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General Safety Instructions ..................4 Test Environme nts ....................... 5 Chapter 1 Ove rvie w ..................... 6 1.1 What is Asterisk ....................6 1.2 What is A810P/AE810P ..................7 Chapter 2 Hardware Setup ..................10 2.1 Power supply....................10 2.2 Slot compatibility .................... 10 2.3 Timing cable....................
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual General Safety Instructions CAUTION 1. The computers that have card installed must comply A810P/AE810P with the country’s specific safety regulations. 2. Only service personnel should go to install card. A810P/AE810P 3. Before installing card, please unplug the power cord...
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 1 Overview 1.1 What is Asterisk The Definition of Asterisk is described as follows: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, Windows(emulated) and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more.
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual 1.2What is A810P/AE810P A810P/AE810Pis a new generation analog card, and AE810P is an A810P ® with an Octasic Hardware Echo Cancellation Module on board. With the interchangeable quad-FXS and quad-FXO modules, A810P/AE810P can eliminate the requirement for separate channel banks or access gateways.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Sample application When you need 4 PSTN lines and 4 extension sets, for example, one FXO-400 module and one FXS-400 module should be installed. PSTN lines correspond to FXO modules which are red while extension lines correspond to FXS modules which are green.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Compatible with all commercially available motherboards 3-Month “No Question Asked” return policy Lifetime warranty RoHS compliant Certificates: CE, FCC, A-Tick trixbox officially certified Elastix ® officially certified Features ...
A810P/AE810Pis compatible with any kind of standard PCI 2.2 or above with both 3.3 V and 5 V slot while PCI-E slot is not fit for it; you should confirm your slot type and insertA810P/AE810P into any type of PCI slot as previously described.
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual 2.3 Timing cable If you have just one card in the system, all channels on that card have already run under the same clock source, so timing cable is unnecessary. But if there are more than one card, using timing cable has some advantages.
(battery) and generates ring signals. 2.5 Splitter A RJ45 interface of A810P/AE810P is divided into four RJ11 ports by a specific splitter as the picture of Appendix B stated. So you should prepare for some splitters when install A810P/AE810P.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Power supply connector EC module Port PCI slot Figure 4 Hardware setup Caution: During the above processes, an ESD wrist strap is needed. Once power is on, you must not attempt to install or take down the board. Do not forget to connect PSTN lines into analog phones directly to make sure the lines are available before inserting the PSTN lines into FXO ports.
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 3 Software Installation and Configuration A810P/AE810P supports DAHDI software driver on Linux. To make full use of A810P/AE810P, you should download, compile, install and configure DAHDI and Asterisk. Let’s make the specific DAHDI and Asterisk version for an example to explain how to install software.
3.2 Installation 1. Hardware detection # lspci –vvvv Check the outcome and confirm your system has recognized A810P/AE810P. If it has been recognized, "communication controller" will be displayed in the output information like that: OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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Kernel driver in use: opvxa24xx Kernel modules: opvxa24xx Figure 5 Hardware detection If A810P/AE810P is not recognized by the system, you have to power off and take out the card, then try to insert it into other PCI slot. 2. Software installation Some dependencies are crucial.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual # yum install openssl # yum install openssl-devel # yum install gnutls-devel # yum install gcc # yum install gcc-c++ # yum install libxml2 # yum install libxml2-devel If there is no kernel-devel source in the system, users...
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual dahdi-linux-complete-XX (XX represents DAHDI version), then perform the following commands one by one to install DAHDI. # cd /usr/src/dahdi-linux-complete-XX # make # make install # make config Caution: If there is something wrong after "make", please refer to HERE.
"opvxa24xx" is the driver module name of A810P/AE810P. "opermode" applies to FXO port and is invalid for FXS port, and you are allowed to take place of "CHINA" to other mode name OpenVox Communication Co.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual which is available in the file: ../dahdi-linux-XX/linux/drivers/dahdi/fxo_modules.h If there is any error, please trace the cause. Until all errors are clear up, you could execute "dahdi_genconf" again, and then go to the next step. By running "dahdi_genconf", it will generate /etc/dahdi/system.conf and etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf automatically.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual # Span 1: OPVXA24XX/24 "OpenVox A810P Board 25" (MASTER) fxoks=1 fxoks=2 fxoks=3 fxoks=4 fxsks=5 fxsks=6 fxsks=7 fxsks=8 # Global data loadzone= us defaultzone= us Figure 6 A part of system.conf 2. Country mode modification In order to match your country pattern, you need to change parameters loadzone and defaultzone to your country.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual A part of file /etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf is showed as below.(Modification, if it is not agree with the hardware setup) ; Span 1: OPVXA24XX/24"OpenVox A810 Board 25" (MASTER) ;;; line="1 OPVXA24XX/24/0 FXOKS (In use)" Signalling=fxo_ks //FXS ports use FXO signaling callerid="Channel 1"...
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual After modifying the country mode, please execute the following command: # dahdi_cfg –vvvvvv The command is used for reading and loading parameters in the configuration file system.conf and writing to the hardware. A part of outputs are showed in the following figure.
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual If Asterisk is already activate, run "asterisk –r" instead. In the CLI, please run the following command: localhost*CLI> dahdi show channels Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret Pseudo default default from-internal default from-internal default from-internal...
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Users should run command "cat /proc/interrupts" to check A810P/AE810Phas independent interrupt. If A810P/AE810P shares interrupt with other devices, it may cause some problems even cannot work normally. While A810P/AE810P allows users to modify interrupt pin during firmware upgrade for avoiding interrupt conflict. OpenVox Communication Co. LTD.
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Chapter 4 Reference www.openvox.cn www.digium.com www.asterisk.org www.voip-info.org www.asteriskguru.com Tips Any questions during installation please consult in our forum or look up for answers from the following websites: Forum wiki OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Appendix A Specifications •Weight and Size Weight: 85g (A810P) (3.00oz) 10g (ECmodule) (0.35oz) Size: 136.3×106.7×18mm •Interfaces PCI Bus: Be compatible with standard PCI 2.2 or above with both 3.3 V and 5 V slot Power Supply Connect: 12V 4-pin connector Local Loop Access: Eight industry standard RJ-11 ports •Environment...
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual •Hardware and software requirements RAM 128 + MB Linux kernel 2.4.X or 2.6.X CPU 800+ MHZ OpenVox Communication Co. LTD. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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A810P/AE810P on DAHDI User Manual Appendix B Interfaces Either 4-pin or 6-pin RJ11 port is compatible with A810P/AE810P, let’s illustrate pin assignments of RJ11 port by the following tables. 4-pin RJ11 port 4-pin RJ11 port Description Not used Ring Not used...
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