--- title: "Asterisk" description: "Asterisk is an app for Home Assistant. It has 747 installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 25, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/asterisk" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/apps/asterisk.md" last-updated: "2026-10-26" version: "1.4" --- # Asterisk > Asterisk is an app for Home Assistant. It has 747 installs sharing analytics and was last updated October 25, 2026. Asterisk is a Home Assistant app that runs a PBX server for SIP devices such as doorbells and phones. It runs on Home Assistant OS on aarch64 and amd64 systems, and its own page opens in the sidebar. An option can create a phone extension for every person registered in Home Assistant, with numbers generated from 100 and the caller name set to the person's name. Video support can be turned on for those extensions, and extra sound languages can be downloaded at startup. The app can generate a self-signed certificate for its secure interfaces or use a certificate file from the ssl folder. Default Asterisk configuration files are copied out for reference, and customized copies are read from a separate folder. It uses the host network, can reach USB, serial or GPIO devices, and can read and control Home Assistant. Automatic summary of the docs and configuration of TECH7Fox/asterisk-hass-addons. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_app/?app=3e533915_asterisk&repository_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FTECH7Fox%2Fasterisk-hass-addons) Apps need Home Assistant OS. Container and Core installs cannot run them. ## Supports - **Opens in the sidebar**: Its own page opens inside Home Assistant. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Add its app repository under Settings, Apps, then install and start it. ## From the docs > Asterisk is a free and open source framework for building communications applications. Asterisk powers IP PBX systems, VoIP gateways, conference servers, and is used by SMBs, enterprises, call centers, carriers and governments worldwide. From the docs of [TECH7Fox/asterisk-hass-addons](https://github.com/TECH7Fox/asterisk-hass-addons/blob/HEAD/asterisk/DOCS.md), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened. ## Permissions - **Host network**: Uses the host's network directly instead of its own. - **Hardware access**: Can reach USB, serial or GPIO devices. - **Home Assistant API**: Can read and control Home Assistant. ## Configuration - **AMI Password**: The password that will be used for the admin user in AMI. - **Video Support**: Enables videosupport for the auto-added extensions. Video support does not work for the companion app. - **Auto Add Secret**: The secret set for every auto-added extension. Change this to something secure. - **Auto Add Extensions**: Whether to enable the automatic creation of extensions for every person registered in Home Assistant. They will have their number/username auto-generated starting from 100. - **Additional Sounds Languages to Download**: The additional sounds languages to download from https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/ on add-on startup, skipping when already downloaded. Examples: fr, en\_GB. - **Register Ingress Entry**: Whether to register the ingress entry for the add-on as a Home Assistant entity or not. This is useful for the SIP card to avoid needing to manually expose Asterisk's WebSockets interface. - **Generate SSL Certifcate**: Enables/disables the generation of a self-signed certificate for use with the SSL interfaces (WSS and TLS). - **Certificate File**: The certificate file to use for SSL in your /ssl/ folder, when generate\_ssl\_cert is disabled. - **Private Key File**: The key file to use for SSL in your /ssl/ folder, when generate\_ssl\_cert is disabled. - **Mailbox Server**: Enables the mailbox server to send voicemails to the Asterisk mailbox integration. - **Mailbox Server Port**: The port used by the mailbox server. - **Mailbox Server Password**: The password for the mailbox server. - **Mailbox Server Extension**: Which extension to get the voicemails from. - **Google API Key**: The API Key for speech-to-text. - **Log Level**: The log level to configure Asterisk to use. ## At a glance - Kind: App - Number: 747 installs sharing analytics - Connection: Connection not stated - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs Home Assistant OS - Runs on: 64-bit ARM, x86-64 - Latest version: 6.4.0, last updated October 25, 2026 - Source: Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. 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