[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Ahmad Al-Ibrahim]

Majed,

This is the installation guide link
http://www.openvox.com.cn/downloadsFile/1156846942.pdf
The manual talking about RJ45 (UK setup), which is not the case for me,
the card has 4 RJ11 ports.

Card model is A400P

Regards,

Ahmad Al-Ibrahim

Majed B. wrote:
> I have my country settings set to default: United States of America. I
> did try switching it to UK once to see if that would make caller ID
> work, but it didn't so I put it back to USA.
> 
> As far as I understand, all lines in the world ring the same, but they
> send data differently. 24volts in the loop & 90volts on ringing.
> 
> I think you should read the manual of the card you bought. It may
> require some wire-swapping, as the Asterisk forum link suggests. Does
> it say anywhere on the box of OpenVox whether it's using US or UK
> version of making the adapter?!
> 
> What's your card's exact model number?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>> Some posts suggest using a modem cable rather than phone cable.
>> http://forum.voxilla.com/linksys-sipura-voip-support-forum/spa3000-no-dial-tone-15732.html#post81622
>> http://www.asterisk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42449&sid=f7f76ad03a8a80004579d26d75ae1206
>> not sure if this apply to us.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim wrote:
>>> I have configured the trunks, inbound routes, zap channels. It seems to
>>> be something related to the line it self or the configurations to match
>>> Kuwait PSTN tones, are you able to call the land line? and do you see
>>> debug information on asterisk CLI while calling the land line? What is
>>> the 'country' variable value in indications.conf, 'loadzone' and
>>> 'defaultzone' variables values in zaptel.conf?
>>>
>>> Having a cronjob wont harm your system, atleast it works.
>>>
>>> I've already saw this link in the morning, I dont have acpi variable set
>>> in grub.conf.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>>
>>> Majed B. wrote:
>>>> I was just about to email and ask you how things are going on your end! hahaha.
>>>>
>>>> Well, seems like I wasn't the only one going through trouble...
>>>>
>>>> Have you configured the trunk, made sure the Outbound route is using
>>>> that trunk, and that you have configured a general Inbound route? Did
>>>> you configure an extension to receive/make calls?
>>>>
>>>> I know it sounds silly, but go over them again and try recreating the
>>>> extension or make a new one and divert the inbound calls to it.
>>>>
>>>> I'll look around and see what could cause your problems.
>>>>
>>>> As for my side, remember that NAT & externip thing? It worked for a
>>>> while, when asterisk wanted it to, then it broke. If in the home page
>>>> the value "Public IP" is "Unknown" then you can kiss your audio good
>>>> bye on any device outside the LAN from receiving audio. I'm too close
>>>> to stab someone in the face... it's quite frustrating because my
>>>> settings should work, and I don't want to run a script with a cron job
>>>> to replace the domain name with the IP :/
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>>>> Majed,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've installed OpenVox card, ran setup-pstn, the card was detected and
>>>>> configured, but I'm having problems, not sure what else needs to be done.
>>>>>
>>>>> I keep getting lots of
>>>>>
>>>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> messages in asterisk console when the line is connected behind an ADSL
>>>>> splitter, and when i call the land line number the phone rings, pick up
>>>>> and hangups every second simultaneously with the messages above. I've
>>>>> removed the ADSL splitter and connected the line directly to the box, I
>>>>> keep getting busy tone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do I have to configure the device specifically for Kuwait PSTN tones?
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW Dahdi is zaptel in Asterisk 1.6
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
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