Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:17:59PM -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:43:30 +0200 > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > To the best of my understanding, latest Asterisk should support it > > through chan_dahdi . > > Cool. Got any links to any related informations, so I can go by more

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:35:56PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > Who said he wants HIS software to be Open Source? It is his and if he > want to, God forbid, make a profit from his work, then who the hell > are you to say it is not right? His software seems to be patches to GPLed software. That m

Re: [asterisk-users] Improving asterisk documentation - sources and what the community can do

2009-01-27 Thread randulo
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:56 AM, D Tucny wrote: > There have been a number of comments recently about a shortage of > documentation on Asterisk, so I wanted to cover briefly the documentation We are drowning in it compared tot he situation four years ago when you either read the source or suffere

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk & Twitter - Release/Announce only 'channel' ?

2009-01-27 Thread randulo
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Karl Fife wrote: > Is there a digium twitter 'user' to follow that only tweets important > announcements and release information? > If there is not, I think there should be. None of the Digium Twitter accounts are very noisy. The 'digium' account is kind of a bus

Re: [asterisk-users] Improving asterisk documentation - sources andwhat the community can do

2009-01-27 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
> www.voip-info.org [...] > So, the easiest way that people could contribute to improving Asterisk > documentation right now would appear to be by improving articles on > www.voip-info.org... Absolutely. What I tend to do is the make contributions to a particular page whenever I encountered a

[asterisk-users] Improving asterisk documentation - sources and what the community can do

2009-01-27 Thread D Tucny
Hi All, There have been a number of comments recently about a shortage of documentation on Asterisk, so I wanted to cover briefly the documentation options available and suggest what they are useful for and how they can be improved... Documentation sources: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ - Not much

[asterisk-users] How many bounces does it take before you get unsubscribed?

2009-01-27 Thread Per Jessen
I got notified on 22 Jan that I was about to be unsubscribed due to "excessive bounces". I've checked my mail logs, and saw the following bounces (that I had generated): Jan 12 04:50:44 "437 Bad Message-ID" Jan 16 19:56:19 "437 Bad Message-ID" Jan 19 20:36:20 "437 Bad Message-ID" Jan 22 18:11:35

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality ofthe mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>4. Someone said "Maybe there needs to be a beginner list...". I agree >almost 100% with your oppinion but, we all know that the problem is not >(at least for now, when there are lots of documentation topics to >write) newbies questions, but bad formulated questions and people not >wanting to

Re: [asterisk-users] Help with Avaya integration

2009-01-27 Thread Steven J. Douglas
Hi Steve, Thanks for the tip. But unfortunately it doesn't help. The Avaya is passing on the MFC codes to the SIP phone when it answers the call. I think the solution might be in the Avaya configuration to properly convert the signaling. Regards, Steve Steve Totaro wrote: > Answer() is the cu

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Jose P. Espinal
Maybe at some place of the thread, we missed the focus of it. 1. About the Wiki, totally agreed that its sometimes outdated and you could get lost. But as we all know, if you want something to be correctly done, you have to do it yourself; (that takes me to point 2. , below) 2. The feeling tha

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Michael Higgins wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:02 -0500 > Steve Totaro wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: >> > >> >> Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium

Re: [asterisk-users] Module res_odbc is not loading

2009-01-27 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Philipp Kempgen schrieb: > Pascal Bruno schrieb: >> Actually I installed them after, so do you recommend I recompile asterisk? > > Yes. The unixodbc header files (package unixodbc-dev on Debian, > might be called -headers/-source/-devel on other distros) have to > be present before compiling Aster

Re: [asterisk-users] Module res_odbc is not loading

2009-01-27 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Pascal Bruno schrieb: > Actually I installed them after, so do you recommend I recompile asterisk? Yes. The unixodbc header files (package unixodbc-dev on Debian, might be called -headers/-source/-devel on other distros) have to be present before compiling Asterisk. cd /usr/src/asterisk-X.X.X/ ma

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread David fire
in my modest experience using mail list i learned to answer a question if i know the answer and if i don't like how the question was made i forget it. don't start a thread about the question. if you know the answer (or think you know and you hope you can help someone) and you like to respond give a

Re: [asterisk-users] Module res_odbc is not loading

2009-01-27 Thread Pascal Bruno
Actually I installed them after, so do you recommend I recompile asterisk?If I do so, I wont loose my current configuration files right? On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Philipp Kempgen wrote: > Pascal Bruno schrieb: > > I have remove the comment defor res_odbc.so and res_config_odbc.so in my > >

[asterisk-users] Asterisk & Twitter - Release/Announce only 'channel' ?

