The IT benefit to this entire thing is, by enabling this feature, IT will now have a backup of the configuration of all the phones. Even if a user changes a button. Now a phone can die and IT will simply change the MAC on the provisioning server and put the new phone on the desk. To the business, the benefit is to let users control their own buttons without IT getting involved. Buttons can easily be programmed by a user simply holding it down until the menu pops up. It takes very little instruction to teach users to pick Speed Dial or BLF and enter the number or extension. For most small shops, this doesn't matter in the first place. They rarely change anything. But for an organization over 20, it is very common to have users all needing different configurations on their phone buttons. Their Boss, their Queue Pause, their specific parking lots, etc.

@FATeknollogee said in Block Spam callers: @Skyetel Haha, ROFL. Lenny is a star!! This Jerry Jones isn't very bright! And I'm sure his name is really Jerry Jones. lol

@DustinB3403 said in FreePBX / Queue Login/out state on BLF key ...: Looks like your question was answered here from last year. https://community.freepbx.org/t/solved-queue-blf-hints/49665 Thanks, this did it. I had put an extra * between the toggle code and the extension. Which interestingly enough still worked to allow an agent to login/out but didn't work with the BLF hints apparently. Once I changed as per the link you referenced it worked as expected. For those that are interested I changed the BLF value in the EPM definition to : *45__line1Ext__*730 (no * between *45 and the extension number): Now a core show hints displays : *45250*[email protected]: Custom:QUEUE250*730 State:Idle Presence:not_set Watchers 1

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX Ring Group / Remove CID Name Prefix on Transfer ?: To my knowledge, there is nothing you can do to get rid of it without custom dial plan. This process simply prepends the text to the existing variable. Ok, Thanks.

@JaredBusch said in Unifi AP AC EDU with FreePBX ...: @Dashrender all of the IP phones I have worked with can handle multicast natively. That's good - I guess, and makes it even more weird that Ubiquiti didn't have their devices supporting it out of the gate.

@marcinozga said in FreePBX hardening ...: @IRJ The scenario described above doesn't look like automated attack, and it's rather unlikely bots would be exploiting PBX to make international calls. I think this is the first episode of the Darknet Diaries

Okay, if you want to talk storage, it's over here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19657/revisiting-zfs-and-freenas-in-2019

@Skyetel said in Setting up a Skyetel SIP trunk in FreePBX: We typically recommend creating multiple trunks VitalPBX's guide also uses a single pjsip trunk in the same method I did here. They posted a guide a couple days before I did this one, apparently with the assistance of Skyetel staff. So you might want to rethink your "recommendation"

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX / Yealink t42s / call park configuration best practice ...: The best use of parking is simply blind transfer via DSS key directly to a specific slot. No one wants to waste time and a button with a park key that you then need to wait for an announcement to know where the call went. That makes much more sense. I think I put the blinders on and focused too much on replicating the old system without thinking if there was a better way.

@black3dynamite said in FreePBX Desktop Video Conferencing Options: Have you already check with linphone if it does video conferencing? In theory it does. Linphone desktop has been pretty flaky for us so were looking at alternatives.

@BraswellJay said in FreePBX assign commercial module to installation?: @JaredBusch I think I figured this out. The thing I needed to do was to stop and then start FreePBX. I did : fwconsole stop fwconsole start When it started back I saw the following as part of the output : Updating License Information for xxxxxxxx where the x's were my deployment ID I'm thinking this must be where it went out and queried and saw I had purchased those two modules. Both SysAdmin Pro and the Endpoint Manager screens now look like your samples. Thanks for the help. One question. When you have purchased these through the GUI instead of the portal as I did do you normally have to restart or does it just figure that out and is immediately available? It is all handled in a reboot. I buy these during initial turn up time and as part of that, I will always perform a final reboot before begining the actual configuration. Because one of the turn up steps requires setting the timezone, and that is not applied fully until a reboot. Honestly, I simply assumed that you had already turned it on and off again. You could have used fwconsole restart or clicked the update activation in the web GUI also.

@Curtis said in Bria Mobile iOS and FreePBX: I tried a few hours with Bira this morning... Just a couple minutes ago I downloaded Acrobits Groundwire by Acrobits, and it instantly worked... https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/acrobits-groundwire/id378503081 That listing clearly states it uses push. So how does that work?

