Nabble - nslu2-asterisk

Re: Questions on asterisk performance, and sample setup

2009-12-04T09:06:24Z

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "chinatti" <chinatti@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> A few follow up questions:
>
> 1) Regarding the concern about running on internal flash. I don't care about voicemail, will probably use Google Voice for that. I was able to load the asterisk16 and asterisk16-sounds packages into my OpenWRT NSLU2 with ~1MB of space left over. Assuming I can fit those packages and don't care about voicemail, is there still a concern about using internal flash?

No concern. But if you have the file system on flash (internal or USB stick) you need to minimize the writes to it because flash has a limited number of erasure cycles (about 100,000 for SLC NAND or NOR flash and for the high capacity MLC NAND it goes down to 5,000 cycles).
You can disable asterisk logging and CDR-s if you don't need them or just put all the files asterisk is writing often (like database) in ramfs (and make a script to copy it from/to flash at startup/shutdown)

>
> 2) SheevaPlug looks interesting. Is there any other embedded platform that works well with asterisk and has a good user community (i.e. support through forums, etc.) behind it? Basically I'm looking for a pretty-darn reliable, low-power, asterisk appliance for home. It has to do the job and pass the "wife test". A little more horsepower (i.e. ability to run codecs) would also be a nice bonus, but I don't know that I really need that...

I don't know about another embedded platform.
SheevaPlug has a lot more CPU power, RAM and flash but it's still not able to run other codecs than NSLU2 because it does not have fp hardware.
You should be fine only with G711. I had to change a provider because he was accepting only G729, but otherwise no problem.

Both platforms are very reliable. I had Asterisk up on NSLU2 sometimes up for about a year without any problem.
Now I got a small UPS so my phone system stays up in case of power failure (especially now that it controls and stores my security camera videos too).

Cheers,
Corneliu

>
> Thanks,
> steve
>
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Ovidiu Sas <osas@> wrote:
> >
> > Here are some benchmarks for asterisk 1.2:
> > http://osdir.com/ml/misc.nslu2.asterisk/2007-10/msg00010.html
> >
> > The benchmark should be more or less accurate for 1.6.
> > You can enable many features on NSLU, but you won't be able to use
> > codecs like g729. NSLU doesn't have the horsepower for these kind of
> > transcoding.
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ovidiu sas
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM, chinatti <chinatti@> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm looking at possibly installing asterisk on an NSLU2 running OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2. I've installed the latest asterisk packages from the OpenWRT trunk:
> > >
> > > root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list_installed | grep asterisk
> > > asterisk16 - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> > > asterisk16-sounds - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> > >
> > > A few questions:
> > >
> > > 1) I'm installing this at home, where I will be running a handful of extensions (SIP phones), and probably a few FXS/FXO ports (using an external gateway) for local analog phones and PSTN access, and a couple SIP and/or IAX trunks to VoIP provider(s). Probably no more than a couple of calls simultaneously.
> > >
> > > Is this kind of setup reasonable to run on an NSLU2? I'm fine with limiting the capabilities (i.e. turning features off, etc.), but I want to make sure that the voice quality is rock solid. The NSLU2 won't be running anything else other than asterisk.
> > >
> > > 2) Are the config file examples here:
> > >
> > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/
> > >
> > > ... applicable for asterisk 1.6 on OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2? If not, are there any examples for this setup that are available?
> > >
> > > 3) I chose OpenWRT because I'm familiar with it (run it on my router), and I'd like to run everything off internal flash if possible - to simplify things. Is there any reason why one of the other firmware choices would be better for running dedicated asterisk?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

Re: Questions on asterisk performance, and sample setup

2009-12-04T07:37:33Z

Thanks for the info.

A few follow up questions:

1) Regarding the concern about running on internal flash. I don't care about voicemail, will probably use Google Voice for that. I was able to load the asterisk16 and asterisk16-sounds packages into my OpenWRT NSLU2 with ~1MB of space left over. Assuming I can fit those packages and don't care about voicemail, is there still a concern about using internal flash?

2) SheevaPlug looks interesting. Is there any other embedded platform that works well with asterisk and has a good user community (i.e. support through forums, etc.) behind it? Basically I'm looking for a pretty-darn reliable, low-power, asterisk appliance for home. It has to do the job and pass the "wife test". A little more horsepower (i.e. ability to run codecs) would also be a nice bonus, but I don't know that I really need that...

