Getting Started 15

From first install to working phones. PJSIP registration, basic dialplan, internal calling, and debugging.

Last updated June 14, 2026

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PJSIP Configuration from Scratch

Configure PJSIP in Asterisk from scratch. Covers transports, endpoints, auth, AOR, SIP trunk registration, endpoint templates for multiple phones, and...

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Connecting Claude and ChatGPT to the AsteriskRecipes MCP Server

Step-by-step guide to connecting Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and ChatGPT to the public, read-only AsteriskRecipes MCP server for direct access to the...

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PJSIP Authentication

Configure PJSIP authentication in Asterisk. Covers basic auth setup for phones and SIP trunks, how SIP digest authentication works, pre-hashed passwor...

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Migrating from chan_sip to PJSIP

Migrate from chan_sip to res_pjsip in Asterisk. Covers the sip_to_pjsip.py conversion script, side-by-side sip.conf vs pjsip.conf examples for endpoin...

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Configuring PJSIP to Work Through NAT

Configure PJSIP NAT traversal in Asterisk. Covers Asterisk behind a NAT router with an ITSP trunk, remote phones behind NAT, double-NAT, and the key s...

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Asterisk Audio Formats Explained

A guide to Asterisk audio formats, codec selection, bandwidth per call, concurrent call capacity, and how to convert files with sox and ffmpeg.

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Asterisk Dial Patterns: The Complete Guide

Complete reference for Asterisk dialplan pattern syntax: wildcard characters (X, Z, N, dot, bang), specificity rules for overlapping patterns, NANP an...

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Where to Find Hold Music (and How to Stream It Live)

Covers where to find royalty-free audio to replace the default opsound tracks, how to convert downloaded files to the formats Asterisk plays natively,...

2 Guides configuration audio moh

IAX2 Trunk Between Two Asterisk Servers

Connect two Asterisk systems over IAX2 so they can dial each other's extensions. Covers iax.conf on both sides, authentication, trunking, and dialplan...

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Asterisk Music on Hold with Native Audio Files

Configure Asterisk music on hold using native audio files instead of mpg123. Covers musiconhold.conf setup, sox format conversion, multi-codec files t...

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Selective Call Recording

Use AstDB to flag which extensions get recorded and toggle recording from the Asterisk CLI without editing the dialplan. Covers outbound and inbound r...

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Getting Started with ARI

Step-by-step introduction to the Asterisk REST Interface (ARI). Covers enabling the HTTP server, creating ARI users, handing calls to Stasis(), receiv...

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Setting Up Voicemail in Asterisk

Configure voicemail boxes in voicemail.conf, connect VoiceMail() and VoiceMailMain() to the dialplan, enable MWI, send email notifications, and use co...

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Dialplan Contexts, Extensions, and Priorities

How Asterisk dialplans work: contexts isolate call routing by endpoint, extensions match dialed numbers using patterns, and priorities run application...

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Your First Working Asterisk Dialplan

Register two PJSIP endpoints, write a minimal dialplan, and make internal calls between phones. Step-by-step from a fresh Asterisk install to two exte...

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