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Comment on Follow-Me Phoning: Implementing Bluetooth Proximity Detection with Asterisk, Part I by Maricela Ylonen

Maricela Ylonen — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:18:33 +0000

Thank you for this blog article.In fact looking forward to reading more. Great.

Comment on Picking the Best (and worst) Cellphone and Provider for 2012 by ward

ward — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:05:25 +0000

Here’s an easy hack to Enable WiFi Hotspot (Tethering) on AT&T Skyrocket phones. http://nerd.bz/xl3VHt

Comment on Introducing PBX in a Flash 2 with CentOS 6.2 by Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:51:12 +0000

On a few systems, keyboard issues have been reported during the second phase of the install. If you experience the problem, reboot. When the first screen reappears, press the Right Arrow key which should drop you down to the login prompt. Login with your root password and type: piafdl -txt to proceed.

Comment on The Incredible PBX: Remote Phone Meets the Travelin’ Man by Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:23:04 +0000

For the latest WhiteList solution for remote phones with dynamic IP addresses, see this thread on the PIAF Forums: http://nerd.bz/wtponq

Comment on The Incredible PBX: Remote Phone Meets the Travelin’ Man by steve

steve — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:25:15 +0000

Getting “Stopped” error when executing. This is a new install as of 1/17/2012. I had to install Incredible PBX 3 because I couldn’t get the 2.0 executable to work. Not sure where to look for errors.

A previous install of Travelin’ Man on an older Incredible PBX setup some months back went without a hitch. Not sure what’s up with this new install.

Is there any documention on how to manually implement Travelin’ Man? I still have access to the install from the old machine.

PIAF Installed Version = 2.0.6.2 Running on *HARDWARE*
FreePBX Version = 2.9.0.7
Running Asterisk Version = 1.8.8.0
Asterisk Source Version = 1.8.8.0
Dahdi Source Version = 2.6.0+2.6.0
Libpri Source Version = 1.4.12
Operating System = CentOS release 6.2 (Final)
Kernel Version = 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6.i686 - 32 Bit
Incredible PBX 3 Version = 3.0.3

Comment on Picking the Best (and worst) Cellphone and Provider for 2012 by Ward Mundy

Ward Mundy — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:41:12 +0000

For an excellent review of the Galaxy Nexus, be sure to read Android Central’s new review AND the comments. http://nerd.bz/wcl9lY

Comment on Picking the Best (and worst) Cellphone and Provider for 2012 by Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:55:11 +0000

Thanks Ward! Much appreciated review and lots of good info, as always!

Comment on Picking the Best (and worst) Cellphone and Provider for 2012 by darren

darren — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:53:05 +0000

Hey Ward, you don’t need to root the optimus V to get the wifi tethering. Just install quick settings from android market and enable it without rooting.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bwx.bequick&hl=en

Comment on Donate Now To Claim Your $299 Web Appointment System by Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Nerd Vittles,
Am I too late to make a donation? Are you offering any new services/programs for the coming new year?
Thank you,
Patricia

[WM: Never too late. ]

Comment on Allison’s Text-to-Speech Trifecta: Cepstral, Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6, and FreePBX 2.4 by Jordan FOTSO

Jordan FOTSO — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:12:17 +0000

screenscrapper*CLI> cepstral show licenses
Cepstral Licensing Information
==============================
Allison Voice Enabled: no
Total licensed ports: 1

How to activate my allison voice?

[WM: swift --reg-voice ]

Comment on The Ultimate VoIP Sandbox: PBX in a Flash 2 with CentOS 6 by Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:09:55 +0000

Would love to start using this, but I’m already running a previous version of Incredible/Ultimate PBX. How does one go about upgrading? Why don’t you ever include those instructions? Or if one can’t upgrade, why don’t you include a backup and migration script or plan?

[WM: Incredible Backup will let you migrate to a newer version. ]

Comment on The Ultimate VoIP Sandbox: PBX in a Flash 2 with CentOS 6 by ward

ward — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:17:23 +0000

NEWS FLASH: CentOS 6.1 was released today.

Comment on 3 Steps to VoIP Nirvana: It’s Incredible PBX 2.0 by ward

ward — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:08:08 +0000

From Sergio Cesar:

Just finished the install of purple 17571, and got it to work with my pots card a TDM400P. then installed incredible to find out all my config was wiped out. should have RTFM one would say.
but for what is worth all I had to do was this:
Before I installed incredible, I…
ran dahdi_genconf -vF
this will generate the config for freepbx

edit the dahdi-channels.conf I only have 2 fxo ch 1 and 2 and 2 fsx ch 3 and 4 so I commented ( everything and and left just this:
signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=from-zaptel
channel => 1

signalling=fxs_ks
callerid=asreceived
group=0
context=from-zaptel
channel => 2

rebooted, created my 2 ZAP ext. added my 2 ZAP channel DIDs, my 2 trunks and my 2 inbound routes, my outbound routes as I would if I was using the zaptel drivers.

when the incredible install whipped all out, all I did was to edit again dahdi-channels.conf as above but I had to add
#include dahdi-channels.conf into the chan_dahdi.conf file.
reloaded everything and all worked again.

