Category: VOIP
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Access Yealink’s Rest API
Yealink has a pretty useful Rest API that allows for some fun manipulation to phones. You can do things like start speaker phone and initiate a call or in my case, you can have it enable/disable DND. To enable/disable DND via cURL it’s as simple as: ON curl -X POST –ciphers 'DEFAULT:!DH' -d "" –user…
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Fire Panel Dialer to Grandstream HT818 ATA
I found myself in quite a pickle recently as a client needed a fire alarm dialer hooked up post haste for an inspection. I figured, “no problems, ire mon, bobsled.” Two and a half hours later it was working…perhaps it was more difficult than I thought. Here’s my config to get it working. All of…
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CME Auto Dial – The Batphone
I needed to have a simple two phone system where by if a phone was picked up, it would autodial an ATA. This is for an alert system at an airport. The ATA is auto answered by a PA system that sounds an alarm and allows speech to be blasted. If you search on ebay…
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FreePBX 13 And Web Meet-me
I’ve been running an install of web meet-me on an ancient version of trixbox. Unfortunately it locks up pretty regularly, though nothing shows up in the logs…it just likes to stop working. I finally had enough and decided to do a new install. I couldn’t find an easy appliance with it installed and ready to…
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Cisco Call Manager Express/Communications Manager Express, Cheap FXS/FXO Ports, and Asterisk Voicemail
Here’s the scenario. I’ve got a charter school that has an aaaaaaancient PBX kicking a PRI. Having the system updated is expensive and the PRI is even more expensive. We are going to roll a new PBX for them in about 8 months, and their PRI’s contract is coming up soon. This is a perfect…
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Communications Manager Express Voice Translation Rules
The Cisco link is here. The idea is that you can transform dialed or dialing numbers on phones or gateways using these methods. First, create a translation rule: voice translation-rule number rule precedence /match-pattern/ /replace-pattern/ Example: voice translation-rule 10 rule 1 /1235551111/ /1235552222/ Then create a translation profile: voice translation-profile name translate {called | calling…
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Cisco Callmanager Maximum Number Of Meetme Connections
By default the value is set to 4. To adjust this follow these instructions: Complete these steps in order to increase the number of participants or sessions for a meet-me conference on Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Go to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager web administration page, and choose System> Service Parameters. Note: Choose Service >…