Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
The left hand pedal on a church organ is around 16Hz. Below that things don't really sound like tones any more. Regards, Steve Matt Lawson wrote: The low "B" string on a 5-string bass guitar is approx. 31 Hz A power spectrum plot will tell him he has a 60Hz hum. I think he already knows

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Chris Albertson wrote: --- Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A power spectrum plot will tell him he has a 60Hz hum. I think he already knows that. I think he can definitely consider solutions without following your suggestion. :-) No, It's not a "60Hz hum

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Nick Bachmann wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Welter wrote: the codecs I use? Filter-out everything between, say, 55 and 65Hz? Notching may not be that effective, as it will not deal with the harmonics. The analogue to digital converter should already be filtering below 300Hz, so you pro

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Greg Hill wrote: My first thought was an RC filter, too. But I'd suggest that 500 Hz is too high a cutoff, because a note like a middle C is 256 Hz. I don't think it's uncommon for a voice (especially a male voice) to be in that range frequently. Although (in English, at least) vowels generally ha

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Chris Albertson wrote: Get a spectrum analizer. Software will do it. Record the humming connetion to a file and then run it through software that plots a power spectrum. THere is plent of good open source software. Even some audio file ditors have this feature. You should be able to see the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: 300Hz is pretty high to filter out... it's still well within the rage of voices. To compare, 300Hz is about a diatonic concert D. POTS has been filtering out < 300HZ and > 3000HZ for years. Only on long distance equipment, not on local plant. Ringing frequencies of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Woodpeckers

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Michael, Michael Welter wrote: I live at 8000' in the Rockies. We have lots of woodpeckers--they especially love to drill 4" holes in the north side of my house. They also like to drill on the arial telephone cables. Water then gets into the cable and causes a partial grounding on the cir

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cell Phones and Tone Recognition

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Brian, DTMF from a cell phone is rather different from DTMF from a land line, but not in any way that usually makes a difference. The cell phone codecs cannot carry DTMF properly, so the phone tells the base station, by a message, that a particular key is being pressed. The base station the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voip in the EU

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Iain Stevenson wrote: The problem with the Ofcom consultation as I see it is that it seems to be regressive wrt to the position now being taken by the FCC. There are probably not many more than 250,000 VoB users worldwide so now is not the time to impose significant market constraints. Why do

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Analogical FXO vs. BRI dialing speed

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 07:39, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: When dialing out, will a call be established significantly faster by an ISDN adapter such as an Eicon Diva server compared to an analogical FXO such as Digium's X100P ? Analog, nothing logical there. ISDN w

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic D300SC-E1

2004-02-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Alessio Focardi wrote: Hello Jeremy, Anyone can help me starting the card ? JM> List it on http://www.ebay.com/ and take the proceeds and purchase a JM> Digium E100P card. It has been my first tought but guess what ? E100P is not CE certified and I'm fearing legal problems

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Has Nufone gone belly-up

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Don Feuer wrote: Hi Everybody, In regards to what I see here, this looks like a whole .com flash back. I started a phone company that went belly up (CentreCom, the first Unified Communications company) because of customer service issues, lack of on-line information, and a lack of caring for the

[Asterisk-Users] GSM modems

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, I am interested in interfacing a GSM modem to *. I've seen a few comments about doing this, but I'm not clear whether people have actually made it work. I've used GSM modems for various data jobs, mostly high volume SMS (no, not nasty marketing stuff - high volume solicited SMS :-) ) .

