SPA-3000: routing inbound PSTN to * voicemail

[horatio]

i have a SPA-3000 PSTN to VoIP adapter and i am having a very tough time getting a basic working config up and running with asterisk. i want inbound PSTN calls to be routed from the spa-3000 to voicemail via asterisk.

i have a lot of experience setting up all sorts of network services and i need a nudge in the right direction on this one. are there any docs that go through a basic setup like i've described? i don't want to add the complication of VoIP termination to the instance of asterisk that i'm running just yet, i plan to do this after i get basic voicemail working.

all suggestions welcome. thx for reading.

[mberlant]

This is the right place. By reading the previous threads here you will learn everything you laid out in this posting.

You will learn about things like the Voxilla Wizard for Asterisk/SPA-3000, for example, that will do 90% of the work in integrating your SPA-3000 with your Asterisk.

Welcome aboard.

[jmattwood]

Assuming you've used the Voxilla wizard, the simplest way is on the PSTN tab.....logged in as admin/advanced

under "PSTN-To-VoIP Gateway Setup" check which DP you have set up against "PSTN Caller Default DP:"

Then scroll up to the Dial plan section and look for the DP that matches.

Set the entry to (<S0:*204>) where 204 is the vm extension you want to use.

Incoming calls will go straight to VM. If you leave the star out, it will ring extension 204 then go to VM, if you've set up VM for ext 204.

[mberlant]

The practice of putting * in front of an extension number is peculiar to a couple of automated system configurators, and is not part of the Asterisk engine. If you are configuring your own Asterisk you need to replace *204 with whatever code you have configured to point to VoiceMail(u204).

[horatio]

i've figured this out. for a basic config like this, i wouldn't recommend using the configuration script. i got the config working by combining info from these two sites

http://www.darksource.org/index.php?...id=43&Itemid=2
http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorial...voicemail.html

for the sake of those who have troubles similar to mine, i have included my config files below (this is for asterisk on *nix, not on the various asterisk-centric "OSes"). configure the spa-3000 as suggested in the first link i listed above, then set the configs as follows:

sip.conf
##############

[pstn-spa]
canreinvite=no
context=from-pstn
host=10.9.3.100 ; IP address of SPA-3000
insecure=very
nat=no
port=5061
qualify=yes
type=peer

[spa3000]
canreinvite=no
context=from-pstn
host=10.9.3.1 ; IP address of Asterisk server
insecure=very
nat=no
port=5060 ; use 5060 here, not 5061 b/c asterisk server listens on 5060 by default
type=user

voicemail.conf
###################

[mb_tutorial]
777 => 1212, me, me@mydomain.net

extensions.conf
####################

[from-pstn]
exten => s,1,VoiceMail(777@mb_tutorial)
exten => s,2,PlayBack(vm-goodbye)
exten => s,3,HangUp()

this is pretty raw, although it does demonstrate the basic parts that you need working to get voicemail working. use "sip debug" from the asterisk console to get more info if you're having trouble replicating this.