Comments on: Orgasmatron 5.2: The Secure Swiss Army Knife for Asterisk

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:46:13 +0000

BTW...on another matter. After all the (completely unnecessary in a sane world) work I did to get the PAP2T working correctly with Asterisk/PIAF/Orgasmatron and a standard US analog phone, I'm working on a web-based autoconfig tool to do the same job, by pulling the relevant data from PIAF's config and generating an XML file that can be fed to the PAP2T's "provisioning" interface. (I'm a relative newbie to VoIP systems, but I've been building web apps like this since before most people had heard the word "internet".) Once I've got it working, would you guys be interested in including it in the next version of Orgasmatron? wm: You bet! Just let us know when it's ready.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:41:05 +0000

I’m having a weird problem…I’ve set up Google Voice as advised (through SIPGate). I can place calls, and I can receive calls, and once I worked out some problems with my ATA’s settings (hard to believe Cisco ships a product with defaults as broken as those on the PAP2T, but never mind…) things are mostly working at at least a minimal level.

But caller ID isn’t working quite right. Whenever anyone calls, the caller ID shown (either on my analog phone plugged into the PAP2T or on the softphone) is that of the SIPGate DID, not the person calling.

I know the data is in there, because on the softphone, the caller’s number does appear on a second line of the display (in un-bolded text, and much smaller). And I do have GVoice set up to send the caller’s info (I’ve had it this way since GVoice was forwarding to my landline and cell phones…didn’t need to change it for PIAF/Orgasmatron).

So. Does anyone else have this problem. Has anyone found a fix for it? Should I go to the PIAF forums and ask there instead?

By: BillyBob2

BillyBob2 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:19:42 +0000

did google break this again?

[WM: Nope. Just tried it. Check for typos. 🙂 ]

By: Tom Schmitt

Tom Schmitt — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:27:36 +0000

Is there any problem applying 5.2 to the ks16alt load?
Digium says that I must be running Asterisk 1.6 with Dahdi for the Digium AEX800 card before going further with the one-way missing audio (inbound from pstn).
Thanks for all the Great Work WARD!

[WM: Shouldn’t be a problem.]

By: Tom Schmitt (TomS)

Tom Schmitt (TomS) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:51:25 +0000

I have been trying to install PiaF that includes CentOS 5.4 from above on my Dell T105. It installs fine but when I try to run update-scripts, I either tries forever or comes back in a short time and says that the script will not download.
DNS seems to be OK as I can ping yahoo.com by name just fine.
If I do update-scripts and update-fixes on my Dell SC440 running Asterisk 1.4 CentOS 5.2 of PiaF, it works just fine.
I want to complete the Orgasmatron 5.2 load but want to get the updates first.
I thought that getting the updates done before loading the Orgas 5.2 was important as it says to not to the updates later as it will interfere with the Parking Lot entries.
I have tried and reloaded multiple time on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

[WM: Sounds like an incompatible network adapter off the top of my head, but please post this on the forums, and we’ll wrestle with it. Thanks.]

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:21:53 +0000

voip.ms has IAX support.. will you further support them? or les.net?

[WM: All registered connections (SIP and IAX) will work just fine.]

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:55:32 +0000

Is the Dell T100 still your top choice if you need to use a hardware card? How about the newer T110 and cheaper AMD-based T105?

By: jean-paul jarboe

jean-paul jarboe — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:21:30 +0000

Just a little update for anyone else who might have a similar issue.My problem seems to have come from using an @ in my ipkall password. I changed it to some thing without an @ it started working immediately. I then switched it back to an @ and it stopped.
At any rate, once I got this sorted out everything worked like a charm! Keep up the good work! PBIAF/Orgamatron is leaps and bounds better than anything else I’ve used.

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:42:08 +0000

Very nice! I installed and configured with SipGate and GV and was surprised how well the process went, including the addition of a BT200 Sip phone. The only issue I am encountering is that after "X" number of hours, it appears the Web Server starts indicating Timeout and Error conditions via the FreePBX panel and the system becomes completely unresponsive and I have to do a hard reset.

Also, and this is just a general question, is there a separate forum for Orgasmatron builds and at what point should a newb go from here to a forum for assistance?

Thanks for the great product!

[WM: Thanks for the comments. If you’re having issues, now’s the time to head to the forums.]

By: Jon Stevens

Jon Stevens — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:58:51 +0000

Ward, I see that the OpenVZ image for Proxmox is still Centos 5.3 – am I ok to follow the above instructions using the OpenVZ image, are there any other considerations I should make. Do you know for an OpenVZ image based on Centos 5.4/1.6?

[OpenVZ 5.3 image will work fine. CentOS 5.4 is way off for OpenVZ.]

By: jean-paul jarboe

jean-paul jarboe — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:35:18 +0000

I’m having trouble getting the initial call from my cell to the IPKall number to work. It just rings once and then goes busy. I’ve been monitoring my traffic on my firewall and I don’t even see anything coming from IPKall. I’ve verified that all the info in my IPKall settings are correct. Any ideas?

[WM: See the Bug Fixes link for a possible solution.]

By: Jon Stevens

Jon Stevens — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:54:39 +0000

Ward, I am thinking of reinstalling my PIAF to get the latest Orgasmatron benefits and generally clean up a well modified system. I am keen to try the Proxmox approach. Do you still recommend this for the latest builds, and are there any watchouts not listed above I should be aware of for installing?

[WM: If you can live without hardware telephony cards, Proxmox is darn near perfect.]

By: rich

rich — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:57:58 +0000

*switches to the NY proxy* being a sys admin at a global company has it’s perks :p but it still doesn’t negate the fact that my UK IP, which is so very blatently english connects to GV (when/if I get an invite)?

Although I did get through to the GV site this time.

By: rich

rich — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:01:10 +0000

thanks for this article ward, I’ve been looking for a cheap (unless I get hacked) method of talking to my girlfriend in the states (as I live in the UK)

One question though, me being in the UK – can I still use GV? I know I’d have to buy a invite, but would my IP give it away that I’m not a yankee?

[WM: Rumor has it that using a U.S. proxy to sign up works great. 🙂 ]

By: ward

ward — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:00:06 +0000

Starting to look like Google Voice may be intentionally spoofing CallerID to IPkall numbers as a cost saving mechanism. By using an IPkall number as the CallerID, IPkall apparently gets a very different monetary slice for terminating these calls. Hmmmm. Sent a note to Craig Walker at Google to see Whassup!

By: ward

ward — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:57:24 +0000

7-digit local dialing with Orgasmatron 5.2…

In the GoogleVoice Outbound Route, make your Dial Pattern look like this:

48|NXXNXXXXXX
NXXXXXX

In the local/$OUTNUM$@custom-gv Trunk, make your Dial Pattern look like this (with your area code obviously):

1NXXNXXXXXX
NXXNXXXXXX
843+NXXXXXX

FreePBX HINT: You have to have a Pattern Match in an Outbound Route before you ever get to an examination of Trunks. And you can’t add stuff in a Route, only in a Trunk.

By: ward

ward — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:50:43 +0000

Be advised that with some IPkall numbers, IPkall incorrectly passes the CallerID for incoming calls. The fix is posted in the PBX in a Flash forum.

By: Fuyun

Fuyun — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:30:49 +0000

Ward:
Thank you for your continuing effort to make Orgasmatron more versatile and better. I am happy with Orgasmatron 5.1 so I will probably not upgrade. As for Coming Attractions "the process of adding a second, third, fourth, and fifth Google Voice line" sounds really interesting. One more thing I want to know is about international dialing via Orgasmatron. Can you also shed some light on this?