Uniden UIP1868 "Whole House System" and Asterisk?

[ZED28]

Hey guys, is there anyone here than can assist me in trouble shooting the UIP1868 Whole House System? Here's a little insight into what I have going on.

I have a cable connection coming into my Linksys router. My Linksys router's IP is 192.168.15.1. I don't have DHCP turned on for the router as I have a Windows 2003 Domain Controller handing out IP's. My internal network ID is 192.168.15.0/24

I have a new Asterisk@Home box running on my internal network on 192.168.15.100 with the ports open for it on the router. I'm able to make and receive calls using my new Grandstream phone with no probs so I know it's not an issue with the config of my PBX.

Now, let's introduce the UIP1868 into the mix. The phone is designed to be a router - a solution for the entire house but that's not how I want to use it. I'm not interested in using the router side of it as I already have one. There are two ethernet ports on the back of the UIP1868 1xLAN and 1xWAN. The idea normally if this were to be a whole house solution would be to put the cable connection into the WAN side and run the private network on the LAN port.

My implementation doesn't use the LAN. I wil lconnect the WAN port to the Linksys router where the IP address would be given to the UIP1868 by DHCP - this works. So with the UIP1868 getting a valid 192.168.15.X IP address, you would think it could communicate with the other nodes on the same network - including the Asterisk@Home box. Well, if I ping the IP of the UIP1868 from any one of my computers, I get nothing. If I go to the web interface of the UIP1868 (I have to do this from the LAN port of the unit) then I can't ping anything from there either.

If I use the LAN port instead of the WAN port to connect to the network, I can ping everything - including my Asterisk server. You would think that this would be the way to go except that there's a section in the LAN config under "Port Forwarding Configuration" that reads...

Reserved Ports
The following ports are reserved and will not be forwarded to the LAN :
5060-5061, 10000-10015

If the needed ports are not forwarded on the LAN interface, all the pinging in the world will do me no good.

Anyone else have one of these working?

[mberlant]

Since the Uniden is only a SIP client and not a SIP server, trying to ping it serves no real purpose. Rather, since you say it successfully gets an IP address from your Windows server, just configure the Uniden's two SIP channels as two different extensions of your Asterisk. Depending upon your ISP's permitting or not permitting hairpin connections, you may need to home the Uniden to the Asterisk's internal or external IP address (or FQDN). At that point you should see the Uniden Register with Asterisk and everything should be fine.

[ZED28]

A little more progress on this. My initial connectivity problem has been resolved concerning being able to ping back and forth. I had to have different subnets on the LAN and WAN interfaces to cure that problem. Now, connected via the WAN interface, the Uniden can ping the Asterisk box.

So to remove a layer of complexity from my initial question, my current and hopefully only problem is getting the Uniden to be recognized by the Asterisk server. This I just can't seem to do and it just tells me that it fails registration.

[mberlant]

Assuming that your 1868 doesn't have a suffix like P (locked to Packet8) or V (locked to Vonage), Registering with Asterisk shouldn't be giving you such a headache.

Unfortunately, the only 1868 manual I could find on line is for the UIP1868P, so it has no information regarding SIP configuration. If you can list the parameters the UIP is asking for, we can most likely fit Asterisk to this list.

[ZED28]

Originally Posted by mberlant

Assuming that your 1868 doesn't have a suffix like P (locked to Packet8) or V (locked to Vonage), Registering with Asterisk shouldn't be giving you such a headache.

Unfortunately, the only 1868 manual I could find on line is for the UIP1868P, so it has no information regarding SIP configuration. If you can list the parameters the UIP is asking for, we can most likely fit Asterisk to this list.

Thanks for the reply mberlant. Yeah, this is supposedly an unlocked version - I specifically asked that it be able to work with Asterisk@Home when I purchased it and got it from www.voipsupply.com who seem to know what they're doing. Looking at the bottom of the unit, there is no suffix, it just says "Model: UIP1868 747B0505" so I'm pretty conviced I have the correct one.

This weekend I went to CompUSA to buy a new router and noticed they had this phone in the VOIP section. The Vonage version actually had the "Vonage" logo on the top of the phone where mine says "VOiP". Having said that, the Packet8 phone also had the VOiP logo though I dunno if this is generic. I'll shoot the sales guy an e-mail asking if the phone's unlocked but I'm 95% sure it is.

I'll add the link for the manual for this phone shortly, there's no mention of Packet8 or Vonage so I assume this is the version that applies to the unlocked phone.

I'll also post screen shots of the settings I have.

Thanks for your help man!

[mberlant]

I look forward to seeing your screen shots. No suffix or G (generic) suffix are supposed to indicate that the phone is not locked to a specific provider.

[ZED28]

Originally Posted by mberlant

I look forward to seeing your screen shots. No suffix or G (generic) suffix are supposed to indicate that the phone is not locked to a specific provider.

