Comments on: The Asterisk Orgasmatron: A $199 Turnkey PBX Install in Under 15 Minutes, Part I

By: DrMurdoch

DrMurdoch — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:20:29 +0000

Can you add insecure=port,invite to the text of the instructions above, as you seem to acknowledge in the comments it is a better setting than insecure=very

By: NB

NB — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:59:41 +0000

The gpc2 machine is howing up across my local windows network as an open share named PBX. I can browse all directories from any computer on the ntework. I followed the install to the letter. How do I fix this? [WM: http://bestof.nerdvittles.com/tutorials/samba/ ]

By: mrtwister

mrtwister — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:43:45 +0000

I like the Orgasmatron project, but I’m curious, at the beginning
of the article, you mention if you don’t have a Everex, to use
the standard IOS. I’ve got a few low profile (small form factor)
Dell GX150’s, and a few VIA EPIA-M mobo’s, that I’d like to use.
That being said, is there an easy way to get an orgasmatron running
on those platforms, in a similar fashion? or I’m I destine to have
to install all the various packages/scripts/goodies one module at a
time.

Thanks for all your hard work as well as the others, your hard
work and efforts never go unnoticed.

-MT

[WM: Everyone says that Mondo Rescue is now flexible enough to support other platforms; however, you’d have to master Mondo Rescue on your own to try it. Even installing the goodies one at a time is less than a one hour exercise. That’s how the Orgasmatron was built in the first place. If you master Mondo Rescue on a different platform, please share the results. Good luck!]

By: Ames

Ames — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:54:30 +0000

I’d like to fuss around a bit with PiaF and the $50 LumenVox starter kit. Is the gPC2 powerful enough for (non-production) testing and evaluation of LumenVox?

[WM: Haven’t tried it personally but, based on the specs, I don’t see why not. Let us know.]

By: Dr Murdoch

Dr Murdoch — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:39:03 +0000

"NV: Here's a short list of what you have to look forward to". That's quite a list. Are these features: (1) already in pbxinaflash ? (2) how hard would it be to add these features in the future (ie. once you finish them)? [WM: See next week's article.]

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:17:48 +0000

After reading about the Asterisk Orgasmatron, I decided to jump in and follow your directions to the letter. I bought the "walmart special" and installation went without a hitch. I hooked my sipura 1001 and am able to dial 1234 and connect to the server. Alas, I signed up to vitelity for service and did and 1) your article does not mention the $35 set up fee 2) vitelity did not have the $3.79 special as one of the services available for purchase. I finally got through to support and they promptly fixed that. Now I have a vitelity account which has cost be over $35 and lo and behold you preconfigured inbound and outbound trunks do not work. I plugged in my username and passwords in all the appropriate places and I cannot get registered. on " sip show registry" I get a status of request sent. This is frustrating , since I thought this would be an easy install. [WM: Sorry you're having a problem. First, the $35 is not a setup fee. It is advance payment for service. You have to have money in your account to make calls and pay for DIDs. As for the trunks not working, "request sent" tells me that you're not getting registered with Vitelity. Make sure you have plugged in the correct server name that was provided with your registration and then recheck your username and passwords in all the places that were mentioned in the article. If all else fails, post a message on the forum and we'll get you straightened out. Good luck.]

By: ken

ken — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:47:14 +0000

What is the "Cell Phone Direct Dial" application? Sounds interesting. [WM: Coming is Part II. Stay tuned.]

By: trav

trav — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:36:14 +0000

How hard would it be to add a POTS card to the orgasmatron once you do the install? Is it possible to add that in your next installment? :D [WM: As long as you turn off some unnecessary interrupts, it isn't hard at all. See the forum.]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:32:55 +0000

Ward, this is fantastic news. Can existing PIAF / Vitelity customers get this rate as well?

Comment by Mike — Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

According to Vitelity it is for new customers only!

[WM: You can always open a new account. 🙂 ]

By: stavros

stavros — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:53:05 +0000

It should be noted that "insecure=very" has been discouraged for a very long time. Perhaps you meant to say "insecure=port,invite", which is valid on current versions of Asterisk. [WM: Ah yes, another improvement to make Asterisk "better." Sorry.]

By: jim

jim — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:43:21 +0000

Have not seen the iso yet. I thought you must have a special iso to download. the Orgasmatron for Everex gPC2 is a link to the article. [WM: The actual ISO download link is in paragraph 2 of the Getting Started section of the article. But here it is again. The idea was to encourage folks to read the article before attempting to install the software. You did read the article, right?? :-)]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:38:55 +0000

Ward, this is fantastic news. Can existing PIAF / Vitelity customers get this rate as well?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:24:14 +0000

I'm in Canada and couldn't get my hands on the current Walmart special, so had to settle for the previous Everex greenPC (TC2502) (found on TigerDirect if any other Canucks are interested). I'm going to receive on Thursday. Your article is extremely well timed! Will this install work on the original Everex Walmart special? [WM: Sorry but this build only works on the gPC2. But the normal PBX in a Flash 1.2 32-bit ISO works great. And the scripts will get you to the same place in about an hour. After all, that's how we did it.]

By: Minh

Minh — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:55:27 +0000

I’ll have to try this install.

Based on your bestof.nerdvittles.com. I have been testing Vitelity and les.net without trunks and just using my Sipura (now Linksys) ATA device with cordless phones. The sound quality is good for both. Barebone, les.net costs ($1 DIDs with 1.5 cent calls or $4 unlimited incoming with 1.1 cents outbound; Vitelity’s is $1.5 DIDs with 1.2 cents and $8 ‘unlimited’ incoming with 1.2 cents outgoing) less but they are both similar. Les.net is a bit more responsive. There are a couple of features right now that les.net has that I like such as 7-digit dialing control (without installing an asterisk trunk) but Vitelity has a nice failsafe feature that I haven’t been able to figure out in les.net although I am waiting for a response from them. Also, les.net can forward calls on a fairly permanent basis while Vitelity doesn’t have that setup because one can do that with one’s not-setup-yet asterisk trunk or Polycom phone.

The porting in with les.net (waiting for one and no estimate was given)is $30 while Vitelity is $18.

In the end, I will keep them both because of backup issues. However, I am leaning towards les.net more so than Vitelity.

[WM: Be sure to finish the article. Vitelity has reduced their pricing substantially for PBX in a Flash users.]