Re: Re: How the Pickup feature works with AMP 1.10.008 (Rob Hillis)

I tried what Rob advised below, but it did not work, any additional Context
or I have to do other modification in other .conf file? . Must this feature
be used with some special phone-how about Xlite?


Thanks & Best Regards
Nick Nie

>Nick wrote:
>I've installed AMP  1.10.008 for my office , however, I do not know how the
pickup feature
> works in AMP 1.10.008. Any advice?
>
>Rob Hillis Wrote:
> Badly, if my experience is any guide. You can try dialling *8#, but I
> found that didn't work too well, so what I ended up doing was to add
> "callpickup = *80" to features.conf and using *80 instead.

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>    1. Re: AMP 1.10.008, Asterisk cvs HEAD with chan_capi-0.5.4? (Chris
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>    2. Umbrella Technologies inc.: avis important 
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>    3. Re: how to configue amportal  Silly question revisited (Chris
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>    4. Re: how to configue amportal  Silly question revisited (peter
thesing)
>    5. How the Pickup feature  works with AMP 1.10.008 (nicknie)
>    6. Re: How the Pickup feature  works with AMP 1.10.008 (Rob Hillis)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:12:22 -0500
> From: Chris Jackson <chris-8pySyLO4g+E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Amportal-users] AMP 1.10.008, Asterisk cvs HEAD with
chan_capi-0.5.4?
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> Patrick wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:39 +0100, Chris Kearns wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hello Patrick,
> >>
> >>I have just finished a customer installation using Asterisk 1.0.9, and
the
> >>Eicon 4BRI card, with version 0.5.4 of chan_capi-cm, and the Diva server
> >>divas4linux_EICON-105.517-1.i386.rpm.
> >>
> >>Everything worked fine! What specific help are you looking for?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi Chris,
> >
> >The difference with your setup is that I use Asterisk from cvs HEAD so
> >not the stable 1.0.x stuff but the development tree. This setup works
> >fine and I would like to use AMP with it. So my question is if it
> >possible to use AMP 1.10.008 or later with this setup?
> >
> >Thanks and regards,
> >Patrick
> >
> >
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> AFAIK, the AMP developers don't support the CVS tree releases. They have
> trouble developing for a moving target like cvs, so if you're looking
> for support on an unsupoorted version of Asterisk, you're kinda on your
own.
>
>  You could just try it and see if it works. If stuff breaks, however,
> there's not much the devs can do for you.
>
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> Subject: [Amportal-users] Umbrella Technologies inc.: avis important
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:20:19 -0500
> From: Chris Jackson <chris-8pySyLO4g+E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Amportal-users] how to configue amportal  Silly question
revisited
> Reply-To: amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Jason Becker wrote:
>
> > peter thesing wrote:
> >
> >> Jason Becker wrote:
> >>
> >>> peter thesing wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there a way to access the admin area without having apache doing
> >>>> the authentication?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The realm-based protection (authentication) is optional.
> >>>
> >>> Considering that AMP is a web-based application your question does
> >>> seem unusual. Could you please elaborate on your (business) need so
> >>> that we may understand what it is you are trying to accomplish.
> >>>
> >>> If your SUSE/apache config is throwing you a 401 please ensure that
> >>> uid.conf is running "asterisk". Please ensure that the permissions
> >>> (on the file-system) for the wwwpasswd file permit access by this
user.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >> Hi
> >> thanks for the reply
> >> I am not hindered by any awarness of the workings of either asterisk
> >> or am portal. The basic steps for installing am portal have been
> >> followed but i have difficulty getting it to work in a human readable
> >> from. The result i get is most different then what is shown in the
> >> demo. It is my belief that this tool might help me in configuring
> >> asterisk and see the result of my changes. Thus this tool might
> >> educate me in the workings of asterisk.
> >> Because i am planning other applications wwwrun is the desired option
> >> for running apache. Am i correct in assuming that besides wwwrun i
> >> could asterisk add to uid.conf ? Would this solve my problem getting
> >> 401's when accessing the admin page
> >
> >
> > AMP makes an assumption that it is the only web-based application
> > running. This assumption is justified in that one doesn't want a
> > production telephony server to be bogged down servicing HTTP traffic.
> > The uid.conf corresponds to the Apache User and Group directives and
> > No, you cannot add more.
> >
> >> It is on a first glance not really my intention running asterisk in a
> >> commercial fashion. I would like to seize this opportunity to make
> >> "phone calls" to other users without having to bother the telephone
> >> company. As i have understood that was the intention of Voice over
> >> IP. Any zaptel hardware is not in my possesion but somewhere on the
> >> internet it was mentioned that this was not an requirement
> >>
> >> What i basically want amportal to do is:
> >> - A means of configuring asterisk
> >> - Find ways to add (non-system) users who are able to make a
> >> connection with my server with their (soft/ip)phones so i can switch
> >> them thru other users also registered with my service.
> >> - Give me a way to learn about channels,extensions and so on in a
> >> hands-on manner
> >> - Find out what the application amportal can do once started
> >>
> >> Due to lack of experience i am not able to be more specific. I only
> >> know that i want.. I do not know how. I do  not know  what I just
> >> know.......
> >
> >
> > I would recommend that you check out Asterisk@Home. Its mandate is to
> > be a learning tool/SOHO setup. AMP on SUSE is not a straightforward
> > affair (as compared to AMP on White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 or CentOS
> > 3.x).
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> Jason, don't forget about Centos 4.x, it's a champion for Asterisk and
