@scottalanmiller said in DID Block Puchases:

@Danp said in DID Block Puchases:

@scottalanmiller said in DID Block Puchases:

That's just weird.

How so? Each DID is independent of the B channel, so I can have a multitude of DIDs and only a few B channels if so desired.

Except it's a weird pairing. If you wanted flexibility to sell one at a time. Not "almost every channel."

But it is a did not a number assigned to a channel.

@scottalanmiller is right. The bottleneck is always the customer router. And not so much bandwidth as much as packets per second. Your dropbox sync is killing your phone calls 50 to 1 over bandwidth 99% of the time. Your $50 linksys router can't handle a million pps.

Most ISP's are little more than Broadsoft resellers with no interconnects in their local market. Even on the WISP side speeds are so good now that bundling voice isn't relevant.

@JaredBusch said in Wazo 17.07 is released:

@StuartJordan said in Wazo 17.07 is released:

Wow, what's this, never seen this project before...Looks awesome.

Yes it is has great potential. I installed a prior version and had no problem getting calls working.

It was most certainly not ready for production though IMO.

I can't wait to try this new release out.

I await your review and comparison to FreePBX.

I believe that @QuixoticJeremy is doing a talk about something kind of similar.

@TeleFox we have a quite old (few years) PBX which has been used in the years adding new and new phone lines with the company expansion. last batch of additions was 6 months ago: 5 new seats with new phones and headsets. PBX is Aastra with proprietary digital phones.

the company bought a new erp last december, against my advice they also buyed a generic "VoIP-ERP integration package". we are now implementing the ERP and the sysadmin at the ERP consulting firm pointed out to me that the package actually is a proprietary VoIP PBX based on asterisk.
the solution involves something around 10 or 15 people (depending on the layout of the customer care dept), company has somethin like 40 phones bwteen DECT and digital deskphones.

so we can:

throw away the new asterisk PBX (wasted 4k€), sorry 15 people throw away current Aastra PBX , redoing a lot of cabling and rebuying the entire equipement for 40 between wirede and DECT phones try to integrate the 2, especially considering than it is right to isolate the ERP asterisk thing as you would not to depend on an erp for your phone system (ok, redo VoIP wiring and equipement if you want but choose a different strategy!)

now both current PBX managing firm and the carrier have found a number potential solutions (basically a sip trunk between the 2 PBXes).

hope this clarifies!

@Dashrender said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@JaredBusch said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@Breffni-Potter said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@JaredBusch said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

@Breffni-Potter said in Toshiba Shutting Down Business Phone Division:

Cool, Irrelevant tech.

Hardly relevant, there are a lot of these systems out there and they need to be serviced and replaced.

Fixed.

No, as shown by @Dashrender The other day the song cost of an existing system can still outweigh the cost of replacement

Song cost, eh? :P

Yes, the Sunk cost for me saved me about $12K over upgrading to FreePBX.

Well you've heard the impression "he got it for a song", right?

@momurda said in Mitel phone won't log off ACD group:

I used to love Mitel systems when i had to use them in the past. They can do anything you could think to do with a phone call. I am actually donating the old Intertel Axxess system here and about 35 handsets(look like the ones you have in your pictures) at the end of the week.

Have you tried doing this both off hook and on hook?

No I haven't. you have 35 handsets, eh? do they work?

3CX's behaviour as a company on the Spiceworks forums is additionally reason to not deal with the product.

@scottalanmiller said in panic button for IP phone:

@Mike-Davis said in panic button for IP phone:

@Dashrender I'd be pitching what ever kind of PBX @Mike-Ralston wants to build and support and what ever kind of phones would work well for them.

That'll be FreePBX.

I assumed as much, but wanted to make sure.. so get a list of functions then compare to functions on old system.

@JaredBusch said in Wazo 16.16 First Look:

Not seeing anything in the Wazo documentation on how to set this up either.

In the early release, definitely is looking like it is a bit hard to use. It's early though, hopefully that stuff will follow soon.

@bigbear said in Things to know before you start installing FreePBX:

Yeah that guy was an ass... lol

What folder on the server do you place the config files in for https?

it all goes in the /tftpboot folder. FreePBX handles that in the apache vhost config. port 1443 goes there.

@scottalanmiller Thank you.

@scottalanmiller said in True Open Source PBX:

@JaredBusch said in True Open Source PBX:

I am interested in Xivo (whatever their new name is).

It is not production ready like FreepBX yet, but their goal of making everything accessible via REST API will make it a very flexible thing.

Me too, certainly lots of potential and I hate the FreePBX interface, so am hopeful there.

Let me know what you don't like if you have time!

Also the Wazo(XiVO) developers are great guys. A few of the FreePBX team (Rob Thomas ( @xrobau ) and I) talk to them ( @quintana ) weekly on IRC/Twitter and we've conversed over a hangout session and at Astricon.

I do notice that Linphone provides real time feedback no individual calls, which is nice.

