[asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Noah Miller
Hi - I had a client recently move their asterisk system (asterisk 1.4.26, dahdi 2.2.0.1, aex800 w/vpm module) to a new location, a building that's nearly 150 years old. I was not personally able to go there, but the person who did the move said the building's demarc room was scary-- water leaks,

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Noah Miller wrote: My question for anyone with knowledge on this: would HPEC do a better job than the VPM module (or oslec)? Can HPEC cope with very long echo tails? HPEC and the Digium VPMADT032 use the same algorithms from the same vendor. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Noah Miller
My question for anyone with knowledge on this: would HPEC do a better job than the VPM module (or oslec)?  Can HPEC cope with very long echo tails? HPEC and the Digium VPMADT032 use the same algorithms from the same vendor. Aha. Thanks for this tidbit, Kevin! Next question: does anybody

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Noah Miller wrote: Next question: does anybody know how to handle extremely long tail echo that a VPM module cannot? How long is 'long' in this case? The VPMs and HPEC (and OSLEC) can handle 128ms echo tails, which is pretty darn long. It's rare to see an echo tail longer than that except on

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Noah Miller
Next question: does anybody know how to handle extremely long tail echo that a VPM module cannot? How long is 'long' in this case? The VPMs and HPEC (and OSLEC) can handle 128ms echo tails, which is pretty darn long. It's rare to see an echo tail longer than that except on very high latency

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread John Novack
Noah Miller wrote: Next question: does anybody know how to handle extremely long tail echo that a VPM module cannot? How long is 'long' in this case? The VPMs and HPEC (and OSLEC) can handle 128ms echo tails, which is pretty darn long. It's rare to see an echo tail longer than that

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC VPM ?

2009-07-29 Thread Steve Underwood
Noah Miller wrote: Next question: does anybody know how to handle extremely long tail echo that a VPM module cannot? How long is 'long' in this case? The VPMs and HPEC (and OSLEC) can handle 128ms echo tails, which is pretty darn long. It's rare to see an echo tail longer than that

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:46:35PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Not trivial but not as voodoo as before: http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-linux/#_oslec Tzafrir, I pulled down linux-2.6.28-rc5.tar.bz2 and followed the doc, now when compiling I get the following: WARNING: oslec_create

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What you might want to do it try OSLEC Gordon, Digium hasn't responded to me with my key to install HPEC after waiting several days, and tonight I need to get the card installed as my number port takes place and that location will be w/o phones. I am using Asterisk 1.6 and DAHDI and from what I

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:57:53PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What you might want to do it try OSLEC Gordon, Digium hasn't responded to me with my key to install HPEC after waiting several days, and tonight I need to get the card installed as my number port takes place and that location

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Not trivial but not as voodoo as before: http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-linux/#_oslec Tzafrir, Appreciate this pointer, I am intending on setting this up on a CentOS 5 x86 box. The drastically different stock running kernel compared to the files I need from your doc won't be an issue? Also,

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Not trivial but not as voodoo as before: http://docs.tzafrir.org.il/dahdi-linux/#_oslec Tzafrir, I pulled down linux-2.6.28-rc5.tar.bz2 and followed the doc, now when compiling I get the following: WARNING: oslec_create [/.../dahdi-linux/drivers/dahdi/dahdi_echocan_oslec.ko] undefined!

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-19 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What you might want to do it try OSLEC Gordon, Digium hasn't responded to me with my key to install HPEC after waiting several days, and tonight I need to get the card installed as my number port takes place and that location will be w/o phones.

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-18 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:11:33PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does this make a significant improvement? The box in question I was going to try this with has a 4 port TDM card w/ plenty of horsepower, but I do intend to later migrate to a Soekris unit running Astlinux and therefore might not

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-18 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Does this make a significant improvement? The box in question I was going to try this with has a 4 port TDM card w/ plenty of horsepower, but I do intend to later migrate to a Soekris unit running Astlinux and therefore might not have the power

[asterisk-users] HPEC performance

2008-11-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Does this make a significant improvement? The box in question I was going to try this with has a 4 port TDM card w/ plenty of horsepower, but I do intend to later migrate to a Soekris unit running Astlinux and therefore might not have the power to run it after. If the difference is significant, I

