Install RTPEngine in Debian 12

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RTPEngine Server Setup (Recommended OS: Debian 12)

Official reference: https://rtpengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Step 1:

Installing dependencies

apt-get remove --auto-remove nftables
apt-get purge nftables
apt-get update
apt-get install iptables-persistent iptables
apt-get install gnupg gnupg2 git mc dkms
apt-get install ffmpeg libopus-dev dpkg-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev gperf libavcodec-dev libavfilter-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libbencode-perl libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libcrypt-rijndael-perl libcurl4-openssl-dev libdigest-crc-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libevent-dev libglib2.0-dev libhiredis-dev libio-multiplex-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libiptc-dev libjson-glib-dev libjson-perl libmosquitto-dev libnet-interface-perl libpcap0.8-dev libpcre3-dev libsocket6-perl libspandsp-dev libssl-dev libswresample-dev libsystemd-dev libwebsockets-dev libxmlrpc-core-c3-dev libxtables-dev markdown python3-websockets zlib1g-dev debhelper-compat libbcg729-dev
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Step 2:

Install rtpengine

apt-get install rtpengine

Backing up the original files (optional)

mv /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording.conf /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording.conf.orig
mv /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine.conf /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine.conf.orig

Step 3:

Edit rtpengine.conf nano /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine.conf

[rtpengine]
table = 0
interface = 192.168.1.165
listen-ng = 192.168.1.165:2223
listen-http = localhost:2225
listen-cli = localhost:2224
timeout = 60
silent-timeout = 3600
tos = 184
pidfile = /run/ngcp-rtpengine-daemon.pid
port-min = 30000
port-max = 40000
recording-dir = /var/spool/rtpengine
recording-method = proc
recording-format = raw
log-level = 7

RTPengine reference:

https://rtpengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtpengine.html

Step 3:

Edit rtpengine-recording.conf nano /etc/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording.conf

[rtpengine-recording]
table = 0
output-storage = file
output-format = wav
spool-dir = /var/spool/rtpengine
output-dir = /var/spool/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording
output-mixed = true
output-single = true
log-level = 7

Recording server reference:

https://rtpengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/call_recording.html

https://rtpengine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rtpengine-recording.html

Restarting services

# Making recording directory
mkdir /var/spool/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording
chown -R rtpengine:rtpengine /var/spool/rtpengine
chmod -R 777 /var/spool/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording

# Restarting RTP services
systemctl restart rtpengine-recording
systemctl restart rtpengine

systemctl status rtpengine-recording
systemctl status rtpengine

# To view logs
journalctl -f

# recording list
ls -alh /var/spool/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording