[General] VoIP For Home Usage

Tue Aug 4 19:44:53 +03 2009

I don't see where the problem is Ahmad. The manual says to use wires 4
& 5, which are what we use in Kuwait (The middle 2 wires) and it works
on my end.

Notice that they have shown a figure of 8 wires not 4; that's because
they have digital services, unlike us.

With that said, Kuwait's caller ID is similar to that of UK (BT
company), so the way that someone showed in the asterisk forum might
actually work for you:

1          ------1
2---------/
3---------\
4          ------4

http://www.asterisk.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=42449&sid=f7f76ad03a8a80004579d26d75ae1206

But before you venture into making such a cable, open the phone's wall
socket and look at where the cables are wired (which pins). You should
follow the same.

If you confirm the wiring, then focus on the PBX itself. I haven't
found anything that points at where the problem is, apart from these
two links:
http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com/msg01430.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com/msg01394.html

They say that if you had old trunk configurations, and deleted them,
the GUI may not have cleaned them up as it should (notice the date of
these messages: They're in July 2009).

So you have two options, as suggested in the links:
1) Delete the trunk configuration then dive into the specified config
files and make sure there are no references of them.
2) Reinstall.

Good luck!

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
> 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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       Majed B.