The latest odd fix for Asterisk after an upgrade (11.13.0~dfsg-1~bpo70+1): cd /usr/share/asterisk/sounds && ln -s en_US_f_Allison en I don’t know when this broke. I found out because calling vo...
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2014/11/missing-sounds-in-asterisk/
As of Asterisk 1.8 a prefix is no longer valid for choosing the busy / unavailable announcement: VoiceMail(u${ARG1}) You need to pass it in the options instead: VoiceMail(${ARG1},u)
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2013/08/quick-voicemail-fix/
I don’t usually call myself so I hadn’t until recently made note of my own caller ID not being what it should. Looking at CDR logs the caller ID on one of my phones changed in September 2012 ...
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2013/08/properly-overriding-caller-id/
Linksys SPA942 phones reboot on DHCP lease renewal even if the lease information does not change (apart from the obvious timestamps). Increased lease time to 1 week for all phones.
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2013/07/fixed-spa942-rebooting/
SIP appears to be broken in the Asterisk 1.6 packages released to address DSA-2550 . I resorted to a hasty upgrade to Asterisk 1.8 from backports .
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2012/09/time-to-upgrade-asterisk/
The Linksys SPA3102 has become difficult to find, so I’ve replaced one failed unit with a SPA2102. Seems to work just as well and its configuration is practically identical.
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2012/05/another-voip-adapter/
I upgraded to Asterisk 1.6 some time ago, but didn’t think anything was wrong until recently. Calls coming in from Callcentric didn’t work: I received no audio. Everything had been working fi...
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2011/07/bring-back-audio-after-asterisk-1-6-upgrade/
Ekiga has a problem talking from behind a firewall, or maybe the problem is that both the firewall and Ekiga are trying to be too clever. I’m running siproxd on the firewall to transparently ha...
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2009/06/ekiga-on-the-intranet/
I reconfigured my Nokia E65 mobile phone to connect to my Asterisk PBX, so I can make and receive SIP calls instead of cellular calls when I’m at home or at the office. I already had the corres...
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2008/03/nokia-e65-on-asterisk/
I spent some time with my parents about a month ago fine tuning the echo cancellation on our SIP phones. Today I got a chance to refresh my memory while connecting the phones of a friend to a Cal...