2009-01-27 Thread Karl Fife
Is there a digium twitter 'user' to follow that only tweets important announcements and release information? If there is not, I think there should be. It would be highly utilitarian to get an SMS when there is an update to Asterisk, Dahdi, ADA etc, but I don't want to be bothered real-time wit

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
It seems to me that there a lot of "it ought to work or could be made to to work" associated with implementing US BRI into Asterisk I agree. I have a BRI in service and have offered a couple of times to do tests. I have an HFC card here that I intend to use with it myself, and plan to test tha

Re: [asterisk-users] Module res_odbc is not loading

2009-01-27 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Pascal Bruno schrieb: > I have remove the comment defor res_odbc.so and res_config_odbc.so in my > modules.conf, but the module is still not loading > > when I do: > > module show like odbc > I have o module returned > > anybody knows why? Did you install unixodbc and unixodbc-dev before compil

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:55:02 -0500 Steve Totaro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > > > >> Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium Employee and extrememly > >> smart guy. > >> > >> He has code/patch

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Jon Pounder
Wilton Helm wrote: Technical aspects aside, I have seen way too many voip providers come and go, meantime the local phone company enjoys pretty much a monopoly and is not in any financial trouble - to me this is the biggest reason for wanting a pots or bri or t1, etc over voip from a smaller co

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Julian Lyndon-Smith
Wilton Helm wrote: > Thanks for engaging with me on this. I picked up the book and I see > what you mean about Appendix B. I had under-appreciated it probably > because of a paradigm shift I need to make. I think you meant > Appendix E rather than F for dialplan. > > I still am not quite on

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
I'm with you on this. A VoIP trunking solution is never going to equal a LEC PSTN solution. It may be adequate for some purposes, but I'm not about to dump my BRI for a pair of IP numbers. The trade-offs aren't worth the small cost savings for me. Just the packetized delays (not to mention i

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>There are far better resources out there for teaching Linux >newbies. Instead, voip-info.org attempts to provide the sorts of information >that is useful for those already familiar with Linux I can appreciate that. And I can appreciate being at the other end of the pipe, as I like to gloss ove

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
Thanks for engaging with me on this. I picked up the book and I see what you mean about Appendix B. I had under-appreciated it probably because of a paradigm shift I need to make. I think you meant Appendix E rather than F for dialplan. I still am not quite on the same page with you, though.

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>Rather, can you tell me who claims to support what hardware, so I can confirm? I don't have any notes on what I did. It was a bunch of Google searches. I seem to recall that Digium themselves made a two port BRI that would work. Eicon has some well respected products that I am pretty sure ar

[asterisk-users] Module res_odbc is not loading

2009-01-27 Thread Pascal Bruno
Hi, I have remove the comment defor res_odbc.so and res_config_odbc.so in my modules.conf, but the module is still not loading when I do: module show like odbc I have o module returned anybody knows why? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Graves
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:49:41 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: It seems to me that there a lot of "it ought to work or could be made to to work" associated with implementing US BRI into Asterisk. That being the case what's called for is someone to try it, just to prove the point. Over the past year

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Fort
On 1/27/09, Steve Totaro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: >> >>> Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium Employee and extrememly smart >>> guy. >>> >>> He has code/patches for zaptel to US BRIs work

[asterisk-users] dialstatus through a call file

2009-01-27 Thread Pascal Bruno
Hello, Is it possible to retrieve the DIALSTATUS variable when placing call through a call file. This variable is set when using the Dial() application from the dialplan, but I am using a call file for my current application and need to get the dialstatus. Thank you. _

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > >> Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium Employee and extrememly smart guy. >> >> He has code/patches for zaptel to US BRIs work that include SPID as a >> variable in zap conf

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Mik Cheez
Don't over think this, guys. Again, the point of having a WIKI is to allow for customization. A landing page for Asterisk documentation within voip-info.org is all you need, not a whole new source of documentation. Jai Rangi wrote: > ** > I understand. As someone else already mentione

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Jai Rangi
** I understand. As someone else already mentioned, Voip-Info.org is for more than just Asterisk. Perhaps if we created a single source that was just for Asterisk...where everyone could contribute towards making the documentation better. I would be very interested in helping sponsoring such

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 12:35:15 Wilton Helm wrote: > >It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained > >on voip-info.org > > My own experience is that it covers a very broad spectrum (far broader than > Asterisk) and in a rather terse manner. I have spent an hour or two

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:27:04 -0600 Jerry Jones wrote: > Instead you could always get a SIP/IAX provider. Can you please elaborate as to how this answers my question? Would getting a SIP/IAX provider be the same as getting a working 'BRI' ISDN line coming into the machine and properly handled i

Re: [asterisk-users] Dahdi Init script for Suse?

