Monthly Archives: April 2010

Roll Your Own: Part 4 – Testing/Conclusion

(previous) Testing Now that we’ve got everything configured, all we need to do is test our setup. Dial your Google Voice number from a land-line or cell phone. This should ring your SIP phone. Try this a few times and: … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 3.2 – Asterisk Configuration Continued

(previous) Now the final, most involved part of the process: Configuring the dialplan. We’ll take this bit by bit, but if you’re not sure about what a particular line does, check out the Wiki at Voip-Info.org. Dialplan Basics First we’ll … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 3 – Asterisk Configuration

(previous) With Asterisk installed and sipgate and Google Voice configured, it’s time for the meat and potatoes of this whole thing: configuring Asterisk. safe_asterisk Before we get into the configuration, though, we need to make a quick security change. We’ll … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Asterisk + Google Voice = Free Calling

In an earlier post I promised a how-to for how I used Asterisk and Google Voice to get a Home Phone, so here goes… First of all, if you’re not much of the command-line tinkering type, and you have an … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 1 – Installation

(previous) Alright, first thing’s first, we need to download and install Asterisk and PyGoogleVoice. Installing Asterisk First, we need to download the Asterisk source files. I’m using Asterisk 1.6.2.6, which is the latest stable version as of this writing. You … Continue reading

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