Asterisk tips and tricks
Asterisk tips and tricks
This page includes references to various tidbits of information that may assist you in your configuration of the Asterisk Open Source PBX. The documents are often contributions of Asterisk users, documentation of solutions they've created in their implementation.How to start with Asterisk:
- Asterisk rollout tips: Advice on how to deploy an Asterisk production system
- Asterisk installation tips
- Getting Gnophone to work
SIP connectivity: sip.conf
- See: Asterisk Configurations for connecting with VOIP providers
- Letting SIP clients connect directly without media through asterisk
- SIP second nic
ISDN BRI and modems
- modem.conf: The configuration file
- Asterisk: How to connect with ISDN4Linux
- Asterisk: How to connect with CAPI
- zaptelBRI: 4 port ISDN hardware
Dial plan solutions
- Program Calls in the future with Asterisk: Using small code in the Dialplan and callfiles
- Answer before sending sound: Don't forget to answer the line
- Superdial macro: This macro makes it MUCH easier to try to dial multiple extensions in a sequence you define
- Stdexten macro: Used by pretty much everyone to define local extensions easily
- Pstnexten macro: Allows you to define and dial a specific pstn connection (useful for troubleshooting systems)
- hunt-dial macro: define a hunting group for outbound calls.
- Asterisk tips 911: How to configure 911 calls
- Asterisk setup research lab: Includes advice on echo cancellation
- Asterisk record calls: How to monitor calls made in your server
- Asterisk record remote conference: How to record a remote conference (i.e. Astricon)
- Asterisk calling card AGI application sample
- Asterisk tips DID: How to configure your PRI or BRI direct inward dial (DID) lines (MSN:s)
- Asterisk call forwarding: How to configure call forwarding (*21*) in the dial plan
- Asterisk last number repeat: How to configure quick redial in the dial plan
- Asterisk tips SIP URI Dial: Allow dialing a SIP address like: user@domain.com using SRV Lookup. (incoming and outgoing)
- Asterisk E164 Call Routing: How to store call routing information in the DNS with the ENUM standard instead of extensions.conf
- Asterisk ENUM dialing Do ENUM lookup and dialing on your Asterisk@Home server
- Asterisk DUNDi Call Routing: How to use the DUNDi peering network. (Available as of CVS 10/18/2004)
- Asterisk Jabber: How to receive notifcations by Jabber of Incoming calls
- Asterisk Telemarketer Torture: An example of really awful, frustrating menu design.
- Asterisk WhoIsIt: Announce incoming caller over the computer speakers.
- Asterisk tips autoattendant: How to turn an Auto-attendant extension on and off
- Asterisk tips IVR menu: How to create voice/DTMF menus
- Asterisk tips callback: How to create voicemail callback solutions
- Asterisk tips wake-up: User can schedule a wake-up call
- Asterisk tips Airport Weather PHP Prompt for Airport code and get the airport weather
- Asterisk tips Wake-Up Call PHP: PHP version of a wake-up call, uses standard R 1.0 prompts
- Asterisk tips Weather PHP PHP version of Pearl Weather script
- Asterisk tips Wake-Up Call PHP with Snooze/Annoy: Same as above but uses an AGI to set snooze / cancel the wake-up
- Asterisk tips simple wake-up call: Simple (no cron, no prompts) wake-up call in perl/AGI very similar to the main Swedish telco
- Asterisk tips openhours: Including contexts based on date and/or time of day
- Asterisk tips openclose.agi: Using an AGI script to have control on events within your dialplan
- Asterisk tips C Version of openclose.agi: AGI Program that control events within dialplan
- Asterisk tips phrase recording menu: A simple IVR menu to record and review sound files (phrases)
- Voicemail status based on IM status: How to use AGI to check whether user is available or not.
- Asterisk Voicemail Dialplan: How to setup voicemail in your dialplan
- Asterisk tips Automatic Call Back on Busy/Campon, Reverse HoldIf you are on hold - put them on hold as well! :-)
- Asterisk Tips follow me: Have your number follow you from phone to phone (aka. Portable Directory Numbers)
- Asterisk tips campon: Camp on an extension (mini-queue)
- Asterisk tips forking: Forking in the dialplan
- Asterisk tips findme: Dial multiple phone numbers simultaneously, connecting to the first one to confirm acceptance of the call
- Asterisk tips fileexistance: Branching based on the existance of file(s)
- Asterisk tips call last caller: A quick way to connect to the last caller
- Asterisk audio-wiki: A simple Audio-wiki
- Asterisk tips Music Player Daemon as Music on Hold: Using MPD as music-on-hold through icecast ,ogg123 and sox
- Asterisk tips call through: A simple call through example
- Asterisk tips renumber extens: A perl script to renumber extensions.conf rules
- Asterisk tips MythTV integration: An example to integrate Asterisk with MythTV's on-screen caller ID display
- Asterisk tips voicemail live: Answering machine mimic: Listen while caller is leaving voicemail for you; with pick-up option
- Asterisk tips simple voicemail live: An answering machine mimic without pickup option.
