Comments on: Asterisk CallerID on Steroids: Here’s How

By: diane

diane — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:17:51 +0000

how can i get private calls to show on my cell phone bill?

By: matt avila

matt avila — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:33:19 +0000

Hey Ward – been awhile since I commented on your blog (which by the way I actively read). Im sure by now youve seen this – but still wanted to bring it to your attention. With CID spoofing that you wrote about a couple years ago, this is a great tie in to that.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/how-to-reveal-blocked-caller-id-info-a-video-guide-to-risky-beh/

By: Truman

Truman — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:59:00 +0000

If someone is using your CallerID, then they are most likely using one of these voip server providers that let’s you specify your caller ID. It’s a shame, but there is not too much you can do.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:51:27 +0000

Someone it seems has been making prank calls and using my cell number as the ring back. Is there any way that I can find out who is doing this?

By: Stephen W

Stephen W — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:19:21 +0000

Bill,

I work for a company that installs telephone systems, and (in the US anyway) the only way I am aware of to spoof the Caller ID where the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) is concerned is through digital PRI trunks. I assume that’s what type of dialtone Telasip is using to place the calls on the PSTN. Trouble is, only Caller ID number can be supplied to the PRI, not name. The PRI dialtone provider will accept the number only and at some point, the number you have supplied will be matched up with the name belonging to that number’s account and this will become the Caller ID. It is not a limitation of Asterisk and is beyond all of our control. Now, I’ll leave it to others more knowledgeable than me to answer whether caller ID name and number can be supplied when the PSTN is not involved (I sure would think so though).

By: Bill B

Bill B — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:01:39 +0000

I am having a problem where I can set the CID number but not the ID. No matter what name I enter it still comes up as the person who belongs to the number. I've tried these formats: John Doe<9876543210> and "John Doe"<9876543210>. Also, I have to set the phone number to 10 digits to get it to send. How can I correct these two issues? Thank you in advance.

By: Mike P

Mike P — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:55:40 +0000

I have a question. How do I send a incoming call based on it’s caller ID phone to a ring group? Basically I want to send a number coming from: 6125550000 to ring group number: 2? I also want all other callers to go to a IVR named: menu. Can you help me with this?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:40:28 +0000

I am using the PBX at PBXES.com and it is settting the caller ID to pass to my asterisk box, which is performing LCR, and passing along to trunks that support Caller ID. I have made multiple tests however asterisk seems to pass the account name (account that PBXES registers to) as opposed to the individual PBX extension caller ID.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

By: Waqar

Waqar — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:16:06 +0000

This site really helped me to sort CallerID stuff we do lot of Mobile roaming cost cutting for our cliens i.e before they leave country they divert their mobile calls to our local no and we then pass the call to their local sim whichever country they are in. I have been trying to set the CallerID to Callee ID and your article solved the problem for me Thanks a Lot.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:49:26 +0000

Does anyone know if you can set outbound caller ID on any other VoIP service?

By: Grady

Grady — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:55:33 +0000

Is it possible to change your outbound callerid based on the dialed number?

ex. We have a Texas number and an Alabama one. When my wife dials any number in Alabama, would it be possible to cause her outbound callerid to be show as our Alabama number?

[WM: With TelaSIP, it’s easy. We’ll revisit this issue shortly in a full column.]

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:58:46 +0000

sendrpid=yes did the trick. Thanks, a lot.

By: Carlos Santiago

Carlos Santiago — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:09:12 +0000

I sent email to Telasip requesting that I be allowed to manage my outgoing caller ID from Asterisk. They replied indicating that they removed called ID at their end. I then placed number in the outbound caller ID field for the Telasip trunk. Now when I call pleaple get "Unknown" for the caller ID insted of the number I configured in the trunk settings. Any suggestions? [WM: You'll need Asterisk@Home 2.2 or later, and you need to add sendrpid=yes to the TelaSIP trunk entries. Then set the CallerID. Some have indicated that in AMP you'll need to enter the CallerID as <6781234567> to get it to work. Good luck.]

By: J

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:01:36 +0000

Does anyone know if settung the caller-id is supported via telasip on international calls?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:19:51 +0000

Has anyone had any problem with AMP not writing the "outboundcid" to the Asterisk database? Everytime I make a change to the extensions and then hit the red bar I lose all of my outbound CID information in the Asterisk database. I have to go into the asterisk console and issue the following command for all of my extensions: 'database put AMPUSER/1005 outboundcid "Kevin Doe <4045551212>" After that my outbound CID works great.

