Asterisk

A wide variety of Asterisk Tutorials.

How to use astercc,freepbx and asterisk to build a broadcasting system with IVR and Queue agents.

[Posted on astercc.org] the most feature in astercc is the predictive dialer, using the dialer you could improve the work efficiency. In this tutorial, I will introduce how to setup a dialer with a pre-configed IVR: when dialer start work, customers will hear a IVR which you configed in Freepbx, so we could also config in the IVR to accept customer input, and we can forward to an new IVR or agents in a queue.

1. config a Queue in freepbx

usually you want to config a queue to resonpse customer if they want to reach some live agent, so we config a queue first

Asterisk 101 : How to troll telemarketers (aka automatically send hidden Caller ID to a waiting music forever)

[posted on sakana.fr by Stephane Kattoor] If like me you get tons of telemarketers calls, there’s an easy way to get rid of them with a quick Asterisk hack. The following Asterisk configuration snippet will immediately send any hidden caller ID (99% telemarketers, and I have a general policy of not picking up the phone for hidden caller ID anyway) to a holding music making them waste money and time…

This snippet is to place into the extension.conf file :

[incoming] ; incoming calls
exten => s,1,GotoIf($["${CALLERID(NUM)}" = "anonymous"] ? 10)

How to install AstLinux Version: 0.7.4-Asterisk-1.8.0.

AstLinux is a custom Linux distribution centered around Asterisk, the Open Source PBX. Although Asterisk remains the core focus, other VoIP applications such as OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH are also available. AstLinux has many features that make it ideal for embedded and commercial Asterisk based solutions.

How to turn your website into a Telephone extension?

It is a doddle!, Doddle is a WebPhone you can use it to add Call Me Button, Click2Call features for your VoIP Line and Web Site!

Two Steps To turn your website into a Telephone extension.

Step 1: Create two SIP/VoIP accounts anywhere.

There are many VoIP providers out there offering FREE SIP accounts and FREE calls between users.
You can use, for instance iptel service or ippi Create two accounts: [myuser1, mypassword1] and [myuser2, mypassword2]

Step 2: Configure Doddle webphone and web Call Button widgets this way:

Making call from webpage: A Call Button, user2 calling user1 -Embed HTML Code

How to protect your Asterisk system from unwanted SIP registration attempts.

[posted by Daniel on danielaliaman.com] Here a small guide on how to protect your Asterisk system from unwanted SIP registration attempts.This guide is for Debian 5.x systems:
(Assumptions: IPTABLES are installed by default, your Asterisk "full" log is in /var/log/asterisk)