Tutorial

One of our friends contributed this today. A quick howto on how to configure TXGAIN and RXGAIN on Asterisk 1.4. Now, he’s got a analogue trunks from Bell Canada, so YMMV and you will almost certainly have to change all of the values mentioned here to be customized to your environment. From what we’ve read, some phone companies may even know this information when you call one of their tech’s and ask for it, bypassing the need for this work all together....

Tonight a buddy and myself were playing with Asterisk. In order for him to be able to register to my server from outside my network we had to make some changes to my router. I am behind a Cisco 2650 Router, and we had to disable this in IOS: no ip nat service sip udp port 5060 Note, that once this is disabled, you will no longer be able to register out to other Asterisk Servers until you re-enable it with....

There’s a small change in Asterisk 1.6.0-beta7’s dsp.c. In order to compile chan_mobile you will have to do this. enter your asterisk-addons directory # cd asterisk-addons-1.6.0-beta2 enter the channels directory # cd channels edit the chan_mobile.c # nano chan_mobile.c Go to line 2000 and 2001 they look like this ast_dsp_set_features(pvt->dsp, DSP_FEATURE_DTMF_DETECT); ast_dsp_digitmode(pvt->dsp, DSP_DIGITMODE_DTMF | DSP_DIGITMODE_RELAXDTMF); change them to look like this ast_dsp_set_features(pvt->dsp, DSP_FEATURE_DIGIT_DETECT); ast_dsp_set_digitmode(pvt->dsp, DSP_DIGITMODE_DTMF | DSP_DIGITMODE_RELAXDTMF); now chan mobile will compile and run properly when you start asterisk....

Tonight I was playing around with my new HTC TYTN (ATT TILT) and found this blog explained there’s a hidden feature on Windows Mobile – an included VOIP client. REALLY? yup. FREE? yup. Not kidding. It’s pretty easy to install too, just follow these steps, and then you’re up and running in no time making crystal clear VOIP over WIFI calls. Note, you will need a membership to XDA Developers to gain the best of this....

Note, If you’re looking for current information please see Free PBX Guide for the latest tutorial with updated information from what is located below. Free PBX Guide We had to edit the stock Asterisk Init script to use with Asterisk on Ubuntu. In order for it to actually stop the Flash Operator Panel when you run the stop command a few additions had to be made. Find it below for download....