Category Archives: VoIP

It’s Cisco-o-clock!

Posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 by micolous

I thought I’d put up a couple of small new scripts I wrote for my Cisco IP phone. The first is a simple image converter. It converts images from any format that the [Python Imaging Library (PIL)][pil] supports and turns … Continue reading →

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Cisco 7960/7940 VoIP Phones vs. Adelaide/SA’s timezone.

Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 by micolous

The Cisco 7960/7940 (and probably also some others) seem to have this daft issue where they assume Darwin/NT’s timezone rules of GMT+9.5 hours, and no daylight savings time. So, some additions to the TFTP configuration file `SIPDefault.cnf` are required. sntp_server: … Continue reading →

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SA Police Speed Camera Monitor for Asterisk

Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 by micolous

I’ve written a PHP-AGI script that uses Asterisk 1.2, PHP 4.3 and Festival to download and speak the locations of speed cameras published on the SA Police website. For high-traffic PBX systems, it may be desirable to cache the locations … Continue reading →

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conf.py v0.3

Posted on Monday, May 1, 2006 by micolous

There’s a small update to conf.py. This version fixes some formatting bugs with the channel and flags fields that ment that they would occasionally overlap in varying directions, depending on the length of the channel name. This version fixes the … Continue reading →

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Cirrus CPH-B661 Ethernet VoIP Phone

Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 by micolous

I’ve recently bought one of these devices from eBay, for a mere 70$. Bargin basement, considering the cost of an ATA is 70$, plus the cost of a phone, and that many other IP Phones sell for 300-400$, and I … Continue reading →

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