Batboard

I have no idea how to change the sounds for it. I'd bet the you can find info at http://www.xten.com though.

John

Just get an ATA-186. I gotta say - the two I aquired (one each for work and home) are absolutly wonderful. It's really suprising to see what these little cute green boxes can do. You wouldn't even know the difference between picking up your home phone and one of these...

-Alex

The SIP server is down for maint for a few. I'll post a message when I'm done.

John

OK. The server is back up and Caller ID is working right now! Shew. That took a while to track down.

Anyway, go to town folks. It should be just like a regular land-line phone now.

John

I still can't get this blasted thing to work.

"Discovered Single Mapped Port Symetric NAT Firewall" what ever that means. I have all the system settings just as indicate here. I dial a number, press enter/talk and nothing happens. The timer doesn't start, it just sits there. What am I missing here?

edit

If I plug the DSL Modem right into the comptuter, I get "Discovered Open IP" and it still just sits there, never logs in.

I have no idea what you've got wrong but, the vast majority of people who have tried to connect have been successful.

John

Heads up folks. If you don't have your client configured to use "sipproxy.enterzone.net" as your sip proxy, and are using an IP address instead, you need to change it to use the name instead. I will be moving the SIP server to a new machine shortly and the IP address will change.

If your phone suddenly stopped working, this is probably the reason why.

The new server is a Compaq DL380 with six 36.4G SCSI3 drives. This will most likely be the perm home of the sipproxy.

John

I have everything configured the way it should be with the proper password and my connection STILL times out. I called my ISP and they are not blocking any UDP on port 5060 (or on any port for that matter.)

Any thoughts.

OK folks. We're now cut over to the new server. If you've not updated your configuration to use sipproxy.enterzone.net to be the sip proxy, your phone is not going to work.

Now for the good news. We have conferencing working!

Dial 2663 (conf) on your phone and you'll be connected to the conference where any number of people can join in. If you're the first in the conference, stick around.... you never know who might join in. I know that Alex and myself have been checking in while testing.

John

A few of you are still trying to connect to the old SIP server. You need to update your configuration and put "sipproxy.enterzone.net:5060" in as your SIP Server.

Also, try out the conference... Dial 2663 on your BAT-Phone.

John

Conference works good.... just need more people....


tpg

and mine still doesn't login. It just sits there after detecting the connection

OK folks. More good stuff...

I've got music-on-hold working so you'll have something to listen to if you're the only one in the conference room (waiting for someone else).

Also, check out 228-TEST. I just put something special on it.

John

any one else having problems connecting to conference i've been trying off and on since it got set up all i get is a fast busy signel and 404 error
thanks in advance

Jhook

I just got into it, no problem.

-Alex

need some help getting into confrence still getting the 404 error and fast busy signal thanks

jhook

OK. You're dialing the wrong number.

It's just 2663 to go to the conference. You're dialing "228-2663" which is not in service.

Here is the call detail record. As you can see, you should be getting the "not in service" recording.

"","2289228","2282663","bat","""jhook"" <228-9228>","SIP/2289228-b8c6","SIP/2282663-5571","Playback","ss-noservice","2004-02-18 21:53:01","2004-02-18 21:53:07","2004-02-18 21:53:12",11,5,"ANSWERED","DOCUMENTATION"


John

OK. I have no idea what the problem was but, when jhook tried to dial "2663", his phone wasn't even contacting our server. I added "2282663" to go to the conference and now he gets in just fine.

Strange.

John

thanks for the help John hey batlabber's I now have conf.

Anybody tried one of these phones, or something like it ?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=41374

Jay -

I took a quick read through the manual for the phone, and it doesn't look like it interfaces with any sort of network - just with the computers sound card.

This isn't what you'd want to use - you want something that is preferably independent of your computer.

Look for the Cisco ATA-186's. There's someone selling them on ebay. You can buy one of these interface boxs and plug in your normal home style phones into them. If you have a two line cordless phone, you could easily make this your second line.

There's also the budgetel phones, some cisco units, etc. However, you'd need one of those for every location, with an ATA, you could just put it on the 2nd line pair in your house, and plug any phone into it.

I would stay away from the AT&T Dealie. You probably need special software for it too.

-Alex

Okay, instead of reading through 220 posts , can someone tell me in 25 words or less what is req'd to get set up on this system?

Thanks...

Todd

No

(it'd take longer than 25 words)

Your answers should be somewhere near the bottom of page 1 or top of page 2 from memory...

Oh, and because you won't find it around page 1 or 2, instead of putting the IP address that is mentioned there, you need to put sipproxy.enterzone.net instead (UDP port 5060)

Good luck!

Okay, I have everything set up as instructed. I have triple checked everything and it should be good. What I'm getting (it's cut off because the screen isn't big enough on X-Lite) is: "Discovered Port Restricted Single Mapped Port Sy......."

I'm trying this through the server at work, so maybe that's my problem. I'll try it from home in the morning, and see what happens.

Todd

I can't get it to work through the NAT. Everything's fine from home, but I keep getting timeouts at work. Did I miss something in the discussion about NATs and firewalls? If I'm reading the diagnostic logs right, I think my NAT is faking it out.

From home where it works:
Established SIP protocol listen on: 209.XX.XX.XX:5060
Discovered Open IP
SIP: 209.XX.XX.XX:5060
RTP: 209.XX.XX.XX:8000
NAT: 209.XX.XX.XX
PROXY#0: 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
RECEIVE << 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
RECEIVE << 66.35.65.2:5060
... etc.

