Comments on: 100 Great Halftime Projects For You & Your Asterisk IP PBX

By: Kartikey Sharma

Kartikey Sharma — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:24:10 +0000

Thanks for the great help through these tutorials, open source or not, the industry salutes to pioneers such as yours for the pathway to customize asterisk big time, we are a company catering to voip,dialer and hosted solutions to over 170 live call centers in 7 countries but there are certain requirements where the team needs to throughput great guidance where nerdvittles has been a great help. When we charge 1 cent / min for VoIP + Dialer (unlimited seats ) + Hosted Server with 1 USD to start our services we have always been cost effective but the forum acts as a great help once it is about customized solutions for our end clients.

Regards,
Kartikey Sharma

By: derrick

derrick — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:34:27 +0000

hello,
I have been following up your website for sometime now and i believe its very informative.i have a question though…how can i connect to asterisk server through teminal or ssh..becuse i am doing project (student) and i will like to use such clients to connect remotely and modify my reserved asterisk server.

[WM: ssh root@192.168.0.123 using the IP address of your Asterisk server.]

By: UncleSam

UncleSam — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:12 +0000

Hi there,

Is it possible to boot Trixbox server over the network from, say an SME
server, there by the Trixbox effectively becomes a disk less node?

i.e. Trixbox server sources the boot files from the SME server, which
then initiates the creation of a RAM disk to act as a swap file system,
and then maps back to the SME server for the root file system wherein
the configs, CDR and other data is stored.

Regards

By: Kim Callis

Kim Callis — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:24:15 +0000

Ward,

I hate to be a naysayer, but as Fonality keeps putting more a corporate spin on the face of Trixbox, I wonder if now is not a good time to look for a replacement platform.

Have you looked at Elastix or Rapid by Xorcom? Both of these appliances support FreePBX, but without the constant reminder of the Fonality banner waving over the horizon?

By: N. Kahn

N. Kahn — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:18:57 +0000

I know that you are not eager to upgrade to Asterisk 1.4. The point you make is what is in Asterisk 1.4 which version 1.2 cannot do. Here are some things I need desperately. Can you guide me if these can be done with Asterisk v1.2:
(1) Is there a way I could use the direct speech path feature of Asterisk 1.4 in version 1.2 whereby the RTP is bypassed from one SIP device to other. My Trixbox, in the USA, controls SIP devices all over the world. Each call ties up twice the bandwidth of a speech channel. Latency as a result of this trombone is additional.
(2) I have a family Cell phone plan from AT&T. I want to use the chan_cellphone patch (add-on to v1.4) to connect my cell phone to Trixbox via Bluetooth. One of cell phones is always present near the Trixbox. I can use this to give unlimited minutes to rest of cell phones.

[WM: As you point out, there are some great features in Asterisk 1.4. You need them now and we and others will soon. When freePBX takes the plunge, we plan to be there.]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:52:00 +0000

I have been using tringotel business line for the past few months. No major complaints about call quality.

Lots of great features and very easy to customize. But, there is no way to set up multiple voicemail boxes. This is unfortunate because I have a partner. You can use an answering machine with multiple boxes instead, but all of the great Voip voicemail features (including. .wav messages to email) are lost. Lingo and vonage might have the same weakness.

By: Pedro Hermida

Pedro Hermida — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:09:54 +0000

I am looking for help, even paid help, to implement this:

I am going to try to explain myself the best I can. For starters, I am a newbie, rookie on Trixbox/Linux.

I want all incoming callers to be asked "Who is calling" and get a recording with their names (please do not suggest any solution based on CallerID because we deal with international calls that do not provide anything usable) right after the caller punch a IVR option or the extension they want to reach. The recorded message needs to be played back into the "hunting" / ring group for the extension.

Using something contributed by one of the moderators and from this amazing site, I am able to get the recording and play it back to the extension but I need the same functionality where calling out to a mobile number or any other number for that matter.

It would be great, if the mechanism could notify the external user about the call and provide him with the option to accept or reject the call. If rejected, the voicemail of his extension should be taking the call. We do not want messages being left in outside voicemail systems.

I know this is doable because solutions like SamrtNumber.com, among others, have it.

I need to move out of that service but I need to have that same feature in Trixbox in order to "sell" the project to management.

Any help will be appreciated.

Pedro Hermida, Weston, FL

By: Michael Molina

Michael Molina — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:16:13 +0000

I found this company iNPHONEX, it is like Vonage, unlimited for 24 dollars beautiful, it works with Trixbox, I am sending this link where they have the configuration you are not going to believe it
https://www.inphonex.com/support/trixbox-configuration.php
They are better than Vonage you can use any device you want. I singned up with them drop my Vonage accounts , Please check them out your opinion on this company can make the difference for people wanting to use unlimited plans like Vonage with the Asterisk or Freepbx boxes. By the way your work is awesome, thanks.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:26:34 +0000

We’re trying to setup Asterisk for Video Visitation, Video Arraignment, TeleHealth services and Video Conferencing. Would you well qualified lads have insight into this? Which full-screen video client is appropriate? Asterisk Scripts/configuration settings et. cetera. By the way, very usefull content on this site! Great Work!

