Re: [asterisk-users] Confbridge GUI?

2018-01-18 Thread Richard Kenner
> >> If you can provide details, even vague ones, about how you did it, I > >> can update the WMM package. > > > > See http://asterisk.gnat.com/meetme.tgz > > > > That's a gzipped tar of our working directory plus the relevant parts of > > extensions.conf. I xxx'ed out phone numbers and Google

Re: [asterisk-users] Confbridge GUI?

2017-10-17 Thread Richard Kenner
> If you can provide details, even vague ones, about how you did it, I > can update the WMM package. See http://asterisk.gnat.com/meetme.tgz That's a gzipped tar of our working directory plus the relevant parts of extensions.conf. I xxx'ed out phone numbers and Google interface data. This shou

Re: [asterisk-users] Confbridge GUI?

2017-10-13 Thread Richard Kenner
> I have a very old server that is used only for conferences on > Meetme. To manage the conference rooms we use Web Meetme. Now it is > time to upgrade everything but since Meetme is no longer available I > need to find a replacement GUI to manage the conference rooms. Anyone > know a s

[asterisk-users] Odd audio issue with video conference

2017-08-30 Thread Richard Kenner
We're experimenting with using Asterisk (14.6.0) for video conferences. This test has three endpoints, a Polycom Trio with its video accessory, and two desktops running Linphone. The video is all H.264. We're using Opus for audio on the Linphone Windows desktops and have tried both G.722 and Sire

[asterisk-users] Bug in main/bridge.c:ast_bridge_update_talker_src_video_mode

2017-08-28 Thread Richard Kenner
I've had two Asterisk crashes today that seem to be caused by errors where chan->tech_pvt is pointing to something that can't be deallocated and I think I see a reference count bug in the above function. It contains: if (data->chan_old_vsrc) { ast_channel_u

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 13 on old VMware ESXI 4

2017-08-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> There are certain versions of the Linux kernel that have no support > under the older version of ESXI. We started having issues under our > ESXI v4 setup with RH Enterprise and vmware's response was, "It's > not supported" "not supported" and "does not work" are not the same thing. ESXI emulat

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 13 on old VMware ESXI 4

2017-08-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> The version is licensed and the customer does not want to invest on new > hardware/software at the moment. If the ESXI version is too old I need > to give them definitive proof that the segfaults are caused by that but > since the old elastix has been running there for years they do not quite

Re: [asterisk-users] Difference between Application Set and Function SET?

2017-06-16 Thread Richard Kenner
> It was only when I ran AsteriskLint over my dialplan that I noticed this: > > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+14+Application_Set > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+14+Function_SET > > Hmmm, they both seem to do the same thing. Or don't they? In some sense

Re: [asterisk-users] CM for menuselect choices

2017-05-07 Thread Richard Kenner
> Use menuselect's command line (--enable and --disable). Great idea! How would you recommend generating the set of --enable and --disable options that differ from the default from a build that was done? -- _ -- Bandwidth and

Re: [asterisk-users] CM for menuselect choices

2017-05-05 Thread Richard Kenner
> Of course, you might run into problems if the later release introduces new > options (or deprecates old ones) which then aren't going to be in your > makeopts file That's my question: how do I reflect the changes that I made to the defaults in a way that's not dependent on the exact set of opt

[asterisk-users] CM for menuselect choices

2017-05-05 Thread Richard Kenner
I'd like to be able to save the choices made in menuselect in a way that they can be tracked in a CM system and applied to a later release of Asterisk using an automated tool like Ansible. What's the best way to do that? -- _ --

[asterisk-users] Crashes in jitterbuffer with framedata->timer_interval > 1000

2017-04-18 Thread Richard Kenner
I had three crashes this morning on a divide-by-zero, for example at abstract_jb.c:1008 in 14.3.0. Does this ring any bell to anybody? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- Check out the new

Re: [asterisk-users] More issues with Siren14 datalen == 0 packets

2017-04-12 Thread Richard Kenner
> The feed function in slinfactory explicitly does not allow frames > without a data payload to be added to the queue. It would have prevented > this crash. Ah, so the fix should really be there, righty? > I think the underlying issue is that the data pointer is not NULL when > it sanely should b