From work, where it doesn't:
Established SIP protocol listen on: 10.XX.XX.XX:5060
SIP: 10.XX.XX.XX:5060
RTP: 10.XX.XX.XX:8000
NAT: 65.37.79.222
Discovered Blocked Firewall
PROXY#0: 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
SEND >> 66.35.65.2:5060
... never a receive, just timeout

Should the RTP address be the internal address? What if I just get port 8000 open through the NAT?

I got the X-lite software phone work. Had a quick call with john and made one call out on the PSTN line. Nice sounding audio once I got the settings correct. Little old PII laptop seems to hand things well.
Gary N8EMR

228-Gary (4279)

OK folks. I just set up a DID number so that people can call Bat-Phone numbers from the PSTN.

360-968-1618 (Washington State)

If you call it, it will ask for an extension. Just key in your bat-phone number.

John

Wow.

This just keeps getting better...

I have to say that's rather neat, and it works!

-Alex

Now if only we could easily unlock Vonage ATA-186 units...

Johnny Grep wrote:Now if only we could easily unlock Vonage ATA-186 units...

Depending on the software version, it is easy...

This link should have some more info http://cisco.com/en/US/products/product ... 4ae8.shtml

Not applicable, it's v2.16

I finally got it to start *trying* to work with the new build from X-Ten. Now I get to the point of "Awaiting Proxy Login" and it doesn't go any further. What am I missing here??

Well folks, the *free* PSTN gateway testing has come to an end. Never fear though, we will be rolling out our commercial PSTN gateway service very shortly. If you liked the free product, you'll love the commercial gateway. We purposely limited the quality of the free trial.

John

John, I sent you an e-mail, but havn't received a reply yet. I don't know if it got "lost in the (e)mail", or what, so I'll post the question here. Do I need to have you "register" a number and password for me first, or just plug them in and go for it?

It looks like Linksys is now selling VOIP enabled adapters -

HOWEVER - they appear to be locked.

Anyone have any info about them? This might make for cheap batphones

-Alex

alex wrote:It looks like Linksys is now selling VOIP enabled adapters -

HOWEVER - they appear to be locked.

Anyone have any info about them? This might make for cheap batphones

-Alex

No info yet. I've been thinking of getting one to experiment on. If they're anything like the Cisco ATA's Vonage used - it'll be easy.

I'll keep you posted.

I'm curious about this as well... Much cheaper than the ATA's out of Box.

Are the Motorola modem's easy to unlock? I still wish I could get vonage service through asterisk.... grrr...

-Alex

alex wrote:I'm curious about this as well... Much cheaper than the ATA's out of Box.

Are the Motorola modem's easy to unlock? I still wish I could get vonage service through asterisk.... grrr...

-Alex

I haven't played with the Motorola adapters yet. And at this point I don't know anything about its firmware.

As soon as they hit eBay, I might pick on up.

rmi2065 wrote:

alex wrote:I'm curious about this as well... Much cheaper than the ATA's out of Box.

Are the Motorola modem's easy to unlock? I still wish I could get vonage service through asterisk.... grrr...

-Alex

I haven't played with the Motorola adapters yet. And at this point I don't know anything about its firmware.

As soon as they hit eBay, I might pick on up.

I'm bored waiting for Verizon to fix a line, so I've been hanging around doing nothing online. It looks like Motorola had them made just for Vonage, so the firmware might be restricted.

One of the things i'd be interested in is figuring out how to use a VOIP link (cheaply) as a tone remote system... that might be a whole other topic.

alex wrote:

rmi2065 wrote:

alex wrote:I'm curious about this as well... Much cheaper than the ATA's out of Box.

Are the Motorola modem's easy to unlock? I still wish I could get vonage service through asterisk.... grrr...

-Alex

I haven't played with the Motorola adapters yet. And at this point I don't know anything about its firmware.

As soon as they hit eBay, I might pick on up.

I'm bored waiting for Verizon to fix a line, so I've been hanging around doing nothing online. It looks like Motorola had them made just for Vonage, so the firmware might be restricted.

One of the things i'd be interested in is figuring out how to use a VOIP link (cheaply) as a tone remote system... that might be a whole other topic.

I been thinking of the same thing myself. The NETWORKING mechanics I could figure out. I don't know much about setting up a tone remote though.

I am interested, How do I get on board?

Read the thread... all 5 pages... yes, it's a pain in the arse... but that has the info you need in it.

Thanks Alex.

OK. For the folks who have been sending me PM's asking how to get hooked up, here goes:

I need to know what you want your number to be: IE: 228-????

I need to know what you want your password to be.

Gather that information together and send it to me in a PM.


Keep in mind that this is a best-effort project. IE; nobody has sent me a dime thus far for anything so, if I decide I'd rather scratch my ass than set your account up, you don't have any business complaining.

Now, if you were to send me some money, that is a different story and is probably pretty good motivation.

You can paypal me at [email protected]

John

Hello.

Is the batphone system going to stay up?
If yes, are there going to be FAQ files on the new batlounge?

Yes. The VOIP system will stay up. I'll be posting an updated FAQ on the new site.

John

Can we keep this entire thread? There is a ton of good technical support information in here and we shouldn't lose this!

I don't see why not.

I'll move it before this disappears, probably to general. I'll need to find a good way to organize announcements.

-Alex