SYSADMINMAN

As an update to this post – http://sysadminman.net/blog/2010/updating-o2-htc-desire-to-android-2-2-froyo-1340

It looks like the Froyo ROM I initially installed did not include voice dialling. I have now installed LeeDrOiD which does include voice dialling over bluetooth that works with my Plantronics 975. I install LeeDrOiD v1.9 which can be found here – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724123

You need to ensure your wireless drivers are up to date before installing the LeeDrOiD ROM. Check out the link at the top of this post on how to do that.

As I had already ‘rooted’ my Destire installing the new ROM was a simple case of downloading via WiFI on my Desire, rebooting in to recovery mode and then selecting the ZIP file to flash. I did not wipe this time as I already had Froyo on there, however wiping is recoomended.

Initial thoughts are that voice dialling doesn’t seem as acurate as on the iPhone IOS4, but it’s early days yet. There are also a lot of other tools/utils included with the LeeDrOiD ROM.

It is now possible to pay for your Sysadminman VPS using a credit or debit card.

Accepted cards are Mastercard, Visa, JCB, Maestro and Solo.

See here for more information – http://sysadminman.net/

Yesterday I ‘rooted’ and installed a new ROM on my O2 HTC Desire and I thought I’d post a few links for anyone looking to do the same.

The main reason I rooted my phone was to have the ability to use SIM cards from other providers when travelling. The other reason was to get voice dialling working through my bluetooth headset. Sadly this still isn’t working yet with my Plantronics 975 and needs some more research!

Firstly, if you are looking to root/jailbreak and put on a custom ROM on your Desire then don’t do an ‘Over The Air’ upgrade to Android 2.2. At present it’s not possible to root Android 2.2, although this will no doubt change.

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The Sysadminman VPS template for Elastix has been updated to the recently released Elastix 2.0.

This includes -

Asterisk 1.6.2

FreePBX 2.7

A2Billing 1.3.0

plus lots of add-in modules and extras. Click here for details and to order.

The Elastix interface has been improved with more monitoring and graphing screens. The dashboard screen has also been updated providing a general overview of the system status.

The Sysadminman Elastix 2.0 template is a standard Elastix 2.0 install with the addition of IPTables firewall and denyhosts (to block brute force SSH attempts)

If you would like to see more information about Elastix 2.0 then visit the Elastix website – www.elastix.org

If you are looking to run A2Billing you may prefer the custom Sysadminman template as this has a later version of A2Billing pre-installed.

The version of A2Billing that comes pre-installed on the Sysadminman template has been updated to the latest stable release – version 1.7.1

More details can be found here – http://sysadminman.net/distro-sysadminman.html

A2Billing is a very flexible piece of software and can be used in many situations. One of these is to account/charge for calls from extensions in Elastix/FreePBX.

I’ve put together a walkthrough about how to do this. The walkthrough is done on a Elastix 1.6 Sysadminman VPS template. I’ve broken it in to 8 parts.

The first 4 parts are getting an extension up and running in Elastix and then the last 4 parts show how to configure A2Billing to account for these calls. Due to the version of A2Billing that comes with Elastix 1.6 (A2Billing version 1.3) it is nescesary to edit a few files manually using the command prompt.

A setup similar to this could possibly be used for a call shop or a hotel system.

Here are the parts -

Part 1 – Create a test extension in Elastix
Part 2 – Set up x-lite to use your Elastix extension
Part 3 – Create a trunk in Elastix
Part 4 – Create an outbound route in Elastix
Part 5 – Creating a trunk in A2Billing on Elastix
Part 6 – Create a customer in a2billing on Elastix
Part 7 – Create a call plan and rate card in A2Billing on Elastix
Part 8 – Create a custom trunk in Elastix for use with A2Billing

This is part 8 of a series of posts on setting up an Elastix extension with A2Billing. See here for details of the other parts – Using A2Billing to account for extension calls in Elastix

Now we are going to make some changes to the Elastix setup we did earlier. We are going to tell Elastix to route our calls via A2Billing, rather than going straight out using the trunk.

First we need to add a trunk so select Trunks and Add Custom Trunk -

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This is part 7 of a series of posts on setting up an Elastix extension with A2Billing. See here for details of the other parts – Using A2Billing to account for extension calls in Elastix

This is by far the most complex part of setting up A2Billing. Creating and maintaining a rate card can be very time consuming. By far the best way to create the rates is to upload them from a CSV as provided by your VOIP provider. There can be many thousands of rates and it’s impossible to manage them by hand. We are going to create just a single rate to UK landlines so that we can test calling.

First click on RATECARD and Create Call Plan. Give your call plan a name, I’ve used Example -

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This is part 6 of a series of posts on setting up an Elastix extension with A2Billing. See here for details of the other parts – Using A2Billing to account for extension calls in Elastix

Next we are going to create a customer in a2Billing. This will be the customer account for the extension 1000 that we setup in Elastix earlier.

First select CUSTOMERS and then Create Customers -

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This is part 5 of a series of posts on setting up an Elastix extension with A2Billing. See here for details of the other parts – Using A2Billing to account for extension calls in Elastix

First we need to log in to A2Billing on Elastix. Click on Extras on the top menu -

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