[Asterisk-Users] Zap channels ringing too loudly

[Matt]

This is entirely your phones.. not asterisk... that is how loud the
phones are set to ring.. is there a ringer setting on them?

On 5/31/06, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:58:55PM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I've got an asterisk system, using a couple of Xorcom Astribanks to
> > provide FXS ports. (I'm using the zaptel 1.2 branch, if that matters)
> >
> > I've noticed that the ringing volume is a lot louder than on our old phone
> > system, and people are starting to complain it's too loud. (This is the
> > noise the phone makes when it rings, not the noise in your handset when
> > you ring someone else)
> >
> >
> > Having had a look through the code, I think that Asterisk passes the
> > responsibility for ringing the phones to Zaptel, which drives the
> > astribank to make them ring. Is this correct?
>
> Anything that analog is probably the job of the digital-to-analog chip
> used. Not of the digital stream sent by Zaptel.
>
> >
> > Despite looking through the zaptel source code, I couldn't find anywhere
> > that screamed "I'm the volume your phones ring at". Just a lot of scary
> > numbers in zonedata.c, and cryptic comments in tone_zone.h
> >
> >
> > Could someone suggest how I'd go about making the zap ring volume quieter?
>
> I don't have the specs here. I'll just note that component used in the
> Astribank is quite similar to the one used by Digium in the TDM400P and
> TDM2400P . Grep for proslic. Note, however:
>
> $ cat /proc/xpp/XBUS-0/XPD-0/slics
> # Writing bad data into this file may damage your hardware!
> # Consult firmware docs first
> SLIC_REPLY: D reg_num=0x0, dataH=0x0 dataL=0x0
>
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