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Steve Underwood wrote: Actually, nothing would use a 17Hz tone - it doesn't pass through a 300-3400Hz channel very well :-) It's not a 17Hz tone. Australian (and others) tones are single-frequency tones that are amplitude-modu

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Underwood
sounding. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Underwood Sent: Sunday, 25 January 2004 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications The correct tone is 400*17 (383 + 417) according

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Indications

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Christopher Lee wrote: Hi Steve, Interesting... I'm not sure! My copy of the original indications.conf had 400+17, and looking at the wiki it's the same there also http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20indications%20defaul t I tested 400*17 and it made a difference, but I still

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Bluetooth discussions

2004-01-24 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Don, A large number of GSM phones and PDAs now have bluetooth. It looks likely that through 2004 the majority of GSM phones anywhere above entry level will have Bluetooth. My guess is that this will collapse in 2005, and bluetooth will be dead soon after. In the meantime, I don't seem many

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 or E&M for E1 CAS pbx to pbx link

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Underwood
developer of libr2, Steve Underwood to comment on this. its his code he knows best. Please comment I keep commenting, and nobody seems to listen. libr2 is a half implemented useless piece of rubbish. The real working R2 is not available from me just yet. Regards, Steve

Re: [Asterisk-Users] I got it (was: Cisco 7940 with asterisk)

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Jan Czmok wrote: Michael Devenijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jan, Where can we get any technical documentation about sccp protocol i've searched with google and at cisco but i don't find anything useful ... The only useful resource is imagination :-) Skinny is a Protocol developed by Se

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7

2004-01-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Martin Pycko wrote: You have to contact www.openss7.org. The site may look dead but they sell ss7 together with asterisk. Yes and no. The sell access to the SS7 CVS. It does not work with Asterisk. There is a project page about OpenSS7 - Asterisk integration, but it is a project that never we

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T400P / T100P with Hong Kong IDA-P Lines

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi David, David Liu wrote: Hi there, Anyone had any success deploying Asterisk with a T100P or T400P card in Hong Kong? To my understanding, Hong Kong carriers only provide IDA-P or IDA-M lines. I am looking to use IDA-P. Is this possible with the card? I know Cisco 2651XMV with a VIC ca

Re: [Asterisk-Users] [ot] Grandstream hardware

2004-01-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Eric Wieling wrote: How does Grandstream become patent indemnified for their hardware? I would assume they did not pay for a license for G723,1 and G729 directly to the patent holding company. Maybe they did. I always assumed the indemnification came with a DSP that implemented the codec. Mo

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 support

2004-01-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Olle E. Johansson wrote: LQ (Asterisk) wrote: Hi guys, I was reading that Steve Underwood is working on Asterisk R2 signalling support, and has the 95% of the work done. What is R2? I'm curious. Half of R2D2, of course. Its also a stupid clunky multi-tone based telephone signaling s

Re: [Asterisk-Users] wav49 voicemail problem with Windows Media Player

2004-01-16 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, My guess would be the lengths in the header are not set right. If a wave file (or a file with a similar structure, like TIFF) works with some things and not with others, the problem is usually the lengths in the header. Some software just complains when the lengths are wrong. Some tries to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: What are the practical effects with in-correct clock sync -like to you hear odd buzzing, or dropped voice or gaps of audio ?? You may get gaps where frames are discarded, this will be across all timeslots so an individual loss isnt a lot of data, you'll probably get awa

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Rich Adamson wrote: To complete this rather lengthy topic... what happens if you ignore all of this and just slap a bunch of systems together with no regard to a master sync source? The quality and stability of your network will likely not be as good as what it could be. If your clocks (in each d

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Underwood
Stephen Davies wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, TC wrote: What are the practical effects with in-correct clock sync -like to you hear odd buzzing, or dropped voice or gaps of audio ?? Old-fart anecdote about this - in the early 80s we had some 1200bps modems that we used to connect to client s

Re: [Asterisk-Users] T1 Sync clarification

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
TC wrote: To complete this rather lengthy topic... what happens if you ignore all of this and just slap a bunch of systems together with no regard to a master sync source? The quality and stability of your network will likely not be as good as what it could be. If your clocks (in each device) hap

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fax

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
ublic carrier, and therefore have no idea where to start. Would someone (Steve Underwood ;-) )mind at least putting me on the right track so I can address this issue? Thanks in advance Steve Jason I don't know why this would fail. An ISDN card should be properly synchrinised to the PSTN, and use