Re: [asterisk-users] More issues with Siren14 datalen == 0 packets

2017-04-12 Thread Richard Kenner
> All patches need to go into JIRA with a license agreement to be > accepted. Understood, but I was using it as an illustration. Note, however, that, from a legal perspective, a patch such as this has no protectable IP (you can't copyright the only way of doing something) and the GNU projects hav

[asterisk-users] More issues with Siren14 datalen == 0 packets

2017-04-12 Thread Richard Kenner
Another crash with a packet: $10 = {frametype = AST_FRAME_VOICE, subclass = {integer = 0, format = 0x12c62170, frame_ending = 0}, datalen = 0, samples = 640, mallocd = 1, mallocd_hdr_len = 324, offset = 64, src = 0x2ad290064a08 "siren14tolin32/speex", data = {ptr = 0x80893318, uint

Re: [asterisk-users] Issues with Siren14 codec in Asterisk 14.3.0

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Kenner
> I would say this is a bug in func_speex and not in codec_siren14. This > is because the datalen is zero. Ah! So, like? *** func_speex.c.orig 2017-02-13 15:00:19.0 -0500 --- func_speex.c2017-04-06 11:16:03.0 -0400 *** *** 185,189 } !

[asterisk-users] Issues with Siren14 codec in Asterisk 14.3.0

2017-04-06 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm seeing Asterisk crashes with the following frame at func_speex.c:188: (gdb) p *frame $6 = {frametype = AST_FRAME_VOICE, subclass = {integer = 0, format = 0xe2f9e20, frame_ending = 0}, datalen = 0, samples = 640, mallocd = 1, mallocd_hdr_len = 232, offset = 64, src = 0x2ac07413e7f8 "

[asterisk-users] Asterisk crash when playing a WAV file to G722 SIP

2017-03-31 Thread Richard Kenner
I recently upgraded to Asterisk 14.3.0. When playing a SIP file to a G722 SIP channel (via chan_sip), I get a crash with the following traceback. This is reproducable: #0 0x0036fdc30265 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0036fdc31d10 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0036

Re: [asterisk-users] UniMRCP and Asterisk 14

2017-03-27 Thread Richard Kenner
> I can't speak for the MRCP guys, but from a difference perspective, > swapping MRCP from Asterisk 13 to Asterisk 14 shouldn't be too > difficult. Most of the changes between the two shouldn't affect most > people's use cases, including projects such as MRCP. I'd definitely > check with their di

[asterisk-users] UniMRCP and Asterisk 14

2017-03-23 Thread Richard Kenner
When I look at the lastest UniMRCP manual, they only mention as high as Asterisk 13. Does anybody know if I need to do anything to allow it to work on Asterisk 14 and, if so, what that is? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provid

[asterisk-users] CDR records and conferences

2016-03-15 Thread Richard Kenner
At least in version 12.2.0, the code in cdr.c appears to create CDR records for each pair of users in a conference. This is quadratic and would seem to be an issue with large conferences. I got two Asterisk crashes when a lot of people tried to dial into a conference. They appear quite related

Re: [asterisk-users] Siren7 for Asterisk 13.5

2015-08-10 Thread Richard Kenner
> Alas, until we get off our butts, yes. Sorry about that. > > Really, we're putting as much effort into fixing things and issues > that affect a lot of people. While siren7/siren14/silk are nice, there > aren't as many people using them as other affected things at this > moment. Is there somethi

Re: [asterisk-users] Siren7 for Asterisk 13.5

2015-08-10 Thread Richard Kenner
> A Siren codec is not currently available and the one for 12 will not > work. I have no timeframe for when this might change. So the only option is to build one from the Polycom sources? I'm already doing this for Siren14 (I forget why). --

[asterisk-users] Siren7 for Asterisk 13.5

2015-08-07 Thread Richard Kenner
What is the proper version of the Siren7 codec to use for Asterisk 13.5.0? Since there's nothing later, does the version for 12.0 work? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? J

[asterisk-users] Siren7 and Asterisk 13

2015-07-28 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm planning on upgrading to Asterisk 13.4 soon and am looking for the corresponding Siren7 codec. Where do I find it? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a liv

Re: [asterisk-users] Bug in ast_frame_adjust_volume in 12.2.0?

