Asterisk VOIP Tips

Voiceroute showed off its Druid Live a new version of the Druid Telephony Platform during last week’s TMC ITEXPO West 2007. Voiceroute claims that with DRUID Live, DRUID is now not just the best GUI for Asterisk in the market, but is also the “first truly plug and play CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocal) based auto-provisioning of Cisco, Polycom and Linksys phones with additional VLAN based auto-provisioning of Aastra, Snom and GrandStream phones.”

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Asterisk 1.6 is starting to shape up with some features of Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4 already successfully merged and new dialplan functions already in place. Listed below is a summary of latest update in the functionality CHANGES file of Asterisk.

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The configuration files in Asterisk are all text based. Nothing too complicated. If you installed the sample .conf files, then they will have a default setup and will have everything commented nicely so that you can learn your way through them.

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I decided that I’d like to go back to the basics with Asterisk, so here is the first post in this series.

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When setting up Asterisk for home use, you’ve got a million and a half ways to do it. If you want to take the easy way, Asterisk@Home is the way to go, thus the name. It provides a GUI that you can use, instead of having to write all your own code. However, if it were me, I like writing my own code. So that’s what I would do.

Now, for this kind of thing you have a few options.

1. Use VOIP
2. Use your existing Landline
3. Turn your Landline into VOIP

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Ok, so I found this AWESOME tool today. I think it might be what I use for writing my dial plans now. It’s wonderful. It’s called “The DialPlanner” and I am in love with it. Basically what it is, is a custom dialplan builder that you gives you quite god control over it, and makes it very simple. It’s written in Java and it’s online so you don’t have to download anything which is wonderful. I may see about mirroring it on this website as well. I really reccomend trying this out, but only if you know how to write the dialplan anyway, this, in my opinion, should not be a crutch, but it’s still awesome.

These two functions are going to be commonly used in your dial plan. They are virtually the same thing with the exception of one detail, interactivity. First of all, let me share with you a piece of my dial plan that I am currently using on this computer.

[incoming]
exten => 866*******,1,Answer()
exten => 866*******,2,AGI(call_log.agi)
exten => 866*******,3,Wait(2)
exten => 866*******,4,Background(main)
exten => 866*******,5,Wait(15)
exten => 866*******,6,Hangup()

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