I hope this helps someone, I spent a good amount of time trying to read the MANY ways to get dahdi working.
perhaps someone can point me to a setup fully dahdi where I can add a dahdi ext and a dahdi trunk in free pbx, as of now all I see is No Unused DAHDi Channels Available when I try to add a dahdi ext…. more to learn…

Comment on 7 Steps to Skytopia: Pain-Free Calls with Skype and Asterisk by ward

ward — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:23:13 +0000

Some folks had a problem with the original siptosis download link. The download now has been added to a different server. Our apologies.

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:40:39 +0000

“preferably not an EEE PC because of the network driver incompatibility with CentOS.”

Yes this is sad. I jumped at EEE Box because I thought it was good value. Pity about the network card - Fedora has no problem with it.

[WM: Check out the PIAF Forum. There's a thread on how to add the driver for the EEE box.]

Comment on Welcome to Ward Mundy’s Technology Blog aka Nerd Vittles by Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:54:21 +0000

Congratulations for your Job in Teleyapper is Awesome

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Trousle Undrhil

Trousle Undrhil — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:41:56 +0000

@Raphael: I’ve been asking for that too, but apparently, this project is no longer aiming to be the only one that doesn’t require constantly downloading and burning new ISOs.

[WM: PBX in a Flash comes with update-source which will update CentOS to the latest and greatest. And FreePBX has a built-in upgrade utility to let you move up to FreePBX 2.9 or 2.10. Install scripts to upgrade Asterisk are on the PIAF Forum and can be modified to meet your specific requirements. Incredible PBX actually installs from an image of FreePBX and the Asterisk DB so it just isn't possible to rerun the Incredible PBX installer without erasing all of your existing settings. It's been that way since Day 1. Hope that clarifies the upgrade path and what's available.]

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:36:20 +0000

I feel pretty stupid in having asked that question after looking back at the article. It does specifically say to go the the Incredible PBX Tutorial in the article. I’d just done a quick search for wget and /root, didn’t find them in the article, and then posted my question.

[WM: No problem at all.]

Comment on Thumbs Up: The Ultimate Flash Drive Installer for Asterisk by Tuffrank

Tuffrank — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:05:27 +0000

I am installing PIAF on bare metal now, had it working fine in virtualbox, bought myself a 2.5 inch 30 GB IDE harddrive from my local computer shop for £20 and it went into my old headless Dell laptop I took off a friend, just connected it up to my monitor for installation, as soon as this lovely script you guys invented finish, monitor off and under my bed this socker will live access via ssh + webGUI, for now my Iphone + a softapp will be my exten, I’ll have to ebay a voip phone later. I am really loving Asterisk, reading at the moment .’Asterisk™: The Definitive Guide by Leif Madsen, Jim Van, Meggelen,Russell’ Bryant + following example in virtualbox, finding love for dialplan coding, very interesting book on the inner working of Asterisk and the telephony technology. Oh, I love working in Linux at the CLI prompt. Continue to do the good work Nerdvitlle and the PIAF team, Oh!.. sh*t!! I just look up and saw ‘end_requesst: I/O errror, dev hda, sector’ I have to go…

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by ty

ty — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:43:19 +0000

I tried to sign up for Vitelity via the PIAF special link. I enter the info and get my preqoalification message. When I click to go to Vitewlity to sign up, I get “400- Whoops! Page cannot be found” error. Is Vitelity still working with PIAF on it’s special offer?

[WM: Special offer is still available. Vitelity was just moving servers. Try again, and thanks for the heads up.]

Comment on It’s Orgasmatron 5.1: The Ultimate Asterisk Kitchen Sink by Haki Failey

Haki Failey — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:56:14 +0000

Thank you Bruce. The same process is required with all versions of VirtualBox including the latest 4.1.2

Comment on Cloud Computing 101: Using Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) for Off-Site Asterisk Backups by Rob

Rob — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:36 +0000

Small typo in the s3backup.sh script.

s3://weekly-backup/$thisbackkup

should be:

s3://weekly-backup/$thisbackup

Comment on Thumbs Up: The Ultimate Flash Drive Installer for Asterisk by Sr.Ed

Sr.Ed — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:16:20 +0000

This is my first time with a PBX system so I’m fairly new to this. I was trying to follow allow with these steps and I got up to last step. X-lite is not available after I set it up. Then, I went back to the steps and the screenshot has 701 as the username while the instruction suggest to use 201. I guess I’m kind of confused and have no idea where 701 came from. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

[WM: It's just a screenshot from one of our servers. Use 201.]