Okay, here they are. I kinda went overboard with the screen shots but figured too much info was better than not enough. LOL If you look at the UIP1868 manual concerning the web interface for the system, you'll notice the settings organised by LAN, WAN, SIP etc. That's how I've organized the screen shots. So if you need to see how my settings are for SIP, just browse the SIP folder and the labelling should be self explainatory.

Here's the link to all of the above...

http://www.tomkinson.org/stuff/voip/

Thanks again for taking the time to look at this.

[gmsmith]

Did you ever get this working? I too have one fro VoIP Supply that I can not for the life of me get to work. It isn't even sending registration information to my * box (at least nothing is showing up in the logs).

[ZED28]

Originally Posted by gmsmith

Did you ever get this working? I too have one fro VoIP Supply that I can not for the life of me get to work. It isn't even sending registration information to my * box (at least nothing is showing up in the logs).

Well yes and no. I'm in the process of RMA'ing it - not because I couldn't get it to work but because it was sold to me as a solution for 3 individual separate extensions - which it isn't. It’s a single phone with extensions that will all ring at the same time. If this is what you need, read on…

You can get it to register but it depends on what setup you currently have as the base is actually a router itself. If you're like me and putting it behind an existing router, you should be able to get it to register but there are a few things you need to understand about how the routers will talk with each other.

Let's assume you are going my route and connecting it to an existing router. I'll also assume that your Asterisk box is on the private network behind the NAT'd router.

Let's say your private LAN IP scheme is 192.168.1.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0. Your Router's IP is 192.168.1.1 and your Asterisk box is 192.168.1.10. Dunno how you're giving out IP's but let's say your router is handing them out using a range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200.

Over to your UIP1868. If it's reset to factory, your LAN IP will be 192.168.15.1 and your WAN IP will be dynamically assigned. I would suggest you leave it as dynamic. Notice at this point that you have different IP schemes on the WAN and LAN - this is required for the routing to work!

Connect your WAN port of the UIP1868 to an empty port on your router/switch using either a cross-over or straight cable. Most new routers and switches are auto sensing and will accept either type of cable, it depends on your model but you should get link lights on your router for the port you're using if everything's okay (and both router and UIP1868 are powered up!)

I dunno if you have intentions of connecting anything to the LAN port of the UIP1868 or not, I personally didn't except for to configure the phone which is what you will do next. So connect your PC to the LAN port using a straight cable. I think the UIP1868 hands out IP's by default, in which case your PC should get the first one in the scope. You can check this by typing the following at the command prompt:-

ipconfig

If it comes back with an IP of 192.168.15.x then you should be okay. Try pinging 192.168.15.1 while you are there and you should get 4x replies if everything's good.

If you don't have an IP similar to above, try entering the following at the command line:-

ipconfig /release

ipconfig /renew

Try the ipconfig command again to see if you have an IP address. If for whatever reason you are still unable to get an IP, set one manually on your computer of say 192.168.15.10 and mask of 255.255.255.0. You don't need to worry about other settings like DNS or Default Gateway. Submit the settings and try pinging the UIP1868's IP again - 192.168.15.1

If you're not getting replies, it's likely to be a cabling issue or the private IP on the UIP1868 has been changed from the default.

Assuming you are able to ping the phone, open the following in a browser...

http://192.168.15.1

Enter the default username and password which I think were:- (I may be wrong here though so re-check)

Username - admin
Password - UnidEn79!

Once you are in, the only thing you need to change are the SIP settings. I initially had two lines show up that I could populate with extension settings from Asterisk. The minute I connected it to the network, only one would show up - strange. But let's go ahead and look at the settings for at least one of the extensions and maybe you'll get lucky and see the second line after.

If you refer to the following screen shot as a reference, it will make the explanation somewhat easier.

http://www.tomkinson.org/stuff/voip/...20Settings.gif

Replace my IP address of 192.168.0.100 with the IP address of your Asterisk Box (was 192.168.1.10 in my example above)

For the Line1 settings, mine is slightly wrong in the image. You need to remove the entry for "Business ID" and only have your extension in two places, the "Phone Number" and "User Name" fields.

Just an FYI, I was going wrong with the example image by having 1040 also in the "Business ID" which effectively presented the extension to Asterisk as 10401040 - not just 1040.

At this point, your UIP1868 should see your Asterisk box (assuming you have an extension setup for it of course) and you will hopefully get a dial tone and be able to use the phone!

Let me know if you need any help or have problems along the way. I apologize if these instructions appear "too beginner'ish" but figured I would give more info than too little.

Let me know how it goes and good luck...

[gmsmith]

UM...wow...

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the details.

I am having a problem having it recognize DTMF tones during calls, like for example voicemail password and such. I have dtmfmode set as RFC 2833 in the sip config on asterisk and I set out of band telephone events to: RFC 2833, am I missing something?

Now its time to cancel my ebay auction and keep this puppy.