Thanks,
steve

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Ovidiu Sas <osas@...> wrote:

>
> Here are some benchmarks for asterisk 1.2:
> http://osdir.com/ml/misc.nslu2.asterisk/2007-10/msg00010.html
>
> The benchmark should be more or less accurate for 1.6.
> You can enable many features on NSLU, but you won't be able to use
> codecs like g729. NSLU doesn't have the horsepower for these kind of
> transcoding.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Ovidiu sas
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM, chinatti <chinatti@...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking at possibly installing asterisk on an NSLU2 running OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2. I've installed the latest asterisk packages from the OpenWRT trunk:
> >
> > root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list_installed | grep asterisk
> > asterisk16 - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> > asterisk16-sounds - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> >
> > A few questions:
> >
> > 1) I'm installing this at home, where I will be running a handful of extensions (SIP phones), and probably a few FXS/FXO ports (using an external gateway) for local analog phones and PSTN access, and a couple SIP and/or IAX trunks to VoIP provider(s). Probably no more than a couple of calls simultaneously.
> >
> > Is this kind of setup reasonable to run on an NSLU2? I'm fine with limiting the capabilities (i.e. turning features off, etc.), but I want to make sure that the voice quality is rock solid. The NSLU2 won't be running anything else other than asterisk.
> >
> > 2) Are the config file examples here:
> >
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/
> >
> > ... applicable for asterisk 1.6 on OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2? If not, are there any examples for this setup that are available?
> >
> > 3) I chose OpenWRT because I'm familiar with it (run it on my router), and I'd like to run everything off internal flash if possible - to simplify things. Is there any reason why one of the other firmware choices would be better for running dedicated asterisk?
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T13:17:43Z

Corneliu, Mike

Thank you both for replying. I will explain better some points that are causing misunderstandings. Here where I live, all the gsm operators have tariff plans where you don't pay for sms, calls, mms and even video calls between numbers. You pay around 10 euros per month which you can use to call to other operators and numbers. So, the idea is getting all the sip calls routed by the gateway (with a SIM card on it) to my mobile phone. And if I want to make calls to my SIP contacts...well you know what happens. There was a company here who sold the Mobigater mini for around 100 euros which I consider cheap (Mike, I looked at the Portech but the prices here an in the UK are prohibitive...). Even if I bought directly from the mobigater makers, the price is 84 euros + delivery costs. So, I consider the mobigater a good option because it's usb powered and is supported by asterisk already, if you compile the code from the GSMOpen project.

Pedro

P.S. They said a long time ago that they plan a lan port model but till today, nothing happened ...

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "corneliu_doban" <corneliu_doban@...> wrote:

>
> You are right, but I was not sure that Pedro was aware of that.
> He was looking at a GSM Gateway, but he said that he wants to use his mobile phone, so I was not absolutely clear about his requirements and that's why I pointed out the difference.
>
> Thanks,
> Corneliu
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Mike Pellatt <mike@> wrote:
> >
> > corneliu_doban wrote:
> > > But this GSM gateways need a SIM card, so you will need to pay an extra monthly subscription to your wireless carrier.
> > >
> > > I know that the GE BT Cell Fusion Gateway is not to fancy, but it can use my cell phone (no extra SIM card required) and is dirt cheap (CAD $40 = £22.9).
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Corneliu
> > >
> > >
> > But the original poster was contemplating the Mobigater, which from what
> > I can see needs a SIM card, so I was proposing another solution that had
> > the same requirement.
> >
> > Your solution is, of course, less expensive, but I was working to the
> > original poster's apparent requirement.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>

Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T12:23:29Z

You are right, but I was not sure that Pedro was aware of that.
He was looking at a GSM Gateway, but he said that he wants to use his mobile phone, so I was not absolutely clear about his requirements and that's why I pointed out the difference.

Thanks,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Mike Pellatt <mike@...> wrote:

>
> corneliu_doban wrote:
> > But this GSM gateways need a SIM card, so you will need to pay an extra monthly subscription to your wireless carrier.
> >
> > I know that the GE BT Cell Fusion Gateway is not to fancy, but it can use my cell phone (no extra SIM card required) and is dirt cheap (CAD $40 = £22.9).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Corneliu
> >
> >
> But the original poster was contemplating the Mobigater, which from what
> I can see needs a SIM card, so I was proposing another solution that had
> the same requirement.
>
> Your solution is, of course, less expensive, but I was working to the
> original poster's apparent requirement.
>
> Mike
>

Re: Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T11:57:49Z

corneliu_doban wrote:
> But this GSM gateways need a SIM card, so you will need to pay an extra monthly subscription to your wireless carrier.
>
> I know that the GE BT Cell Fusion Gateway is not to fancy, but it can use my cell phone (no extra SIM card required) and is dirt cheap (CAD $40 = £22.9).
>
> Cheers,
> Corneliu
>
>
But the original poster was contemplating the Mobigater, which from what
I can see needs a SIM card, so I was proposing another solution that had
the same requirement.

Your solution is, of course, less expensive, but I was working to the
original poster's apparent requirement.

Mike

Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T10:31:30Z

But this GSM gateways need a SIM card, so you will need to pay an extra monthly subscription to your wireless carrier.

I know that the GE BT Cell Fusion Gateway is not to fancy, but it can use my cell phone (no extra SIM card required) and is dirt cheap (CAD $40 = £22.9).