2015-07-08 Thread Richard Kenner
> This is an interpolated frame from func_jitterbuffer. It's part of > packet loss concealment. What scenario exposed this? We were testing for clipping by doing Set(VOLUME(RX)=100) but we were connecting to a ConfBridge that had a jitterbuffer. This occurred when the phone (SIP) hung up. -- _

[asterisk-users] Bug in ast_frame_adjust_volume in 12.2.0?

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm getting a SIGSEGV at ast_slinear_saturated_multiply at the line: 351 res = (int) *input * *value; It's called from ast_frame_adjust_volume. The frame looks like: (gdb) print *f $6 = {frametype = AST_FRAME_VOICE, subclass = {integer = 100021, format = { id = AST_FOR

Re: [asterisk-users] setting outbound caller ID

2015-06-18 Thread Richard Kenner
> CALLERID is a read only variable. That's not correct. I set it all over the place in my dialplan. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory w

Re: [asterisk-users] default features

2015-06-03 Thread Richard Kenner
> Question: is there some built-in way to know if macro > "feature1-ClientA" is defined? Something liken > > ExecIfMacro(feature1-ClientA)?macro(feature1-ClientA):Goto(...). A macro is a context, so DIALPLAN_EXISTS should work if you specify an extension and priority that's in the macro (pre

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Jitterbuffer

2015-02-18 Thread Richard Kenner
> What are the cons, if any, of enabling a jitterbuffer? Memory and latency. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:

Re: [asterisk-users] Getting source ip adress of incoming INVITE

2014-07-04 Thread Richard Kenner
> I'm interested in finding out what the source ip is of an invite in the > dialplan (Asterisk 11). ${CHANNEL(recvip)} -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a liv

Re: [asterisk-users] WSS over Asterisk

2014-06-12 Thread Richard Kenner
> I'm having the error as shown below > > Connecting to 'wss://54.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ws' SIPml-api.js?svn=224:1 > ==stack event = starting SIPml-api.js?svn=224:1 > __tsip_transport_ws_onerror SIPml-api.js?svn=224:1 > __tsip_transport_ws_onclose SIPml-api.js?svn=224:1 > ==stack event = failed_to_st

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-05-07 Thread Richard Kenner
> Committed the fix for this leak on Asterisk v12 branch in -r413452. > This leak also applied to Asterisk v11. Thanks. Is this for both the one in the talking callback or the one in handle_cli_confbridge_kick or both (the fix is similar in both)? --

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Kenner
> That is definitely a leak and the fix looks good. Thanks. > That leak is most likely the one biting you. It definitely is. > There is another leak in handle_cli_confbridge_kick() if the > participant to kick is not in the conference. Confirmed. I missed that one in my code reading. I just

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Kenner
> Really, I think we're pretty positive there's a ref leak (since > otherwise, the CBAnn channel would be long gone). If you can get a > ref debug log and the standard Asterisk DEBUG log showing the > problem, that would help a lot in finding out what is going on. I think the bug is in conf_handle

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-05-01 Thread Richard Kenner
> Please go ahead and open an issue and attach the refs log and the full DEBUG > log. That will allow us to understand what's occurring here. I need to wait until I'm sure this isn't something I caused somehow, so I need to first understand why I'm seeing this and nobody else is. --

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-05-01 Thread Richard Kenner
> It may show up in 'bridge show all' - but I'd actually expect it not > to show up there either. Actually, it does. I have a screen full of bridges with 0 channels. I just tried an experiment where all I have is exten => 329,1,Answer(1000) same => n,Confbridge(1234) with absolutely nothing e