2009-01-27 Thread Joshua Kinard
Doesn't look like SuSE is that evolved just yet. I poked at a few other init scripts in /etc/init.d, and they're all pretty much in the format of: echo -n "Starting something ..." command rc_status -v Some of the init scripts are downright horrific in their design because of this. I would im

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:05:57 Wilton Helm wrote: > >It actually does contain references of all applicaitons, CLI commands, and > > such. > > Where? I saw some examples, but I've never found an organized list of > commands. I'd love it. For applications, Appendix B, and for dialplan functio

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:56:46 -0500 Jon Pounder wrote: > I barked up the same tree you are barking for a while and just gave > up - lots of "you could buy this and try it", but no proven solution. That's exactly what I've come up with. Thanks for your reply. I don't see anything truly contradic

Re: [asterisk-users] Muted sound on a Linksys 962

2009-01-27 Thread James Lamanna
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:50:36 -0600 > From: "Danny Nicholas" > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Muted sound on a Linksys 962 > To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" > > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > This worked for me > Ext

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:44:12 -0700 "Wilton Helm" wrote: > I'm in the same boat and have been looking at this for several > months, but haven't actually jumped in, hands-on, yet. No, I don't > think the situation is as dismal as you paint it, although the lack > of appropriate marketing for BRI i

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:43:30 +0200 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > To the best of my understanding, latest Asterisk should support it > through chan_dahdi . Cool. Got any links to any related informations, so I can go by more than anonymous hearsay? '-) > No need for extra bristuff or whatever. But thi

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Broyles
Jared Smith wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:13 -0700, Robert Broyles wrote: I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is the lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk.

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Jon Pounder
Steve Totaro wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Higgins wrote: > >> Folks -- >> >> First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the culture of >> the list. I read the recent post about improvement to the quality of posts >> with some amusement and full agreement

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote: > Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium Employee and extrememly smart guy. > > He has code/patches for zaptel to US BRIs work that include SPID as a > variable in zap confs. Could you please expand on that point? Why should such p

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>It actually does contain references of all applicaitons, CLI commands, and >such. Where? I saw some examples, but I've never found an organized list of commands. I'd love it. Wilton ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digita

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Higgins wrote: > Folks -- > > First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the culture of > the list. I read the recent post about improvement to the quality of posts > with some amusement and full agreement. The problem is a big and very

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>I wonder if BRI would have gotten traction if it offered PRI functionality I can't say for sure, and don't even know the differences in functionality, but you may be right. When I last ordered DID I couldn't justify PRI so brought it in as analog. At that point in time and with that LEC PRI

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:50:42PM -0700, Wilton Helm wrote: > I just got a very nice posting from Tzafir showing me a web domain > I didn't even know existed. It only includes documentation generated by 'make docs' . And is actually linked from the README itself. > I'm not abandoning it by a

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>I'm impressed that you picked up 6502 assembly out of an even larger >"vaccum" considering there was no 'net back then to help at all. Did >you install a PBX on an Atari? No, I interfaced a Rockwell AIM to a 300 station Philips electromechanical PABX (designed and built about 100 interface ca

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread David Gibbons
How pompous are we now? What happened to the 'open source community'? There's a give and take involved; you answer questions you know how to answer in the hopes that someone with greater experience and knowledge of the software will answer your questions. Yikes. -Original Message- Fro

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
On 1/27/09, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > > I would have said Queen's English, but that evokes Freddy Mercury. > ...and Freddy Mercury evokes Kevin Fleming. Perfect - we're back on topic! -- Kristian Kielhofner http://blog.krisk.org http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.astlinux.org http://www.st

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Markus A. Wipfler
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Wilton Helm wrote: >YMMV. Mine certainly did. For the better. My comments were more negative than I intended. My installation is "worthless" at this point because it is only a cookbook example and I haven't tried to modify it to meet my needs. I didn't inten