Cheers,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Mike Pellatt <mike@...> wrote:

>
> Pedro R wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I've been considering the idea of having a gsm gateway hooked to my router so I could route the SIP calls to/from my mobile phone. The problem is that the cheapest gateway I could find (and make the purchase economically interesting) provides connectivity trough USB. Fortunally there is a software project that supports this gateway and provides a module to Asterisk. The project in question is GSMOpen (www.gsmopen.org) formerly know as Celliax and the gateway mobigater mini. I'm posting here in the hope that someone thought about a different setup or equipment and avoid the trouble of compiling gsmopen on the firmware. Thanks
> >
> >
> I see the price for this device is around 200 Euros ?? If so, why not
> use the Portech MV-370 ?? That comes in at £200 inc VAT here in the UK -
> though I recently got the 2-SIM card version (MV-372, which lists for
> £339.25 inc VAT), for £220 on ebay. Very easy to configure, standard SIP
> connectivity so no special software required.
>
> I'd previously tried playing with bluetooth channels and all sorts of
> stuff, and this was so easy in comparison.
>
> Now to get SMS running over it, with my unlimited included SMS's :-)
>
> Mike
>

Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T09:48:15Z

Pedro R wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I've been considering the idea of having a gsm gateway hooked to my router so I could route the SIP calls to/from my mobile phone. The problem is that the cheapest gateway I could find (and make the purchase economically interesting) provides connectivity trough USB. Fortunally there is a software project that supports this gateway and provides a module to Asterisk. The project in question is GSMOpen (www.gsmopen.org) formerly know as Celliax and the gateway mobigater mini. I'm posting here in the hope that someone thought about a different setup or equipment and avoid the trouble of compiling gsmopen on the firmware. Thanks
>
>
I see the price for this device is around 200 Euros ?? If so, why not
use the Portech MV-370 ?? That comes in at £200 inc VAT here in the UK -
though I recently got the 2-SIM card version (MV-372, which lists for
£339.25 inc VAT), for £220 on ebay. Very easy to configure, standard SIP
connectivity so no special software required.

I'd previously tried playing with bluetooth channels and all sorts of
stuff, and this was so easy in comparison.

Now to get SMS running over it, with my unlimited included SMS's :-)

Mike

Re: Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-03T09:22:08Z

Hi Pedro,

One way is to use an USB bluetooth dongle and asterisk add-on chan_mobile.
Another twisted way is to connect a GE Bluetooth Cell Fusion Gateway to an FXO port.

The first solution makes more sense, but I assumed that finding the BT dongle that works and the risk that it might not work with my cell phones made me consider the second solution.
The price of the GE BT gateway (CAD 40 at London Drugs) and the fact that I have an extra unused FXO laying around sealed the deal.
Also this allows to have the BT gateway and the Asterisk server on different locations.

It works fine with my iPhone. Now I can answer cell incoming calls from any extension in the house.
Dialing out on my cell also works but is slow and asterisk need to prepend ##1 or ##2 (I believe) to dial trough the first paired phone or trough the second. So, no ability like with chan_mobile to know if a BT is connected or not and take the proper actions in the dialplan.

Cheers,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "Pedro R" <procadas@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I've been considering the idea of having a gsm gateway hooked to my router so I could route the SIP calls to/from my mobile phone. The problem is that the cheapest gateway I could find (and make the purchase economically interesting) provides connectivity trough USB. Fortunally there is a software project that supports this gateway and provides a module to Asterisk. The project in question is GSMOpen (www.gsmopen.org) formerly know as Celliax and the gateway mobigater mini. I'm posting here in the hope that someone thought about a different setup or equipment and avoid the trouble of compiling gsmopen on the firmware. Thanks
>
> Pedro
>

Re: Questions on asterisk performance, and sample setup

2009-12-03T09:19:01Z

Here are some benchmarks for asterisk 1.2:
http://osdir.com/ml/misc.nslu2.asterisk/2007-10/msg00010.html

The benchmark should be more or less accurate for 1.6.
You can enable many features on NSLU, but you won't be able to use
codecs like g729. NSLU doesn't have the horsepower for these kind of
transcoding.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ovidiu sas

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:43 AM, chinatti <chinatti@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at possibly installing asterisk on an NSLU2 running OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2. I've installed the latest asterisk packages from the OpenWRT trunk:
>
> root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list_installed | grep asterisk
> asterisk16 - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> asterisk16-sounds - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) I'm installing this at home, where I will be running a handful of extensions (SIP phones), and probably a few FXS/FXO ports (using an external gateway) for local analog phones and PSTN access, and a couple SIP and/or IAX trunks to VoIP provider(s). Probably no more than a couple of calls simultaneously.
>
> Is this kind of setup reasonable to run on an NSLU2? I'm fine with limiting the capabilities (i.e. turning features off, etc.), but I want to make sure that the voice quality is rock solid. The NSLU2 won't be running anything else other than asterisk.
>
> 2) Are the config file examples here:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/
>
> ... applicable for asterisk 1.6 on OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2? If not, are there any examples for this setup that are available?
>
> 3) I chose OpenWRT because I'm familiar with it (run it on my router), and I'd like to run everything off internal flash if possible - to simplify things. Is there any reason why one of the other firmware choices would be better for running dedicated asterisk?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Re: Questions on asterisk performance, and sample setup

