User Manual Table of Contents 1. Overview ....................4 1.1 What is A810P/A810E ..................4 1.2 What is Asterisk: ....................5 2. Hardware Setting ..................6 3. Software Installation and Configuration ............7 3.1 Download asterisk, dahdi, driver and firmware........7 3.2 Modify the configure files................
A810P/A810E is a modular analog telephony interface product. AE810P/AE810E is A810P/A810E with EC module. It is designed to build IP PBX. A810P/AE810P or A810E/AE810E must be used with FXO-400 or FXS-400 together to build a workable system. AE810P/AE810E has EC module, which must be used with FX0-400 or FXS-400 together.
Asterisk provides Voicemail services with Directory, Call Conferencing, Interactive Voice Response, Call Queuing. It has support for three-way calling, caller ID services, ADSI, IAX, SIP, H.323 (as both client and gateway), MGCP (call manager only) and SCCP/Skinny(voip-info.org). OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
User Manual 2. Hardware Setting To set the A810P/AE810P, user MUST go through these steps: 1. Checking power supply: Board must be provided power, please plug the power supply cable into power supply connector. Otherwise, you will not be able to use. (refer...
User Manual 3. Software Installation and Configuration A810P/AE810P supports dahdi software device driver on Linux. To use A810P/AE810P, user must download, edit, install and configure dahdi and asterisk. 3.1 Download asterisk, dahdi, driver and firmware 1. Download asterisk from www.asterisk.org Right here, take asterisk-1.8.0 for an example:...
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PCI.pm. Figure 6: PCI.pm screenshot E. Forward to directory /usr/src/dahdi-tools-xxx/xpp/perl_modules/Dahid, and modify file Chans.pm like this: Figure 7: Chans.pm screenshot F. Forward to directory /usr/src/dahdi-tools-xxx, and add the following info to file OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
// make sure the version is higher than 4.0 rpm -q gcc-c++ rpm –q libxml2 If any of those packages are not installed, please install them by using yum. yum install bison yum install bison-devel yum install ncurses yum install ncurses-devel OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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User can install the driver via the following steps (assuming user has the source code of dahdi device driver installed in /usr/src/dahdi-2.2.XX directory): lspci –vvvvv 1. Checking the A810P/AE810P hardware by command: From the following, user can see that there is a device called communication controller interface be found.
Execute command to check if you have made the EC module worked. If user uses AE810P/AE810E, from figure 11 below, user will be able to see EC module been detected system. OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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If users use AE810P, please set echo_can to none as following: echo_can none If users use A810P, just ignore that step above. Then run these commands: dahdi_genconf dahdi_cfg –vvvv The output might be the same as the following: OpenVox Communication Co.
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User Manual Figure 12: dahdi_cfg –vvvv screenshot The command dahdi_genconf will automatically generate the system.conf under directory /etc/dahdi and dahdi-channels.conf under /etc/asterisk. Please check the setting of system.conf, it looks like the following: OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
"#include dahdi-channels.conf" >> /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf Make sure that the context in dahdi-channels.conf should exist in extensions.conf. File dahdi-channels.conf should look like as the following: FXO ports use FXS signaling, the configure file looks like this: OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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Checking the dahdi channel loading from asterisk console: asterisk –vvvvvvvgc dahdi show channels Entering asterisk console, run command: . If dahdi channels can be shown, which means the dahdi channels have been loaded into asterisk. OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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When user makes an outbound call, CLI will show as the following: Figure 18: outbound call The status of channel looks like the following. If user uses AE810P, EC Status of active channel should be ON; otherwise it would be OFF. OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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Notes: User can use command cat /proc/interrupts to confirm A810P/AE810P has independent IRQ. If A810P/AE810P shares IRQ with other device. To avoid IRQ conflict, A810P/AE810P enable user to adjust pin number when update firmware, please refer this manual for more details.
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User Manual Test environments are: CentOS-5.6 Kernel version: 2.6.18-238.el5 Dahdi: dahdi-linux-complete-2.4.0+2.4.0 Asterisk: 1.8.0 Hardware: OpenVox A810P/AE810P OpenVox Communication Co. Limited. URL: www.openvox.cn...
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