If you are running on an old version of asterisk @ home then this is how you update asterisk to the latest version and also zaptel
Archive of posts filed under the Voip category.
Aastra 480i – Missed Calls
If you have one of these phones and you are in a ring group then One handset gets answered and all the others say ’1 missed call’.. before long ’53 missed calls’ The solution to this is in your config files on the tftp server put the following line missed calls indicator disabled: 1
Private: BT Caller ID
after much playing around with settings the callerid has been a bit hit and miss it would work some times and then not others. So for around 60% of calls there would be no callerid. Fix for this was to patch chan_zap.c to ignore rings before CID is complete (about a 1 sec proccess) however, [...]
Recover Root Password – Asterisknow Dist
reboot to the cd use "linux rescue" when prompted for boot options chroot /mnt/sysimage passwd reboot and have access to the system.
Returning VoiceMail Message Calls With One Button
Calling back a person that left you a voicemail is easy. When setting up VoiceMail for the extension, be sure to include callback=from-internal in the vm-options field in freePBX. Then, once you listen to a voicemail message, choose advanced options (3) and then option 2 to return the call.
Cent-os UPDATE
Just ran a yum -y update on my asterisk box today that is based on the asterisk@home version 2.8 and there was a mega download. I can confirm that this has caused no problems with the box and its still running fine
Asterisk wont start after cent os upgrade to 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
After running yum -y update you will find that asterisk will not restart try the following rebuild_zaptel This should solve your problem. Looks like in this version they have now sorted the spinlock problem
FreePBX svn Update issue re: “faxexten”
If you are seeing this error I am getting an error upon running ./install_amp from a fresh svn source. It’s complaining about a non-existent MySQL column being addressed: Generating Configurations.conf.. Checking for PEAR DB..OK Checking for PEAR Console::Getopt..OK Checking for /etc/amportal.conf..OK Reading /etc/amportal.conf..OK Reading /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf..OK Connecting to database..OK SELECT extension, directdid, didalert, faxexten, faxemail, answer, [...]
Nokia 22 (premi Cell)
I have attached a nokia 22 to my phone system via a TDM400 card. For the most part this works well as I have had an extra sim added on to the account and all of the out bound calls to numbers starting 07 now go via nokia 22. It will be interesting to see [...]
Moh Instead Of Ringing
You want the caller to hear MOH instead of ringing go to general settings, and change the "Asterisk Dial command options" and remove the r and replace it with m. So, if you have no other dialplan information, it should read "tm" (delete the parentheses). This will change to music on hold instead of ringing [...]