[WM: There’s a link in the article to download the software. I’d recommend you start with the VMware version of TrixBox and Asterisk which will run in a window on your Windows Desktop. Here’s a link to that article. Once you get it running, then install TeleYapper. Sorry, we don’t provide tech support, but there are many who do. Visit the TrixBox Forums.]

Thanks

[WM: Valentine’s Day, we hope.]

[WM: The username and password has to be hard-coded to work, but you can certainly edit the entries and make them anything you need on your particular system. Global search and replace works great.]

[WM: Questions such as this are best posted on either Voxilla or SoourceForge where a dialogue will assist in rooting out the problem.]

[WM: TeleYapper and the Telephone Reminder System both were dependent upon the wakeup calls application. Version 2.4 uses a different version which uses an entirely different method for placing wakeup calls. We’ve got a little work to do … the price you pay when you build a system which partially relies upon someone else’s code. Check back next week.]

[WM: Sorry. Repeat after me: we don’t do tech support. Our stuff is tested and works with stock ISO installs of Asterisk@Home 1.5 and 2.2. Once you change versions of Linux, PHP, and MySQL, your machine is a very different beast.]

[WM: Be sure you’ve executed the change owner and change permission steps in the tutorial.]

[WM: Here’s an approach using AAH 1.5 Substitute your extension for 204 below in the exten=>3 code. The set variable lines also would need to be adjusted to the AAH 2.2 syntax shown in the article if it is used with AAH 2.x.]

[broadcast2]
exten => s,1,SetGlobalVar(STATUS='Answered')
exten => s,2,DigitTimeout(4)
exten => s,3,ResponseTimeout(4)
exten => s,4,Background(to-hear-msg-again)
exten => s,5,Background(press-1)
exten => s,6,Background(to-blklist-last-caller)
exten => s,7,Background(digits/2)
exten => s,8,Background(to-reach-first-rep)
exten => s,9,Background(digits/3)
exten => s,8,Background(otherwise-press)
exten => s,9,Background(digits/4)
exten => t,1,NoOp(Callee's Answering Machine probably answered. Dialed: ${DIAL} ID: ${ID}.)
exten => t,2,SetGlobalVar(STATUS='AnsMachine')
exten => t,3,Background(restarting)
exten => t,4,Wait(1)
exten => t,5,Playback(custom/broadcast) ; playing again for ans machine
exten => t,6,Background(goodbye)
exten => t,7,Hangup
exten => h,1,DeadAGI(teleyapper2.php|${ID}|${STATUS}|${DIAL})
exten => h,2,Hangup
exten => i,1,Goto(1,1)
exten => o,1,Goto(1,1)
exten => 1,1,SetGlobalVar(STATUS='ReplayedMsg')
exten => 1,2,Goto(t,3)
exten => 2,1,SetGlobalVar(STATUS='Zap')
exten => 2,2,Background(num-was-successfully)
exten => 2,3,Background(removed)
exten => 2,4,Background(goodbye)
exten => 2,5,NoOp(Callee Requested to have number removed. Dialed: ${DIAL} ID: ${ID}.)
exten => 2,6,Hangup
exten => 3,1,Dial(local/204@from-internal,20,m)
exten => 3,2,VoiceMail(204@default)
exten => 3,3,Hangup
exten => 4,1,SetGlobalVar(STATUS='OK')
exten => 4,2,Background(goodbye)
exten => 4,3,NoOp(Callee Acknowledged Call. Dialed: ${DIAL} ID: ${ID}.)
exten => 4,4,Hangup


[WM: Remember to renumber the lines after commenting out s,2 and s,3. Keep in mind, however, that the opening message was intended to eat up a little time in the event the person you are calling has an answering machine. Once you remove the timme-killer, it all but guarantees that the message won’t be properly delivered to some answering machines and voicemail systems. We have a better opening prompt coming with the new Reminder System in a couple weeks that you may prefer to use with TeleYapper as well.]

I have a stock AAH 1.3 system – If you can call it stock , having followed virtually all your suggestions.

A couple of questions, though:

Is there any way of using “outbound-allroutes” instead of specifying the trunk, so that dial rules are observed? (calls to mobiles here are more expensive & it’d help to be able to choose different carriers, depending on the number dialled)

[WM: Great question, and you’re not the first to ask it. We’ve got lots of folks scratching their collective heads about this. You might want to visit the Voxilla forum and keep an eye out for the answer. UPDATE: Solved! Reread the section of the article dealing with teleyapper.php.]

What could I have missed in getting the logs to be emailed? I’ve added my email address where appropriate & voicemails are always successfully sent & received. Thanks for the very interesting blog.

[WM: Do you have a stock AAH 1.5 or 2.2 system installed from an ISO CD? Did you set: $emaildebuglog = 1; ]

Your site has quickly become my first browse of the day, even before digg.com. Thanks for all your efforts!

[WM: Non-profits are fine so long as you’re in compliance with the Do Not Call statutes applicable in your jurisdiction. As for multiple simultaneous calls, we’re working on that. TeleYapper has been updated to permit all calls to be handled by your normal dialing rules with a trunk entry that looks something like this: local. See the updated article for details. A slight change in the teleyapper.php counting logic to only increment the time after every n number of calls, and you should be good to go. Finally, a heads up that, on one of the listservs, it has been reported that some versions of Asterisk have a problem if a bunch of .call files hit the queue at the same time. We’re relying on the wakeupcall code to handle this, but we may have to take a look at it as well to be sure the calls are spaced out a few seconds apart. We’ll go into more detail down the road, but this should be enough to get you started if you’re in a hurry for it.]

Anyway, looks cool! Hopefully, I can figure out how to tweak this to call someone with an IVR menu instead of a message.

[WM: I think you’ve answered your own question. It wouldn’t be a good idea to use an unrestricted web page to allow anonymous people to “sign up” others for junk phone calls. The TeleYapper license also specifically prohibits use of this software for commercial purposes without our written permission.]