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttool and errors

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Underwood
John Brown (CV) wrote: It appears that zttool doesn't actually report T1 span errors. If I inject BPV's, crc errors, framing errors, etc into a T1 span, the counters on zttool don't change. It works OK for me with Tormenta 2 and TE410P boards. Both zttool and the /proc/zaptel/x files seem to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Anton Tinchev wrote: Richard Grinnell wrote: Dell - PowerEdge 400SC Server Under $300 with MIR Intel® P®4 Processor at 2.8GHz, 512KB Cache, 800MHz FSB For those of you who aren`t familiar with the 400SC, this server is an Intel i875P chipset based

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Richard Grinnell wrote: Dell - PowerEdge 400SC Server Under $300 with MIR Intel® P®4 Processor at 2.8GHz, 512KB Cache, 800MHz FSB For those of you who aren`t familiar with the 400SC, this server is an Intel i875P chipset based server with an 8x AGP slot. It is compatible wit

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 Digital - Brazil

2004-01-12 Thread Steve Underwood
lling differences between countries ( I am trying to run .ar at .br)? Daniel Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Daniel, You will find libr2 is only about 10% of an implementation, and a bad one at that. I now have 95% of a good implementation, but its not yet released. Regards, Steve Daniel Bichara

Re: [Asterisk-Users] More words for Allison

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Underwood
John Todd wrote: hurricane tornado You missed typhoon! Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/lis

Re: [Asterisk-Users] R2 Digital - Brazil

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Daniel, You will find libr2 is only about 10% of an implementation, and a bad one at that. I now have 95% of a good implementation, but its not yet released. Regards, Steve Daniel Bichara wrote: Hi all, I will start testing libr2 for brazilian R2. Any clue? Daniel __

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Need 3.3v 64 PCI Booard with 800FSB (for ordinary Pentium4, not Xeon)

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Anton Tinchev wrote: Just spended ~ hour googling - all boards are based on GC-XX or I750X Chipsets - all for Xeons. There also some boards for Pentium 3. Can someone point me to a board with 64Bit 3.3v PCI for ordinary P4 with 800Mhz FSB. Thanks Unless one has appeared in the last couple of wee

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware to build an Enterprise AsteriskUniversal Gateway

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Underwood
9's allows about 6 minutes downtime a year. That means 100% of all failures must have automated failover, as manuals repair could never be achieved so fast. Physical diversity if essential for that. Regards, Steve Chris Albertson wrote: --- Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware to build an Enterprise AsteriskUniversal Gateway

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Underwood
WipeOut wrote: Granted five 9's is never easy but in a cluster of 10+ servers the system should survive just about anything short of an act of God.. You do realise that is a real dumb statement, don't you? :-) A cluster of 10 machines, each on a different site. Guarantees from the power company

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Does Asterisk support legacy Dialogic products?

2003-12-30 Thread Steve Underwood
Patrick Wong wrote: Hi all, I just checked out that Asterisk which is a platform I am interested of. I would like to install it to the Linux box for a trial. I have some legacy Dialogic hardware on hand, don't know they will work with Asterisk or not. For analog loop start interface I have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 API & Card Solution

2003-12-29 Thread Steve Underwood
That status page tells you the porject has gone nowhere so far. What you need is not a driver. It is a development project! Regards, Steve Ray Burkholder wrote: Current Status: http://www.openss7.org/asterix.html Ray Do I need a special Digium Card (E100-SS7) or use my E100P card and compile

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Encryption

2003-12-25 Thread Steve Underwood
And SRTP uses AES! Steve Brian West wrote: I understand AES can do this. bkw On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Steve Underwood wrote: Steven Critchfield wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 19:11, Mahoney, Matt wrote: Hi, Does asterisk support any kind of voice encryption? Not

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Encryption

2003-12-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 19:11, Mahoney, Matt wrote: Hi, Does asterisk support any kind of voice encryption? Not right now. As I understand it, it is a problem with the fact that each packet would have to be able to be decrypted even if packets in the stream are los