2009-12-03T09:00:24Z

Hi,

I ran about the same setup like the one you intend to use on Unslung and then OpenSlug for about 4 years (NSLU2 dedicated for * with file system on USB stick), until I moved to SheevaPlug this spring.
The voice quality was perfect. I was even surprised that command "show translations" that calculates the duration of transcoding for 1s of voice from one codec to another displays better results on NSLU2 (@266MHz) than SheevaPlug (@1GHz).
So there was no real reason to move to SheevaPlug other than the desire to play with my new toy.

The sample Unslung config files are for asterisk 1.2, but there is no special setup (comparing with a PC setup) other than loading the modules that you use to save memory.

Running from internal flash is not a a very good idea.
Asterisk package is pretty large and you will need sound files (from asterisk-sounds package) plus you will want additional space to store the voice-mail messages.
SheevaPlug has 512MB internal flash, so plenty of room there.

I'm not familiar with the openWRT so I cannot give you any advice here.

Cheers,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "chinatti" <chinatti@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at possibly installing asterisk on an NSLU2 running OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2. I've installed the latest asterisk packages from the OpenWRT trunk:
>
> root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list_installed | grep asterisk
> asterisk16 - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
> asterisk16-sounds - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1) I'm installing this at home, where I will be running a handful of extensions (SIP phones), and probably a few FXS/FXO ports (using an external gateway) for local analog phones and PSTN access, and a couple SIP and/or IAX trunks to VoIP provider(s). Probably no more than a couple of calls simultaneously.
>
> Is this kind of setup reasonable to run on an NSLU2? I'm fine with limiting the capabilities (i.e. turning features off, etc.), but I want to make sure that the voice quality is rock solid. The NSLU2 won't be running anything else other than asterisk.
>
> 2) Are the config file examples here:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/
>
> ... applicable for asterisk 1.6 on OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2? If not, are there any examples for this setup that are available?
>
> 3) I chose OpenWRT because I'm familiar with it (run it on my router), and I'd like to run everything off internal flash if possible - to simplify things. Is there any reason why one of the other firmware choices would be better for running dedicated asterisk?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>

Questions on asterisk performance, and sample setup

2009-12-03T06:43:16Z

Hi,

I'm looking at possibly installing asterisk on an NSLU2 running OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2. I've installed the latest asterisk packages from the OpenWRT trunk:

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg list_installed | grep asterisk
asterisk16 - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -
asterisk16-sounds - 1.6.1-rc1-1.1 -

A few questions:

1) I'm installing this at home, where I will be running a handful of extensions (SIP phones), and probably a few FXS/FXO ports (using an external gateway) for local analog phones and PSTN access, and a couple SIP and/or IAX trunks to VoIP provider(s). Probably no more than a couple of calls simultaneously.

Is this kind of setup reasonable to run on an NSLU2? I'm fine with limiting the capabilities (i.e. turning features off, etc.), but I want to make sure that the voice quality is rock solid. The NSLU2 won't be running anything else other than asterisk.

2) Are the config file examples here:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/

... applicable for asterisk 1.6 on OpenWRT 8.09.2-RC2? If not, are there any examples for this setup that are available?

3) I chose OpenWRT because I'm familiar with it (run it on my router), and I'd like to run everything off internal flash if possible - to simplify things. Is there any reason why one of the other firmware choices would be better for running dedicated asterisk?

Thanks in advance...

Asterisk+GSM gateway

2009-12-02T15:09:26Z

Greetings.

I've been considering the idea of having a gsm gateway hooked to my router so I could route the SIP calls to/from my mobile phone. The problem is that the cheapest gateway I could find (and make the purchase economically interesting) provides connectivity trough USB. Fortunally there is a software project that supports this gateway and provides a module to Asterisk. The project in question is GSMOpen (www.gsmopen.org) formerly know as Celliax and the gateway mobigater mini. I'm posting here in the hope that someone thought about a different setup or equipment and avoid the trouble of compiling gsmopen on the firmware. Thanks

Pedro

Re: Re: asterisk16 upgrade

2009-11-24T11:42:37Z

Hello Chris,

The patches for asterisk 1.4 needs to be rebuilt. When time permits,
I will take a look at it.
The 1.6.1 branch is stable and has more features then the old 1.4.
Do you have any constrains in upgrading to 1.6.1?

