why AsteriskNow and FreePBX doesn’t come with H323 channel? and how to install it on running system without rebuilding asterisk from the scratch?
FreePBX doesn’t support h.323 channel type other than via a custom extension. This does not create h.323 dial plan.
As far as what modules Asterisk now includes, it would be best to ask those folks. We don’t support or know anything about that software other than they include an old version of FreePBX.
is there any work around for this? i can install H.323 channel on asterisk, but unfortunately to install it i have to remove asterisk first and rebuild it with the required dependencies, after that freepbx shows no asterisk, how to rebuild freepbx again?
Use ooh323, its pretty stable in Asterisk 1.8.
- Upgrade to 1.8, download the source into /usr/src or something like that
- go into /usr/src/asterisk1.8…/ run ./configure
- do a, make menuselect, then the menu comes up, use ooh323 in Add-ons
- do a make && make install
Open up and edit the file /etc/asterisk/ooh323.conf
<here’s a sample for trunking>
[general]
port = 1720
bindaddr = yourinternalIP
allow=all
dtmfmode=inband
gatekeeper = DISABLE
context=from-trunk
progress_setup = 8
progress_alert = 8
h245tunneling=yes
[H323peer]
type=friend
context=from-zaptel
host=yourtrunkIP
port=1720
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
allow=alaw
canreinvite=no
dtmfmode=inband
- Restart amportal
If all goes well, in asterisk cli, you should be able to see ooh323 when running “module show like chan_ooh323.so”
Then on FreePBX, you got to build either custom trunks/extensions
for trunks, the format should be like this in Dial pattern
Dial=OOH323/H323Peer/$OUTNUM$
Didn’t try/use extensions tho, you probably need to populate the extensions on ooh323.conf, then create custom extensions with the similar DIAL but instead would probably be
Dial=OOH323/h323extension1000
Where h323extension1000 was defined in the ooh323.conf file.
Sanjay’s post is spot on.
thats perfect, let me try it and i’ll let you know
maybe this link
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