Toronto Asterisk User Group

A couple weeks ago, I put forward a method to see your LesNet account balance at your Aastra phone.

I also posted to the Taug.ca mail list for suggestions on web scraping from secure sites. Well, it turns out the Virgin doesn't consider security a high priority, but challenging scrapers is....or should I say WAS.

If you're like me, you'd like to know well in advance of getting that Beep and disconnect message on a $0 balance phone, or the SMS from them when you have 3 minutes of talk time left on your account...aka $1 left on the balance. Now, a qiuck glance at your phone...(Aastra at least until someone hacks my code for another set), and you're off (maybe to buy a phone card...), knowing you've got a reasonable balance to start another day

Desi strips are great. Let you see what's labelled where but do you ever find you've changed it from the original desiginations...and within a month or so, you've white-outed over and written in new labels...and written in is also the operative word.

Wish you could create professional looking ones without buying any fancy software or spending the time to make excel fit a nice tidy label for you.

Now, you can...using excel and 2 minutes...

If you've installed the Aastra script on Asterisk 1.4, you may have noticed that it fails to play the script in autoanswer mode (like the intercom function), rather it rings your phone. This is due to a change in how a call is handled in Asterisk 1.4.x

The fix is fortunately, very simple...

If you've installed the aastra scripts, you may have experienced a few issues with them. One common problem is the visual voicemail fails to authenticate on returning from a call.

To resolve, simply find the cache path in the include/AastraCommon.php file and ensure it exists and Asterisk has write/read capability. In my case,

So now you know the telemarketers but who are the rest of the callers.

This is the first of a series of articles to sync information (both ways) between Outlook and Asterisk. The first is the export of VCards from Outlook.

Outlook can easily export single vcards however, it doesn't do multiple at once. Picture a 1000 contacts in your address book. That's a little time...or 10 seconds with this macro.