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM, asteriskatmyhome
<yunzhang.chen@...> wrote:

> Hi Ovidiu Sas, could you please kindly publish the latest 1.4.27 Asterisk optware code?the 1.4 branch has not been updated for almost a year.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Chen
>
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Ovidiu Sas <osas@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to upgrade the asterisk version on the asterisk16 feed
>> from 1.6.0.x to 1.6.1.x.
>> Before doing that, I would like to know if there are users who would
>> like to stay with the 1.6.0.x version instead of 1.6.1.x.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ovidiu Sas
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Re: asterisk16 upgrade

2009-11-23T07:37:21Z

Hi Ovidiu Sas, could you please kindly publish the latest 1.4.27 Asterisk optware code?the 1.4 branch has not been updated for almost a year.

Thanks,
Chris Chen

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Ovidiu Sas <osas@...> wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to upgrade the asterisk version on the asterisk16 feed
> from 1.6.0.x to 1.6.1.x.
> Before doing that, I would like to know if there are users who would
> like to stay with the 1.6.0.x version instead of 1.6.1.x.
>
> Regards,
> Ovidiu Sas
>

asterisk16 upgrade

2009-10-27T18:51:11Z

Hello all,

I would like to upgrade the asterisk version on the asterisk16 feed
from 1.6.0.x to 1.6.1.x.
Before doing that, I would like to know if there are users who would
like to stay with the 1.6.0.x version instead of 1.6.1.x.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

Re: dd-wrt and asterisk via optware

2009-09-08T17:04:58Z

Transfer the file to your Asus router (preferably in a temporary directory) and execute:

tar -zxvf asterisk_1_2_sample_slug_config.tar.gz

This samples are old (for asterisk 1.2) and from optware you probably got a newer version of asterisk (1.4 or 1.6).

Some of the commands functions changed, but you can use it as an example of how to configure *.

On the twiki you can find updated versions (for * 1.4) of the macros used in this sample. See "Useful dialplan macros" section on this page:

http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Asterisk?from=Unslung.Asterisk

Cheers,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "far_to_go" <far_to_go@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've got an asus wl500-gv2p 32m ram, 8m flash, 8g usb that I'm working on. I've installed asterisk and was sorta following this guide:
>
> http://www.fivn.com/products/asterisk.html
>
> and noticed that the file:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/asterisk_1_2_sample_slug_config.tar.gz
>
> is missing. I mean, the file is there when I look on the web interface of the group but I can't seem to download anything that 7zip or gunzip/tar seem happy with.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>

dd-wrt and asterisk via optware

2009-09-08T13:44:42Z

Hi,

I've got an asus wl500-gv2p 32m ram, 8m flash, 8g usb that I'm working on. I've installed asterisk and was sorta following this guide:

http://www.fivn.com/products/asterisk.html

and noticed that the file:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nslu2-asterisk/files/config_unslung/asterisk_1_2_sample_slug_config.tar.gz

is missing. I mean, the file is there when I look on the web interface of the group but I can't seem to download anything that 7zip or gunzip/tar seem happy with.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Alan

Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-09-02T16:19:51Z

You can run several distros on it.
It comes pre-installed with Ubuntu, so installing asterisk can be as simple as:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install asterisk

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Cbk Menon <cbkmenon@...> wrote:

>
> Does anyone have a link which explains Asterisks on SheevaPlug installation (and it works well enough).
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: corneliu_doban <corneliu_doban@...>
> To: nslu2-asterisk@...
> Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 11:02:56 AM
> Subject: [nslu2-asterisk] Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323
>
>
> Old PC is fine. But if you have $100 to spend, you can get a SheevaPlug which is as good as my old Athlon 900 but in a smaller form factor and only using about 6W (when working hard).
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@ yahoogroups. com, Arun Sudhakaran <ninelives_in@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > think so to..i also had the same prob..finally gave up getting to work on the 323 and got an old pc and installed on that
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ____________ _________ _________ __
> > From: Ovidiu Sas <osas@>
> > To: nslu2-asterisk@ yahoogroups. com
> > Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 6:37:11
> > Subject: Re: [nslu2-asterisk] Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323
> >
> >
> > AFAIR, the issue is not related to chan_sip, but to some missing
> > libraries from the firmware.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ovidiu Sas
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, yforum@ymail. com<yforum@ymail. com> wrote:
> > > Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------ --------- --------- ------
> > >
> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > New Email names for you!
> > Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.
> > Hurry before someone else does!
> > http://mail. promotions. yahoo.com/ newdomains/ sg/
> >
>

Re: Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-09-02T14:02:45Z

Does anyone have a link which explains Asterisks on SheevaPlug installation (and it works well enough).

________________________________
From: corneliu_doban <corneliu_doban@...>
To: nslu2-asterisk@...
Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 11:02:56 AM
Subject: [nslu2-asterisk] Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

Old PC is fine. But if you have $100 to spend, you can get a SheevaPlug which is as good as my old Athlon 900 but in a smaller form factor and only using about 6W (when working hard).