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-04-30 Thread Richard Kenner
> Really, I think we're pretty positive there's a ref leak (since > otherwise, the CBAnn channel would be long gone). If you can get a > ref debug log and the standard Asterisk DEBUG log showing the > problem, that would help a lot in finding out what is going on. That can't be done in the 12.2.0

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-04-30 Thread Richard Kenner
> If the reference count on the bridge is off, you should see the conference > bridge 'hanging around' after the last participant has left. And how would I be sure this is the case? I did "core set debug 1" and didn't see the debug line about destroying the conference, but it doesn't show up in

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Kenner
> If the channel still hangs around after the conference is destroyed > then there is a problem. Am I missing something obvious: I'm looking in the confbridge_exec function. I see a "conference = NULL" line, but no attempt to free that structure, which is what I understand will destroy the playba

Re: [asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Kenner
> The announcer channel joins/leaves the conference as it has sounds > to play. If the channel still hangs around after the conference is > destroyed then there is a problem. There's a problem. ;-) But thanks for pointing to how that's supposed to be handled. -- ___

[asterisk-users] "CBAnn" channel not going away in Asterisk 12

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Kenner
After an upgrade to Asterisk 12, I'm "collecting" channels. When I enter and then exit a conference room, I see: -- Playing 'confbridge-leave.slin' (language 'en') -- Channel CBAnn/207-067f;2 joined 'softmix' base-bridge <5edb1920-3774-4ba3-8c4d-23e8fd04519c> -- Channel CBAnn/20

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem building Asterisk-12.2.0

2014-04-27 Thread Richard Kenner
> e2fsprogs-devel is the package that provides uuid.h on centos 5 I tried that first and it didn't seem to. I'm pretty sure I needed uuid-dce-devel. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem building Asterisk-12.2.0

2014-04-27 Thread Richard Kenner
> What distro are you building on? CentOS 5.10. > Both have the libraries listed in install_prereq. Indeed it has all but 2 or 3 of those libraries (none related to uuid), but after running that script, it was still missing what it needed for uuid. Unfortunately, there's no upgrade path from Cen

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem building Asterisk-12.2.0

2014-04-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> I think you need the libuuid and libuuid-devel packages. "yum list available" was not showing any such package. I installed a few other packages, including "uuid-dce-devel" and one of them did the trick, but the install-prereq script wasn't good enough. --

[asterisk-users] Problem building Asterisk-12.2.0

2014-04-26 Thread Richard Kenner
When I run ./configure, it aborts with: checking for uuid_generate_random in -luuid... no checking for uuid_generate_random in -le2fs-uuid... no checking for uuid_generate_random... no configure: error: *** uuid support not found (this typically means the uuid development package is missing) But

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk CLI Banner

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Kenner
> If you really want to do it: > > 1) create a wrapper to asterisk -r > 2) pipe the welcome message to /dev/null > 3) ??? > 4) profit > > you didn't modify Asterisk. No you didn't, but you may neverthess have created a derived work. There are two different legal arguments you can make when two

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk CLI Banner

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Kenner
> Of course, any good attorney will never commit to anything. They > will never say it is alright to do X, unless X is do nothing No, but a good attorney can give guidance as to likely expectations. As you say, nobody can be sure of something even if it's previously been "established law", but a

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk CLI Banner

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Kenner
> What does violating license of Asterisk means? Does it means I > won't be able to use any commercial modules or asterisk commercially? > I thought it was open and anyone can change the code? Anyone *can* change the code. But it's licensed software, just like most other software. The difference

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk CLI Banner

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Kenner
> Modifying a program you have legitimately acquired is Fair Dealing. > The Law of the Land gives you the right to do that, even if the > vendor restricts your exercise of that right in practice by > withholding the Source Code. That is false. Modifying a program is "creating a derivative work".

