I have browsed several forums on the net, read a lot of articles, but I still can't manage to get the real phone number to display on my Grandstream VoIP phone. It always shows the internal identification number from my Sipura. Maybe I should start by checking the firmware version of my Sipura. A firmware upgrade helped me to get additional features working on the Grandstream.

Today, I have upgraded the firmware of my Grandstream GXP-2000 VoIP phone. It took me some time to get everything together, but eventually I managed to have a successfull upgrade.

Although a number of articles mention to enable the PSTN to VOIP gateway on the Sipura, I found an article on voxilla.com that mentions otherwise. This resolved the issue of having the Sipura stuck in an off-hook state. I am starting now to re-read the Sipura manual thoroughly. I still don't understand how a lot of the settings work together...

After my latest blog post, I had an initial setup running with the Linksys SPA 3000, Asterisk and the SLUG. However, I have been experiencing problems with the setup. If an incoming call through the SPA-3000 doesn't get answered, the PSTN Line seems to get stuck in the Ringing state. I have been experimenting with the Disconnect Tone settings, but to no avail so far. I will keep you posted on the progress!

After unslunging my NSLU2, I started with getting Asterisk and all my extensions configured. These include the incoming phone line on the Linksys SPA3000, the POTS phone on the FXS port of the Linksys and a Grandstream GXP-2000 SIP phone. The POTS phone is used currently to mimic my POTS enabled door phone.

It has been a while since I posted the previous message. In the past two months I have managed to move into the new house, went on holiday and it took the phone company way too much time to get my DSL line migrated to the new place. But I'm back now and I can say that I now have the hardware to run Asterisk, a Linksys NSLU2. This beast will be upgraded to the latest Unslung distribution, coming from the NSLU2-Linux community. Thanks guys!

While looking around for an option to connect the door phone to a PABX, I bumped into the Asterisk site. Until now, I was wandering to buy an analog PBX. However, with all the features that Asterisk provides, I would be stupid to do so. So for the last days, I have been looking around for hardware that can run my Asterisk. Here are some of the things I found:

• VIA EPIA motherboard

Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog, I found this article on how to intelligently backup your data if your are a Mac user. The author separates the data in different categories and describes a backup strategy for each of these categories. Nice reading and definitely something to implement!

I really want to get my hands dirty on MacOS X programming, preferably in Objective-C. I am a del.icio.us user, but also a Safari user. The easiest way to get them connected is through iSync. So here is a short list of things I will explore to get this covered.

A friend of mine of the cycling club also uses RapidWeaver to create the club's website. Since we have a monthly calendar of tours we ride, it would be very handy if we could just enter all the tours in Apple's Calendar application and then just publish it on the website using RapidWeaver.