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There are several methods of having your legacy Nortel BCM/Norstar equipment communicate with your Asterisk PBX – depending on your needs. The deciding factor will usually be cost. Some of the things you will need to consider include…

Also known as AstDB; the Asterisk database uses version 1 of the Berkeley DB which works very much like the Windows registry. From the source code of db.c: DB3 is licensed under Sleepycat Public License and is thus…

There are a number of different ways to implement “Click-to-call” functionality, which allows you to dial a phone number without actually dialing it. The convention for these scripts is to tell Asterisk to call your extension, wait for…

Configures the Asterisk conference module, MeetMe. Example ; ; Configuration file for MeetMe simple conference rooms ; for Asterisk of course. ; ; An optional ‘general’ section, currently with just one useful directive: ;[general] ; The number of…

Synopsis Basic MYSQL Database Functionality Installation This is part of the asterisk-addons package available via the Digium Subversion asterisk-addons repository, or as a tarball from the Asterisk website. This is an ADD-ON of asterisk, is not installed by…

This article covers the Swissvoice ip10s (MGCP version; Swissvoice also offers H.323 and SIP): MGCP phone with graphical display (no backlight). Latest SIP firmware: 1.0.1b4 (Aug 2006) Latest MGCP firmware: 1.0.5b8 (Aug 2006) Latest H.323 firmware: 1.1.0b1 (Aug…

The Asterisk command line interface (CLI) is reached by using the Linux shell command asterisk -r or rasterisk If you want debugging output, add one or many v:s asterisk -vvvvvr The Asterisk server has to be running in…

The number used to park a call and the parking extensions are configured in features.conf. [general] parkext => 700 ; What extension to dial to park parkpos => 701-720 ; What extensions to park calls on By default…

Synopsis: Start Echo Test program that echos audio read back to the user Description: Echo() Echo audio read from channel back to the channel. Example Create an extension, 600, for evaulating echo latency. exten => 600,1,Playback(demo-echotest) ; Let…

Values for “type” keywords in sip.conf and iax.conf type = value peer: A SIP entity to which Asterisk sends calls (a SIP provider for example). If you want a user (extension) to have multiple phones, define an extension…

This document is out of date! Please visit the Asterisk wiki for up to date information — App_System Documentation. For historical reference, the original information is below. System() For Asterisk >=1.2 Synopsis Execute a system (Linux shell) command…

extensions.conf General Settings Section At the top of the extensions.conf file there should be a section with this label: [general] Here you define a few general options regarding the Dialplan. static: At this stage, this option affects only…

Indicate busy condition and wait for hangup Description Busy([timeout]) Sends a signal to inform the channel of a busy condition. This command waits for the user to hang up unless the optional timeout has been specified (in seconds)….