[asterisk-users] Recording conferences with changing bitrate

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm running 10.7.1 (yes, I know it's old, but this may be a problem in later versions too) and had a conference being recorded via: Set(CONFBRIDGE(bridge,record_conference)=yes) The bridge started out at 8KHz despite one HD device. But when the second came in (G.722), it switched to 16KH

[asterisk-users] Jitter buffer on write side of channel

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Kenner
How does one do this? We have a particular SIP phone that needs a large jitterbuffer, but all I can see is how to put it on the *read* side of the channel. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -

Re: [asterisk-users] Integration with skype

2013-05-23 Thread Richard Kenner
> For voice, you can use SipToSis. Works flawlessly with Asterisk and the > best part, it's free. :) > > www.mhspot.com/sts/ > (site is down right now) And that's related to the problem with it: it hasn't been maintained for quite a while. --

Re: [asterisk-users] Disagreements between codec_siren14 and Polycom sources

2013-03-15 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm answering my own email here: > There appears to be a disagreement between the encoding given in the > sources for Siren14 that are downloaded from Polycom (and the ITU, both > are the same) and that implemented by codec_siren14.so. The latter > agrees with the actual device. The disagreement

[asterisk-users] Disagreements between codec_siren14 and Polycom sources

2013-03-14 Thread Richard Kenner
There appears to be a disagreement between the encoding given in the sources for Siren14 that are downloaded from Polycom (and the ITU, both are the same) and that implemented by codec_siren14.so. The latter agrees with the actual device. If I make a .sln32 file and run the encoder from ITU/Polyc

Re: [asterisk-users] Transcoding issues with siren14

2013-03-14 Thread Richard Kenner
> Do you have transcode_via_sln set in asterisk.conf? No, but as I said in a later email, I found the problem: when computing the cost of a path, any downconvert has the same cost. So siren14 -> slin -> slin32 is the same cost as siren14 -> slin16 -> slin32 which is wrong. I fixed

[asterisk-users] Transcoding issues with siren14

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Kenner
Sorry for a possible retransmit: the first was sent from an incorrect email address. I'm trying to use the Polycom SoundStation IP 7000 with Confbridge. But the transcoding from siren14 to slin32 is via slin. First, it seems odd that there's no transcoder directly to slin32 since anything else w

[asterisk-users] Issue with .siren14 sound files

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm connecting a Polycom SoundStation IP 7000 and trying to use siren14. I downloaded the codecs and now it will properly transcode to connect to other phones and play any files that are in .wav format. But when it tries to play any files with .siren14 extensions, I get complete noise coming out.

[asterisk-users] Frames with invalid timing info

2013-01-25 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm now getting these errors: [Jan 25 09:19:01] WARNING[29877]: abstract_jb.c:284 ast_jb_put: DAHDI/i1/2128518396-ba7 received frame with invalid timing info: has_timing_info=1, len=0, ts=426891164, src=RTP [Jan 25 09:19:01] WARNING[29877]: abstract_jb.c:284 ast_jb_put: DAHDI/i1/2128518396-ba7

Re: [asterisk-users] "clicking" sound with alaw codec

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
> Check https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-12042 I did. But that was with an "unofficial" G.729. This is with the supplied alaw codec. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New

Re: [asterisk-users] "clicking" sound with alaw codec

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
> - jitterbuffer settings (try on/off) I added jbenable=yes and get lots of: [Jan 24 17:53:41] WARNING[12317]: abstract_jb.c:284 ast_jb_put: DAHDI/i1/2128518396-6c7 received frame with invalid timing info: has_timing_info=1, len=0, ts=371371424, src=RTP [Jan 24 17:53:41] WARNING[12317]: abst

Re: [asterisk-users] "clicking" sound with alaw codec

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
> > When I use alaw, the path from Asterisk to the Alcatel is completely > > clean, but the other way has a set of clicks that kind of sound like > > old-fashioned audio noise. > [snip] > > It's been ages since I experienced that but things to check that come to > mind in no particular order are:

Re: [asterisk-users] "clicking" sound with alaw codec

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
> Your sounds might be too loud. We use a lot of custom sounds here and when > the volume approaches 0 db (asterisk standard is -3 db) we get fuzz and > clicks. Sorry I wasn't clear. This is *always*. I hear it over the call when there's talking and when there's dead silence (e.g., an empty Mee

[asterisk-users] "clicking" sound with alaw codec

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm trying to interface Asterisk with an Alcatel PABX and trying to find a code that works well. It says it doesn't support ulaw, though it doesn't reject it. It supports G.729, and that works fine, but we'd prefer not to use compression. When I use alaw, the path from Asterisk to the Alcatel is

[asterisk-users] g723 transcoding

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Kenner
It appears that there are no transcoders from g723 to anything else in Asterisk 10.7.1. Does anybody know how to fix that? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a

Re: [asterisk-users] Uninitialized variable in main/pbx.c?

