@JaredBusch said in Which Hosted PBX Provider?: @JasGot said in Which Hosted PBX Provider?: I am an Intermedia Reseller and I can't stand their system. Plus as a partner, the end user cannot call Intermedia for support. This is no fun. Are you looking for a reseller/partner solution? Then I would look at 3CX They have the business model. Yes. I want to interact with the end user for config of features only (OS and app maintenance handled by anyone other than me) and I want revenue from the sale of hardware and setup, and I want recurring revenue from monthly fees. The recurring revenue must be charged to me so I can bill the customer at my rates.

@JaredBusch said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically: @scottalanmiller said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically: and be fully updated. I noticed that the defualt CentOS 7 image was pretty much fully up to date before I ran the install script. Only thing that came down when I ran yum update -y was wget. Yeah, it is more of a "just in case" something is out of date. I almost never see it not fully up to date when I fire it up.

And yet another way to think of it... A stateful system is focused, at least partially, on saving to and retrieving from storage. It is a "data at rest" system. A stateless system is focused, essentially entirely, on data "in flight". Processing of data moving from one point to another.

@Romo said in Exploring VitalPBX: @JaredBusch What other issues did you see? I do not recall the detail, but things were missing. Probably related to the remote address book. Not something FreePBX handles either. Just something here also missing. I spent at most 60 minutes going through the screens and settings. I never fuly brough the system into a functional state. It was also weeks ago. It is hard to recall. That said, I spun a new instance up this morning. I plan to actually bring this one all the way to fully operational.

@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.

@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?

@Dashrender said in Relationship Pricing: @JaredBusch said in Relationship Pricing: But with the second one there, I only perform a lookup once every 30 days for numbers that call me. Is this because FreePBX caches the info? Yes, but any system can be setup that way.

@JaredBusch said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone: @scottalanmiller said in Make Yealink Ring While on the Phone: If you have Yealink T46S phone, and you are talking on the phone, instead of making it do a call waiting beep, can you make it ring normally? A bit odd, but there is a reason for it Not to my knowledge. It was supposedly added as a feature request a few years ago, and I have not noticed it in a firmware release note. That would explain why I have never seen it come up. Not that anyone has ever wanted it previously.

This is what I think we would need, but I'm neither inclined to figure that out, nor do I want any additional equipment (VM or otherwise [MS recommends physical for this?!]) to do this. . .

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

Yeah, outdoor speakerphones arent a popular item.

@scottalanmiller said in Anyone ever use Univerge Blue by NEC for SIP: @JaredBusch said in Anyone ever use Univerge Blue by NEC for SIP: I refuse to use Skyetel because of their bullshit pricing practice. He's seen the pricing, he's converted already, lol. I’m not changing my opinion on unpublished pricing just because you like it and they pay you to advertise here.

@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.

Well I tried maintenance mode - out of service for 10 mins, then back on - no go. I put the password back into the system - bam.. damn thing is registering again.

@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.

@Dashrender said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @DustinB3403 said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @Dashrender said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @scottalanmiller said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @Dashrender said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @scottalanmiller said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @Dashrender said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @scottalanmiller said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @Dashrender said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: @DustinB3403 said in All New VoIP Handsets for PBX Migration?: You could also opt to purchase a few $25 poe injectors for the few phones that are required to have power all of the time and feed that from your UPS. The cost difference for Poe switch vs non is 400$.... over 48 phones that’s less tha $10 ea Let’s move on from POE But that's way more than wall warts typically. And the comparison is not against a normal switch, but against no switch. You don't need any switching at all beyond what you already have unless you go PoE, right? That is not right. I'm 50% or more laptops. So I would need at least another 30 ports, but probably more like 40 ports to include phones in random locations. Where you don't have ports today? It's not that you are laptops. I think you are trying to imply that your laptops are wireless? I may or may not have a wire there - but I definitely don't have a switch port connected to those wires. I replaced switches a while ago and didn't buy more than I needed for the APs, Printers, and Desktops. yes the laptops are 100% wireless. I see. Wherever we have a large amount of laptops, we wire them up for performance and stability. My users have shown that when they have to manage plugs on a daily basis, they damage them regularly. We're lucky we don't have more issues with power connectors. So eliminate the responsibility of having to plug things in. Get a softphone and have people start using that wholesale. huh? not sure where this came from? today users move from station to station, only plugging in their power brick to power their laptops. They just use the phone at the desk they are sitting at that time. I was responding to this comment. It didn't start from me, or you. Both of us responded to Dustin's topic.