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Jim

Jim — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:37:26 +0000

In the past, with installations of PIAF, you had to download incrediblepbx2.x and run it to get the IncrediblePBX features. You don’t mention it in this discussion of PIAF-17571. Does this now occur automatically with installation of the PIAF-17571 distribution?

[WM: Incredible PBX 2 is still a separate add-on.]

Comment on The Incredible PBX: Adding a Free Skype Gateway to Asterisk by newb

newb — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 02:07:58 +0000

The GLIBCXX_3.4.9 is because Skype has updated the file at the download link in the script to a newer version compiled with a different c++ library than is present in CentOS 5.7. I fixed this issue by editing the skype-setup file with nano and changing the line “wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static” to “get http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.1.0.47.tar.bz2” which compiles.

Comment on VoIP Softphone Shootout for iPhone, iPad, & iPod Touch by cheng

cheng — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:47:32 +0000

Yes, voip apps are doing a great job in increasing the practicality of iPad. I am using Freephoo to make calls and am very impressed with it. Its simplicity, smoothness, clarity are awesome. I also like its free calls to users and connecitivity.

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Raphael

Raphael — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:41:11 +0000

Great! I’m glad PBXinAFlash is always the best! I was wondering if someday you could post a complete guide for everysteps to upgrade for new versions. I can’t wait to test new things on a prod machine!
Many thanks!

Comment on PBX in a Flash Rolls Out New CentOS 5.7 Releases by Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:24:48 +0000

You might want to think about revising your recommendation for the Sipura SPA-3102. While it was a great piece of technology in its day, the Obihai OBi110 is less expensive, has more functionality, and is less prone to echo (the bane of the SPA-3102). Just sayin’…

Comment on Asterisk CallerID Perfected: CallerID Superfecta 2.0 by Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:14:04 +0000

The format returned by whitepages.com has been heavily modified since the module was last updated. I’m currently hacking together a replacement. A better plan would be to register the app with whitepages.com and use the API so that XML results can be returned and parsed.

Comment on Introducing: New PBX in a Flash Installer for USB Flash Drives by Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:31:47 +0000

That was < 10 min well spent!

Comment on Virtual Paradise: 1-Minute Asterisk Installs with PIAF-OpenVZ by Eddie

Eddie — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:41:39 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I happen to have a 6-core Intel Xeon Westmere Mac Pro (2010) tower. Is there any reason I couldn’t use my Mac Pro (instead of a Dell box)? If so, could I boot my Mac Pro into Mac OS X (which I normally do) and run the new version of VMware Fusion (4.0) and install CentOS 5.5 PIAF-OpenVZ into a Fusion virtual machine and then taking things from there? Or is that too much virtualization layering?

Comment on Virtual Paradise: 1-Minute Asterisk Installs with PIAF-OpenVZ by KevinG

KevinG — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:54:06 +0000

Hi, thanks for the great site, I’ve been setting up a PBX server and wanted to try out Vitelity through your special link. I signed up at http://pbxinaflash.com/vitelity/ but when it transferred me to http://www.vitelity.com/pbxinaflash/ it gives a 404 error. Is this promotion over? Thanks

[WM: Thanks for the heads up. Vitelity was shuffling some servers around, but it's been fixed now. The promotion is alive and well. ]

Comment on Thumbs Up: The Ultimate Flash Drive Installer for Asterisk by MsJamie

MsJamie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:34:21 +0000

Just a heads up:

I ran into a problem installing this on an old Dell Inspiron 8500. The system would boot off of the USB stick, and load to:

running /sbin/loader

then hang.

Poking around the CentOS forum, there were a number of boot-time options suggested, but the one that did the trick was to add

acpi=off

to the boot string (hit when given the list of options).

CentOS is installing nicely as I type this.

Comment on It’s TeleYapper 5.0: The Ultimate RoboDialer for Asterisk by Brent Kennedy

Brent Kennedy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:35:19 +0000

For those of you with an 127 limit issue, change the ID column type to INT in the reminders table. This will allow for more than 127 entries.

Course the next issue is figuring out how to get the process to last more than 2 hours. I did re-read the blog post though, seems we can run the gen-call.php script to restart the held calls though.

Comment on Keeping Telemarketers At Bay with Asterisk by Martin A.

Martin A. — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:41:25 +0000

This is very informative! Thank you for sharing this information! At least I can make some counter moves with those telemarketers calling me every hour!

Thank you and more power!