February 25, 2008

Telephone Reminders for Asterisk 1.4 with Phone and Web Scheduling

If you loved your ‘Speak and Spell’ when you were a kid, then prepare for a childhood flashback… except the Nerd Vittles version is more akin to ‘Spell and Speak.’ Today’s edition of Telephone Reminders for Asterisk 1.4 not only lets you schedule reminders by phone using your own voice, but now you can use a clever (if we do say so) web interface as well.

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January 28, 2008

Open Telephony Training Seminar - Feb 27-29th Charleston, SC

You asked for it so we are bringing it to you. The first and only official place to receive FreePBX training as well as lots of information you will need to know about Asterisk, Linux and more.

This training seminar will teach advanced topics to market, sell, deploy, troubleshoot, customize and administer Asterisk/FreePBX solutions. The seminar starts by providing an advanced foundation in FreePBX and Asterisk, presented by Philippe Lindheimer, the FreePBX project lead and primary developer.

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August 23, 2007

How to setup Asterisk with 72 port VoIP GSM Gateway

Note:  I want to do a GSM Gateway setup with Asterisk also.  There is alot of possibilities for mobile presence.

By following the setup instructions in this document, Asterisk users will be able to save money on telephony call costs by taking advantage of low mobile-to-mobile call tariffs. The Asterisk IP-PBX configured with the VoIP GSM Gateway HG-4000 will be able to originate calls from Asterisk to the GSM networks, as well as receive calls from GSM to Asterisk – up to 72 simultaneous calls.

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August 21, 2007

Asterisk Book Releases 2nd Edition with 1.4 Updates

Note:  You know I am picking up a copy of this.  I look forward to reading what they have added for 1.4 

This bestselling book is now the standard guide to building phone systems with Asterisk, the open source IP PBX that has traditional telephony providers running scared! Revised for the 1.4 release of the software, the new edition of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony reveals how you can save money on equipment and support, and finally be in control of your telephone system.

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July 23, 2007

Configuring Asterisk to support a T1 PRI connection

Asterisk provides an open source solution for those who want to deploy VoIP in an organization, but don't want to invest a lot of money in a proprietary solution. After you get the software installed on a server, you have some more work to do. You have to connect your server to an outside voice line. In this article, I'm going to show you how to set up the Asterisk Soft PBX system interface with a T1 PRI connection.

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June 01, 2007

Telephone Reminders 3.0: The Free Asterisk Telephone Reminder System

Today we're updating our Telephone Reminder System for Asterisk to version 3. The original system let you schedule reminders for future events and, when the appointed date and time arrived, Asterisk swung into action and placed a call to the number you designated to deliver your customized reminder message.

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May 13, 2007

Putting Asterisk TeleYapper to the Test

For those that are new to Nerd Vittles, you may not recall that, on Valentine's Day in 2006, we released TeleYapper, a telephone broadcasting system that distributes reminders and other messages to large or small groups of people by phone, of course. Believe it or not, it still works with almost all versions of TrixBox and Asterisk@Home 2.5 or later.

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April 25, 2007

The Idolizer II for American Idol Fans with Asterisk

Last year's demise of Kelly Pickler prompted us to put on our programming hat to conquer FOX TV® network's American Idol® and this year they've destroyed the singing career of poor Sanjaya Malakar. You'll have to agree that there's nothing quite as mind numbing as an hour of American Idol and 50 of your favorite commercials. As if that weren't enough, they expect you to sit by your telephone for TWO HOURS voting for your hero after the commercials end.

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April 18, 2007

Asterisk WiFi HotSpot Finder

The Asterisk WiFi HotSpot Finder retrieves name and address information for commercial, free, or all Wi-Fi Hot Spots for any zip code in the United States. Simply dial WiFi and key in a zip code using any touchtone phone connected to your Asterisk PBX. Then sit back and wait for E-Gor to read you the names and addresses of the 10 closest Wi-Fi Hot Spots.
 

