While loading res_odbc.so Asterisk crashes with “invalid pointer” error like in the backtrace below:
Loading res_odbc.so. Continue reading
Apr 17 2019
Asterisk crashes on res_odbc.so load
Apr 03 2019
How to reset MySQL/MariaDB root password
Start session ssh (using root if possible).
Edit my.cnf file using.
sudo vi /etc/my.cnf
Add line to [mysqld] block: Continue reading
Mar 30 2019
Parse JSON in Asterisk: how to install res_json
If you need to talk to external API and parse JSON in Asterisk dialplan you will need res_json installed. Unfortunately it’s not bundled in Asterisk installation yet but here is how you can install res_json in Asterisk: Continue reading
Mar 30 2019
Calculate Difference between two Time Values in Asterisk Dialplan
For calculating the difference between two times in Asterisk dialplan, the time values should be converted to an epoch value first. This can be done using the asterisk function STRFTIME. Use the below dialplan to convert current time to an epoch value
Set(time=${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%s)}) Continue reading
Mar 21 2019
New encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
During the step of database creation in Odoo database manager the following database creation error occurs:
New encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
Mar 20 2019
A2Billing wholesale: fake ring and incorrect billing
Often in A2billing wholesale setup one might find that A2Billing starts billing for calls too early (before the call is answered). Another frequently asked question is “fake ring”.
Let’s go through each of issues. Continue reading
Mar 13 2019
A2Billing wholesale configuration
In order to use A2Billing for wholesale you need to modify a few settings.
Log in to A2Billing as usual and go to System Settings -> Global List menu. Set Display setting to All and now you can use browser to quickly find needed setting (Ctrl+F).
Play Audio (this will disable all stream file but not the Get Data , for wholesale ensure that the authentication works and than number_try = 1 ) = Yes Continue reading
Feb 28 2019
FreePBX error gui_hidden has a deprecated constructor
Having fresh manual installation of FreePBX 14 on CentOS 7 and when access GUI for the first time it throws the following error: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; gui_hidden has a deprecated constructor.
In Apache’s error log file I found the following:
Whoops\Exception\ErrorException: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; dayNightObject has a deprecated constructor in file /var/www/html/admin/modules/daynight/functions.inc.php on line 9
Stack trace:
1. Whoops\Exception\ErrorException->() /var/www/html/admin/modules/daynight/functions.inc.php:9
2. Whoops\Run->handleError() /var/www/html/admin/bootstrap.php:362
3. require_once() /var/www/html/admin/bootstrap.php:362
4. require_once() /etc/freepbx.conf:9
5. include_once() /var/lib/asterisk/bin/retrieve_conf:19 Continue reading
Jan 09 2019
How to convert an OVA virtual machine to VHD
I’ve got an OVA virtual machine image of VirtualBox. As I use Hyper-V I need to convert ova to VHD before I’ll be able to import OVA virtual machine to Hyper-V.
In order to do this you will need VirtualBox’s VBoxManage.exe utility. You can get it without actually installing VirtualBox on your system by using portable version from vbox.me website.
After extraction you will find VBoxManage.exe in Portable-VirtualBox\app64 folder.
Convert OVA to VHD in two steps: Continue reading
Dec 13 2018
How to traverse FTP directories with CURL
When doing FTP commands to traverse the remote file system, there are a few different ways cURL can proceed to reach the target file, the file the user wants to transfer.
multicwd
cURL can do one change directory (CWD) command for every individual directory down the file tree hierarchy. If the full path is one/two/three/file.txt, that method means doing three CWD commands before asking for the file.txt file to get transferred. This method thus creates quite a large number of commands if the path is many levels deep. This method is mandated by an early spec (RFC 1738) and is how curl acts by default: Continue reading
