Topic: sail -344

[RayG]

So, to clarify, - you should install...

smeserver-asterisk-1.2.10-1.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-zappri-MPP-1.2.6-1.i686.rpm
smeserver-asterisk-sounds-1.2.2-2.noarch.rpm

This will give you 1.2.10 asterisk with the full US sounds pack.

Kind Regards  

Jeff

Does the documentation or Quickstart guides on your web site mention the sounds rpm ? Is this a required step for a fresh install ?

[SARK devs]

Does the documentation or Quickstart guides on your web site mention the sounds rpm ?

Reading it back, no it doesn't and it should - we'll fix it.  

Is this a required step for a fresh install ?

It isn't required in the sense that asterisk will run quite happily without it and,for example, for SARK/SAIL in the UK we use british voice prompts.

However, if you don't install it then you will get silences where prompts should be.

It is a noarch rpm and it can be installed at any time so you can put it on retrospectively.

Kind Regards

Selintra

[chris burnat]

There is also a cute paging feature which works over infinite page groups that we've just done for a biggish customer here in the UK. You define a page group in aliases and fire up the page operation with *40*nnnn (where nnnn is the alias). *40* (no alias) pages everything.

This one got me... Just upgraded to 344 and tried *40* from receptionist, to be told that this is not a valid conf number. The problem is I do not have ztdummy or a zaptel card loaded.  Page uses the meetme functionality which means that it needs a timing source. As I do not have a zaptel card loaded, remedy is:

Stop asterisk and do:  modprobe ztdummy  
(edited) - restart Asterisk                                                                    
To make it stick on next reboot, go into the PCI cards panel and do a modprobe  

Now its working as intended, great feature!
Thanks to Jeff for guidance.
chris

[hervep]

Are there any other BRI cards (AVM, Beronet, Eicon, Fritz, Sangoma) going to be supported by SAIL/Selintra ?! Or maybe a different option like the ChanCapi module?

Hi Jester

BRI support in Asterisk is a mess.  Three or four different driver implementations several different hardware offerings and none of them, in our opinion, good enough to justify the effort needed to get them up and running and properly supported in a production environment.

So, for our commercial customers, I've avoided the whole issue and used purpose-built VoIP/ISDN gateways.  They aren't cheap but they work properly in real-world environments and they don't break.  Initially we have deployed, and had very good results with, MultiTech units but we are looking to evaluate others.

Kind Regards

Selintra

Hi Selintra,

I fully agree that ISDN ( let say 'euro-isdn' ) support remains an issue within the * world, but it is also a major concern ( at least for the european market ) to improve that situation.
I don't know exactly on which market you are focussing, but , to my opinion ( not more than that ) this is a must for SMB.

To be honnest, with the exception of some quick-solved bugs, I never had 'stability' problems using Junghanns cards/software.

Many thanks for what you are doing !.

Herve