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Jared Smith
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:13 -0700, Robert Broyles wrote: > I'm still pretty new to the mailing lists myself. I don't consider > myself a novice Asterisk user, but one of my biggest 'complaints' is > the lack of a well documented FAQ or Manual for Asterisk. Asterisk is truly an open-source communi

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Karl Fife
I wonder if BRI would have gotten traction if it offered PRI functionality (DID's and aggregation of multiple spans). Even TODAY I would drop many of my sip trunks for such hypothetical BRI trunks for locations where a full PRI is too much capacity. That's the bane of the PRI: "Welcome to Joe

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>YMMV. Mine certainly did. For the better. My comments were more negative than I intended. My installation is "worthless" at this point because it is only a cookbook example and I haven't tried to modify it to meet my needs. I didn't intend to imply that Asterisk is worthless, just that I've

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
Thanks for the reply. I have looked at the links you provided and I think they will be useful. I may have some issues with drivers for the HFC, but I guess I won't know until I try it. Wilton ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>To the best of my understanding, latest Asterisk should support it >through chan_dahdi . No need for extra bristuff or whatever. But this >needs some testing. Any chance I could get some information on how to set it up and use it (keeping in mind that I have limited Asterisk experience and no ex

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
> Wilton Helm wrote: > > [snip] >> >> My conclusion after installing a worthless * demo (that actually does >> allow two SIPs to talk to each other) is that Asterisk is not of any >> value to anyone other than a person who makes a full time career out >> of running Asterisk systems. I've installe

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread SIP
Ira wrote: > At 09:30 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote: > >> People are always going to ask stupid questions. >> > > For me it's not so much the stupid questions as the expectations that > we're here to solve their problems according to their needs. If that > continues to happen and the noise leve

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Julian Lyndon-Smith
Wilton Helm wrote: [snip] > > My conclusion after installing a worthless * demo (that actually does > allow two SIPs to talk to each other) is that Asterisk is not of any > value to anyone other than a person who makes a full time career out > of running Asterisk systems. I've installed and

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Ira
At 09:30 AM 1/27/2009, you wrote: >People are always going to ask stupid questions. For me it's not so much the stupid questions as the expectations that we're here to solve their problems according to their needs. If that continues to happen and the noise level gets high enough those that have

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:24:38AM -0700, Wilton Helm wrote: > >New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non > >existent. > > > I first looked at * about four months ago and rapidly came to the same > conclusion. Even with the O-Reilly book, which I purchased in pap

Re: [asterisk-users] Muted sound on a Linksys 962

2009-01-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
This worked for me Exten => s,1,Answer() Exten => s,n,Dial(Zap/g1/w5551212) What happens is that * doesn't go "full duplex" until it does a "Native Bridge". The Answer Command creates a temporary bridge until the real one can take effect. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@l

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of themailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
We all need the Univeral Language translators from Star Trek. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tilghman Lesher Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:42 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commer

Re: [asterisk-users] German date format in voicemail emails

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:54:37 Philipp Kempgen wrote: > Tilghman Lesher schrieb: > > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 02:03:37 Johansson Olle E wrote: > >> Minivoicemail actually has > >> - multiple e-mail formats > >> - locale support so you get the date in local language and format. > > > > Un

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Mik Cheez
If you find something on a WIKI that is outdated, guess what you have an opportunity to do . . . Noah Miller wrote: >> It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained >> on voip-info.org > > Hmm. Dangerous statement. There are many things on the WIKI that are > quite ou

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
I'm in the same boat and have been looking at this for several months, but haven't actually jumped in, hands-on, yet. No, I don't think the situation is as dismal as you paint it, although the lack of appropriate marketing for BRI in the US has all but killed it here, making it relatively unatt

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained >on voip-info.org My own experience is that it covers a very broad spectrum (far broader than Asterisk) and in a rather terse manner. I have spent an hour or two at a time pouring over a topic there and come away little m

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Wilton Helm
>New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non >existent. I first looked at * about four months ago and rapidly came to the same conclusion. Even with the O-Reilly book, which I purchased in paper, although it is freely downloadable, I feel there is a huge dearth of

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:49:41AM -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > What I did find left me with the impression that USA 'BRI', uh, '2B1Q' > protocol(?) is not supported by *any* hardware vendor, at all, period, > nor is it tested and proved in the software... stack(?), in one > related branch o

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:46:40 Andrew Thomas wrote: > -->> In many cases, this just isn't possible. While it would be nice > to > -->> have all > -->> posts in the King's English, a great many users are in locales > which > -->> don't > > King's English??? I would have said Queen's Engli

