QoS with Linux using PRIO and HTB
Posted: September 17, 2005 I have used the Wondershaper and other QoS scripts for Linux, and they were surely better than nothing, but they were never perfect. The problem is that they all use fair queing schemes where one connection cannot steal…
Read More »Snom Phones
Posted: September 17, 2005 www.snom.com Snom SIP based phones: Snom m9: DECT based cordless solution. Sold as base station with handset/charger station and single handset/charger station. Up to eight handsets can register with the base station and the base station can register…
Read More »UIP200
Posted: September 17, 2005 Uniden UIP200 Sip Phone We have a bunch of UIP200s in our office and they’re mostly fine. We use Asterisk for transfers, so we have no issues with call dropping. Two complaints: The time zone info is wrong…
Read More »Asterisk cmd Dictate
Posted: September 17, 2005 Dictate Virtual Dictation Machine: Asterisk now comes with an application to facilitate dictations, see bug 3893. Description Dictate([<base_dir>[|<filename>]]) Start dictation machine using optional base dir for files. Options dial 1 to toggle record and playback modes dial 0…
Read More »Dial Pulse to Touchtone DTMF Converters
Posted: September 17, 2005 Many VOIP devices with FXS ports do not support traditional rotary dial phones. One possible solution (untested) is a Dial pulse to DTMF (Touchtone) converter between the rotary dial phone and the VOIP FXS port Example: Dial Pulse…
Read More »Asterisk – Documentation of Application Commands
Posted: September 17, 2005 Asterisk Dialplan Commands Here is a list of all the commands that you can use in your Dialplan (extensions.conf). Obtaining a List of Available Applications in the CLI Asterisk 1.4 or earlier: Type “show applications” or “show application…
Read More »Asterisk cmd Pickup
Posted: September 16, 2005 Pickup Asterisk now comes with its own directed Pickup application, see bug 4865. This will conflict with the bristuff app_pickup. Therefore the current version of bristuff (0.3) changed the name of this application to DPickup. Synopsis Pickup(extension[@context]) Be…
Read More »Asterisk cmd BristuffPickUp
Posted: September 16, 2005 PickUp (bristuff) Synopsis Channel independent call pickup. Description PickUp([group]) Tries to pickup the first ringing channel with callgroup == group. If called without the group argument, the pickupgroup of the channel will be used. Related bristuff applications PickUpChan…
Read More »Asterisk Record Calls
Posted: September 16, 2005 Automon for a Single Call Asterisk 1.2 now comes with the new “automon” setting in features.conf that permits a user to turn on/off call recording during an active conversation. Example by Mojo If you have httpd with php…
Read More »Asterisk cmd Monitor
Posted: September 16, 2005 Description Monitor(ext,basename) Monitor(ext,basename,flags) — New feature added to CVS 2004-06-0 The Monitor command starts recording a channel. The channel’s input and output voice packets are saved to separate sound files. You may change filenames during a recording by…
Read More »Asterisk func sort
Posted: September 16, 2005 SORT() Synopsis: SORT(key1:val1[…][,keyN:valN]) Description: SORT(key1:val1[…][,keyN:valN]) This function takes a list of keys and values and returns a comma-delimited list of the keys, sorted by each associated value. Values are sorted as floats. Notes The resulting value is…
Read More »Asterisk cmd Cut
Posted: September 16, 2005 Synopsis Cut(newvar=varname,delimiter,fieldspec) Deprecated As of Asterisk 1.2 this command has been depracated. It has been removed as of Asterisk 1.4. Use the function Cut instead. Description Cut(newvar=varname,delimiter,fieldspec) newvar: this variable is set to the result string varname: variable…
Read More »Asterisk Func Cut
Posted: September 16, 2005 Synopsis: CUT(varname,delimiter,fieldspec) at least on asterisk 1.2.8 the parameters must be separated by “|” and not “,” Description: CUT(varname,delimiter,fieldspec) varname: variable you want cut (and not a string – see PASSTHRU of Asterisk 1.8) delimiter: defaults to –…
Read More »Asterisk Cmd NoOp
Posted: September 16, 2005 Synopsis: No operation Description: NoOp() – No-operation; Does nothing. … Well not quite. It can be used as a printf, or echo for the console, if your verbose level is set to 3 or higher. For example, Zap…
Read More »Skype Gateways
Posted: September 16, 2005 A list of products that can be used to connect non-PC devices to the Skype network. Skype itself is available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Pocket-PCs, but for many of the products only windows drivers available. Page…
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