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-02-16 Thread George Pajari
Al lists wrote: Just wondering how your experience is with HPEC, Is it just for analog interfaces or we can use it on TE122 as well? We have a customer installation with a partial PRI (12 B Channels) using the HPEC very successfully (before we installed the HPEC the customer complained of

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-02-15 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Al lists wrote: Just wondering how your experience is with HPEC, Is it just for analog interfaces or we can use it on TE122 as well? The HPEC can be used with any Zaptel-supported interface, but we don't provide free licenses for people to use them with T1/E1 cards, because the potential CPU

[asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-02-14 Thread Al lists
Just wondering how your experience is with HPEC, Is it just for analog interfaces or we can use it on TE122 as well? ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-01-13 Thread Thomas Kenyon
clive.chan(Atn) wrote: Hi all, Just want to check from the list experienced personal about the Digium HPEC, where I had purchased the HPEC and wish to run with TDM card Sangoma A200. I can't install HPEC to run with Sangama A200 card, even I had changed my hpec file from i686 to i386. The

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-01-10 Thread clive.chan(Atn)
Hi all, I just wanted to share my experience. I tried to mix up the Sangoma A200 with digium HPEC and the result has no changed like before I got the HPPEC, even I had tried to complied the Zaptel code with the tuning that is available. For those who intend to do so, please dont. Btw, Digium

[asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-01-07 Thread clive.chan(Atn)
Hi all, Just want to check from the list experienced personal about the Digium HPEC, where I had purchased the HPEC and wish to run with TDM card Sangoma A200. I can't install HPEC to run with Sangama A200 card, even I had changed my hpec file from i686 to i386. The error that I had as bellow;

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
clive.chan(Atn) wrote: The error that I had as bellow; Found key 'HPEC-XX' for 2 channels. Found valid HPEC licenses for 2 channels. Failed to get license challenge: No such device Please contact Digium support for assistance with using HPEC since you purchased it. -- Kevin P.

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC and audioclipping

2007-06-13 Thread Olivier
Eric, Before using this version, did you have audio clipping issues (this version is supposed to solve) ? Weeks ago, we installed HPEC and got such serious audio clipping issues we had to roll back and use standard Echo Cancellation. We can't afford to meet these issues again. Unfortunately, I

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC and audioclipping

2007-06-13 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
The latest has the correction of the audio clipping issues. They should be taken care of now. However, if you still see ANY sort of problem with the HPEC with the latest version, be sure to let Digium support know so that we can have it fixed. From the time of getting audio samples to

[asterisk-users] HPEC and audioclipping

2007-06-12 Thread Olivier
Hello, Has anyone tried latest HPEC software with Asterik 1.2 ? It was published a couple of weeks ago to improve clipping issues. Regards ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC and audioclipping

2007-06-12 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
Olivier wrote: Has anyone tried latest HPEC software with Asterik 1.2 ? It was published a couple of weeks ago to improve clipping issues. It works just fine. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-18 Thread Stephen Bosch
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: What are the advantages of 9.x over the 8.x that I currently use? I was about to ask the same question. What if my 8.x EC works just fine? (Why expose yourself to the possibility that even the patched version fails?) -Stephen-

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-18 Thread Olivier
2007/5/16, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you mentioned, try implementing it only on certain channels, if you can. -Stephen- Hi, Unfortunately, I understood you couldn't allocate HPEC on per channel basis. But anyway, I agree we have to try something. Regards

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-18 Thread Stephen Bosch
Olivier wrote: 2007/5/16, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: As you mentioned, try implementing it only on certain channels, if you can. -Stephen- Hi, Unfortunately, I understood you couldn't allocate HPEC on per channel basis. But anyway, I

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-17 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
There's a new version of HPEC released that fixes the bug. Try updating now :-) Matthew Fredrickson On May 16, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Noah Miller wrote: Hi Olivier - Our last trial was so conclusive (every call was affected), we step back to previous situation without HPEC. We will do our

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-17 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
What are the advantages of 9.x over the 8.x that I currently use? Matthew Fredrickson wrote: There's a new version of HPEC released that fixes the bug. Try updating now :-) Matthew Fredrickson On May 16, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Noah Miller wrote: Hi Olivier - Our last trial was so conclusive

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Olivier
2007/5/15, George Pajari [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have the clipping issue, make sure you get HPEC version 8.2 from Digium. Note, however, that we have observed stability issues with HPEC 8.2 (two kernel panics in two weeks since installing HPEC). (The 9.00 version had such severe