@scottalanmiller said in Setting up a Skyetel Trunk on FreePBX: Don't forget to set your Codec to G722. But always offer G711 We do our best to deliver calls over G722 and follow your preferred priority (based on what you put in your SIP), but when we can't get the call delivered over G722, we fall back to G711.

@BraswellJay said in FreePBX / Random loss of audio ...: When I get a chance this afternoon I may configure one and see if that at least resolves the issue, though I didn't think I needed STUN for this particular use case. So I haven't totally found root cause but it appears to be an issue with my windows profile on the machine I was running Linphone on. I installed Linphone app on my phone and everything worked perfectly. Installed desktop app on a spare laptop and everything worked perfectly. Logged in as different user on original machine and everything worked perfectly. Logged back in as myself on original machine and no go. I only need this for some testing. Once we get set up we'll be using Yealink phones so I may not look anymore since I can use my phone for the testing. Thanks to all for the help.

@JaredBusch said in Repo issues with Freepbx: @scottalanmiller said in Repo issues with Freepbx: Been going on for several days. No it hasn't. It has, we started getting the error several days ago.

@JaredBusch said in Yealink T46S Double Tap while on Conference call: @CCWTech said in Yealink T46S Double Tap while on Conference call: @JaredBusch said in Yealink T46S Double Tap while on Conference call: DTMF Is that on the ext in advanced? It's set to RFC4733 Both the Phone and Asterisk have settings for this. They need to match. They do, we checked that last night.

Awesome information about Backup & Restore and Filestore.

Okay, we got it. Doing the switch, then the fwconsole update, then rebooting, and running through it all again... eventually it fixed itself.

@WLS-ITGuy said in fwconsole creating many emails through our Barracuda mail filter: Just ran updates in FreePBX and now the queue buildup is back. Guess I'll have to fix it the right way Enjoy!

If we were going to give containers a number, it would be more like a Type -1 than a 3. Containers are lighter than Type 1, not heavier than Type 2. Still totally different. But Type 0, 1, 2 go from lighter to heavier.

@JaredBusch said in Call Out from FreePBX Conference Room: @scottalanmiller said in Call Out from FreePBX Conference Room: @JaredBusch said in Call Out from FreePBX Conference Room: Hit transfer, hit the conference extension, dial the participant code, speak their name, hit the transfer button again. The idiot will be in the conference. I've tried that, always seem to get stuck with the "enter a code" issue. You are going to force me to test those instructions aren't you? Tested what I typed above.. Works perfectly.

@fuznutz04 said in FreePBX and DNS settings: @scottalanmiller said in FreePBX and DNS settings: @fuznutz04 said in FreePBX and DNS settings: @Scott says not to set it. You say to set it to 127.0.0.1 and the Vultr DNS. No, Scott says he doesn't use it, not that you shouldn't. Not the same thing But doesn't this just write it to the /etc/resolve file anyway? I could set DNS statically via the file, but I'm still unclear what the best practice is for FreePBX in regards to DNS. To not fuck with it unless you have a reason to. FreePBX is an appliance. A software appliance, but an appliance. You don’t fuck with it under the hood unless you have a good reason to do so.

I figure I'd just throw this out there just for the heck of it... For what it's worth, I use a Cisco ISR 2851 as an FXS and FXO gateway in my home lab and am very happy with it. You can nab them pretty cheap on eBay (either a 2851 or 2821 would work). You'd just need either two VIC2-4FXO cards or for the more adventurous an EVM-HD-8FXS/DID with two EM-HDA-6FXO daughter cards and something to terminate the RJ21 connector with (like a 66 block or a breakout cable)...the former is likely easier though

The timeline. 2019/02/27 09:23 - I posted on the FreePBX community. 2019/02/27 15:13 - Another user commented they also had this issue. 2019/02/27 16:31 - I submitted a support ticket. 2019/02/27 17:03 - Sangoma replied stating this was not any kind of known issue and I needed to install their SSH key package to let them check the server. 2019/02/28 08:52 I replied that I had added the SSH package and updated the firewall to let them connect. 2019/02/28 09:49 Sangoma replied that the files were missing on the remote server and showed the log error. 2019/02/28 10:05 Sangoma replied that an internal trouble ticket was created. 2019/02/28 15:58 Sangoma replied that the issue was resolved. 2019/02/28 19:26 I confirmed that the firmware was downloadable This is not any kind of response time that I can complain about. I do wish there had been known information on how to find the EPM download errors. I would have likely been resolved much quicker. That's why I posted here. Search engines can get this out there.

