Topic: Asterisk on SME7 (me again)

[xboxer21]

Arne,
Finally got Asterisk to work, Incoming as well as outbound using Broadvoice, I was sucessfully able to achieve same exact results on both Asterisk@SME as well as a@h, However I could not get the digital receptionist to work on both
I was able to upload wav files using AMP and set some rules, I was bale to see the wav files being played in the asterisk CLI, but could not hear them when I tried calling.
I think I need to do some more more reading.
Thanks again.

[xboxer21]

Finally got the digital receptionist in AMP to work
When ever we record a message to be played back by asterisk, I could see asterisk trying to playback the
custom/aa_1 sound file in the asterisk CLI but could not hear anything, The Custom folder was empty as well. I then created  a 8Khz 16Bit a wav file using Audacity(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) on a windows machine and copied it over to the Sounds directory in Asterisk@SME. I then installed SOX (sox.sf.net) on the SME box and converted the wav file to a gsm file, Then changed the extensions_additional.conf file to play the new gsm file, and this time it worked.

has anyone experienced a similar menu recording problem using A@H or A4SME??

Thanks

[fpausp]

Hi All,

Have the asterisk@home beta 4 from http://firewall-services.com/AsteriskAtHomeSME7.html on my sme7b6 installed and like to use a avm-isdn controller can anyone help me please ?

regards
fpausp

[timlitw]

Any Idea when this will get updated with the latest beta - or are we waiting for release now?

[timlitw]

I had to install dev tools so I could run rebuild_zaptel.

but now I can't get my generic phone interface card to work.  It works fine in my asterisk at home 1.1 install that I've been using for 6 months.

[arne]

I use the ip telephony format (sip/iax) only so I know rather little about the Zaptel functions.

One thing I'm courios about .. is there any reson to do the ip-telephony to "plain old telephony lines" bridging/termination yourself ?

I think I can buy it bether and cheaper from a sip telephony vendor, so why do the termination youself ? (Unless the prices in other countries are different. For me it is much more cheaper to buy the termination from an sip telephony vendor.)

Just courious if there should be some arguments that I have missed or forgotten .. reliability might be one - an "plain old telephony line" might be very reliable .. some other arguments or reasons ?

(For me the prinsipple of buing the termination from external vendors redused my basic monthly bill to zero, and then only a very low rate per minute. Telephony bills are now only a fraction of what it used to be.

Next project: Is there any of you that have an idea how to make a Asterisk to mobile telephony bridge ?

Possible a item for a new qestion or to far away for the sme server forum ?

[timlitw]

Because we can't get a local number from any sip providers here in central Kansas.  

and long distance is expensive enough that friends won't call as much if they have to pay long distance to call us.

We use outgoing voip providers for our long distance so that takes care of it for us. But we aren't willing to write off incoming local phone calls.

[arne]

Ok, this argument I understand. Actually I use myself a local number from a neibour city, and people is sometimes confused about that. But the price for calling is exactely the same.

I have been thinking about setting up a traditional telephony for incomming calls and for redudancy. Until now I have not because the Asterisk server has been running without any big problems.

In this country it is possible to buy some mobile telephone cards with zero rate for calls within the same group/company/family. If it were possible to set up a gsm mobiltelephony gateway on your Asterisk server, I think it could be possible to call you to your mobile telephone for allmost nothing and vise versa. You will also be able to call out for allmost nothing.

[xboxer21]

I had to install dev tools so I could run rebuild_zaptel.

but now I can't get my generic phone interface card to work.  It works fine in my asterisk at home 1.1 install that I've been using for 6 months.

I got it to work by doing the following.

cd /usr/src
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.digium.com:/usr/cvsroot
cvs login            - the password is anoncvs.
cvs checkout zaptel
rebuild_zaptel
reboot
genzaptelconf

Thanks

[centreit]

I have tried installing the script on SME7 Beta8 but it fails and reports the following errors in the install log

http://centos.ate.info/yam/cnt4-i386/RPMS.ate/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: ate
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from ate: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from ate: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

it does this for every RPM it tries to download. I have read through this forum and tried a number of things but can't get it to work.

Thanks,

Daniel

[arne]

Cyr ->

Look at this tread at the asterisk@home forum:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1413329&forum_id=420324

Do you think it is possible to give your asterisk@sme installation a revision so it can install at the newest sme server ?


Best reg Arne

[cyr]

Hello and happy new year,

I have infortunately a bad news, I will not be able to work on the contrib A@SME anymore due to the fact that my professional situation had chaged recently. I'll try to help anyone who would like to take the project if of course someone want to take his chance with it.

Best regards,

Cyr

[Drifting]

I assume then that this is now dead in the water?

After my 3rd install I still cannot get it to complete succesfully.

Paul.

[RvLardin]

Cyr did a great job in integrating A@H in our SME.
We all have to thanks him.
The contrib he did is fully usable, we use it in production on 3 sites without installation pb (just 'sh install.sh').
We plan to commercially use this feature as a top one in 2006 and we won't surrender in supporting Asterisk on SME7.
For the moment, SME is in Beta stage, as the Asterisk@Home we use on it. The final version will include the stables versions of each.

We are looking for a student that will spend a few weeks on this project. If a foreigner is interresting in spending a year in Bordeaux (France), we have a lot of other jobs to do on SME ...

So, don't hesitate to go on using it, for me it's really a goal to succed in this integration, at the end the SME Gateway will manage files, mail, phone & fax integrated in a web-based CRM ...


@+,
RV.

[Drifting]

RV.

I too think this would be the killer app server of all time!

Bordeaux, Mmmm Whens the wine season If only I was a programmer, I would bite your hand off for the opportunity.

The comment about foreigners made me chuckle, reminds me of the time I arrived in Los Angeles, where upon a very small but pleasant chinese lady said "Ah your an Alien?" "No" I resonded "I'm British and from Earth, or did you Americans not know that? Little did she know my mother is American, so I suppose I am an abductee?

Paul.