Hi all,
I’m a college student and will be taking up some classes in Voice over IP soon. I am a very hands on person, and like to mess around with things before I take my classes.
I have managed to grab myself 2 Cisco IP phones off of eBay for a great price, however the power supplies aren’t in yet as the phones I purchased were driven by PoE.
Anyways, I managed to setup my Google Voice number with Asterisk (FreePBX), and calling in works perfectly, every time. It took a bit to get Google Voice to play nicely, but I managed to get it.
Anyways, I’m stuck at the point where I need to get extensions configured. I’ve been using X-Lite 4 on my computers to simulate the VoIP phones in a SIP connection. I’m unable to call one extension from the other and have it go through. I’m relatively new to VoIP, so I may just be missing something stupid.
When I call my Google Voice number, I currently have it set to forward to an extension (2000), it goes directly to voicemail. Any ideas why it goes directly to VM instead of ringing?
However, if I use the soft phone with extension 2000 to dial out, it works perfectly to my cell phone.
[quote=“t3kn0”]Hi all,
I’m a college student and will be taking up some classes in Voice over IP soon. I am a very hands on person, and like to mess around with things before I take my classes.
I’m using Asterisk v. 1.8.9.3 with FreePBX.
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Given your first aim, I would ignore FreePBX and configure Asterisk directly. In any case this is really a forum for doing the latter, rather than one for the use of GUIs. I’d actually advise starting with raw Asterisk even if you intend to use a GUI in production.
For getting started, a one line dialplan should be sufficient, and it is much easier for people here to interpret the logs to work out what is going wrong.
I would also point out that people seem to have lots of problems with the Google integration. SIP is the best supported VoIP technology in Asterisk.
[quote=“david55”][quote=“t3kn0”]Hi all,
I’m a college student and will be taking up some classes in Voice over IP soon. I am a very hands on person, and like to mess around with things before I take my classes.
I’m using Asterisk v. 1.8.9.3 with FreePBX.
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Given your first aim, I would ignore FreePBX and configure Asterisk directly. In any case this is really a forum for doing the latter, rather than one for the use of GUIs. I’d actually advise starting with raw Asterisk even if you intend to use a GUI in production.
For getting started, a one line dialplan should be sufficient, and it is much easier for people here to interpret the logs to work out what is going wrong.
I would also point out that people seem to have lots of problems with the Google integration. SIP is the best supported VoIP technology in Asterisk.[/quote]
I knew using Google Voice was frowned upon from the beginning. I decided to try to make it work simply because I’m not looking to have a 100% reliable working setup. Google voice is free, and for the most part- It’s working pretty well. Outbound calling works 100% of the time.
I just want to get internal calling working from one extension to another, and have the Google Voice number work.
Like I said, I have it set to forward to an extension, and if I call in from my outside cell phone, it just goes right to the voicemail setup for that extension.