@Dashrender said in New PBX - on prem or off?: Damn I just saw a bill from cox. A single sip phone totally managed by them end to end, $51.00/m That includes: The phone DID Vmail Management of the line from the phone all the way to cox. Calling inside the USA, ie no long distance fees. Very expected when you buy from an ISP.

@Dashrender said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX: @JaredBusch said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX: @scottalanmiller said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX: @JaredBusch said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX: @scottalanmiller said in Skyetel Inbound SIP Trunk on FreePBX: Locking a port to a single IP is a trivial task for any gear, even consumer. I wouldn't go that far. I don't know much consumer gear that doesn't make that easy. Super easy tomport forward? Yes. Able to restrict to a specific source IP? No. eh - if you're only open for the trunk provider, then you can likely lock to one or a few IPs. if you need mobile support - that's another story. How? Where? Been a while since I was in a consumer router, but port forwarding screens had nothing about source IP.

@JaredBusch said in Alternatives to OpenVPN for FreePBX on cell phone...: @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to OpenVPN for FreePBX on cell phone...: @JaredBusch said in Alternatives to OpenVPN for FreePBX on cell phone...: There has never been a promise or timeline made for the mobile apps. Anyone expecting anything on that front is operating in their own little fantasy. That's the main use case of softphones, though. Like 95% I would guess. Softphones for the desktop are way more niche. I totally disagree. Softphone on the desktop is by far the largest user base thanks to call centers. Softphone on mobile is a far second to that. Maybe overall, but for FreePBX? FreePBX is pretty rare in call centers, AFAIK.

Good note, but horrible formatting.

@scottalanmiller I was just about to ask if its a php setting that needed to be changed.

so what we did was 3 step process - put the extension number on first alternative, another on second alternative, edit the call re-routing for the said extension number pointing to the line of 1st and 2nd alternative. we use the current timer but instead of going to VM it goes to the alternatives.

I agree that moving to a new system right away seems like the best course of action given that the phones are not actually down, but just cannot continue to be configured.

@FATeknollogee said in VOIP Provider: Skyetel: @scottalanmiller curious question...why are you responding to a post from Dec of 2018 made by a user who only posted that one time? Also, because @scottalanmiller .......

@scottalanmiller and all, I don't know why you still loosing time. Use my rpms and install freeswitch/fusionpbx in minutes https://okay.network/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html

@jaredbusch said in Asterisk 13 CRITICAL ERROR! Required Service CHAN_SIP is disabled! This device is unusable!: does chan_sip.so exist in /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/? My guess is, no. But once we determined that there was no simple restoration and all evidence of chap_sip was gone from the system, they just rolled back to a snapshot from before the outage and all is well. So we might never know.

@dragon3303 said in Using a Snom PA1 for paging: Yes...I've tried adjusting the level but no results with that either. I'll keep at it and figure it out. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I would have to Google a manual for your amp to see what the specs are for these inputs and such. I was strictly assuming based on the labels.

@scottalanmiller said in All Yealink Phones Down at One Site: @dbeato said in All Yealink Phones Down at One Site: @scottalanmiller said in All Yealink Phones Down at One Site: @i3 said in All Yealink Phones Down at One Site: Factory reset a phone and try manually programming? How about a packet capture at the site firewall, do you see attempts from that IP phone to where? I am assuming that the PBX is hosted elsewhere. This is basically where we went. We did this series of events and it appears to be fixed... Rebooted the firewall. Removed SIP-ALG, but this appears to have had no effect. Updated the firmware on each phone. Went to static DNS rather than DHCP set. DNS to CloudFlare instead of AD. Ensures STUN was on and set correctly. Added the PBX as a Proxy, manually enabled STUN for the proxy. After those seven steps, all phones are now registered. Couldn't find any step there that individually made a difference. To me looks like the DNS was caching something for the devices to get to. That's my theory. If so, why did changing the DNS alone not fix it? Not sure, I am just going by what you said. Basically very strange.

@scottalanmiller said in Public STUN servers: I tend to use: stun.stunprotocol.org This one.