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So which one of you "heroes" has been deleting my posts, but obviously hasn't got the guts to own up to it?
And locking the thread just to avoid having to answer that seems a bit childish to me, but I guess that's the way it is under this recently developed dictatorship. All hail our new emperor!
With that said, I'll leave it alone. It's your forum.
John.
dlewis,
That definitely make more sense. However in this thread, there wasn't any particular issue to be resolved
it was meant to foster an open dialogue about how people approach this forum or any other forum for that matter.
All participants, moderators and all. Do your homework and be patient with the less advanced users.
John.
Really guys, shutdown a thread just because you think it hasn't been useful?
Are we curing cancer here?
You guys just proved my point, "Tough Love In This Forum"
John.
Sure, I am planning on doing just that, I was hoping someone would run through the instructions I provided first so we can determine what changes if any need to go in. I wrote these instructions from memory of my install a few months ago.
Jondecker:
Thanks for the info. I actually had full intentions of writing a wiki page for the installation of the X100P but have been tied up with other hardware at the moment. Please forgive any misinformation I'm writing this mostly from memory and a few notes I took when doing my install.
You should be able to get it working with the following instruction:
1) Create a blank zaptel.conf file in /etc/
NOTE: If this file does not exist the zaptel driver install will fail.
2) Open a shell and type: sudo apt-get install zaptel
3) In your shell type: genzaptelconf
This will populate the blank zaptel.conf file you created earlier
4) Now you are ready to write your zapata.conf file in /etc/asterisk I have attached both my zaptel.conf and my zapata.conf as working examples.
5) We should be able to run some diagnostic commands to be sure we're on the right track. You can run ztcfg -vvvv and you should get some output similar to the following:
Zaptel Version: 1.4.3
Echo Canceller: MG2
Configuration
======================
Channel map:
Channel 01: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 01)
1 channels configured.
6) The manual part is done at this point, now we jump to the LMCE web-admin and navigate to Advanced>Phones Setup>Trunks>Add Zap Trunk.
7) My PSTN line is my only phone line so I route all traffic in and out of it so the only fields I filled out were :
Outbound Caller ID: Your Phone #
Maximum Channels: 1
Zap Identifier (trunk name): 1Submit and apply your changes
9) This part I am fuzzy on since my current installation is simply ringing every phone in my house, whether it is a standard PSTN or a SIP phone. At any rate, I have a ring group I created to accomplish this, pm me if you want more details and I'll break it down but it is beyond the scope of a basic working setup. Anyways, we need to create and inbound route so click on Inbound Routes, I configured mine as follows:
Zaptel Channel: 1
Destination Ring Groups: RingAll <600>
You should configure your destination to your needs and based on how you want asterisk to work in your setup.
10) Submit and apply your changes
11) This is the last part, we need to create an outbound route so that asterisk knows when you use our zaptel trunk. Click on Outbound Routes. I configured mine as follows:
Route Name: OutPSTN
Dial patterns wizards: Local 7/10 and Emergency
Trunk Sequence: ZAP/1
12) Submit and apply your changes
13) Reload zaptel and verify our work from the CLI by loading up a shell and typing Asterisk -vvvvvvvvvvr, to reload zaptel we type zap restart, then check our card by typing zap show status. We should see some output like:
Description Alarms IRQ bpviol CRC4
Wildcard X100P Board 1 OK 0 0 0
ZTDUMMY/1 1 UNCONFIGUR 0 0 0
14) Finally we can verify the channels are created successfully by typing zap show channels and you should see something like:
Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret
pseudo from-zaptel default
1 from-zaptel default
That should be enough information to get you a basic working setup, if you have more questions please PM me. Also let me know if these instructions need to be tweaked to get it working and I will create a wiki page when the instructions work
PS. I could use some assistance with my alarm panel if you know anything about GSD
@dlewis
cheers may well take you up on that,have just struggled over a week to get softphone voip workin, as the first step, before getting spa 3102 + pots to work; will catch you on
http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7102.60
regards,
Ian
ok.... now it runs....
I wasn't able to fix the problem... so I decided to try it the microsoft way...
complete new installation Linux MCE 710 from DVD....
But now I installed the drivers of the dvb-card before I installed VDR....
I don't know if this was the trick but now everything works....
Thanks to all your suggestions...
I haven't tried OSLEC, but I did just turn on echotraining and ran ztmonitor and it seems to have almost completely cleared up the echo, I just hear a very very faint echo now.
I actually do have my sip_nat.conf file setup exactly as explained but I still cannot connect to my asterisk box. I really don't know what else to check or use as a debugging tool to nail down whether this is an asterisk configuration issue or a network issue.
While everyone seems to be interested in asterisk, I would love to see more LMCE wizard setup go along with phone lines, such as importing phone books or manually entering a phone book so that calls will route to where a user is logged in on the system or to their individual extensions. As I understand it this can be done through the webadmin, but it would be nice to have this in the initial setup. It would also be very cool if unknown numbers could be dumped to an IVR menu that the person setting up the system would be prompted to record a greeting for during setup.
Finally, I have a question, I'd like to know if this is currently possible, I'd like to create another IVR using an unannounced extension and pin number to check the status/control my LMCE system. This would be great for a few reasons: 1) You wouldn't need to expose your entire network to the outside to use the weborbiter when not on site. 2) You could control your home when away from a network or edge/3g connection from any telephone.
I'm not sure how to ease in the setup of this, but if scenarios could populate in the freepbx menu I'd imagine the setup could be fairly painless for the end user.