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Kenner
> > + dst_exten[0] = '\0'; > > Is this 'construct' prefered over > > dst_exten[0] = 0; > or > *dst_exten = 0; > > and why? I'm somewhat of a C pedant here. dst_exten is declared as an array, not a pointer. So if I want to clear the first byte of

[asterisk-users] Uninitialized variable in main/pbx.c?

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Kenner
I think the below fixes what I reported earlier. Does that seem right? *** pbx.c.old 2013-01-23 21:08:51.0 -0500 --- pbx.c 2013-01-23 21:09:31.0 -0500 *** static enum ast_pbx_result __ast_pbx_run *** 5160,5163 --- 5160,5165 int timeout

[asterisk-users] Problems with 'i' extension

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm running Asterisk 10.7.1. In the log, I see: -- Goto (Conferences,70323,1) -- Auto fallthrough, But there is an 'i' extension: dialplan show i@Conferences [ Context 'Conferences' created by 'pbx_config' ] '_[ti]' =>1. GotoIf($[${SET(REC=$[${REC}--1])}>3]?999) [pbx_config

Re: [asterisk-users] Any timeframe for the release of the Asterisk 11<->Lumenvox connector bridge?

2013-01-18 Thread Richard Kenner
> I'm starting to think about migrating from an old Asterisk box to a > new one and want to use the Asterisk 11 long term support release, > but need Lumenvox integration and I don't see the Asterisk 11 > connector bridge for Lumenvox available yet. Lumenvox tech support > says this is under Digiu

Re: [asterisk-users] Top Posting

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> > If things were properly trimmed, the email would be short enough that it > > really doesn't matter that much if the new material is on the top or > > bottom, but people who top-post and don't trim create really hard-to-follow > > emails. > > Not really true often times when people do the right

Re: [asterisk-users] Top Posting

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> In this "properly trimmed" example, there's no record of who said what. When it's relevant, I trim in such a way that that information is preserved. But I would *never* leave in a header, just the identification of the person who typed that part. Most mailers, when you include text from anoth

Re: [asterisk-users] Top Posting

2013-01-02 Thread Richard Kenner
> > I'm the opposite. I'm likely not to scroll down 10 pages to see > > the comments at the end. > > Wouldn't need to if people trimmed their posts properly. Precisely (e.g., see above)! Indeed, my sense is that top-posting *discourages* properly trimming email and that's my main reason against

[asterisk-users] Question on Confbridge menu item dialplan_exec

2012-12-31 Thread Richard Kenner
I like the example of using that to add somebody to the conference, but what I don't see is how the dialplan can know what conference the menu item was called from. I was hoping that some variable might have been set, but don't see it in the sources. Is the idea to do that outside of the call to

[asterisk-users] Problem with Speex codec

2012-12-30 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm trying to convert from MeetMe to Confbridge and one part of that is handling the ending of a conference. So I'm taking the suggestion of originating a call to the conference and doing: same => n,Playback(conf-will-end-in&digits/${WTIME}&minutes) That crashes Asterisk (with no core dump!) in

Re: [asterisk-users] Top Posting

2012-12-29 Thread Richard Kenner
> I realize the benefits of bottom-posting, especially when posting > inline. But top-posting keeps things in reverse chronological order > so any reader could catch up quickly on any missed messages in the > chain. A new reader scrolls to the bottom and reads up. What's there to "catch up with" i

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> The way you had things configured Asterisk was prioritizing GSM over > ULAW, so until Jitsi started responding it sent GSM. I thought I might have seen something like that in the packets, but it didn't look like it showed up in the SDP negotiations, so seemed peculiar to me. Unclear why this

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> 1. Remove allow=gsm from your sip.conf and reload That did it! Thanks! But why should that have been an issue? > 2. Disable ZRTP in Jitsi by going into Options -> Accounts -> Selecting > account -> Edit -> Security -> Uncheck "Enable support to encrypt calls". That was one of the first thin

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
(both phones and the desktop were in the same room). You can find the file at: http://www.gnat.com/~kenner/wierdAsteriskJitsi.pcap -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk?