By: matt avila

matt avila — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:00:31 +0000

Ward – Ill be happy to field that latest question – if you would, please send my e-mail to "Chris" and Ill contact him and walk him through it. In a nutshell its all about using the CID and extension names. If you set the "display name" field to your extension NUMBER – internal calls will show that way…. whatever that ID is set to. The "outbound CID" field can be set to override the trunk CID, BUT you MUST be sure to format it as " or " (note that the brackets are REQUIRED. I haven’t been successful in getting a name inserted into that field.

Also to note, from my experience and understanding the NAME that shows up on an incoming CID lookup is actually from the phone companies records – its NOT being sent with the CID number stuff… so having the name field set to either a name and/or name and extension will NOT affect what is passed to external numbers (outside the PBX).

Cheers – Matt

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:44:07 +0000

How can I setup CalledID for a specific extension, but still allow it to preserve the internal extension when making SIP calls? I need different DID CallerID for extensions for outbound calls, but when calling an internal extension it comes up with the DID caller ID. Any ideas?

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:05:39 +0000

Note that with Telasip (at least in my case) I had to call them to request that I be allowed to provide my own caller ID. (a completely painless process, btw. Cheers for great customer service!)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:06:19 +0000

Kaleb, instead of using the Rings Groups Hunt, I created my own using a custom setup in extensions_custom.conf. In my IVR, I state to reach Chris, press 1 and it points to this context. If the user presses # and uses the directory, (which I do not mention in my IVR), it will only ring my extension. The only thing I do not like about the Ring Groups hunt is that you don’t have alot of flexablity with them. The one I created calls my desk phone for 15 seconds, then says please wait while I connect your call and plays music on hold. It will dial my cell phone for 25 seconds and if I don’t answer that it reverts back to my extension voicemail. You may also implement this internally if you place this under [from-internal-custom]

[from-internal-custom]

exten => 200,1,dial(sip/200,15) ;find me follow me internal
exten => 200,2,playback(pls-wait-connect-call)
exten => 200,3,Setvar(NewCaller=${CALLERIDNUM})
exten => 200,4,SetCIDNum(0${CALLERIDNUM})
exten => 200,5,dial(IAX2/voipjet/19999999999,25,m)
exten => 200,6,SetCIDNum(${NewCaller})
exten => 200,7,Macro(vm,200)
exten => 200,8,hangup

[custom-hunt200]
exten => 200,1,dial(sip/200,15) ;find me follow me external
exten => 200,2,playback(pls-wait-connect-call)
exten => 200,3,Setvar(NewCaller=${CALLERIDNUM})
exten => 200,4,SetCIDNum(0${CALLERIDNUM})
exten => 200,5,dial(IAX2/voipjet/19999999999,25,m)
exten => 200,6,SetCIDNum(${NewCaller})
exten => 200,7,Macro(vm,200)
exten => 200,8,hangup

By: Kaleb

Kaleb — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:18:09 +0000

Great article, one addition I would like to see though is the ability to use a simultaneous ring strategy that will call both our IP phone and our cell at the same time and/or a call-hunting system that will attempt to ring our IP phone, and fail-over to our cell. [WM: That's what Ring Groups do. Take a look at the Adding Cellphone Extensions section of our AAH 2.5 Tutorial.] Overall, I love it. I enjoy the knowledge that you share with the asterisk community, keep up the good work. One thing I noticed in your priorities, it appears that it will announce 2 times before calling my cell, (priorities 3 and 5), shouldn't it only announce once? [WM: Thanks for catching it. I'll fix it.]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:21:46 +0000

Ward, I use VoipJet for my outbound calls because of the unlimited number of simultaneous calls. How many concurrent calls can you make on TelaSIP? [WM: When you pay by the minute, most VoIP providers give you unlimited, simultaneous calls. When you have an all-you-can-eat, fixed price plan, you typically get one call at a time for each trunk you have bought. VoipJet is a good pay-by-the-minute provider with low rates. Another good one is Voxee. We've done reviews of a number of providers that all are listed in our 50 Great Halftime Projects for Asterisk.]