[asterisk-users] Muted sound on a Linksys 962

2009-01-27 Thread James Lamanna
Hi, One of our customers has an issue with the callee not being able to hear them. It seems to happen very frequently on one number in particular where there are about 3 IVR menus to dial through before getting to a live person. However, this does not happen on every call. Running tcpdump on the RT

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Jerry Jones
Instead you could always get a SIP/IAX provider. On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Jon Pounder wrote: > Michael Higgins wrote: > > At least here in Canada - DSL just seems to have killed BRI - you > practically have to know the secret handshake to even be allowed to > provision one any more. It kill

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Barry L. Kline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Gladden wrote: > Is 1.6 so cutting edge that I should not expect to find complete > documentation (yet)like I seem to be expecting very easily? Most of what is applicable to 1.4 is applicable to 1.6. I'm running 1.6 without any hiccups -- YMMV

Re: [asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Jon Pounder
Michael Higgins wrote: At least here in Canada - DSL just seems to have killed BRI - you practically have to know the secret handshake to even be allowed to provision one any more. It killed it as an internet transport which was its most widespread use, however its many benefits as a digital ph

[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Higgins
Folks -- First, apologies for not lurking for weeks or months to get the culture of the list. I read the recent post about improvement to the quality of posts with some amusement and full agreement. The problem is a big and very real one. I hope I'm not deepening it. But my question isn't expl

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Noah Miller
> It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained > on voip-info.org Hmm. Dangerous statement. There are many things on the WIKI that are quite outdated, and a great many other things that aren't there at all. > People don't ask stupid questions because of a lack of a FA

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Noah Miller
Hi Steve - > New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non > existent. Welcome to Open Source! Seriously, look at the README files accompanying asterisk, dahdi, and libpri. They will give you compilation/installation instructions. You can also search this list with go

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Broyles
I wouldn't say that voip-info.org has everything that a person would want to know. This is especially true of any recent changes to dialplan applications (and their available options) Voip-info.org is a great place to start, and often you will find an answer there. But not always. People are

Re: [asterisk-users] G726 Codec

2009-01-27 Thread Philipp Kempgen
michel freiha schrieb: > I would like to ask please about how I can force asterisk to send all G726 > codecs without translation... Huh? > > g723 gsm ulaw alaw g726aal2 adpcm slin lpc10 g729 speex ilbc g726 g722 > g723- ---- -- -- -- > -- >

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk - Nortel integration via SIP protocol

2009-01-27 Thread Eric Moniz
You will need to have a Nortel NRS server in your network. Sent from my iPhone Eric Moniz On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Pablo Bernasconi wrote: Hi, I need to integrate my Asterisk with a Nortel Meridian 11, but I can ´t use PRI, Analog lines, etc. It has to be via SIP protocol, and th

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Mik Cheez
It seems to me that everything one may want to know would be contained on voip-info.org People don't ask stupid questions because of a lack of a FAQ to read, they ask stupid questions because they're too lazy do to the footwork. Robert Broyles wrote: > >> I think we'd be better off posting a r

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Broyles
I think we'd be better off posting a regular FAQ, perhaps weekly, with some of these suggestions, as well as providing a link to that FAQ from the mailing list signup page, along with a STRONG suggestion to peruse the FAQ first. I agree with this 100% I'm still pretty new to the mailing lis

Re: [asterisk-users] Can't start Asterisk after installing Digium G729 licence [SOLVED]

2009-01-27 Thread Olivier
2009/1/27 Olivier > > 2009/1/27 Olivier > > Hi, >> >> I carefully followed instructions in README file lasting with : >> /root/register >> ... blabla >> asterisk -r >> CLI> restart now >> >> Then asterisk -r fails with : >> # asterisk -r >> Asterisk 1.6.1-beta4, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium,

Re: [asterisk-users] German date format in voicemail emails

2009-01-27 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Tilghman Lesher schrieb: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 02:03:37 Johansson Olle E wrote: >> Minivoicemail actually has >> - multiple e-mail formats >> - locale support so you get the date in local language and format. > > Unfortunately, it's using setlocale(3), which is not thread-safe. Note t

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailinglists

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Thomas
-->> In many cases, this just isn't possible. While it would be nice to -->> have all -->> posts in the King's English, a great many users are in locales which -->> don't King's English??? Anyway - to quote Ralph Wigham "Me fail English? That's unpossible!".

