Really basic newbie question: handling incoming calls

[beonice]

Hello, all.

I'm trying to set up Asterisk for VOIP inbound calls (outbound will follow later). I'm able to SSH in to the Asterisk box, and can even access the AMP web-based portal through http. Now I'm trying to hook in my DID so that I can use Asterisk as my PBX.

I've got a DID from VoicePulse Connect, and followed the instructions they have to set up my extensions.conf and iax.conf. From their docs, this is all I should need to do to have VOIP working with Asterisk. (I'm configuring the rest of my app with AMP, but that's irrelevant to this bit). I don't have a VOIP phone, so I'm just hoping to use IAX.

Now, I tried calling the DID phone number from my cell phone: the cell shows that the call connects, but I hear no ringing tone on the cell phone, and the call is dropped after about 10 seconds.

I am wondering if I am missing something totally basic.

Help, please!

Cheers,
BeOnIce

[FamilyGuy]

First do this:

cd /var/lib/asterisk/keys
wget http://connect.voicepulse.com/keys/voicepulse01.pub

Then setup the following files as such:

iax.conf

register => USERNAME:PASSWORD@gwiax-in-01.voicepulse.com

; This is the VoicePulse user for incoming calls to your
; Asterisk server:
;
[voicepulse-in-01] ; <-- Name must be [voicepulse-in-01]
type=user
context=voicepulse-incoming
auth=rsa
inkeys=voicepulse01

extensions.conf

[voicepulse-incoming] ; change 239 to your VP area code
exten => _239NXXXXXX,1,DigitTimeout(5)
exten => _239NXXXXXX,2,ResponseTimeout(10)
exten => _239NXXXXXX,3,Wait(1)
exten => _239NXXXXXX,4,Background(custom/ivr-greeting)

then connect to asterisk by typing the following from the /usr/src/asterisk directory ./asterisk -vvvvvvvgrc

That will give you access to the CLI for debugging what happens when you call your DID