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March 15, 2007

Introducing Phone Genie 2.0 for Asterisk

Excerpt: Phone Genie for Asterisk is an all-purpose web utility that lets you reconfigure virtually anything and everything on your Asterisk system on the fly using an incredibly powerful HTML command language that you can master in a matter of minutes. All you’ll need is a web browser including most cellphone web browsers as well.

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March 01, 2007

Introducing Nerd Vittles Phone Genie for Asterisk

Excerpt: Today we introduce an all-purpose web utility that lets you reconfigure virtually anything and everything on your Asterisk system on the fly using an incredibly powerful HTML command language that you can master in a matter of minutes.

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February 26, 2007

How To Configure Asterisk: Your First Installation

Note:  Found this Asterisk How-To article by Mr. NuFone himself: Jeremy McNamara

Deploying your first Asterisk system can be a frustrating task, espcially if you attempt to utilize the more advanced features and functions of Asterisk without having a solid foundation of the basic concepts. This article will walk you through the process of downloading, compiling and configuring your first instance of Asterisk that will allow you to place and receive calls between two Linksys SPA-942s and an asterisk voip provider.

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February 07, 2007

Solving Asterisk PBX Voice Mail to Email Name Resolution Issues

Note:  Matt Birkland (Network Engineer) is on a roll by sending in another Asterisk Help article about Email Name Resolution on internal networks.
 
One of the most popular features in Asterisk is the Voice Mail to email feature.  It's fairly straight forward to set up as far as Asterisk is concerned, but many people (including myself) have run intoo a situation where the Asterisk server is on the same internal network as the mail server.  When Asterisk resolves somebody@somecompany.com , it attempts to send the mail to the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).

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Time-Zone Processing with Asterisk - Part I

Last year, I took a trip to Asia. To stay in touch, I carried a GSM world phone, capable of receiving telephone calls in the countries I was visiting. The capability to receive calls with the same mobile phone number I use at home while halfway across the world seemed incredibly cool-at least until the first call came in!
 
Mobile phones hide the location of the phone, which cuts both ways. A colleague had decided to call me in the middle of the day on a Friday, which had awakened me very early on Saturday morning, because the phone "hid"my faraway location from him.

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February 05, 2007

Asterisk: Dealing with IRQ's on T1/PRI Lines

The one constant in every Asterisk Integrators life is the pain of dealing with telco's.  The main problem with telco's is the disparity between the tech support. 
 
Sometimes you open a ticket with the guy that can detect an issue in hours.  Usually it takes days of bitching and finger pointing to actually get someone on site.  Many times a Telco insist their PRI/T1's are funtioning, but your Asterisk server is dropping frames.  As a consequence, popping, cracking, lost calls, static and echo occur.  This is a really bad place to be, if you spent hours trying to convince your boss about the merits of Asterisk.  

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January 26, 2007

Setup MV-370 GSM Gateway with Asterisk

Note: Found this handy help article on how to setup a approx. $150 GSM gateway from ebay to work with your Asterisk PBX.  Internally on our office we are going to be deploying a GSM gateway to get a couple employees' cellphones without the big bills and the ability to test this concept out.

"The GSM gateway MV-370 is manufactured by http://www.portech.com.tw/.
It's main interest in comparison with other gateways is that it is GSM to SIP (not FXS), so voice quality is very good.
Another point of interest is the price (around $150 on ebay).
With that gateway properly configured, you are able to receive calls from GSM to Asterisk (including DISA) and to give calls from Asterisk to GSM network.
" 

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January 24, 2007

Introducing Version 3 of the Plug-and-Play Asterisk IP PBX for the Intel Mac

Excerpt: Thanks to the work of literally hundreds of developers, there is a terrific Asterisk IP PBX with an incredible array of additional bells and whistles. That product which we have tested extensively is TrixBox 1.2.3. It’s so good, in fact, that we chose it as the base system for all of the Nerd Vittles applications that we write about each week.

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January 16, 2007

How to install Asterisk Business Edition on Fedora Core 5

 
 
Note:  Matt Birkland, a local Seattle Asterisk PBX Integrator sent in this article after working through some troubles installing ABE on the Fedora Core 5 Operating System.  I hope this helps out anyone that has been having trouble.  Please email (comments[at]asteriskvoipnews.com) in any comments or questions and we will be sure to pass them along and make updates as needed.
 
