkering for a while with * and a number of different FXO/FXS cards, SIP phones, and ATAs trying to get a feel for what works and what doesn't. In the SIP phone group, I have a Cisco 7940G, a Polycom 500, and now an SPA-841. Each of these allow me to configure at

Hi Lee, You need to specify the VM context that you are using.. so using your examples.. extensions.conf entry.. exten => 1000,1,Dial(SIP/1000,20) exten => 1000,2,Voicemail2(u1000) exten => 1000,102,Voicemail2(b1000) exten => 1000,103,Hangup should be.. exten => 1000,1,Dial(SIP/1000,20) exten => 1000,2,Voicemail2(u1000@sip) exten => 1000,102,Voicemail2(b1000@sip) exten

Wondering if someone (Steve?) can clarify something form me. I think the recent "soho fax solution?" thread has mixed things up for me. - Is it possible to get reliable fax reception using a Zaptel FXO interface connected to a standard POTS line and a fax machine connected to station interface? - Is it possible to reliably send outboud faxes in the reverse direction?

I've got a context in my dialplan like so but pressing 0 doesn't seem to be working. Instead of dropping out to the "o" extension, it's just returning to the start of the direcotry app. Same with star. Anyone see where I've gone awry? [attendant] ; <snip> exten => *,1,NoOp(Attendant: Directory) exten => *,n,Directory(default,attendant,eb)

I've got hints setup for my MeetMe conferences like so: exten => _60X,hint,MeetMe:${EXTEN} and they show up in "core show hints" like so 600 at dialtone : MeetMe:600 State:Unavailable Watchers 1 _60X at dialtone : MeetMe:${EXTEN} State:Unavailable Watchers 0 I'm wondering why they're Unavailable instead of

; Below assumes you are using the same number for Voicemail boxes as extensions ; if ${RDNIS} is blank then GotoIf will go to extension 2, otherwise it will go to extension 102 exten => 8500,1,GoToIf($[X${RDNIS} = X]?2:102) exten => 8500,2,VoiceMailMain(s${CALLERIDNUM}) exten => 8500,3,Hangup exten => 8500,102,VoiceMail(u${RDNIS}) exten => 8500,103,Hangup ; you should now be able

>From what i've read i think that asterisk is suppose to generate the dialtone. But when i pickup my analog phone it seems that the Openswitch12 card is the one playng the dialtone. Im almost positive the card is playing the dialtone, can anyone confirm this? And if so how can i change the dialtone?