Tag Archives: asterisk

Rewrite incoming CallerID

By jonmoore | Published: February 26, 2010
We’re using asterisk, and as part of the dial plan, a 9 is required before the number to make calls out to the PSTN.  Since our phones have a incoming call log, it would be very convient to have asterisk rewrite the CallerID value on calls from the PSTN to include this leading digit.  I [...]
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Asterisk GotoIf Application

By jonmoore | Published: January 22, 2010
The description from asterisk for this is GotoIf(condition?[labeliftrue]:[labeliffalse]), however for me (being somewhat new to asterisk, and not fully understanding all the little bits, this was a bit confusing. A better way of describing this, at least for those of use new to asterisk, might be GotoIf(condition?[context,priority,labeliftrue]:[context,priority,labeliffalse]). I have not used labels in the dial plan [...]
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Using source control for config management

By jonmoore | Published: April 22, 2009
A project involving asterisk has forced me to find a way to help manage my configurations. I’m going to give using subversion a go at helping me to keep some level of change control and really simple backups, and I’m going to share my thoughts on that here. This post doesn’t have any [...]
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Quick review of the Aastra 57i

By jonmoore | Published: April 21, 2009
As part of an project, I recently received a few Aastra 57i SIP phones at work.  After spending a few days with them, I’ve decided to write up a short review of something of the things I like (and don’t like) about these phones. Let’s start with the phone itself.  It’s not much bigger than a [...]
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