By: Vieri

Vieri — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:10:08 +0000

Does anyone have experience with hybrid PBX (Asterisk + hardware PBX)?
It seems that Queues and the Flash() app don’t go along too well. Please have a look at
Queues and Flash/SendDTMF in hybrid PBX: http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=11507&highlight=
A tutorial on this matter (hybrid systems) would be nice here at Nerd Vittles.

By: JHyde

JHyde — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:50:22 +0000

You should add exgn.net / vitelity.net – same company- to your provider list – I have been with them for almost 6 months, great service, pay as you go, $1.95 DID’s and 800 DID’s with .01 cents per minute or unlimited inbound for $7.95 per month. And they tell you EXACTLY how to configure your Trixbox, with pictures etc.

By: jb53253

jb53253 — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:01:31 +0000

Maybe you can do a tutorial on configuring and running Argus to monitor an Asterisk system. The argus documentation is not very clear and I am at a loss. I have found your tutorials to be most helpful in the past

By: Asher Diamond

Asher Diamond — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:58:10 +0000

Ward. Love your clear useful concise straight-to-the-point down-to-earth accurate advice and guidance. I wish that even .5% of the explanations I read were as helpful as yours.

I’d like to test my asterisk app. I just need to automate sending a lot of calls to measure performance and discover limitations. I tried winsip and sipsak. Couldn’t get anywhere. What can I say? Can you please write their documentation? Or offer any other advice? Thanks

By: Oladipo

Oladipo — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:30:01 +0000

has anyone ever wondered how to change voice mail passwords from hardware phones without calling the techie? is ist possible? what is the key sequence?

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:52:16 +0000

I came across a script that integrates Asterisk with MythTV… I haven’t tried it (I am still trying to get MythTV to work), but it looks promissing, anyway if anyone is interested here’s the link: http://vallista.idyll.org/~james/ The guy responds very quickly to emails. Good Luck, and Ward, thanks again for ALL of your help!

By: Duane

Duane — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:12:24 +0000

the 101st thing to do is implement enumlookups in the dial plan to make even more free calls world wide, and the 102nd thing to do is list your phone numbers with e164.org so people can call you for free... [WM: Right you are! And here's a HOW TO on getting it set up with Asterisk@Home. We'll tackle this as well ... after the move!]

By: Maceo

Maceo — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:43:50 +0000

Ward, I was wondering if you or anyone of your readers have figured out or found a fix for the delay in the Festival speech engine that causes the 10 second delay? Could a fix be in 2.8? [WM: Here's the solution.]

By: Keen

Keen — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:32:56 +0000

Well, Asterisk@Home 2.8 is out! http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123387

Same goes for Asterisk 1.2.7.1 http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk-1.2.7.1

How are we going to keep up with all these updates?? hehe…

[WM: Good question. hehe…]

By: Crackpot

Crackpot — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:39:49 +0000

Love the site. I have used a ton of great ideas from your site on my home system. One thing I have been beating my head about.. mysql lookups… I want to give paying customers priority in the call que / a way for the system to check if the persons account number is valid. So if they do the press 2 for support, I would like to have an ivr prompt that says " Please type in your customer number followed by a #" and if its vaild send them to lets say ext 2444 and if not, put them in the support que. I just have a few deadbeats that I would rather sit on hold rather than waste my time.
Again, awesome site, I have been tweaking, and love all the ideas.

Crackpot (Bryan)

By: DanITman

DanITman — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:13:52 +0000

The content on this site is worth a ton thats why I donated so hopefully WM can eventually get rid of all the ads and be supported by us users. I don’t mind the ads too much because your content is so awesome.

Keep up the good work!

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:51:38 +0000

I have nothing against ads on a website, but it's so stupid to see ads about carpets from 3Suisses and cars from Vroom on an Asterisk web page ... because they don't have better ads for Belgium?! Note: Every time you say "look at the insert above about the computer from Walmart", I don't see an add from Walmart ... It's 3Suisses! eMinimall is doing his job! [WM: Fred, you are absolutely right. I've bitched at Google until I'm blue in the face about this. The problem is that Google ads were designed before the blog era, and they serve up unrelated "stuff" (to put it charitably) for about the first three days when a new blog article appears. They, of course, blame their search engine, but it could be fixed if they wanted to. It hurts blog authors as well because new articles typically are read more often than older ones. eMiniMall does a better job because we pick most of those ads or at least the key word content. Thanks for your note. If enough folks complain (other than blog authors), I'll bet Google will fix it one of these days.]