Tag Archives: asterisk

If you’re serious about your call data records – because you’re billing customers, or because you want to automatically reconcile calls against your invoice – then they’d better be accurate. An easy win here is to normalise the numbers you … Continue reading →

CallerID information is carried along quite readily within the SIP protocol; most SIP providers pass that along to their customers for free. Other than just showing it as “This is the number the call is coming from”, can we do … Continue reading →

…or at least a little savings. You’re in a quandry. You’ve found VSP1, with brilliant general rates. VSP2 has fantastic rates for mobile calls. VSP3 has the cheapest calls of all to England, where you have family. You can’t use … Continue reading →

One of the things I like about Asterisk, is its ability to send email notifications to me if certain things happen. There’s no built-in ability to send emails by itself, so we’ll use its integration with the underlying server to … Continue reading →

Asterisk saves me money, even using just the one VoIP provider. (Disclaimer: The provider I use is run by my employer, but I’m writing this only as a happy customer! :). It just so happens that my work desk phone … Continue reading →

One of the nice things Asterisk can do is manipulate Caller ID information on the fly. Since I’m too lazy to update the stored numbers within my individual cordless handsets, I use Asterisk to cheat. Asterisk looks up the incoming … Continue reading →

A quick adding game for Asterisk. Set up an extension (I used “4263″) to Goto(game,s,1). It will speak two numbers from 1-8, and expects a single key to be pressed for the sum of those two numbers. I’ve only used … Continue reading →

When I mention to someone that I have a PABX at home, people always ask me – WHY??? Early Media – this is a fancy way of saying that when someone calls me it doesn’t just go “ring ring” – … Continue reading →