Bringing BigBlueButton and sipX VoIP Server together

[Peter Mueller]

Hello,

I would like to combine my sipX server with a BigBlueButton conference server. Therefore I would need to bring together my sipX server and the Asterisk server from BigBlueButton, which run on different physical PCs.

This is what I want to achieve in the end: I would like to be able to call a number from a phone connected to the sipX server resulting in me participating in a BigBlueButton conference.

I already got it working with an Askozia VoIP server, which is an Asterisk running on a third PC, instead of the BigBlueButton with Asterisk PC. I think I know what settings are necessary from the Askozia GUI but I don't know where to set them in the BigBlueButton's Asterisk (files and places in files) and whether it will work because of possible edits to those files by BigBlueButton. I configured Askozia/Asterisk as a gateway in sipX with a dial plan for that gateway.

So if you can please help me with configuring Asterisk in BigBlueButton the right way, I would appreciate it very much.

Kind Regards
pm

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Peter,

This sounds like a good project, and looks like it's for commercial use.  Take a look at the companies offering commercial support for BigBlueButton

    http://bigbluebutton.org/support

and consider engaging one of them to help with a small contract.  You'll tap directly into the members BigBlueButton development team, get a solution quickly, and support in a small way the continued development of this project.

Regards,... Fred

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[dochiller]

I'd love to find a solution for this as well. SipX is so much better
and easier that asterisk... Post back if you find a solution.

[Richard Alam]

Hi Peter,

If I understand you correctly, I think you just need to peer your SipX
with Asterisk.

You just need to edit /etc/asterisk/sip.conf to add an peer entry for
your SipX. Make sure then peer context is set to bbb-voip.

[from-sipx]
type=peer
context=bbb-voip
host=dynamic
disallow=all
allow=ulaw

HTH

Richard

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[pm]

Hi Richard and dochiller,

thank you very much for your reply. This worked with a slight
variation for the properties of our environment. My colleague figured
out, that with our sipX Server with static IP we must use a static IP
info. Also we didn't set user rights. So instead of your suggestion:

On 18 Aug., 17:29, Richard Alam <ritza...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You just need to edit /etc/asterisk/sip.conf to add an peer entry for
> your SipX. Make sure then peer context is set to bbb-voip.
>
> [from-sipx]
> type=peer
> context=bbb-voip
> host=dynamic
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
>

We added in /etc/asterisk/sip.conf right above the line

#include bbb_sip.conf

the following lines:

[from-sipx]
type=peer
context=bbb-voip
host=192.168.0.1

Together with the unmanaged Gateway we configured in sipX and
corresponding Dial Plan this worked great. I hope it is clear, what
needs to be done and you'll be successful as well, dochiller.