Using a 2 port ATA with Voxalot
 

In particular the Sipura 2100.

OK. This is what I want to try and do. I'm not sure if it will work and after reading the FAQs and tutorials and searching the forums I'm still in the dark.

So here goes:

1)The Sipura 2100 has two ports which I will register as two separate IDs with voxalot (eg. 111111 and 222222).

2) I have 3 VSP accounts at the moment (Sipme, Oztell and Mynetfone) which I want BOTH ATA ports to be able to access via dial plans. I believe this should be OK via multiple registrations on the VSPs.

3) Both Voxalot IDs (and their related PSTN numbers) will be registered with e164.org for incoming calls and should forward calls to their respective separate ports on the ATA.

My understanding is that all the above should work fine. The problem comes when we start talking about incoming calls.

Say I have DIDs with both Oztell and Mynetfone. I only want the Oztell DID to ring the first ATA port (Voxalot ID 111111) and I only want the Mynetfone DID ring the second ATA port (Voxalot ID 2222222).

As I have effectively dual registration with both Oztell and Mynetfone via Voxalot then if I am using say Oztell from the ATA port1 (Voxalot ID 111111) and a call comes in on the Oztell DID then it would appear that the phone on the second ATA port will ring (Voxalot ID 222222) which I don't want to happen! The same thing with the Mynetfone DID.

Is there a way to make an incoming DID call from a provider go to only one port? In my case I want the Oztell DID call to only go to ATA port 1 (Voxalot ID 111111) and the Mynetfone DID call to only go to ATA port 2 (Voxalot ID 222222).

I though about using "call Forwarding" but I don't think it will do this. Anybody got any ideas???

Thanks

Alan

You can do as I and others do and that is register multiple ports and/or devices with the same voxalot account. They will all ring until one is answered or vm kicks in.

Otherwise, you can enter all providers for outgoing calls and have active set to yes for each required account for incoming -- thus only registering once per VSP account.

Thanks for the reply Affinity.

From what you are saying I should just set active to YES on my port one with Oztell and YES on my port two with Mynetfone and then incoming calls will only ring the specific port and not both. Outgoing calls will go by whatever routing I have in the dial plans.

I kind of thought that may do it after having a sleep on it.

Thanks again

Alan

Active means that it is available for making calls, "SIP Register" is for registering for receiving calls.

If you want to use 2x VoXaLot accounts, then make all entries active for both accounts and then only make the appropriate ones "Yes" for "SIP Register".

Thanks again for the reply. Much appreciated.

I am at the stage of trying to get the outbound operational!

At this stage I am just playing with one port only and just two providers, Oztell and Mynetfone (trying to keep the variables to as low a number as possible!).

I have successfully called into my Voxalot number from a PSTN gateway and that works fine.

I have both providers set up as Active = "Yes", SIP Registration = "No" for now, and a simple dial plan such that _6. goes out via Oztell and _08. goes out via Mynetfone.

However I don't seem able to make any outgoing calls. All I get is a busy signal (I can use the "600" echo test though so my ATA is ok).

Both VSPs show in the providers list as Active = "Yes", Status = "-". I guess I just have to wait until the status changes to "registered"(?). But will it do that if I have set the SIP registration to NO for both providers. If not should I still be able to make outgoing calls (I understood yes as the answer)?

Thanks again

Alan

Status is for registered status, not active status. So long as they are active, then you should be able to use them for calling out.

Do the tests on the dial plan screen to see how a dialed number should route. Make sure the result is suitable for the VSP, ie you may need to consider the calling format.

Once again, many thanks Affinity.

I managed to get the Oztell account working for dial out but still waiting for the registration to be complete to test the dial in side od it.

Not managed to get the Mynetfone outgoing working yet but it's a new account so I will have to try it direct from my ATA before I go any further.

As a test I am using very simple dial plans:
_6. via Oztell ( so I can dial my PSTN number as 6189xxxxxx)
_08. via Mynetfone (so I can dial my PSTN number as 089xxxxxxx)
and the test results seem to be ok.

I'll get there eventually!!

Thanks again

Alan

Just as a quick follow-up. Voxalot has to be registered with Mynetfone before you can make outgoing calls through them.

Hopefully Mynetfone will remove this restriction when they finally get it all working in conjunction with Voxalot.

Thanks for your help Affinity

Alan

Thanks for sharing Alan.

Yes, thanks Alan.

So is the idea of using just one Voxalot account not going to work for you?

No problems Martin.

It took me a bit a messing about finalising in a call to MNF to confirm that.

Can I make a suggestion that there be a "checkbox" to enable (make active) incoming calls similar to what there is for outgoing calls? The reason I suggest is that I have two Voxalot numbers (actually one's mine and the other's the boss of the house). When an incoming call from say the MNF DID is received I would like it to only ring one of the Voxalot numbers and not both.

That way we can share outgoing facilities but limit incoming PSTN DID calls to the appropriate port on the ATA.

Another suggestion would be to allow users to "delete" their Voxalot number (and therefore unsubscribe) when they no longer wish to use the service. That would possibly free up some numbers.

On another front, despite what I said above about Oztell outgoing being ok (it was actually Sipme I was using) I don't seem to be able to register with Oztell (using sip2.syd.net2max.com). Is there a problem with them?

Thanks

Alan

Thanks for the suggestions Alan.

I just checked the registry and all bar 2 are successfully registered with ozTell.

Unfortunately not really. The problem is I have one set up in my office (at home) and the other in the living part of the house. So port 1 on the ATA is connected to a two line phone in the office (line 1 = PSTN, line 2 = VoIP) and port 2 of the ATA is in the living quarters (again line 1 = PSTN, line 2 = VoIP). I want to keep any DID activity restricted to the required phone rather than ringing both ports/phones.

Hence two account numbers. I think Mynetfone will cause a problem though as it has to be registered for outgoing calls as well as incoming. This led me to the suggestion of having an incoming active checkbox as well as the outgoing active checkbox.

I could see this being useful for people that are using Asterix/Trixbox also where they may have several incoming DIDs that need to go to specific extensions depending on the DID.

Alan

Martin

Could you have a look at my account (937055) please to see if there is something I am doing wrong for Oztell?

Thanks

Alan

Hi Alan,

Yeah your is one of the 2 that are failing. The status is:

Auth. Sent

This means that your credentials are incorrect i.e. username and/or password

Thanks Martin

I'll check and see where I've messed up. My head's full of numbers at the moment (lol) and just spent two days trying to get an ethernet print server working correctly.

Cheers

Alan

Just as a quick follow up...... My Oztell registration finally went through but it must have taken a long time. I was out of the office most of the day and when I checked in the evening it was registered.

Thanks for the good work, Martin et al.

Alan