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread David fire
you can use any 1.4 how to but just use dahdi (both modules and tools) David 2009/1/27 Steve Gladden > I meant digium.com. > > Yay for messups! > It's been one of those weeks. > Really. > > > > > > New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non > > existent. > > > > You

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Gladden
I meant digium.com. Yay for messups! It's been one of those weeks. Really. > New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non > existent. > > You go to the main Asterisk page (digium.org) and really just old install > instructions for 1.2 are in the examples. > > Downlo

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 09:57:54 Steve Edwards wrote: > The -user and -dev mailing lists are a valuable resource -- when they are > not cluttered by posts unrelated to the "charter" of the lists. > > In my limited memory, this last weekend represents a new low in the > "relevant subject to noise

Re: [asterisk-users] T.38

2009-01-27 Thread Giorgio Incantalupo
Hi Michel, it seems there is a codec translation in between, have you tried to avoid it setting the codec from g729 to ulaw? I personally make Asterisk use alaw/ulaw codecs when sending faxes without any kind of codec translation and it seems to work. Giorgio michel freiha wrote: > Dear All, >

Re: [asterisk-users] I need help

2009-01-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
Yes, but is it agents a,b,c or a,b,etc? If huey, dewey and louie always get in, but Donald never does, something may be wrong with how Donald is set up. _ From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bayardo Sanchez Sent:

Re: [asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread David Gibbons
The higher you raise the barrier for entry to the mailing list, the more you decrease the amount good the mailing list is actually capable of doing. (barrier height is inversely related to how much help we can provide to the people that need help the most) I agree with you regarding the subject

Re: [asterisk-users] Webcall app needed

2009-01-27 Thread David fire
search for the correlata thread there is a java applet work over iax so you will not have any problems whit the routers/firewalls nats and that stuff. at the end of the thread there is an example made by wolfgang. David 2009/1/27 Dean Collins > This conversation has been done to deathare ar

Re: [asterisk-users] I need help

2009-01-27 Thread Bayardo Sanchez
only 3 On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Danny Nicholas wrote: > Is it the same 3 or the first 3? > > > -- > > *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto: > asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Bayardo Sanchez > *Sent:* Tuesday, Janua

Re: [asterisk-users] T.38

2009-01-27 Thread David fire
check the codecs in sip.conf 2009/1/27 michel freiha > Dear All, > > I'm trying to send Fax using T.38 protocol but the FAX is not going > through..I'm getting the following error om /var/log/messages > > [Jan 27 16:46:31] WARNING[25435] channel.c: No path to translate from > SIP/80.169.210.181

[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 dahdi only?

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Gladden
New to Aserisk 1.6 and find the 'installation tutorials' seem low to non existent. You go to the main Asterisk page (digium.org) and really just old install instructions for 1.2 are in the examples. Download links only give you asterisk itself and not dahdi or libpri which also are needed to run

Re: [asterisk-users] German date format in voicemail emails

2009-01-27 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 02:03:37 Johansson Olle E wrote: > 27 jan 2009 kl. 01.14 skrev Tilghman Lesher: > > On Monday 26 January 2009 08:21:10 am Danny Nicholas wrote: > >> Did you read the source for app_voicemail? Line 239 says you have > >> to set > >> locale in the config and have the sound

Re: [asterisk-users] Queue time to answer/abandon + OrderlyStats Server Edition.

2009-01-27 Thread Matt King
Hi Gabriel, Yes this information is shown in real-time and also in historical reports with the OrderlyStats system. OrderlyStats is now available as a Server Edition you can download and install yourself, as well as the FREE managed service. You can get it at http://www.orderlyq.com/statistics

Re: [asterisk-users] I need help

2009-01-27 Thread Danny Nicholas
Is it the same 3 or the first 3? _ From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bayardo Sanchez Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-us

Re: [asterisk-users] I need help

2009-01-27 Thread Bayardo Sanchez
24 chanels On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Danny Nicholas wrote: > What is your call-limit set to in sip.conf? > > > -- > > *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto: > asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Bayardo Sanchez > *Sent:*

[asterisk-users] RFC -- Improving the quality of the mailing lists

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Edwards
The -user and -dev mailing lists are a valuable resource -- when they are not cluttered by posts unrelated to the "charter" of the lists. In my limited memory, this last weekend represents a new low in the "relevant subject to noise ratio." Replying to requests with meaningless, misleading, or

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