Configuring your Firefox Plugin

Once you've downloaded and installed your Firefox plugin, you'll need to configure it (http://www.spottedfrog.com.au/downloads/asteriskplugin.xpi).

There are a couple of key areas to configuring your plugin:

Configuration of the plugin and interfacing with the Asterisk manager
Configuration of any additional phone patterns to identify

This page will cover each of these areas.

Configuration of the Server Interface

In order to configure the Firefox plugin, you need to first access the configuration screen. It's accessible in it's own tab as part of the Firefox options screen. Refer to the screenshot below for an example of how this is accessed on a Mac (this menu option may also be called "Options" and be accessible from the tools menu in some cases):

In order to configure the interface between the plugin and the server, there are three key parameters that need to be set:

Asterisk manager URL
Handset extension
Dialing context

The image below shows the configuration screen:

The Asterisk Manager URL should be set to the address of the Astmanproxy installation. For example, if the IP address of your Astmanproxy machine is 203.123.123.101 and it was set up to listen on port 8081, you would set the Asterisk Manager URL to:

http://203.123.123.101:8081/

The handset extension is reasonably intuitive - just set that to whatever your local handset extension is set to.

The dialing context will depend on your Asterisk installation. It is typically "default", though for the Trixbox installation that this was written and tested with, the appropriate context was "from-internal". This tells the Asterisk box which context to use when dialing out.