--- In nslu2-asterisk@ yahoogroups. com, Arun Sudhakaran <ninelives_in@ ...> wrote:

>
> think so to..i also had the same prob..finally gave up getting to work on the 323 and got an old pc and installed on that
>
>
>
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
> From: Ovidiu Sas <osas@...>
> To: nslu2-asterisk@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 6:37:11
> Subject: Re: [nslu2-asterisk] Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323
>
>
> AFAIR, the issue is not related to chan_sip, but to some missing
> libraries from the firmware.
>
> Regards,
> Ovidiu Sas
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, yforum@ymail. com<yforum@ymail. com> wrote:
> > Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------ --------- --------- ------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> New Email names for you!
> Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.
> Hurry before someone else does!
> http://mail. promotions. yahoo.com/ newdomains/ sg/
>

Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-09-02T11:02:56Z

Old PC is fine. But if you have $100 to spend, you can get a SheevaPlug which is as good as my old Athlon 900 but in a smaller form factor and only using about 6W (when working hard).

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., Arun Sudhakaran <ninelives_in@...> wrote:

>
> think so to..i also had the same prob..finally gave up getting to work on the 323 and got an old pc and installed on that
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ovidiu Sas <osas@...>
> To: nslu2-asterisk@...
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 6:37:11
> Subject: Re: [nslu2-asterisk] Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323
>
>
> AFAIR, the issue is not related to chan_sip, but to some missing
> libraries from the firmware.
>
> Regards,
> Ovidiu Sas
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, yforum@ymail. com<yforum@ymail. com> wrote:
> > Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------ --------- --------- ------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> New Email names for you!
> Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.
> Hurry before someone else does!
> http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/
>

Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-09-01T22:20:28Z

think so to..i also had the same prob..finally gave up getting to work on the 323 and got an old pc and installed on that

________________________________
From: Ovidiu Sas <osas@...>
To: nslu2-asterisk@...
Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 6:37:11
Subject: Re: [nslu2-asterisk] Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

AFAIR, the issue is not related to chan_sip, but to some missing
libraries from the firmware.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, yforum@ymail. com<yforum@ymail. com> wrote:

> Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> ------------ --------- --------- ------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

New Email names for you!
Get the Email name you've always wanted on the new @ymail and @rocketmail.
Hurry before someone else does!
http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/sg/

Re: Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-09-01T15:37:11Z

AFAIR, the issue is not related to chan_sip, but to some missing
libraries from the firmware.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, yforum@...<yforum@...> wrote:

> Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323

2009-08-27T15:20:08Z

Saw couple of old threads about issues of running Asterisk 1.4 on DNS-323. I installed Asterisk from optware and it got killed because of chan_sip.so. Is there a newer version of chan_sip.so that I can use on DNS-323?
Thanks.

What current asterisk version from optware?

2009-08-16T20:04:53Z

I think it's 1.6.0.4?

Re: Re: Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon

2009-07-30T03:33:58Z

hello,

I'm using a complete debian system on the NSLU2 (debian armel lenny) and
it works fine. The advantage is that everything works "out of the box".
My asterisk system has no problem to send email with whatever smtp
package you are using on it (I use postfix).

My 2 cents...

Laurent Lesage
consultant
Logiciels Libres - VoIP - Formation
Bureau: (+32) 71 46 06 54
Fax: (+32) 71 46 01 54
Cell: (+32) 477 18 49 12
email: laurent@...
iax2: guest@...
web: www.2lconsult.be

Nous adhérons à la charte eTIC (labeletic.be).

vous envoyez des attachements WORD sans vous en rendre compte?
Libérez-vous des licences à répétition et des formats fermés!
Utilisez le format OPENDOCUMENT,
ouvert et devenu la NORME ISO EN BUREAUTIQUE!!!
http://solutions.journaldunet.com/0605/060518-opendocument-format.shtml
ou encore http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

Corneliu Doban a écrit :

>
>
> NSLU2 has only 32M of RAM, but this should not be a problem.
>
> You should configure esmtp (or ssmtp) and try it first from the shell
> command line. After you make sure that it works then you should
> configure asterisk.
>
> Are you using Unslung or SlugOS ?
> esmtp is available on Unslung and setup instructions are on the wiki
> ssmtp is available on SlugOS. There ere no instruction posted but it
> works too.
>
> Cheers,
> Corneliu
>
>

Re: Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon

2009-07-29T14:51:44Z

NSLU2 has only 32M of RAM, but this should not be a problem.

You should configure esmtp (or ssmtp) and try it first from the shell command line. After you make sure that it works then you should configure asterisk.

Are you using Unslung or SlugOS ?
esmtp is available on Unslung and setup instructions are on the wiki
ssmtp is available on SlugOS. There ere no instruction posted but it works too.

Cheers,
Corneliu

Re: Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon

2009-07-29T09:25:26Z

Further to this post this morning the engineer working with me on this seems to think it is down to the amount of free memory available - he has taken the config on to a larger server and it all works OK - there is only 196M memory free - when there is 256M free on the grown up box it works.