Re: [Asterisk-Users] tor2 does not load

2003-12-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Eduardo Goncalves wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:48:37 -0600 Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: asterix:~# modprobe tor2 Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196 Detected Tormenta 2 Quad T1/PRI or E1/PRA at 0xfe121800/0xfe121000 irq 7 Did not get DONE signal. Short file mayb

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sweet video phone

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Steve Totaro wrote: Supports H323 http://www.viseon.com/prod/c_VisiFone.asp?id=133 So? Whilst there are still only a few VoIP audio phones available, almost every computer related manufacturer in Asia has at least one video phone model like this. There must be dozens of units like this availa

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ToIP (TDD over IP)

2003-12-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 10:12, Philipp von Klitzing wrote: Hi! I'm also curious if anyone else is doing this or if anyone else is using the Asterisk TDD support. Excuse my ignorance: What exactly is TDD? Is it US specific? It's a specification for sen

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-15 Thread Steve Underwood
Walker Haddock wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:06:57PM +0200, Dan wrote: Hi, - Original Message - From: "Walker Haddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan, you say fax works better on the TDM400 than the ATA186. I'm having problems with faxing on the TDM400. I had to drop t

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Underwood
ProvoCityPower wrote: The question asked here, "why on earth you want to push fax data over a VoIP link at all. Fax compression isn't very efficient." may speak volumes about the future role of VOIP. My plans are to role out a VOIP connection to thousands of Customers. Many have legacy fax equi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Underwood
Alastair Maw wrote: Fax uses FSK modulation to transmit the data. If you compress this in a lossy way (GSM, MP3, whatever) then the integrity of the data is affected (more or less seriously depending on the codec used). Fax machines are generally quite picky, so compressing faxes is unlikely t

[Asterisk-Users] IAX and PDAs

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, Does anyone know of any work in progress on IAX based telephony for PDAs? Putting iaxcomm on a Zaurus or iPAQ, for example. Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX application

2003-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Dan wrote: Hi Steve, - Original Message - From: "Steve Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX application Hi Dan, Dan wrote: Hi, I have started the * server in

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFAX application

2003-12-07 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Dan, Dan wrote: Hi, I have started the * server in console mode (-vc) and this is what I get now (no file saved and disconnected): [] It seems the software FAX modem is sending out its messages regularly, but never hears anything recognisable come back from the far end FAX machi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] some success with linux 2.6 and wcfxo

2003-12-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Tristan 'Minty' Colgate wrote: Hi, My apologies for those on the channel who may take offense to this, atleast the ones to whom it was not aimed, but the fact is that after making a simple enquiry on the IRC channel I was in absolute shock... I asked one simple question, are there any known iss

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Port density: DS3 cards?

2003-12-04 Thread Steve Underwood
John Todd wrote: Obviously, there are no DS3 TDM cards that are currently compatible with Zap channels. (or are there?) Does anyone know of an inexpensive DS3 card that could perhaps be used with Asterisk if one were to try to port the Zap drivers to such a card? PCI, of course, would be the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] CTI/TAPI

2003-12-02 Thread Steve Underwood
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Just to inform the community ... i received an offer last week for 1 week of asterisk training +/-2USD !! We can't aford this ! Is that USD 20.000,- as in twenty thousand US dollars, or is have someone played around with the keyboard? If so - who the fu

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Brian Capouch wrote: Michael Devenijn wrote: We are working with realspeak and it is a wonderfull product (even in product) it supports up to 20 languages and has aquired a really good prod. stability ! What kind of money we talking for that product? I think i

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Underwood
Carl Youngblood wrote: What is EAGI? I will probably use festival for the time being, but I thing that I would eventually like to use ScanSoft's RealSpeak SDK because it is so life-like. Unfortunately our text alerts are fully customizeable, so we can't pre-record them. Beware the likeli

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi-line TTS Outbound Dialer

2003-11-27 Thread Steve Underwood
Carl Youngblood wrote: What is EAGI? I will probably use festival for the time being, but I thing that I would eventually like to use ScanSoft's RealSpeak SDK because it is so life-like. Unfortunately our text alerts are fully customizeable, so we can't pre-record them. Beware the likelike TT

