Auto-provisioning with Asterisk and ST2030 Technicolor/Thomson phones

An introduction to the ST2030 The ST2030 is one of the few SIP phones distributed by Thomson (now changed name to Technicolor). In fact there are only 2 models: the ST2020, and the ST2030, and also a new one, the TB30, which is the successor to the ST2030. The ST2030 is supposed to have an […]

Asterisk: DADHI module not working when using Xen

If you want to use any Asterisk module that needs a timer, like MeetMe, you have to use a module named dahdi (previously named zaptel). DAHDI has one module for each Digium supported card (B410P), and a dummy module (named dahdi_dummy) if you don’t have a hardware card, like me. The problem appears when you […]

Asterisk cirpack problem with Free and freephonie.net

If you configured your Asterisk/FreeSWITCH server to talk to your freephonie.net (french Free ISP provider), you’ll see in the logs the following warning message: [Feb 12 09:29:06] WARNING[9228]: chan_sip.c:6624 determine_firstline_parts: Bad request protocol Packet This is not really a problem, but an annoyance, as it fills up your logs. This is a known problem for […]

How to dial a number using Asterisk and Python

I didn’t find any example in Python on how to Dial a number from an Asterisk server and link it to another channel. So here’s a quick code to do it. You just need to have a manager defined in your /etc/asterisk/manager.conf defined. import socket HOST=”192.168.1.116″ PORT=5038 p = “””Action: login Events: off […]