Asterisk 1.8 and timing

[middletn]

Hi,

With asterisk 1.4 we've always used either the sangoma USB timing stick or some other hardware to support the timing. Asterisk 1.8 would appear to have better support for timing. Do we need the extra hardware if we use 1.8 with vicidial?

regards

[mflorell]

You don't "need" extra timing, but it is still recommended for systems that will operate at moderate to high loads. We use one with Asterisk 1.8 on all of our new hosted servers. We use the Amfeltec PCIexpress timing cards.

[middletn]

Thanks Matt, do you have a part number by chance?

regards

[mflorell]

Here's the link,
http://amfeltec.com/products/x1-pci-exp ... m-timer-2/

We usually keep at least 50 on hand and order them 100 at a time from Amfeltec. You can buy them directly through Amfeltec in Canada(sales@amfeltec.com) or through us at the Vicidial Group here in the USA(sales@vicidial.com). We charge $75 for one, with discounts for more than one. Amfeltec can of course offer steeper discounts for larger orders because they are the manufacturer.

At this point I think we've installed almost 400 of these in production over the last 4 years, and we've never had one fail, unlike the Sangoma USB timers which can have issues with the USB bus in Linux.

[geoff3dmg]

Interesting reading. I've put some of those on my Christmas list. I could only find one reseller in the UK.

https://www.thedebugstore.com/x-cart461 ... Timer.html

Are these cards supported out of the box on Vicibox installs?

[mflorell]

That looks like the same thing, only at about twice the price. Yes, they are supported within Vicibox if you have them installed before you install Vicibox.

[geoff3dmg]

Yes, they are supported within Vicibox if you have them installed before you install Vicibox.

Is it possible to add them post-install?

[mflorell]

Possible? Yes, but you would have to ask Kumba for the instructions on how to do that.

[geoff3dmg]

Ok thanks matt.

[perci100]

Let me know if you have any step by step info for installing this on a vicibox 5.03 install thats in production. Im going to order some of these.

[geoff3dmg]

From a H/W point of view, just stick them in then verify it's there on 'lspci':

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vicidial-1:~ # lspci | grep Exar
03:01.0 Serial controller: Exar Corp. Device 0301 (rev 02)

On the system config side you need to edit '/etc/init.d/vicidial' and change:

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ZAP_MOD=dahdi_dummy

to

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ZAP_MOD=voicesync

and reboot. You can verify it's working by checking DAHDI in asterisk.

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vicidial-1:~ # asterisk -rx'dahdi show status'
Description                              Alarms  IRQ    bpviol CRC    Fra Codi Options  LBO
VOICESYNC/1 (source: voicesync) 1        UNCONFI 0      0      0      CAS Unk           0 db (CSU)/0-133 feet (DSX-1)

[perci100]

Awesome, thank you sir.

[jahbugz]

I have Goautodial 3.3 installed and under the init.d directory there is no vicidial file. Does anyone know where this is located in goautodial? I bought 6 of these voicetimers after reading this post and I'm hoping they can be used with goautodial.

[jahbugz]

I used grep -r "ZAP_MOD" / to find it. /usr/src/vicidial/extras/init.d/vicidial HOwever it still does not load at boot time.

Update: I forgot to install the driver. Installed the driver and all is well!