Re: [Asterisk-Users] PCI 3.3 V

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Cristian Vasiliu wrote: Why PCI 3.3V for E1/T1 card!? I can not use it because I can not find any motherboard with PCI 3.3 . Any sugestions!? You have four options: A 32 bit slot in a Dell 600SC Almost any 64bit PCI slot (except for a small number of 33MHz only 64 bit slots) Wait for the soon

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prompt recording

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 09:24, Jerimiah Cole wrote: Does anybody have useful tips on creating good quality recordings for use with prompts in asterisk? I'm interested in hearing input on hardware (mics, dats, sound cards, etc) and software (recording software, dsp) a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] NTT FSK - Japanese Caller ID

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Isamar Maia wrote: Why don't you put it on the -dev list. Even if most of us might not be able to help much, we could watch and learn. The issue to create several lists was already decided and implemented? If so, let me know since I didn't get this thread. I implemented routines to analyse

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ring power on Analog adapters

2003-11-24 Thread Steve Underwood
mattf wrote: Hello, Ok, I've tried tinkering with the ring voltage (this is an editable variable on the Sipure SPA-2000) and I still can't get it to work. I plug a generic POTS line in and it works, I plug an analog port from our old Comdial PBX in and it works. with the sipura adapter I've tri

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RxFax

2003-11-23 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Dan, From the log, it looks like something wrong is in the modem software. I have been adding a V.27ter modem to the FAX software, to do the slow 2400, and 4800 bps FAX modes. I've been busy with other things the last couple of weeks, but I am finishing this off now. I have also made the e

Re: [Asterisk-Users] can't get caller id?

2003-11-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: Callerid in the Us is signaled with FSK between the first and second ring. For more information, you will need to consult the source as it will be definitive. So far, I think it has been established that in the UK, the callerid is sent after a line reversal and before th

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Cannot do international dial with E1 in Spain

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Antonio, This is often a pain with ISDN. What works varies from place to place. Ahm the wonders of standards :-). Setting the dial plan to international is probably right. When you do this you may need to drop the 00 prefix, and start with the country code. Then again, you may not. It varies

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anybody using Sphinx

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Underwood
Anthony Wood wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:22:55AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote: Arnold Ligtvoet wrote: Since I would like the user names to be auto-generated by the system, I would guess that this could best be done using festival with a localized voice. I think there is a Dutch

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anybody using Sphinx

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Underwood
Arnold Ligtvoet wrote: Since I would like the user names to be auto-generated by the system, I would guess that this could best be done using festival with a localized voice. I think there is a Dutch voice for Mbrola with should integrate into festival ( note to self : need bigger harddisk :-) )

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Radius on *

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Oh and BTW, UTFG before asking a question. You would have probably seen ... UTFG? May the Google be with you, always :-) ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-

[Asterisk-Users] Text entry by DTMF

2003-11-09 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi, I've kind of ported a DTMF text extry method I wrote some time ago for Dialogic. It is now a semi-working Asterisk app. I've still got to clean up some stuff in how Festival is used to read back what is entered, and then I think it should be OK. Would anyone here find this useful? It takes

Re: [Asterisk-Users] IBM to Run VoIP On Linux

2003-11-08 Thread Steve Underwood
Engineers of all kinds can be a bit lax about documentation. However, the documentation police are rightly held in a regard usually reserved for lawyers, realtors, used car salesmen and serial killers. There isn't a single thing to stop anyone that really loves documentation actually producing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anyone using * in a live production environment?

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Stephen R. Besch wrote: God, I wish I could be so sure of that. I've looked at the circuitry on some high end channel bank active hybrids. SPICE modeling predicts a maximum 26 dB attenuation of the returned echo, even with a balanced line. A simple circuitry change which adds a balance adjust

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anyone using * in a live production environment?