Full Article:
 
Many people may be in a situation like myself where they need specific driver support for a raid array for their Asterisk server.  In my case this requires me to use Fedora core 5.  Fedora Core 3 and 4 is supported by Digium, but not 5.  However I called Digium to confer and a tech told me that they will attempt to support any issue they can replicate on a supported system.

They will not support the installation itself.  Luckily I figured it out, this procedure will likely work on Fedora Core 6 as well, but I have yet to confirm this.
 
 

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January 03, 2007

Academic Asterisk Adventure (NYU Style)

Note:  Shawn Van Every posted this on the list.  This makes me really happy to see.  If Asterisk wants to really hits the big leagues, acedemic support will go a long ways imho.


I wanted to drop a line as I just finished up teaching a class that used Asterisk extensively and I wanted to pass along major kudos to all have contributed to Asterisk as well as to point out some of the technical difficulties that I ran into.

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December 11, 2006

The Asterisk Weather Station: Forecasts from Any Phone for 42,740 U.S. Zip Codes

Note:  Good old Mundy knows when to give us the right application at the right time of year.  Kudos 
 
Excerpt: After we published our article providing Asterisk weather forecasts for 1,000 U.S. cities using airport codes, we heard from a number of folks asking if we could do something similar using zip codes to retrieve forecasts from the National Weather Service. Well, Santa is two weeks early, and today you get your wish: an enhanced weather application for Asterisk that supports every last zip code in the United States, all 42,740 of them.

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December 04, 2006

Adding an iTunes Telephone Controller to Your Asterisk PBX

Excerpt: If you're as lazy as the rest of us, then getting up to change what's playing on iTunes or to adjust the volume is just too much like work especially if you've installed one of our PBX-in-a-Flash Asterisk systems on either a dedicated Linux machine or your Windows Desktop.

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November 10, 2006

Asterisk Tutorials - Installing 1.4 and Digium GUI in 1.4

Note: This came across the list today.  Some helpful tutorials. 

 

Hello list,



I have prepared a couple of new tutorials you may find interesting:

- Installing an Asterisk 1.4 beta system - at:        http://astrecipes.net/?n=216
- Installing the Digium's Asterisk GUI for 1.4 - at: http://astrecipes.net/?n=217

It's nothing too complex, but you may find them interesting, especially the new Asterisk GUI.

Any comment is welcome - the site is a wiki, so feel free to correct any errors or add improvements.

 

l.

--
Loway Research - Home of QueueMetrics
http://queuemetrics.loway.it
 

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November 01, 2006

VoIP to gtalk (and back!)

Lots of talk about VoIP these days - and those who have been following know that we implemented Switchvox - a VoIP PBX in our office over a year ago.

In general - it has gone well. Switchvox is based on Asterisk - and there were some bugs that seemed to conflict with our PRI hardware. It's still not clear to me where the problem was. Brian @ Switchvox worked pretty hard to patch SV for us to bypass the problem once he isolated it. June's update, SV has been stable and we've been happy with it's maintainability and flexibility.

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October 30, 2006

Introducing Version 3 of the Plug-and-Play Asterisk IP PBX for Windows

Excerpt: It's almost Halloween at Nerd Vittles, and today you get a real treat as we introduce the third generation of the free turnkey Asterisk system for Windows: nv-TrixBox-1.2.3. With a few minor changes, this version is about as rock-solid as any Asterisk system on the planet. Of course, the planets do continue to move so be sure to check back here from time to time and review all the newly posted comments...

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October 25, 2006

Astricon 2006 Report: NetLogic Announces PBX-Preferred Certification Program

NetLogic, a leading provider of Business-Class VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) and Internet services, today announced the creation of its "PBX-Preferred" Certification program.  NetLogic's initial PBX-Preferred Certifications recognize Asterisk-based software and systems; hence the Company announced its new program in conjunction with AstriCon 2006, the Asterisk Conference and Exhibition in Dallas, October 24 - 27, 2006. 

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