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Bosch
Olivier wrote: 2007/5/15, George Pajari [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have the clipping issue, make sure you get HPEC version 8.2 from Digium. Note, however, that we have observed stability issues with HPEC 8.2 (two kernel panics in

RE: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread shadowym
Octasic SoftEcho works very well for me. _ From: Olivier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 6:14 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping 2007/5/15, George Pajari [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Olivier
2007/5/16, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Um -- Digium is need of sound captures and debug output for this problem, because they are having trouble reproducing it in the laboratory. Perhaps you could help out by making a capture of the clipping phenomenon using the latest Zaptel (1.2.17) and

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On May 16, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Olivier wrote: 2007/5/15, George Pajari [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you have the clipping issue, make sure you get HPEC version 8.2 from Digium. Note, however, that we have observed stability issues with HPEC 8.2 (two kernel panics in two weeks since

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Noah Miller
Hi Olivier - Our last trial was so conclusive (every call was affected), we step back to previous situation without HPEC. We will do our best to help to solve this (gathering audio captures for instance) though it will be very hard for me to convince our customer to try. Being able to to

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Bosch
Olivier: Olivier wrote: Our last trial was so conclusive (every call was affected), we step back to previous situation without HPEC. We will do our best to help to solve this (gathering audio captures for instance) though it will be very hard for me to convince our customer to try.

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-16 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
Use the 8.x HPEC. Because this is an issue with a Digium product, the bug is tracked in the Digium bug tracker, not the mantis bug tracker. The mantis bug tracker is for bug reports of Asterisk and other open source Digium projects. Olivier wrote: 2007/5/16, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-15 Thread George Pajari
If you have the clipping issue, make sure you get HPEC version 8.2 from Digium. Note, however, that we have observed stability issues with HPEC 8.2 (two kernel panics in two weeks since installing HPEC). (The 9.00 version had such severe clipping that we could not run it long

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-13 Thread Olivier
I didn't know that ! Thanks for the tip ! 2007/5/11, Noah Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Our last trial dates from 1.2.17 days (3 weeks ago). My question is : are those HPEC audio clipping issues fixed with 1.2.17.1 ? It's not about the Asterisk version, it's about the HPEC version. According to

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-10 Thread Olivier
Our last trial dates from 1.2.17 days (3 weeks ago). My question is : are those HPEC audio clipping issues fixed with 1.2.17.1 ? Regards 2007/5/9, Matthew Fredrickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you contact Digium tech support directly they will provide you with the previous version of the echo

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-10 Thread Noah Miller
Our last trial dates from 1.2.17 days (3 weeks ago). My question is : are those HPEC audio clipping issues fixed with 1.2.17.1 ? It's not about the Asterisk version, it's about the HPEC version. According to other posts on the list, HPEC version 8.2 does not have the clipping issues, but the

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-09 Thread Olivier
Any field return on this ? Our last field trial of HPEC concluded we shouldn't use it at all, due to audio clipping. Is it now fixed ? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-09 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
If you contact Digium tech support directly they will provide you with the previous version of the echo canceler until the fix is made to the current version. Matthew Fredrickson On May 9, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Olivier wrote: Any field return on this ? Our last field trial of HPEC concluded we

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-08 Thread Jason Parker
- Noah Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. A patch allowing capture audio streams in a way that will allow [us] to debug (and presumably fix) the problem was mentioned by Kevin. - Anything new about it ? I couldn't find it in Zaptel 1.2.17.1 nor 1.4.2.1 changelog. I believe it was

[asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-07 Thread Olivier
Hello, 1. A patch allowing capture audio streams in a way that will allow [us] to debug (and presumably fix) the problem was mentioned by Kevin. Anything new about it ? I couldn't find it in Zaptel 1.2.17.1 nor 1.4.2.1 changelog. 2. Is there any Mantis bug report allowing someone to track this

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-05-07 Thread Noah Miller
1. A patch allowing capture audio streams in a way that will allow [us] to debug (and presumably fix) the problem was mentioned by Kevin. - Anything new about it ? I couldn't find it in Zaptel 1.2.17.1 nor 1.4.2.1 changelog. I believe it was introduced in Zaptel 1.2.17.1. From the description

