Submitted by Lew on Thu, 06/23/2022 - 21:56
My partner recently asked if I could receive a FAX for her. Sadly, I had to tell her that, while I can send faxes, I couldn't easily receive them. I do have a multifunction printer with FAX capability, but I have not designed my "Receptionist" dialplan to handle incoming faxes. And so, admitting that failing, I skulked back to my cave, and did some research.
Submitted by Lew on Wed, 03/10/2021 - 12:50
With the telephony hardware installed and configured, and Asterisk in place, I found myself at the point where I could turn to my favourite topic: the software. And, even at the simplest, I had a lot of software to keep me busy. Luckily enough, I had the time.
Submitted by Lew on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 01:57
Submitted by Lew on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 18:24
So, I physically installed the TDM410P telephony card, and now I needed to install some device drivers to run it. And, here I got into the fun stuff: software. This TDM410P clone card came with little documentation, and no software of any kind, so I had to find the driver source code, compile it, install it, configure it, load it and use it.
Submitted by Lew on Thu, 11/26/2020 - 15:40
Telephony slowly moves from the Alexander Graham Bell, two copper wires leading to the house stage of it's life into the more flexible, more portable over the internet, in my pocket stage. And I, even more slowly, move with it. I still want a home phone, and I want to tinker, and I have nothing better to do.
Submitted by Lew on Wed, 11/25/2020 - 12:28
As you may know, for the last five years, I've used an IP04 as my home PBX. This device has served me well; in that time adaptively blocking over 900 unwanted calls while permitting friends and family to call me, even when I have travelled.
