Asterisk Where You Least Expect It
I'm on-the-road again the next few weeks. This week I have meetings in Burlington VT. That's just about as far from Houston as you can get up the East coast. The pity is that the northeast has been having Houston…
Matt Watson’s Blog Is Interesting
This afternoon I happened upon a blog I'd not seen before from Matt Watson. A fellow Canadian Matt's blog has several interesting items including a story, in several parts, of migrating his employer to an Asterisk based PBX. He also…
GSM Gateway Article Part 2 Online This Morning
Small Net Builder has put up part two of my article about implementing a GSM gateway. My implementation tried both a hosted PBX and a local Asterisk server. I was able to achieve all but one of my goals so…
Siemens S685IP: Beyond Cool
This afternoon I took a few minutes to get the S685IP setup and working. I thought I’d use it in the office today as I was going about my daily toil.
A few snips, a little solder & some electrical tape is all it took to provide power. I had to splice the universal power supplies that I bought last night into the lines from the manufacturers supplies power supplies. The voltages and current ratings matched, but the connectors didn’t. Is this what’d we’d call a “hardware mash-up” in web 2.0 parlance?
I had the base registered with OnSIP in about 5 minutes. It’s registering with two separate domains on the same account. Thus I can get work and personal calls. One of the truly great things about OnSIP is that they support multiple phones using the same registration. When a call comes in they simply all ring. Very handy.
VOIP Supply Contest
The folks over at VOIP Supply have a nice little contest running in their blog. The post, called 101 things you can do with asterisk, is collecting responses about novel things to do with Asterisk implementations. They amended their original…
Astlinux Renewed
In working towards completion of article on the GSM gateway I took some time to rework my Astlinux server. I finally got around to installing Lonnie Abelbeck’s new web interface. It’s really good.