Asterisk is a very powerful open source telephony platform. I’ve described how to install it and configure Google Voice with it in the past. Setup is quite complicated for a newbie to get started. I was never able to set it up to the point for me to connect to the Asterisk server using the… Read more »
I already discussed how one can make use of Google Voice with Asterisk – the possibilities are limitless. However, all this requires a server running Asterisk. I recently explored how one can explore other options of Google Voice (or other VoIP services) without the use of a server. Since I own routers running tomato and… Read more »
I use old laptops as web servers at school. However, they really aren’t built to be running continuously; I have disk problems on both of my old laptops. Amazon Web Services offer a free usage tier of EC2 cloud service for 1 year. After the 1 year, the micro instance cost about $.02/hr, which is… Read more »
I recently changed my web server, and had to re-install Asterisk. I wanted to compile from source but I had an “input/output” error, which means either my drive is bad or I’m having issues with the kernel. SMART tells me my drive is OK, so I assume it’s the kernel. I found this that has… Read more »
Learned how to do so from this thread. cd ~/Downloads/asterisk/1.8/contrib/init.d ## contrib folder is in source directory sudo cp rc.debian.asterisk /etc/init.d/asterisk sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/asterisk # to set the script as boot update-rc.d asterisk defaults # to remove the script from boot update-rc.d -f asterisk remove Modify the /etc/init.d/asterisk: # Full path to asterisk binary… Read more »
I’ve heard about Asterisk for some time now since using VoIP services such as Google Voice, Gizmo5, Sipgate and Skype. Most of these services allow you to receive unlimited phone calls for free; you just need to register the service using a sip client, such as Ekiga on Linux, telephone on Mac OS X, sipdroid… Read more »