@NashBrydges said in Mass upload sound files into FreePBX: Very useful stuff, thanks for this. Self serving. I’m buildinging a mass import right now using this process.

For reference, here is the same IVR dialplan as output by FreePBX asterisk -x "dialplan show ivr-4" [ Context 'ivr-4' created by 'pbx_config' ] '*' => 1. Set(__ivrreturn=0) [extensions_additional.conf:4167] [ivrsel-*] 2. Goto(app-blackhole,hangup,1) [extensions_additional.conf:4168] '0' => 1. Set(__ivrreturn=0) [extensions_additional.conf:4164] [ivrsel-0] 2. Goto(ivr-4,s,1) [extensions_additional.conf:4165] '9' => 1. Set(__ivrreturn=0) [extensions_additional.conf:4170] [ivrsel-9] 2. Goto(um-vm,s,1) [extensions_additional.conf:4171] 'fax' => 1. Goto(${CUT(FAX_DEST,^,1)},${CUT(FAX_DEST,^,2)},${CUT(FAX_DEST,^,3)}) [extensions_additional.conf:4149] 'h' => 1. Hangup() [extensions_additional.conf:4192] 'hang' => 1. Playback(vm-goodbye) [extensions_additional.conf:4194] 2. Hangup() [extensions_additional.conf:4195] 'i' => 1. Set(INVALID_LOOPCOUNT=$[${INVALID_LOOPCOUNT}+1]) [extensions_additional.conf:4173] 2. GotoIf($[${INVALID_LOOPCOUNT} > 3]?final) [extensions_additional.conf:4174] 3. Set(IVR_MSG=no-valid-responce-pls-try-again&custom/client_main) [extensions_additional.conf:4175] 4. Goto(s,start) [extensions_additional.conf:4176] [final] 5. Playback(no-valid-responce-transfering) [extensions_additional.conf:4177] 6. Goto(app-blackhole,hangup,1) [extensions_additional.conf:4178] 'return' => 1. Set(_IVR_CONTEXT=${CONTEXT}) [extensions_additional.conf:4187] 2. Set(_IVR_CONTEXT_${CONTEXT}=${IVR_CONTEXT_${CONTEXT}}) [extensions_additional.conf:4188] 3. Set(IVR_MSG=custom/client_main) [extensions_additional.conf:4189] 4. Goto(s,start) [extensions_additional.conf:4190] 's' => 1. Set(TIMEOUT_LOOPCOUNT=0) [extensions_additional.conf:4151] 2. Set(INVALID_LOOPCOUNT=0) [extensions_additional.conf:4152] 3. Set(_IVR_CONTEXT_${CONTEXT}=${IVR_CONTEXT}) [extensions_additional.conf:4153] 4. Set(_IVR_CONTEXT=${CONTEXT}) [extensions_additional.conf:4154] 5. Set(__IVR_RETVM=) [extensions_additional.conf:4155] 6. GotoIf($["${CHANNEL(state)}" = "Up"]?skip) [extensions_additional.conf:4156] 7. Answer() [extensions_additional.conf:4157] 8. Wait(1) [extensions_additional.conf:4158] [skip] 9. Set(IVR_MSG=custom/client_main) [extensions_additional.conf:4159] [start] 10. Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=3) [extensions_additional.conf:4160] 11. ExecIf($["${IVR_MSG}" != ""]?Background(${IVR_MSG})) [extensions_additional.conf:4161] 12. WaitExten(10,) [extensions_additional.conf:4162] 't' => 1. Set(TIMEOUT_LOOPCOUNT=$[${TIMEOUT_LOOPCOUNT}+1]) [extensions_additional.conf:4180] 2. GotoIf($[${TIMEOUT_LOOPCOUNT} > 3]?final) [extensions_additional.conf:4181] 3. Set(IVR_MSG=no-valid-responce-pls-try-again&custom/client_main) [extensions_additional.conf:4182] 4. Goto(s,start) [extensions_additional.conf:4183] [final] 5. Playback(no-valid-responce-transfering) [extensions_additional.conf:4184] 6. Goto(app-blackhole,hangup,1) [extensions_additional.conf:4185] Include => 'ivr-4-custom' [pbx_config] Include => 'from-did-direct-ivr' [pbx_config]

@JaredBusch said in Getting Familiar with Sangoma S500 running with FreePBX as back end. . .: I've given up on EPM for anything complicated with non Sangoma phones. Same, I don't find it to be valuable for us.