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-20 Thread Olivier
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: The code is done and initially tested; it is being reviewed internally and should be available on Friday or Monday. Will this code be available in 1.2 and 1.4 versions alike ? I can testify it's needed in 1.2. Best regards

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping: IMPORTANT DETAIL

2007-04-20 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hi, everybody: Stephen Bosch wrote: Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Any updates on this? The code is done and initially tested; it is being reviewed internally and should be available on Friday or Monday. Under what circumstances would this clipping be present? Is

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping: IMPORTANT DETAIL

2007-04-20 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Stephen Bosch wrote: I've confirmed this: hpec-9.00.002 has the clipping problem. hpec-8.20 definitely doesn't. I've implemented and reverted. The clipping makes the phones unusable. This is most definitely helpful information; I can put the 8.20 files back on the FTP site (or make them

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-19 Thread Stephen Bosch
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Any updates on this? The code is done and initially tested; it is being reviewed internally and should be available on Friday or Monday. Under what circumstances would this clipping be present? Is this patch going to be recommended for

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-18 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: I'll be sending Digium support the info they requested later today. I hope it helps. We have a developer working on extending Zaptel to support pre-echo audio capture right now, so that we can work on debugging these issues with real data

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-18 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Any updates on this? The code is done and initially tested; it is being reviewed internally and should be available on Friday or Monday. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing

RE: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-12 Thread Greg Siemon
: Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping Greg Siemon wrote: Thanks for the helps Stephen. I was running non standard gains but setting regain and txgain to zero (then reloading chan_zap.so) does not help. I still get the broken audio, in fact sometimes I don't get any audio at all

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-12 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
] Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2007 4:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping Greg Siemon wrote: Thanks for the helps Stephen. I was running non standard gains but setting regain and txgain to zero (then reloading

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-12 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: I'll be sending Digium support the info they requested later today. I hope it helps. We have a developer working on extending Zaptel to support pre-echo audio capture right now, so that we can work on debugging these issues with real data instead of just

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-11 Thread Stephen Bosch
Greg Siemon wrote: Thanks for the helps Stephen. I was running non standard gains but setting regain and txgain to zero (then reloading chan_zap.so) does not help. I still get the broken audio, in fact sometimes I don't get any audio at all. In testing the server just froze a number of times

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-07 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: I am experiencing the same thing. I assumed that I just didn't have a fast enough CPU (2.4 Ghz Celeron Ghz, also tried on a 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4). I am using a T400P with an Adtran TA750 Channel Bank rather than the Digium analog cards. I'm not doing any VoIP on

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
Michael Boers wrote: I have recently moved an asterisk system to a new location. This location is experiencing terrible echo. I installed the HPEC from Digium but that has caused a new problem. When HPEC is enabled and more that 16 taps are used, the audio from the outside caller gets

[asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Greg Siemon
Same issue here as well. Running Centos 4.4 (x86_64) with all updates installed on a Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 1.5GB RAM and TDM800P with 1 x Quad FXS and 2 x FXO ports. I installed the new 64 bit HPEC module earlier in the week when it was released and have been unable to get it to work. I have

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Boers
Both of the zaptel (1.2 and 1.4) drivers I tried were the latest. Are the older drivers working better? Does anyone have a configuration close to mine that is working? -- Michael Boers On 4/6/07, Eric ManxPower Wieling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Boers wrote: I have recently moved an

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Stephen Bosch
Hi: Greg Siemon wrote: Same issue here as well. Running Centos 4.4 (x86_64) with all updates installed on a Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 1.5GB RAM and TDM800P with 1 x Quad FXS and 2 x FXO ports. I installed the new 64 bit HPEC module earlier in the week when it was released and have been unable

Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Boers
In my case, the rx and tx gains are 0. I will try the 1.4 version for fxotune to see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestions! -- Michael Boers On 4/6/07, Stephen Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Greg Siemon wrote: Same issue here as well. Running Centos 4.4 (x86_64) with all

RE: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-06 Thread Greg Siemon
it is my system but am happy to do any testing others may suggest. Kind Regards Greg -Original Message- From: Stephen Bosch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 7 April 2007 3:35 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] HPEC audio

[asterisk-users] HPEC audio clipping

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Boers
I have recently moved an asterisk system to a new location. This location is experiencing terrible echo. I installed the HPEC from Digium but that has caused a new problem. When HPEC is enabled and more that 16 taps are used, the audio from the outside caller gets clipped. Instead of hearing: