[General] VoIP For Home Usage

Thu Aug 6 21:04:56 +03 2009

Majed,

Since you reached this stage and i assume you need a production VoIP
server, why dont you install Asterisk + FreePBX and save yourself all
the mischief? i did this on a CentOS (To match AsteriskNOW and Trixbox
OS) which is my dedicated server in Amsterdam, it routes some DID US
numbers to me in Kuwait and i use it as a junction between me and my
Trixbox in kuwait when i travel.

Well Trixbox is a hybrid opensource project, it is still a child of a commercial father! having said that, you ought to expect funny things (even future wise) from Fonality. Once you accept their ToS you are automagically under their patching mercy :). As for personal info i dont think its stated in ToS if i recall correctly, nor they are allowed legally to fiddle with user personal info.

--- On Thu, 6/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 8:52 PM

Does their ToS say that they're allowed to run scripts without prior
consent of the users, too? That's a trojan!!! And no matter what you
put in your ToS, trojan-behavior is illegal.

I was testing PBX in a Flash yesterday and hit a bump in that the
drivers are loaded but channels don't show up, hence calls can't be
made over the landline (PSTN). I installed trixbox 2.8 today to see if
it can make the calls, but it couldn't, however, on the plus side, the
channels do show in trixbox.

I took a backup of PBXiaFlash yesterday and I'm comparing the config
files against trixbox's to see where I went wrong yesterday.

I'm not sticking with trixbox. I'm just using it to get my system up.
Like using a pirated version of Windows to extract a driver for your
Linux box ;p

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>
> It works both ways, either you do it in General tab in your Trixbox GUI or just edit the text file.
>
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 8:30 PM
>
> Faisal,
>
> Do we do that from the web ui by just selecting the country, or changing the zone options from "us" to "de" ?
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>>
>> Set the tone to Germany, it matches Kuwait perfectly.
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 4/8/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
>> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
>> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, 4 August, 2009, 4:16 AM
>>
>> 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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