Comments for James Forman Online

Comment on Installing AsteriskNOW 1.5 Beta guide by udaya

udaya — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:26:05 +0000

Hi James,

Your illustration is great. I got through quickly. As Sima requested add config info as well. That would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Udaya

Comment on Installing AsteriskNOW 1.5 Beta guide by murali

murali — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:46:07 +0000

Where can i find the SIP Configuration file? I am unable to find the SIP.Conf. and PHones.conf.
Pl help me

Comment on Installing AsteriskNOW 1.5 Beta guide by James Forman

James Forman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:26:07 +0000

Hi Sima,

I’m a bit busy at the moment with other things, but I’ll see what I can do in my spare time. Thanks

Comment on Installing AsteriskNOW 1.5 Beta guide by Sima

Sima — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:46:19 +0000

Hi There
your post was very helpful, but you didn’t gave any other guidance ’bout configurations.I wasn’t able to find any thing on the Net about this new version of AsteriskNow, can u give a hand on this pls?

Comment on Switched to Elastix by Rafael Bonifaz

Rafael Bonifaz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:06:46 +0000

Hi James,

Please email me when you have the review published we would like to read it.

Best Regards,

Rafael Bonifaz
Elastix Community Manager

Comment on Controlling applications with Asterisk by ashutosh

ashutosh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:19:53 +0000

Also,you could shorten the path from php->vbs->vlc by using direct telnet connection from php to vlc interface. VLC does provide a telnet to operate it.
More from
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch05.html

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=28777

http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2008/12/howto-setting-up-vod-server-with-vlc.html

Comment on Controlling applications with Asterisk by ashutosh

ashutosh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:18:15 +0000

nice stuff indeed!!

Though you could rewrite/ptimize and make all .php file into a single one file. So, i would convert your dialplan to

exten => _258.,1,System(wget http://display/start.php?action=${EXTEN:4})

so, it will call
http://display/start.php?action=1 when dialled 2581, and so on
http://display/start.php?action=2 when dialled 2582

Your php file action.php will be like

Comment on Controlling applications with Asterisk by Michael Graves

Michael Graves — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:01:12 +0000

James,

This is very good. I had considered something similar to effect Asterisk based control of my homes X-10 automation modules. I was going to use an approach like yours but leverage xsend.exe on the web server PC to send predefined commands to turn on/off specific modules.

This would give me IVR based control to start. But then I’d craft a simple web site to effect control from the micro-browser on my Polycom IP650 phones.

My project has been delayed due to a decision to switch to a z-wave base home automation that’s more reliable than the old X-10 stuff.

Comment on Setting up SiSky PE and Skype with trixbox by ja

ja — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:31:52 +0000

Kudos, James. You’re the first to talk about how to ring group the extension created for Skype. All this time my test callers have been getting “busy” and it never dawned on me that the lack of the actual extension appearance (either on a phone or in a ring group) was the culprit!

Nice goin’!

Comment on Setting up SiSky PE and Skype with trixbox by James Forman

James Forman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:42:45 +0000

SkypeMan, I find Sisky PE to be perfect in audio quality. I’ve had it running for a long time with complete stability too.

Sure if you want to use it on Linux or Mac then go for SipTheeSkype, but if you want a decent product with an actual guarantee and no hassles, go with SiSky PE.

I can’t personally say I’ve tried SipTheeSkype, but I’ll try it later today when I get home and compare the two. You never know, I might find myself liking SipTheeSkype more than SiSky PE. I’ll get back to you