Author: VoIP Info
Asterisk at Home Setup Guide
Asterisk@Home Setup Guide (be sure to check out the Asterisk@Home Handbook Wiki at https://www.voip-info.org/asteriskhome-handbook-wiki too) This is a pictorial step by step guide to configuring your asterisk@home installation. Most of the Information is currently available from http://www.shritel.com/downloads/asterisk@home_v0.8_setup_guide.pdf Table…
Read More »Uniden
https://www.unimrcp.org/ Uniden is a major consumer electronics manufacturer for traditional phones (wired and wireless), radios, and other electronic equipment. warning : Uniden has discontinued all of their VOIP phones as of 2007.07.18 I have e-mailed Uniden tech support…
Read More »Asterisk phone Polycom IP 500
Polycom Soundpoint IP 500 Configuration tips To get the Messages button on the Soundpoint IP 500 to connect directly to Voicemail you can configure your dialplan as follows: exten => _14XX,1,GotoIf($[“${CALLERIDNUM}” = “${EXTEN}”]?2:3) exten => _14XX,2,VoicemailMain(${EXTEN}) exten =>…
Read More »ANI2
ANI2 is a 2 digit code that indentifies what kind of phone line a call is being placed from. Common ANI2 codes are: 00 = Ordinary POTS call – not payphone 01 = Party line 02 = ANI…
Read More »ANI: Automatic Number Identification
From Wikipedia, ANI is defined as follow: “Automatic number identification is a feature of telephony intelligent network services which permits subscribers to display or capture the telephone numbers of calling parties.” A “super” Caller ID that is used…
Read More »Asterisk cmd GotoIfTime
Synopsis: Conditional goto on current time Description: GotoIfTime(<time range>,<days of week>,<days of month>,<months>?[labeliftrue][:labeliffalse]) If the current time matches the specified time, then branch to the specified priority label. Each of the elements may be specified either as ‘*’…
Read More »Asterisk hardware interrupts
Asterisk and IRQs With multiple Zaptel cards, and sometimes just one, the most common issues are interrupt-related. The limitation with the number of cards is interrupts, not PCI slots. As the above article explains, sharing interrupts adds a…
Read More »Asterisk video
Video in Asterisk The video features in Asterisk 1.4 include: pass-through calling playback (expect some delay) record IVR voicemail (recording and playback, with difficulties for greeting messages) Some channels have support for video calls in Asterisk: SIP IAX2…
Read More »Call Image Videotel
Call Image Videotel Phone Tested with: Asterisk PBX : Video Features works, special tricks to have a perfect video recording (no “funny color” screen) !!! -that’s the only one who do that without patching asterisk!- SER H324m (3G)…
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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol The following dhcpd.conf file (compatible with ISOC DHCP 3) will give Grandstream (in this example) a different IP address from the rest of the network:class “VoIP” {match if substring(hardware, 1, 2) = 00:0B;} authoritative;…
Read More »Asterisk Tips follow me
First of all: Make sure you also look at app_followme as introduced in Asterisk 1.4! The following example shows how to create a follow me script to allow Asterisk to ring from your desk phone to a cell…
Read More »SoundStation IP 4000
Polycom SoundStation IP 4000 product info: http://www.polycom.com/products_services/1,,pw-9192,FF.html This phone is now shipping. This is the newest conference phone from Polycom. It is the first to support SIP directly. The base unit has it’s own power injector (PoE to…
Read More »Asterisk text2cepstral www demo
Using cepstral webbased voice synthesized demo to generate voice prompts for asterisk on the fly Prerequisites Time Asterisk Internet Connectivity PHP (in this example we use version 5.0.4) Introduction Why? I personaly wanted to be able to generate…
Read More »Asterisk Bootable CDROM
Boot and run Asterisk from a bootable CDROM. Variable information (config files, network settings, etc) are typically stored on a USB Flash drive or floppy. There are many Live CD Linux distributions that use this model. The well…
Read More »Polycom reboot hardphone script
A short PHP script to reboot extensions attached to an Asterisk PBX can be downloaded here. Some more detail about how it works can be found here. This script relies on the instructions below for configuring the sip-notify…
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