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Stephen R. Besch wrote: 5) Attempt to balance the hybrid at the 2-line to 4 line interface. Why: 99% of the time, this is where the echo originates and this is where is should be fixed. Unfortunately, this is not for the faint of heart, but if your line card has a hybrid balance

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Red Alarm

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: An E1 can be a long way from the box with the right cable. However many people use the wrong cable. Using a LAN cable for an E1 often gives errors if the cable is more than just a few metres long. Although the plugs look the same, the twisted pairs should be grouped differe

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Reasons why I shouldn't use Asterisk?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Underwood
Ariel Batista wrote: Can anyone think of any others? Here is the short list I have! 1) Lack of graphical interface. 2) Un-freindly user interface (Command prompt only) 3) Network and Telephony person needed at site. 4) No standard SIP Phone nor IAX phone available. and the biggest one I fe

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Reasons why I shouldn't use Asterisk?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Underwood
WipeOut wrote: Gavin Hamill wrote: It would seem an odd question, but I'm trying to put together a little presentation on 'Why Asterisk?' and need to list Pros and Cons I've got plenty of Pros (including the availability of commercial support), but the only Con I can think of is 'Relatively f

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Red Alarm

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
An E1 can be a long way from the box with the right cable. However many people use the wrong cable. Using a LAN cable for an E1 often gives errors if the cable is more than just a few metres long. Although the plugs look the same, the twisted pairs should be grouped differently in an E1 cable,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Where can i get the g.723 codec?

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Andrew Gillham wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Thomas, Unless you have a *very* specific need to use G.723.1 for compatibility with someone else, forget it. It is pretty much an obsolete product. Licencing is also a pain, as there is not patent pool for it. G.729 is expensive to licence

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Intel Performance Primitives

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Ernest, I tried IPP, but couldn't get much performance out of it. When I tried diassembling one or two routines to see what they looked like, there seemed at be a llo of overhead in the routines that destroyed all the benefits. Regards, Steve Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: Hey all,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Where can i get the g.723 codec?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Thomas, Unless you have a *very* specific need to use G.723.1 for compatibility with someone else, forget it. It is pretty much an obsolete product. Licencing is also a pain, as there is not patent pool for it. G.729 is expensive to licence, but at least it is relatively strightforward. If

Re: [Asterisk-Users] which TDM to use? DID line from telco with no dial tone and no voltage

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Underwood
r at least, expected to be much further away than an extension phone, I was wondering if there's a difference in the electrical requirment. thanks again, patrick Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Patrick, You are in the UK, right (at least DDI strongly suggests that)? This is the commonest signalling

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Good system board to use with TE410P?

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Scott, I use a Tyan 2665 (7505 based) M/B with a TE410P. That works well. This is a development workstation, so its probably not the kind of board you want for deployment. Regards, Steve Scott Stingel wrote: Hi- I'm looking for an appropriate system board to power a system with two (2) Dig

Re: [Asterisk-Users] which TDM to use? DID line from telco with no dial tone and no voltage

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Patrick, You are in the UK, right (at least DDI strongly suggests that)? This is the commonest signalling for a DDI line on an analogue pair. The line is behaving just like the main exchange is a telephone. It picks up the line, by applying a 600ohm loop, and dials (with pulses per second or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Ray Burkholder wrote: Might want to write a new "energy detector" algorithm in dsp.c though based on a wideband/low Q resonator approach (move the pole way in towards the origin) as opposed to narrow band goertzels (pole on the unit circle). More robust for this type of work. Where d

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
I am taking note of people's messages about soft fax, even if I might appear to be ignoring them. I am getting V.27ter finished off right now, to flesh out the facilities in the software. V.27ter is used for 4800bps and 2400bps faxes - not critically important, but useless for lousy lines. That

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Chris, That is exactly the Dialogic implementation I was referring to that was utterly useless. It works OK when people are demoing, as they always follow a certain pattern. In real like it I've always found it a recipe for screaming angry users. Depnding on your use it can get over 90% of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Did you mistype or something. That link is about power profiling the consumption of DSPs :-) Regards, Steve Asterisk online forums wrote: some information can be found here about algorithm and descriptions of method being used. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/393112.html Regards, Alexander **

