Rantville

Ive been messing(I couldnt use a better term really) with VoIP in many shapes and forms over the years. Had many plans on how to set things up, integrate with existing analogue adapters, fail-over to PSTN, soft-phones, cell-phones with SIP, insanely long & tedious IVR setups.. the list goes on an on..

Well, last night, like many nights, sleep mode did not init, so I kicked off a VE in one of my servers running OpenVZ. After about an hour I had FreePBX running and connected to a Voipdiscount.com trunk. A few minutes later Wengophone registered and made its first call through the trunk.
So far, so good, could the rest be equally easy? Well, no, had I known then, what I know now, it would have all been done in 30min. But where would the fun be in doing something you know all aspects off from the get-go?

The biggest time-killer were my Nokia N82, I have used it alot with various VoIP providers, but not with my own Asterisk server. Where I did wrong? I did NOT omit 3 entries in the Registrar settings, and believe you me, I tried many combos & read alot of pages before that solution smacked me in the face.

Next up was to get a ATA registered, I have an old Sipura SPA-2000 thats been collecting dust for years, this one was up within minutes.(hey, I cheated, found good info on the SPA-300x series on FreePBX site)

The rest of the night Ive spent documenting some of what I did, and started planning the layout of the IVR & what to record there.
Anyone planning to call me/us using a hidden number, expect to spend the rest of your life in IVR menu.. or just dont call at all, it will be your lost time, not mine.

I have ordered another trunk number from a national Telco which should hopefully be operational within not long. Will no doubt have alot of fun getting both in- & outbound calling setup with several trunks.

You can check out the Wiki for info on whats done, and whats to come.

I’ll let Mr Geldof end this post..

I hear a heartbeat
it’s ringing out across the universe
It sounds so lost and lonely
must come from somewhere deep inside of us.
And the operator says:
AII is calm and all is quiet

close your eyes and sleep tonight.
This is the world calling
this is earth
this is the world calling
this is us.