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Welcome toGetting Started WithPIKA channel
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Getting Started WithPIKA channel driver for
AsteriskEric PretlacTechnical Support
EngineerFeb 06, 2008
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Before we get started

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Agenda

• What is a channel driver?
• What is supported?
• Versions of trixbox, Asterisk
• Which PIKA cards are supported?
• Installing PIKA with trixbox
• How to download files
• Step-by-step installation
• Dialplan syntax
• Installing PIKA with stock Asterisk
• How to download files
• Step-by-step installation
• Dialplan syntax
• Question Answer

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Terminology

• What is a channel driver?
• According to www.asterisk.org
• Each call into Asterisk must come in through a
  channel driver that supports a technology
  like SIP, ZAP, IAX2 etc.
• Program that allows PIKA cards to work with
  Asterisk

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PIKA Terminology

• chan_pika_dsp
• low density analog (4 port fxo) card
• chan_pika
• high density analog fxo/fxs cards
• digital T1/E1 cards

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Installing PIKA with trixbox
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PIKA support for trixbox

• PIKA supports trixbox CE 2.2 2.4
• PIKA hardware
• Low Density Analog (4 fxo)
• High density Analog Trunk/ fxo
• High density Analog Station/ fxs
• Digital T1/E1 PCI/PCIe

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PIKA Hardware for Asterisk
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Download the files

• Download and install trixbox
• www.trixbox.org
• Download and install PIKA files
• using yum install
• Installation instructions
• www.pikatechnologies.com/asterisk

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trixbox installationchan_pika_dsp
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Installing chan_pika_dsp with trixbox

• Install the PIKA card
• yum install pika-repo
• yum install pika_aob_
• yum install chan_pika_dsp
• installs and configures cards to a default usable
  state.
• Change pika_dsp.conf --  the context must be
  from-pstn
• Use trixbox to configure your dialplan and
  extensions.
• FreePBX Add Custom TRUNK with Custom Dial String
  
• PIKA_DSP/g/0/OUTNUM
• Restart asterisk or reboot machine.

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Installing chan_pika with trixbox

• Install the PIKA card
• yum install pika-repo
• yum install pika_aoh_
• yum install chan_pika-3
• pikacf Optional to configure as E1 instead
  of T1
• Change pika.conf --  the context must be
  from-pstn
• Use trixbox to configure your dialplan and
  extensions.
• FreePBX Add Custom TRUNK with Custom Dial String
• PIKA high density analog cards
  PIKA/fxo/g0/OUTNUM
• PIKA digital cards  PIKA/digital/g0/OUTNUM
• Restart asterisk or reboot machine

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Installing PIKA with stock Asterisk
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PIKA support for Asterisk

• PIKA supports Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4
• PIKA hardware
• Low Density Analog (4 fxo)
• High density Analog Trunk/ fxo
• High density Analog Station/ fxs
• Digital T1/E1 PCI/PCIe

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Before you begin

• gcc and glibc must be installed
• Kernel source must be installed
• Must disable SElinux
• Any 32-bit distro using kernel 2.6
• Must use the smp kernel (chan_pika)
• PIKA scripts check all of this! ?

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Download the files

• Full instructions are in the INSTALL doc
• on our website (and in the download)
• Download Zaptel and Asterisk source
• www.asterisk.org
• Download PIKA files
• www.pikatechnologies.com/asterisk

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Installing chan_pika_dsp
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Installing chan_pika_dsp

• Extract Asterisk source
• tar -zxf asterisk-1.4.17.tar.gz -C
  /usr/src/
• Extract Zaptel source
• tar -zxf zaptel-1.4.7.tar.gz -C /usr/src
• PIKA uses ztdummy module 
• Extract PIKA channel driver source
• tar -zxf chan_pika_dsp-3.0.3.tgz -C /usr/src/

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chan_pika_dsp (contd)

• Physically install the PIKA board
• Install the PIKA board driver and SDK
• cd /usr/src/chan_pika_dsp-3.0.3
• ./pikaaob-6.5.3.18-linux-installer
• Log out and log back in
• Debian RedHat-based systems (CentOS)
• Allows environment variables to be set

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Installing chan_pika_dsp

• Apply PIKA's patch to Asterisk
• cd /usr/src/asterisk-1.4.4
• patch -p0 lt ../chan_pika_dsp-3.0.3/patch-1.4.dif
  f
• Asterisk 1.4.x use patch-1.4.diff
• Asterisk 1.2.x use patch-1.2.diff

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Installing chan_pika_dsp

• Build and install Zaptel
• cd /usr/src/zaptel
• ./configure make make install
• Build and install Asterisk
• cd /usr/src/asterisk
• ./configure make make install
• Build and install chan_pika_dsp
• cd /usr/src/chan_pika_dsp-3.0.3
• ./configure make make install
• Configure chan_pika_dsp
• make config

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Using PIKA in Your Dialplan

• Modify your dialplan (extensions.conf)
• Dial(PIKA_DSP/t/1/6002/)
• Dial(PIKA_DSP/g/1/6002/)
• Dial(PIKA_DSP/b0/t/4/6002/)
• Dialplan examples
• website
• PIKA manpage

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Installing chan_pika
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Installing chan_pika

• Extract Asterisk source
• tar -zxf asterisk-1.4.17.tar.gz -C
  /usr/src/
• Extract Zaptel source
• tar -zxf zaptel-1.4.7.tar.gz -C /usr/src/
• PIKA uses ztdummy module 
• Extract PIKA channel driver source
• tar -zxf chan_pika-3.2.1.tgz -C /usr/src/

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chan_pika (contd)

• Physically install the PIKA board
• Install the PIKA board driver and SDK
• cd /usr/src/chan_pika-3.2.1
• ./pikaaoh-2.2.6-linux-installer
• Activate licenses (Optional)
• Only if you need extra channels (or PIKA FAX)
• New boards include on-board licenses

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Installing chan_pika (contd)

• Build and install Zaptel
• ./configure make make install
• Build and install Asterisk
• ./configure make make install
• Build and install chan_pika
• cd /usr/src/chan_pika-3.2.1
• ./configure make make install
• Configure chan_pika
• make config

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Using PIKA in Your Dialplan

• Modify your dialplan (extensions.conf)
• Dial(PIKA/digital/g0/6135911555)
• Dial(PIKA/fxo/g1/6135911555)
• Dial(PIKA/fxs/g1/102)
• Dialplan examples
• website
• PIKA manpage

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Summary

• What is a channel driver?
• What is supported?
• trixbox CE 2.2 2.4
• Asterisk 1.2 1.4
• PIKA cards supported
• Installing PIKA with trixbox
• How to download files
• Step-by-step installation
• Dialplan syntax
• Installing PIKA with stock Asterisk
• How to download files
• Step-by-step installation
• Dialplan syntax

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Question Answer

• We invite you to ask questions.
• Enter your question
• in the Question and Answer window.
• Send to LEADER.
• Well answer as many questions
• as we have time.

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Contact Us

• Support
• Mon-Fri 600 a.m. to 500 p.m. EST/EDT
• Phone [phone]
• Dial 2 for Support
• Skype pikatechnologies
• Email support_at_pikatech.com

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