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Lists wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Brian Schrock wrote: Everyone, Just thought I would drop a line telling everyone here I have the software RxFAX/TxFAX up and running without any real problems. I did have to. RH 9.0 1) Install an audio devel rpm 1) install libtiff from source, and copy

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Answering Machine Detection

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Alastair Maw wrote: On 27/10/03 21:57, DUSTIN WILDES wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations on implementing Answering Machine detection for call generation programs? There's obviously no nice way of doing this. If you're doing telemarketing, and you're playing pre-recorded audio, which of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 signaling/Softswitch

2003-10-26 Thread Steve Underwood
links in ITP, how load a SPC formats, and how can I add an TGCP route in BTS... Sure! Why not? Regards, Gus - Original Message - From: "Steve Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS

Re: [Asterisk-Users] SS7 signaling/Softswitch

2003-10-25 Thread Steve Underwood
Interesting. Someone thinks that a strategic use for * should be off this list. Someone thought my FAX modem for * should be off this list. However, nobody seems to think a 1000 messages about Grandstream phones should be off this list. Personally I would welcome seeing more of what people are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Steven Critchfield wrote: [...] Now I just wish it was robust enough to work over my IAX connection without problem. I'm sure it is the GSM compression that is biting it. I'll run some more tests and then maybe I'll move it to a machine located in the same rack as my phone gateway machine. At tha

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Steven, I think I have the tagging right for the aspect ratio. A lot of display software gets it wrong, including some well regarded things like the GIMP. KFax displayed my fine and standard test FAXes properly. Steven Critchfield wrote: Figured the group would like to hear this. I just fax

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Chris, What on earth are you refering to? Regards, Steve Chris Albertson wrote: This whole argument is moot because there IS a free g.729 implementation. Actually it is a zero cost license to the source code. Exactly what was asked for. --- Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
) Comments are welcome. Thank you. Alex Zarubin -Original Message- From: Dave Cotton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:45 AM To: Asterisk List Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:22, Steve Underwood wrote: > I did say this wa

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Free g.729.1 implementation

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
Witold Krecicki wrote: 1st. - I'm from Poland, we don't have (yet, and hopefully forever) software patents. Is there any free g.729.1 implementation for asterisk? I want to use it for my private use (dialing into inet->PSTN gateway), and I don't want (now) to buy codec, as I don't know if I wi

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Underwood
). I also fixed something that could cause crashes if you tried to send a non-existant TIFF file. I'm sorry if I disappointed the early adopters, but it *will* get better. Regards, Steve Florian Overkamp wrote: Hi, Citeren Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If it doesn't w

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Florian, Florian Overkamp wrote: Hi, Citeren Steve Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If it doesn't work for you, don't be too surprised. Feed back anything you find, and lets try to make things better. I suspect, from experience and things I have read on the web, that a lot

[Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi all, I would like to announce the availability of an initial test version of a totally software FAX facility, suitable for use with Asterisk. This is a first public test release, so don't expect a solid polished product just yet. People have shown interest in what I am doing, and here is the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Strange message !! Unknown IE 76 (Unknown Information Element)

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Underwood
Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote: Hi Martin, libpri misses all the fun stuff :-( hold, retrieve, suspend, ect, cd, conf, 3pty .. but i am going to change that :-) regards kapejod It misses all the timers, too. :-) Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users m

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, UFOs and...

2003-10-09 Thread Steve Underwood
TC wrote: Mythical Asterisk Creatures, oft-discussed, rarely seen: 1) An "advanced" graphical user interface 2) An IAX2 hardware device 3) A Radius CDR report module 4) A live-method, robust SQL-based dialplan 5) LDAP/SQL/Radius authentication for SIP phones 6) Robust R2 signalling suppor

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voice detection

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Underwood
Hi Brad, If you want to detect that a sound is voice, rather than something else, it isn't easy. There is information around on the Internet about methods, but I have never tried them and don't know how well they work. Unless you have some understanding of DSP I wouldn't bother trying. On the

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