[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Majed B.]

On my tests today I saw that trixbox 2.8 does have support for OpenVox
cards. So what you have is just a misconfiguration somewhere.
(Hopefully).

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
> Nope, Just 1.6, I'm planning to try 1.4.
>
> Majed B. wrote:
>> Have you tried using Asterisk 1.4? Or just 1.6?
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Majed B.<majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have no clue at all about the values of these, but since the caller
>>> ID settings of UK worked here, try using those.
>>>
>>> You WILL get static if you don't attach a micro-filter (splitter) to
>>> the phone when attaching it to the FXO port, when the DSL modem is
>>> hooked. So, always use the micro-filter.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>>> I will try that, thanks for the tips.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot say kw settings did not work with asterisk 1.6 since the
>>>> problem might be with the line and the card.
>>>>
>>>> If I connect the line directly to the FXO module I always get busy tone.
>>>> If I use ADSL splitter, I get continuous Starting/Hangup in asterisk
>>>> CLI, and the line rings, and the call is answered, all I hear is phone
>>>> pickup, hangup every second.
>>>>
>>>> One thing I'm not sure of is the DMTF and MF settings, if you look at
>>>> the attached zonedata.c file in previous emails, last 4 variables in
>>>> Kuwait zone are:
>>>>          .dtmf_high_level = -10,
>>>>          .dtmf_low_level = -10,
>>>>          .mfr1_level = -10,
>>>>          .mfr2_level = -8,
>>>>
>>>> These values were a guess. Do you have any idea on the values of these
>>>> variables for Kuwait?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>>>
>>>> Faisal AlAbhoul wrote:
>>>>> Some cards need 4-wires to be powered, by joining 4-wires (2-wires on
>>>>> each end) from the wall socket you'll end up powering the 4 lines in the
>>>>> RJ11 socket in your Vox card, i remember this being done in a forum and
>>>>> worked for some cards. its like flipping a coin but worth trying if all
>>>>> you need to do just change your wiring.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the "kw" setting did not work with Asterisk 1.6 i take it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --- 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, 10:34 PM
>>>>>
>>>>>     2 gray cables mean you get 4 lines. (1 line for every 2 wires).
>>>>>
>>>>>     If you connect an analog phone, do you get a tone? If not, you need to
>>>>>     reverse the wires, otherwise your setup is fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'm not sure about what Faisal suggested though for the 4 wires. All
>>>>>     the RJ11 cables I have have 4 pins, but only 2 wires are connected,
>>>>>     and it did work before with Asterisk 1.4.
>>>>>
>>>>>     On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com
>>>>>     </mc/compose?to=ahmad at koutbo6.com>> wrote:
>>>>>     > Interesting, I checked the wall socket, there are 2 gray wires each of
>>>>>     > them having 4 colored wires, and only 2 colored wires of each gray
>>>>>     wires
>>>>>     > are connected to the socket (2 red wires to the right, 2 blue wires to
>>>>>     > the left) 4 other wires are not connected. 2 in each gray wires.
>>>>>     I'm not
>>>>>     > familiar with wiring. Now do I have to connect the others? IIRC the
>>>>>     > others are not used/utilized.
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     > Regards,
>>>>>     >
>>>>>     > Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
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>>>>>            Majed B.
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