@scottalanmiller fwconsole starts asterisk, and it makes sure it's started and running with the correct UID

Or it should. It did last time I checked 8)

Edit: Saying that, I believe I was the last one that messed with that code, so if it's NOT working, it's probably my fault.

https://github.com/FreePBX/framework/blob/release/13.0/amp_conf/htdocs/admin/libraries/Console/Start.class.php#L147

@JaredBusch said in Elastix Time Restriction:

@AlyRagab said in Elastix Time Restriction:

Here We can do it per Extension :

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/en/3rd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/asterisk-CHP-6-SECT-3.html

and

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+GotoIfTime

Yes, but that is getting way beyond Elastix and into raw Asterisk programming.

What was said above was reference of how to handle it inside the GUI itself.

Both methods work, but dropping to manual editing of configuration files should normally be avoided whenever possible as that makes it harder to use the built in tools for backup and recovery.

Also, upgrades will often over write manual changes like this, meaning you have to remember and reply them after updates/upgrades.

@JaredBusch said in 3CX Linux Beta:

@scottalanmiller said in 3CX Linux Beta:

@JaredBusch Been a while, but that is more like what I remember. It wasn't "horrible", but it is high. But you do get support, which is something.

This new pricing is not anything i consider high at all.

For the feature set, this price point is spot on.

Even with FreePBX based systems, to get near feature parity, you will pay about that much.

Things like Endpoint Manager Pro, etc.

Of course with the Asterisk route, you can roll it all yourself. BUt time is money and this price point makes it worth it. That is the same reason I have clients buy the Endpoint manager module. Or parking pro, or conference pro, or whatever, depending on the company needs.

Oh I agree. The issues are when customers or end users don't need feature parity. If they just want lots of reliable calls and conference rooms, for example. We've used 3CX and FreePBX and for our needs, for example, FreePBX has more features for free than 3CX has paid. So it depends on the use case.

@Dashrender said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@Dashrender said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing XiVO on Scale:

I don't understand what it's asking - Numbers internal start/end Numbers interval start/end?

Yeah, it's is a multi-tenant system so it needs info about individual organizations that will be handled by the system. Threw me too.

OK well now I'm even more lost. Internal Calls context I took to mean the extensions of the phones in your facility - OK pretty straight forward, you're allowing for extensions 1000-2000, but what are InCalls Context? I have no idea what that even means?

Inbound calls and outbound calls respectively.

Context is an Asterisk term.

@quintana said in XiVO - Open Minded Telecom System:

@scottalanmiller Can you give me more detail. How did you install it?

It's on the other thread as well, but it is just a generic ISO based install on Vultr.

I am trying to set up an incoming access number and use it in a pinless scenario. I don't actually have it connected to any phone system per se.

@JaredBusch said in The High Cost of Unlimited Calling:

@scottalanmiller said in The High Cost of Unlimited Calling:

@NetworkNerd said in The High Cost of Unlimited Calling:

There's also the idea that you can have unlimited concurrent calls and just pay per minute of use while you pay a certain fee for each DID you keep per month. As you said, there is a cap to this "unlimited" number of concurrent calls that gets applied (at least from what I have seen from certain providers).

Sometimes all you can eat is all someone says you can eat.

That's surprising that someone would cap that since normally those are charge per minute and the goal of unlimited concurrency is to encourage you to use as much as possible.

I'm not sure what he is taking about. All the pay per minute SIP trunk vendors I have used have no hard cap on this.

Some like VoIP.ms do put in a soft cap but will raise it to whatever you want.

Their reasoning is to prevent fraud

That I would understand, you don't want someone able to charge tens of thousands of minutes of usage per minute if you didn't know what you were doing. Lots of risk there.

@Veet said in Vendor Harassment Black List:

@scottalanmiller - while I back your intent, I don't think a community based black-list would work ...

Perhaps not, but what if we had a thread and each person maintained their own list on it? Then people could pick and choose quickly from that list?

@NetworkNerd & @JaredBusch - We would love to have you both. We can offer you 20% off this year's AstriCon registration with promo code "VUC" at checkout. Otherwise, make sure to check out the Early Bird pricing for next year's event (which ends in late June)

@coliver said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@JaredBusch said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@Romo said in Troubleshooting SIP connection to Remote PBX:

@scottalanmiller Doesn't it do that because iOS doesnt allow any UDP connection in the background? Wouldn't TCP work better in mobiles in order to save battery as well?

ZoIPer has an OMFG kill my battery setting to force it to keep registration in the background.

Which is a good idea to turn off... That thing will eat through your battery in a few hours.

It is off by default, but for people who want a softphone on their iPhone to always be on and registered it is an great option.

@wirestyle22 said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@wirestyle22 said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@RamblingBiped Hope this is the solution. I unfortunately have Cisco CM and its my first time managing VoIP

So sorry.

Complication for the sake of complication

And spending money for the sake of throwing away profits ;)

@poorizad said in Storing Elastix 2 Call Recordings on NFS NAS Share:

@scottalanmiller hi again....i guess the nfs drive is unmount from the server, because no file record on Nas after the 2016/07/28.....nothing changed on settings.....but a few server shutdown for hardware maintenance.....how can i fix it again ?

Try the mount command again. It might mount right up. If the NFS server has restarted, it would disconnect.

@poorizad said in Storing Elastix 2 VoiceMails on NFS NAS Share:

@scottalanmiller it means i use your previous command with this path . right ?

Correct