[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Pleiades P32mxi

[Peter Nixon]

Hi Guys

I have an Asterisk box with an E100P card connected to a Pleiades P32mxi 
(http://www.pleiadescom.com/p32mxi.html)

When I set the channel bank and asterisk to use Loop Start (or Kewl Start) to 
communicate calls can happily go from asterisk, via the channel bank to PSTN.
However, Asterisk sees these calls as being answered immediately regardless of 
if the call is still ringing or actually answered. The channel bank has 
Answer Supervision installed (Voice Activity Detection) and the debug 
messages on the channel bank show that this is working correctly.

It appears that Loop Start signaling does not contain enough information for 
Asterisk to detect the ringing state of the call, and at the recommendation 
of Pleiades I would like to change my signaling to "E & M" or "E & M 
Wink" (Actually they recommend to use "R2 Digital" signaling but I dont think 
asterisk supports this).

The problem is when I configure E & M (Or E & M Wink) on both the channel bank 
and asterisk the channel bank fails to see ANY signaling comming over the E1 
interface. Nada, nothing, zilch.. I have spent MANY hours on this problem 
with Pleiades tech support, and quite a few calls to Digium also but I cannot 
get this working. Does anyone else have a Pleiades channel bank?? Has anyone 
else gotten one working with E & M?

TIA

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Peter Nixon
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