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> Not that many RTP packets are required. It's just important to see the > SIP signaling and where traffic is coming/going from with the network > topology in mind. That way a clearer picture of where it's saying media > should go to, where it's sending media from, etc can be gleamed. Once > th

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> Yeah this is so weird that packet captures are really needed. A working > call and a non-working call, along with what IP ranges are what. There are *tremendous* numbers of RTP packets, of course. Are those captures really going to be useful? That's the problem. If they *are* going to be use

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> What NAT settings are globally in use? nat=yes > Do you have directmedia turned off or on? I've tried both ways, but I normally have it off. > This really does indeed feel like a weird NAT issue that is probably > configuration related (probably both in Jitsi and Asterisk). Except that: (

Re: [asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Kenner
> What's the configuration like for Jitsi in sip.conf? Just fullname and md5secret plus a "phones" section that reads: [phones](!) type=friend host=dynamic context=SIP_Phones cc_agent_policy=generic cc_monitor_policy=generic disallow=all allow=gsm allow=ulaw allow=g729 allow=h264 > What version

[asterisk-users] Wierd RTP issue

2012-11-24 Thread Richard Kenner
I have a peculiar RTP issue. I'm experimenting with Jitsi as a softphone on one of my desktop Windows machines. That machine can either be connected to Asterisk via an VPN connection (with a static IP address) or not (via NAT). When it's connected via NAT, all is OK. When it's connected with VPN

Re: [asterisk-users] Odd cracking with SIP->DAHDI

2012-10-16 Thread Richard Kenner
> I seem to recall seeing somewhere recently where there was a bugfix > for ulaw/alaw conversion which would cause poor audio. Hmm. You mean: https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-1323 That was quite old, but that is what the noise sounds like. > Have you tried updating your Asteris

Re: [asterisk-users] Odd cracking with SIP->DAHDI

2012-10-16 Thread Richard Kenner
> cat proc/interrupts? > > http://wiki.openvox.cn/index.php/Troubleshooting_of_PRI_cards I'm sorry that I wasn't clear: the PRI is fine. It's been in use for years and hasn't caused any problems. What's new is the SIP connection between the two offices. And another datapoint: the problem only

[asterisk-users] Odd cracking with SIP->DAHDI

2012-10-16 Thread Richard Kenner
We recently set up a SIP trunk between an office in NY running Asterisk and an office in Paris (running Alcatel). All works fine if a SIP phone on the NY system talks to the Paris PBX. But if something on DAHDI (a PRI or MeetMe) talks to the Paris PBX, there's a low-volume crackling. This isn't

[asterisk-users] Question on Asterisk memory management

2012-10-06 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm trying to add a "Talking: " field to the AMI ConfbridgeList event so that my conference room monitoring will work with Confbridge instead of having to stay with MeetMe and there's something I don't understand. When app_confbridge.c calls ast_bridge_features_set_talk_detector, it passes a *copy

Re: [asterisk-users] 10.9.0-rc1 : Help with GoSubIf Parsing

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Kenner
> I'm getting a parsing error with the folllowing: > > same=n,GoSubIf($[${CALLERID(num)} = 2024324321]?other,1($ > {thisexten}):) > > WARNING[11356]: ast_expr2.fl:468 ast_yyerror: ast_yyerror(): syntax > error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting $end; Input: >

Re: [asterisk-users] Case-sensitivity of Dialplan variables.