Is there anything obvious that we have missed to keep the memory above this requirement?

-----nslu2-asterisk@yahoogroups.com wrote: -----

To: nslu2-asterisk@yahoogroups.com
From: "tim.savigar" <tim.savigar@prism-it.co.uk>
Sent by: nslu2-asterisk@yahoogroups.com
Date: 29/07/2009 07:28AM
Subject: [nslu2-asterisk] Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon

Can anyone help - voicemail has been set up as per instructions but Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon - running the latest versions

The voicemail is showing as correctly configured to deliver the messages via e-mail, but the messages are not leaving the NSLU2, because the device doesn't have any system logger (syslog daemon) I am unable to view the errors if any errors

Can anyone help?

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Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon

2009-07-28T23:28:02Z

Can anyone help - voicemail has been set up as per instructions but Asterisk refuses to communicate with the SMTP daemon - running the latest versions

The voicemail is showing as correctly configured to deliver the messages via e-mail, but the messages are not leaving the NSLU2, because the device doesn't have any system logger (syslog daemon) I am unable to view the errors if any errors

Can anyone help?

G.729 codec for Asterisk

2009-07-06T07:13:35Z

We have produced a G.729 optimized codec which allows you to run up to 500 G.729 transcoded channels on a single Asterisk server (or Freeswitch).

Also, we have a floating license model so you can manage the licenses across your whole infrastructure.

Prices as low as £3.99 per channel - have a look at the free trial on:

http://www.howlertech.com/products/howlets/trial/

Enjoy!

Re: Asterisk runs but can't find config files

2009-05-04T09:22:00Z

Hi Rand,

The default path to the asterisk.conf is /etc/asterisk and I believe that on Optware has been patched to be /opt/etc/asterisk.

Also, you can specify the config file to be used in the command line using the -C command line option:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+options

asterisk.conf will configure the directories used by asterisk (including the directory for the config files).

For Optware the paths should be like this:

[directories]
astetcdir => /opt/etc/asterisk
astmoddir => /opt/lib/asterisk/modules
astvarlibdir => /opt/var/lib/asterisk
astagidir => /opt/var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin
astspooldir => /opt/var/spool/asterisk
astrundir => /opt/var/run
astlogdir => /opt/var/log/asterisk

Usually Asterisk comes with sample configuration files. You will have to write your own configs, based on this samples.

Good luck,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "shermanrand" <shermanrand@...> wrote:

>
> Everyone,
>
> I recently loaded Asterisk on my WRT-54gl with 2gig sd. (did the ipkg, jffs, optware etc...
>
> Although it runs - when is I issue $asterisk -cvvv I can see that it can't quite find the config files. I guess that the init file needs to be modified correctly. Here is some of the output of the errors.
> Otherwise, asterisk does come up with the >CLI command but no modules nor configs are loaded - even though they are in their respective folders.
>
> typical - error is
> Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf' : Not found no such file or directories ......
>
> Here is the current init - which I think needs to be modified to direct the program to the correct locations - but I don't know how to modify it. Can someone tell me where in the init to direct the program to the correct directories?
>
> Thanks Rand
>
>
>
>
> root@sherman:/jffs/etc/init.d# cat asterisk
> #!/bin/sh
> DEFAULT=/etc/default/asterisk
> OPTIONS=""
> [ -f $DEFAULT ] && . $DEFAULT
> [ "$ENABLE_ASTERISK" = "yes" ] || exit 0
> case $1 in
> start)
> [ -d /var/run ] || mkdir -p /var/run
> [ -d /var/log/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/log/asteri sk
> [ -d /var/spool/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/spool/as terisk
> /usr/sbin/asterisk $OPTIONS
> ;;
> stop)
> [ -f /var/run/asterisk.pid ] && kill $(cat /var/run/ asterisk.pid) >/dev/null 2>&1
> ;;
> *)
> echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)"
> exit 1
> esac
>
> exit $?
>

Re: Asterisk runs but can't find config files

2009-05-04T08:35:15Z

Hello Rand,

Which version of asterisk are you installing from optware?
aterisk14 and asterisk16 should come preconfigured with the right directories.
With optware, everything is installed under /opt and therefor your
config files will be under /opt/etc/asterisk.

