Hi guys,

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Thanks Matt

Hey Scott,

Sorry to follow you over here on this topic :), but I check these boards now also great community add-on... I agree with you on the Voice Pulse thing. It might work.. the problem is that it might not. SIP is SIP for the most part, but SIP is also not always the same between all carriers because there are many settings in the SIP protocol and because they are not standardized it causes problems on certain systems.

I really don't understand why on Asterisk it seems like they can accept any SIP connection. I believe it is because you have direct control over the way each protocol is accepted and you can put in all the settings from a specific provider to make it work properly. For some reason on ShoreTel and other proprietary PBX systems you do not have this kind of control or access. ShoreTel requires the use of a SIP border controller through INGate usually we will use a INGate Siperator 21 or higher product depending on the amount of voice channels. In the INGate we can change the settings to work with any carrier, however, there are predefined carriers in the INGate SIP profiles that will work "Out of the box" with ShoreTel. You could definitely get Voice Pulse to work with ShoreTel, but it may take some engineering and support time with the carrier to get it working properly.

Those are my thoughts on it. All in all it is just far easier to get it to work with the carriers that are already certified with it.

This is super easy to do. Get a PHP mailer script. Create a form on your web site using HTML then have the form submit <form method="post" action="?"> I put action ? because it came back to my same page... however you can put it to another PHP file called something like mailsubmission.php... in that PHP file you need to get the variables from the form you submitted. Then you need to receive the form items into / from a Post Variable like this

$to = $_POST['to'];
$oldmessage = $_POST['message'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$name = $_POST['name'];

$sent = $_POST['sent'];

Then use a PHP mailer script to then take those and mail them to the person you want to receive them. Plenty of tutorials on stack exchange how to further do that.

You can also harden the form itself making sure the expressions are legit with javascript if you want to verify things and make sure no one is hacking your form. Hope this helps.

They always have Cisco IP Phones...

Let me know if you need any help doing so glad to assist if you hit a road block...

@TeleFox It says I am a vendor here... but I do lot's of things. Almost wish it didn't say that... I am not trying to charge to assist you with that.

@gjacobse said in Offgrid PoE options:

hanks for the update on the TP

I guess if you just need one phone its not a big deal I thought he was trying to lay out more though because he was discussing poe from a switch..

Man you guys are on it! Thanks!

It is actually pretty difficult comparatively to other systems. I have worked with more than a few and I am not a fan of the complexity there.

If you like LOTR this guy made songs out of the poems in the first couple books..

https://soundcloud.com/mjf-832409379/sets/the-shire

@garak0410 I actually decided to go this year. Hoping things will pick back up.. been AFK too long. See ya there.

@jaredbusch I thought I was the only one who had that glass

Why not Twilio?

@eddiejennings said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Had a good bit of fun grinding my cleric on Project 1999 this week. He's almost level 60.

I wish they would do this for Asheron's call. I know they tried, but Warner Bros or something of the like bought the rights to the entire game, content/series and just locked it up!?

@rojoloco said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Bought Goat Simulator last week for $2.49. Have gotten at least $6.30 worth of entertainment value out of it so far, the buggy physics alone are worth the purchase price.

agreed this game is hilarious. My niece is way too good at it she found like ninja turtles in the sewers and all kinds of stuff I didn't come close to figuring out.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@orchidindigo said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Quake Champions is free on Steam until the 25th I think, might be worth getting before that window closes.

I picked it up this weekend!

I didn't like it nothing beats q2ra2!

@JaredBusch said in Offgrid PoE options:

al access point

Oh I was thinking the Engenius was the phone side of the house

@gjacobse said in Offgrid PoE options:

hanks for the update on the TP

I guess if you just need one phone its not a big deal I thought he was trying to lay out more though because he was discussing poe from a switch..

@MattSpeller Because each POE injector requires an outlet to power it and push the power inline to the cable.

But wouldn't injectors require a ton of plugs to be laid out?