Chapter 5. User Device Configuration

I don’t always know what I’m talking about, but I know I’m right.

—Muhammad Ali

In this chapter we’ll delve into the user devices that you might want to connect to Asterisk, typically VoIP telephones of some sort. Configuring a channel in Asterisk for the device to connect through is relatively straightforward, but you also need to configure the device itself so it knows where to send its calls.^[57] In other words, there are two parts to configuring a device on Asterisk: 1) telling Asterisk about the device, and 2) telling the device about Asterisk.

^[57] This has nothing to do with Asterisk configuration, and each hardware manufacturer will have its own tools to allow you to configure its devices.