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Console channels allow calls to be placed to/from ALSA or OSS devices, using audio input/output devices as telephony devices. This allows a headphone and microphone plugged into a sound card, for example, to be used as a softphone….

Solution This is a description about how to connect Nagios to Asterisk. So you can receive automatic phone calls if Nagios reports some failure. There is also another script online that lets your Nagios box call thru the…

How to configure Asterisk and CounterPath Bria Bria is the newest softphone application from CounterPath, allowing users to enjoy multimedia communications in a dynamic way. Featuring an intuitive interface, Bria is expanding the softphone experience by making it…

How to enable CDR-CSV logging in Asterisk 1.4.0 Starting CDR-CSV-Logging in a default installation of Asterisk 1.4.0 takes some additional steps that are neither documented nor obvious. Out of the box, Asterisk will update:/var/log/asterisk/cdr-custom/Master.csv but not the default…

How to configure Asterisk and eyeBeam CounterPath’s eyeBeam a multimedia communicator designed to enhance the user’s communications experience in Voice over IP. Whether you are a consumer or Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) user, eyeBeam allows you to stay…

Here is a working model for asking the questions needed to process the creditcard. I have also added in this code something calledpaylib.py. This file is not complete and renders the code unable to process cards. This is…

Callback script I made, Callback works when called channel is busy, if SIP user is busy it will return user unavailable and send the control to s-NOANSWER. How it works If called channel or phone is busy, it…

Synopsis Starts a call from the CLI and links it to an application or context. Description There are two ways to use this command. A call can be originated between a channel and a specific application, or between…

Synopsis Waits for a specified amount of silence Description WaitForSilence(silencerequired[|iterations][|timeout]) Wait for Silence: Waits for up to ‘silencerequired’ milliseconds of silence, ‘iterations’ times or once if omitted. An optional timeout specified the number of seconds to return after,…

(c) 2007 Servitux Servicio Informà¡ticos S.L. This document is GPL. This simple manual explains how to run an alarm system using Asterisk PBX software and a webcam, under Debian Linux 4.0. The Asterisk and any other software instalation…

Base Install of Asterisk on a CentOS/RHEL box: Before you begin, you’ll probably want to bring all your packages up to date. To do so, run ‘yum -y update’. If any kernel files were updated as part of…

CTI for Asterisk I have seen a few and they are all commercial. For this reason I have decided to initiate a project to develop a client-server solution that meets a series of requirements CTI base. Go to…

Install Flite and asterisk-flite (in RHEL, CentOS and similar) Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis…

users.conf is a configuration file aimed at defining a “user”. It can define a user with an optional SIP phone, IAX2 phone, Zaptel phone and/or just about any other type of phone. Some dialplan can be generated for…