Regards,
Ovidiu Sas

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, shermanrand <shermanrand@...> wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> I recently loaded Asterisk on my WRT-54gl with 2gig sd. (did the ipkg, jffs, optware etc...
>
> Although it runs - when is I issue $asterisk -cvvv I can see that it can't quite find the config files. I guess that the init file needs to be modified correctly. Here is some of the output of the errors.
> Otherwise, asterisk does come up with the >CLI command but no modules nor configs are loaded - even though they are in their respective folders.
>
> typical - error is
> Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf' : Not found no such file or directories ......
>
> Here is the current init - which I think needs to be modified to direct the program to the correct locations - but I don't know how to modify it. Can someone tell me where in the init to direct the program to the correct directories?
>
> Thanks Rand
>
>
>
>
> root@sherman:/jffs/etc/init.d# cat asterisk
> #!/bin/sh
> DEFAULT=/etc/default/asterisk
> OPTIONS=""
> [ -f $DEFAULT ] && . $DEFAULT
> [ "$ENABLE_ASTERISK" = "yes" ] || exit 0
> case $1 in
> start)
> [ -d /var/run ] || mkdir -p /var/run
> [ -d /var/log/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/log/asteri sk
> [ -d /var/spool/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/spool/as terisk
> /usr/sbin/asterisk $OPTIONS
> ;;
> stop)
> [ -f /var/run/asterisk.pid ] && kill $(cat /var/run/ asterisk.pid) >/dev/null 2>&1
> ;;
> *)
> echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)"
> exit 1
> esac
>
> exit $?
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Asterisk runs but can't find config files

2009-05-03T08:12:21Z

Everyone,

I recently loaded Asterisk on my WRT-54gl with 2gig sd. (did the ipkg, jffs, optware etc...

Although it runs - when is I issue $asterisk -cvvv I can see that it can't quite find the config files. I guess that the init file needs to be modified correctly. Here is some of the output of the errors.
Otherwise, asterisk does come up with the >CLI command but no modules nor configs are loaded - even though they are in their respective folders.

typical - error is
Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf' : Not found no such file or directories ......

Here is the current init - which I think needs to be modified to direct the program to the correct locations - but I don't know how to modify it. Can someone tell me where in the init to direct the program to the correct directories?

Thanks Rand

root@sherman:/jffs/etc/init.d# cat asterisk
#!/bin/sh
DEFAULT=/etc/default/asterisk
OPTIONS=""
[ -f $DEFAULT ] && . $DEFAULT
[ "$ENABLE_ASTERISK" = "yes" ] || exit 0
case $1 in
start)
[ -d /var/run ] || mkdir -p /var/run
[ -d /var/log/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/log/asteri sk
[ -d /var/spool/asterisk ] || mkdir -p /var/spool/as terisk
/usr/sbin/asterisk $OPTIONS
;;
stop)
[ -f /var/run/asterisk.pid ] && kill $(cat /var/run/ asterisk.pid) >/dev/null 2>&1
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 (start|stop)"
exit 1
esac

exit $?

Re: h extension and Asterisk 1.6.0.9 (and email notifications )

2009-04-23T09:16:47Z

I updated the wiki.

Thanks,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "gaojian858" <gaojian858@...> wrote:

>
> well, first I thought it is a bug in 1.6.0.9. But after google around and I realize it is not a bug.
>
> see here:
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-April/037672.html
>
> Jian
>
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "Corneliu Doban" <corneliu_doban@> wrote:
> >
> > Is this a bug on 1.6.0.9 ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Corneliu
> >
> > --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "gaojian858" <gaojian858@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please note that the new Asterisk 1.6.0.9 can not run h extension within a macro. You have to call the h extension in a regular context.
> > >
> > > I don't know how to edit the wiki(it ask me password):
> > > http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AsteriskMissedCallEmailNotification
> > > Corneliu, maybe you can update the wiki page.
> > >
> > > It was working with Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6.0.5. After I upgraded to 1.6.0.9 then the h extension inside the macro stop working!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Jian
> > >
> >
>

Re: h extension and Asterisk 1.6.0.9 (and email notifications )

2009-04-21T16:06:25Z

well, first I thought it is a bug in 1.6.0.9. But after google around and I realize it is not a bug.

see here:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2009-April/037672.html

Jian

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "Corneliu Doban" <corneliu_doban@...> wrote:

>
> Is this a bug on 1.6.0.9 ?
>
> Thanks,
> Corneliu
>
> --- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "gaojian858" <gaojian858@> wrote:
> >
> > Please note that the new Asterisk 1.6.0.9 can not run h extension within a macro. You have to call the h extension in a regular context.
> >
> > I don't know how to edit the wiki(it ask me password):
> > http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AsteriskMissedCallEmailNotification
> > Corneliu, maybe you can update the wiki page.
> >
> > It was working with Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6.0.5. After I upgraded to 1.6.0.9 then the h extension inside the macro stop working!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jian
> >
>

Re: h extension and Asterisk 1.6.0.9 (and email notifications )

2009-04-21T09:21:57Z

Is this a bug on 1.6.0.9 ?

Thanks,
Corneliu

--- In nslu2-asterisk@..., "gaojian858" <gaojian858@...> wrote:

>
> Please note that the new Asterisk 1.6.0.9 can not run h extension within a macro. You have to call the h extension in a regular context.
>
> I don't know how to edit the wiki(it ask me password):
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/AsteriskMissedCallEmailNotification
> Corneliu, maybe you can update the wiki page.
>
> It was working with Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6.0.5. After I upgraded to 1.6.0.9 then the h extension inside the macro stop working!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jian
>