- Agents without agent channel: Burn chan_agent and do it in the dialplan!
- Asterisk authenticate using voicemail passwords: A way to use the voicemail password to authenticate users on various situations
- Asterisk presence: How to setup Asterisk presence support
- Asterisk SIP Messaging or IM as supported by eyeBeam and some other phones
- Asterisk DO-NOT-CALL list generator A way for telemarketers to collect Do Not Call requests from people they pester
- Asterisk Dynamic conferences macro Macro implementation of dynamic MeetMe conferences as alternative for conference call mixing on a phone
- Asterisk Blacklist function Do you hate unsolicited calls? Here's how to add a easy-to-use Blacklist system on your Asterisk server
- BLF notify on Grandstream GXP-2000 Get extension status on your quickdial LEDs on your Grandstream GXP-2000 phone.
- Authenticate Users by Caller ID or PIN - password: no external database required
- Asterisk Hunting Groups for incoming calls: Hunting groups for incoming calls
- Asterisk tips Wake-Up Call Perl: Perl version of a wake-up call, one script, multiple calls, no daemon
- Asterisk tips Call Back: Callback if user (channel) is busy
Use of Asterisk's Local channel
Using Asterisk's Macros
Channel functions
- Asterisk tips zap transfer: Using the built-in ZAP channel call transfer function
Third party software configuration
- Asterisk festival installation: Installation guide for the Festival application (speech synthesis)
- Convert WAV audio files for use in Asterisk
Securing your Asterisk installation
- Asterisk firewall rules: Examples on how to configure a firewall for Asterisk
- Asterisk security: General thoughts on Asterisk security
- Asterisk user authentication: General thoughts on how to authenticate users
Debugging Asterisk
- Asterisk debugging: Tips on debugging deadlocks
- Asterisk cmd NoOp is useful for debugging dialplans (your extensions.conf file)
- How to debug and troubleshoot VOIP: Overview and many good pointers
- Asterisk X11: Avoiding jittery sound by disabling the X Window System (Gnome/KDE) on your Linux server
- Asterisk disable frame buffer: How to disable your VGA frame buffer on the Linux text console. The frame buffer may cause jittery sound.
- Asterisk PSTN interface debugging: Solving PSTN interface problems (Echo, Dropped calls, etc)
- Asterisk Request to schedule in the past: Tips on how to resolve these log messages.
- Asterisk can't find sound files: A few tips and one cause
Digium Zaptel hardware
- Asterisk x100p echotraining: Handling echo cancellation on Digium x100p cards
- Asterisk TE410p No Interrupts: Rebooted your box with Digium TE410 cards and now it looks DOA
- Asterisk wcte12xp: Outgoing calls not working - playing all-circuits-busy-now freePbx 2.2.3 /trixbox 2.8.x
Various configuration tips
- Asterisk - dual servers: How to connect two Asterisk servers and make them work together
- Asterisk click to call: Link phone numbers in your browser so you can click on them to dial
- Asterisk configuration from database
- Asterisk and faxes: Faxing with Asterisk
- Configuring the console sound card
- Asterisk echo cancellation: Trying to find out why you have echo problems in Asterisk
- Asterisk echo analog lines: Some information about echo problems on analog lines (FXO/FXS)
- Asterisk CDR csv handling: How to collect CDRs from many Asterisk servers
- Asterisk CDR csv handling2: Bash script to summarize usage statistics from csv CDR records
- Asterisk embedded systems: How to setup a very small Asterisk server
- Asterisk legacy integration: How to integrate Asterisk with your old PBX
- Asterisk automatic daily restart: How to automatically restart Asterisk once a day
- Asterisk Dynamic Conferences: Tools for creating dynamic conferences that expire at a later date
- Using Slimserver for Music on Hold: How to use a local or remote slimserver for your Music on Hold
- Add Voice Recognition to Asterisk: How to integrate Asterisk with TellMe's VoiceXML studio for Voice Recognition in your IVR
- Asterisk Queue Callback: Allow your customers to hang up while holding in a queue and get called back when their turn comes
- Asterisk Queue with limited calls per IAX agent: Limit number of calls to operator with group()
- display asterisk callerID on a squeezebox/ slimp3 using a slimserver
Using the manager API
- Asterisk auto-dial out: How to make Linux applications dial out on demand
- Asterisk record calls: How to monitor and record calls in your PBX with ZAP channels
- Monitor setup sample: Another example on how to monitor calls
- Asterisk tips managing CID names: A simple web interface for managing CID names
AGI examples (contributed by imran)
- JAVA-AGI:
- Perl-ZAPINCOMMING-AGI:
- Perl-ZAPOUTGOING-AGI:
- Perl-SIPCALLOUT-AGI:
- MANAGERAPI-JAVA-AGI:
- Perl-SIP-AGI:
- Perl-ZAPSIPIAX_INCOMMING_OUTGOING-AGI:
- Perl-recmsg-AGI;
More AGI scripts
Utility Scripts
- Perl Add/Modify/Delete user script
- Xmail filter to Voicemail script - Written in sh with embedded python and awk.
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