You all know the story–give the customer/client what they ask for, and if they like it, theyll be back for more. Such is just so with my one-trick-pony answering-machine project. Now the other two musicians in my virtual band want the following capabiliti..
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Im setting up voicemail on my answering-machine project. Since the directory for voicemail messages for an extension doesnt exist until theres a message to be saved therein, how can I create a custom greeting since it goes in that directory? Thats w..
Who controls how many times an incoming call from an external (DID) provider will ring before Asterisk picks up the call and handles it internally–the provider or Asterisk? If its the DID provider, Ill work on that with them; if its Asterisk, I di..
Acording to the book, Im supposed to put things into what Asterisk thinks is its default audio file location, /var/lib/asterisk/sounds, and Im supposed to be able to create a custom directory off of that path and use it in a relative-syntax way in ..
Doug from this list got me to change my connectivity to my DID provider from SIP to IAX, and bingo, it all just worked instantly. For my next trick: setting up voicemail. The book does it all with smoke and mirrors (SQL), but Im fresh outa those,..
This was supposed to go to the list. I am now thoroughly confused. In the [voipms] stanza where endpoint is defined (type=endpoint), everything points to voipms. But in the [yealink] stanzas, I tried pointing everything to Steve, one item at a ti..
And I think theyre both small. Solved: tcpdump showed no packets coming in, so I went to my DID providers Website to discover to my intense embarrassment that the DID number had been set up forwarded to their voicemail. I got egg on my face for t..
I have two problems. The first is that when I dial my number from a phone on the Internet or any phone outside my LAN, Asterisk does not respond in any way, which means somehow my system is not picking up the fact that theres an incoming call to ..
I am not comfortable with admitting this on a public userlist [;-)] but after over forty years in software development and manual-reading and -interpretation, Ive finally hit one that I cant get past. Ive mention previously that I worked with Aster..
I want to configure communication with my phone provider using TLS for all the obvious reasons. Since Im behind a firewall, Ill be needing to do it with NAT. There are examples of UDP plus NAT in pjsip.conf, but none for TLS plus NAT. Would it be corr..