> AMP. We run it in production and it never fails.
>
>  Peter: what you're asking for is a very basic thing.
>
>
>
>    It's called a sip gateway.
>
>
>  Basically you want users to register their sip phones with your server,
> which serves as a VOIP gateway to other people with sip phones. If
> everyone that has these phones have them register with your server, they
> can talk to each other free of charge, i.e. the server knows where to
> route voice traffic from/to extensions because everyone is registered
> with it.
>
>  You can easily accomplish this with Asterisk + AMP but Asterisk@Home,
> as Jason stated, would probably be more suited to your needs. It's
> basically a throw-in-the-cd and wait affair. After you've finished
> installing it all you'd need to do is use AMP to add sip extensions.
> Once your users setup their phones to register with your server, you're
> done.
>
>  Keep in mind this eats bandwidth. Lots of bandwidth. It has to be
> clean, predictable bandwidth also (i.e. QoS must be
> implemented)..otherwise you'll get stutters and other weirdness with
> calls. If your users don't mind crap quality you can kick them all down
> to the GSM codec or even the ILBC. We use ULAW in production because
> bandwidth is plentiful and we have IAX2 trunks connecting us to our PSTN
> endpoint providers. However, ULAW for home users is impractical.
>
>  With all this in mind you should see a clearer path to what you want
> and how to accomplish that goal. Good luck!
>
>  Chris
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:05:10 +0200
> From: peter thesing <peter43-qWit8jRvyhVmR6Xm/wNWPw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Amportal-users] how to configue amportal  Silly question
revisited
> Reply-To: amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Jason Becker wrote:
>
> > peter thesing wrote:
> >
> >> Jason Becker wrote:
> >>
> >>> peter thesing wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Is there a way to access the admin area without having apache doing
> >>>> the authentication?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The realm-based protection (authentication) is optional.
> >>>
> >>> Considering that AMP is a web-based application your question does
> >>> seem unusual. Could you please elaborate on your (business) need so
> >>> that we may understand what it is you are trying to accomplish.
> >>>
> >>> If your SUSE/apache config is throwing you a 401 please ensure that
> >>> uid.conf is running "asterisk". Please ensure that the permissions
> >>> (on the file-system) for the wwwpasswd file permit access by this
user.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >> Hi
> >> thanks for the reply
> >> I am not hindered by any awarness of the workings of either asterisk
> >> or am portal. The basic steps for installing am portal have been
> >> followed but i have difficulty getting it to work in a human readable
> >> from. The result i get is most different then what is shown in the
> >> demo. It is my belief that this tool might help me in configuring
> >> asterisk and see the result of my changes. Thus this tool might
> >> educate me in the workings of asterisk.
> >> Because i am planning other applications wwwrun is the desired option
> >> for running apache. Am i correct in assuming that besides wwwrun i
> >> could asterisk add to uid.conf ? Would this solve my problem getting
> >> 401's when accessing the admin page
> >
> >
> > AMP makes an assumption that it is the only web-based application
> > running. This assumption is justified in that one doesn't want a
> > production telephony server to be bogged down servicing HTTP traffic.
> > The uid.conf corresponds to the Apache User and Group directives and
> > No, you cannot add more.
> >
> >> It is on a first glance not really my intention running asterisk in a
> >> commercial fashion. I would like to seize this opportunity to make
> >> "phone calls" to other users without having to bother the telephone
> >> company. As i have understood that was the intention of Voice over
> >> IP. Any zaptel hardware is not in my possesion but somewhere on the
> >> internet it was mentioned that this was not an requirement
> >>
> >> What i basically want amportal to do is:
> >> - A means of configuring asterisk
> >> - Find ways to add (non-system) users who are able to make a
> >> connection with my server with their (soft/ip)phones so i can switch
> >> them thru other users also registered with my service.
> >> - Give me a way to learn about channels,extensions and so on in a
> >> hands-on manner
> >> - Find out what the application amportal can do once started
> >>
> >> Due to lack of experience i am not able to be more specific. I only
> >> know that i want.. I do not know how. I do  not know  what I just
> >> know.......
> >
> >
> > I would recommend that you check out Asterisk@Home. Its mandate is to
> > be a learning tool/SOHO setup. AMP on SUSE is not a straightforward
> > affair (as compared to AMP on White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 or CentOS
> > 3.x).
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> Ok that is clear then
> now i have to trace back my steps in uninstalling asterisk and amp
> Thanks to all for their understanding and their support
> Bye untill we meet again
> Peter
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> From: "nicknie" <nicknie-hlIMnzHNCIjzlnkaBB2rjP8+0UxHXcjY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:17:19 +0800
> Subject: [Amportal-users] How the Pickup feature  works with AMP 1.10.008
> Reply-To: amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Hi All,
>
>    I've  installed AMP 1.10.008 for my office , however, I do not know =
> how the pickup feature works in AMP 1.10.008.=20
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks & Best Regards
> Nick
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:54:21 +1000
> From: Rob Hillis <rob-8lOKqkF7yUwdbCeoMzGj59i2O/JbrIOy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:  amportal-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Amportal-users] How the Pickup feature  works with AMP
1.10.008
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> Badly, if my experience is any guide.&nbsp; You can try dialling *8#, but
I
> found that didn't work too well, so what I ended up doing was to add
> "callpickup =&gt; *80" to features.conf and using *80 instead.<br>
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