2012-10-03 Thread kenner
> While true that most users are probably not programmers, most people > administering Asterisk would be system / network admins, correct? > System admins and networking admins are used to working in > environments such as Linux where variables and file names are case > sensitive. I'm in favor of

Re: [asterisk-users] Questions on converting to ConfBridge

2012-10-03 Thread kenner
> Why are you wanting to use CLI commands instead of AMI? The available > AMI actions for ConfBridge can do listing/locking/muting/kicking etc as > you want. Because I can't easily manually do an AMI command, but instead have to write code to do it. It's important to me to be able to clean up t

[asterisk-users] Questions on converting to ConfBridge

2012-10-02 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm looking at what would be involved in converting from MeetMe to ConfBridge and there seems to be a lot of missing administrative things, but I hope I'm just missing it. We all know about the missing realtime linkage. That's a major nuisance, but can be worked around. More serious is that the

[asterisk-users] Any workaround for res_speech_lumenvox.so issue?

2012-09-18 Thread Richard Kenner
The latest version of res_speech_lumenvox.so doesn't seem to work and nobody seems to know when a version that works will be available. It looks to me like this is some sort of timeout issue. Does anybody have a workaround to allow this to be used? (I know about UniMRCP, but find it quite "heavy

Re: [asterisk-users] Repeated Asterisk 10.7.0 crashes

2012-09-04 Thread kenner
> There's a page on running Asterisk under valgrind on the wiki here: Thanks for the pointer. Valgrind wasn't needed since Asterisk MALLOC_DEBUG was enough. It took almost 1.5 hours in GDB, but I found it. Because I was having problems with res_speech_lumenvox, I was using UniMRCP, which uses S

Re: [asterisk-users] Repeated Asterisk 10.7.0 crashes

2012-09-04 Thread kenner
> There's a page on running Asterisk under valgrind on the wiki here: I looked at the code in question and I don't see how the below is possible. What am I missing? ==10429== Invalid write of size 1 ==10429==at 0x3686E68744: vsnprintf (in /lib64/libc-2.5.so) ==10429==by 0x53C766: __ast_de

[asterisk-users] Responsibility for res_speech_lumenvox.so

2012-09-04 Thread Richard Kenner
Who's responsible for it? Lumenvox is the only place that distributes it, but they can't do anything with it since they get it from Digium. However, the current version doesn't work with Asterisk 10.7.1 and the latest version of Lumenvox software (it appears that a timeout is being set to zero).

[asterisk-users] Repeated Asterisk 10.7.0 crashes

2012-09-04 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm getting cycles of repeated crashes which occur and then stop occurring. Looking at the dumps via gdb shows that something peculiar is happening that looks like memory corruption: Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x003686e30285 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) up #1 0x

[asterisk-users] One-way audio with media_address

2012-09-04 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm migrating from Asterisk 1.6.2 to 10.7.0. In 1.6.2, I made a small patch to allow specifying an address for RTP media. That worked. In 10.7.0, this appears to be built in with "media_address", but it doesn't work for me. My Asterisk server has multiple addresses, all global address on two di

Re: [asterisk-users] Clipping issue with SIP over satellite

2012-06-19 Thread Richard Kenner
> >> You have hardware echo canceling *outside* of your T1 card? > > > > No, on the card. > > Then you definitely don't want 'echocancel=no' set, or you'll disable it. When I thought that it was echo cancellers fighting each other, that's exactly what I wanted to do. -- _

Re: [asterisk-users] Clipping issue with SIP over satellite

2012-06-19 Thread Richard Kenner
> You have hardware echo canceling *outside* of your T1 card? No, on the card. > The DAHDI layer has some buffering that can help with jitter, but the > default buffers can only handle 80ms of jitter. You can increase this by > setting the 'buffers' option in chan_dahdi.conf; each buffer is 20

[asterisk-users] Clipping issue with SIP over satellite

2012-06-17 Thread Richard Kenner
I'm having a wierd clipping issue with one employee who's using a phone over a satellite Internet. He was sold that system specifically for use with VoIP. Ping times show average round-trip time as around 700 ms with a range of 560 to 841, so considerable jitter. Things work fine when he's talki

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