BT Home Hub working on Sipgate :)

[mcmliix]

If anyone would find it of use I post how to get BT's New and very Shiny Home Hub to register with sipgate or any other VoIP server

Grin

[mattpark]

I'll take you up on that offer if your game.

I dont use the home hub stuff myself, but some of my family do so will defo come in handy!



Matt

[mcmliix]

BT Home Hub + Sipgate

Although there are a number of ways to do this I think that working on the hubs Config file is probably the safest way to go about it.

Log into the hub’s GUI (usually 192.168.1.254) as admin hit Advanced and go to configuration / backup or restore hit the “Backup Configuration” button, this will download a small text doc to your computer. Make a copy of the file and tuck it away somewhere as a restore original configuration.

Now to work

Open up the config file user.ini with any old text editor and scroll down to expr.ini and add this line

add name=BBT_servers type=ip addr=217.10.79.23 (IP of Sipgate server or the IP if your service)

a word here sipgate’s proxy and outbound are both Sipgate.co.uk so only one entry is needed here

If your service uses different URLs as with FWD “fwd.pulver.com 69.90.155.70” and “fwdnat2.pulver.com 65.39.205.116” TWO entries would be needed


Scroll down to Voice.ini and replace the reference to bt’s sip servers in this line with Sipgate.co.uk (or what ever service you are using)

sip config primproxyaddr=sip.btsip.bt.net secproxyaddr=0.0.0.0 proxyport=sip primregaddr=btsip.bt.com secregaddr=0.0.0.0 regport=sip notifier_addr=0.0.0.0



Like This:-

sip config primproxyaddr=sipgate.co.uk secproxyaddr=0.0.0.0 proxyport=sip primregaddr=sipgate.co.uk secregaddr=0.0.0.0 regport=sip notifier_addr=0.0.0.0 notifier_port=sip

The last thing you need to do is select the codec

just set the ones you want to priority 1 as you can see here


codec config type=g711u ptime=20 vad=disabled priority=1 status=enabled


codec config type=g711a ptime=20 vad=disabled priority=1 status=enabled


codec config type=g722 vad=disabled priority=1 status=enabled


codec config type=g726_32 ptime=20 vad=disabled priority=5 status=disabled


codec config type=g729 ptime=30 vad=disabled priority=2 status=enabled



SAVE the the changes



and upload it to BT Home Hub using the restore config in the hubs GUI



That done off you go and add your account/s in the telephony config on the hus GUI



have fun Let me know if you have any problems



all the best




PaulT

[spacerace]

thanks for this, have followed the instructions up to reloading the new user.ini file, but can't see where to add my sipgate account on the router??

lookec in config/advanced/telephony but Telephone Numbers is blank and there doesn't seem to be a way to add the sip account details? any ideas?

Thanks.

[mcmliix]

I'll get on to it as soon as I can My BT Home hub died on me after a firmware update, I'll have a new one in a few days and post an update then.

[Anti]

Thanky you very much for this informative and usefull posting.
Using the details haere I am now happilly using sipgate with my (firmware downgraded) home hub.

1 note to add. I found that as well as adding "add name=BBT_servers type=ip addr=217.10.79.23" I also had to remove all existing lines startig "add name=BBT_servers".

Also found that for sipgate it didnt like the full sip uri in the gui setup, and would only work if I put my username in there.

one last thing.
Ive been trying to set it up to use the prefix 9, to force it to use the landline for a call, with no joy.

the line im using is "dialplan add prefix=9 defaultport=FXO fallbackport=VoIP priority=Low fallback=enabled minimumdigits=1 maximumdigits=1 posofmodify=1 remnumdigits=1 insert="" rescan=no data=no action=ROUTE_excl_eon
"

If anyone has any thoughts on where this is going wrong it would be greatly appreciated. (atm whatever number i dial after 9 takes me to a generic bt voicemessage telling me how to get to voicemail services)

[mcmliix]

in Voice.ini

line:

dialplan add prefix=5 defaultport=FXO fallbackport=VoIP priority=Low fallback=disabled minimumdigits=1 maximumdigits=1 posofmodify=1 remnumdigits=1 insert="" rescan=no data=no action=ROUTE_excl_eon

change the 5 to a 9 save and upload to hub

as

dialplan add prefix=9 defaultport=FXO fallbackport=VoIP priority=Low fallback=disabled minimumdigits=1 maximumdigits=1 posofmodify=1 remnumdigits=1 insert="" rescan=no data=no action=ROUTE_excl_eon

[Anti]

That did the trick. Thank you very much.

Other than the fallback, I cant see the difference from my origonal line i attempted, but Im going to attribute that to lack of caffine till later ;)