@Pete-S said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...: @Skyetel said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...: @Pete-S said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...: @BraswellJay said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...: No internet - no phones : this is an issue in that we don't have redundancy on our network link, but there has not been any network outage since the fiber was installed at this particular site several years ago. Not sure what I can do on this short of say we could keep a POTS line or two for emergencies but that of course starts to eat into the cost savings some also. Maybe you can setup a 4G link as redundancy instead. Voip traffic doesn't require that much bandwidth so even if you only get 2 Megabit/s or something it is still plenty. I would suggest against this - a lot of the 4G carriers do crazy things with NAT that SIP Trunks really really do not like. We run into CGN problems all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT. It also can create issues with UDP Fragmentation. But if you are using a hosted PBX is that really an issue? You can mitigate it somewhat, but yea, its still an issue. The best way to get around it with a hosted PBX is to use a VPN between the phone and the PBX. That will bypass most of the NAT issues and keep the phones routing the way they should. You can still get dropped calls though.

@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 Yeah, it is more of a "just in case" something is out of date.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.

@JaredBusch said in Exploring VitalPBX: WTF who want sequential? It is not how anything normally works. None of the settings let you specify how many logs to keep after rotation. There is a cleanup add-on that specifically mentions cleaning up logs - definitely seems like a short coming that should simply be in the main product.

@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.

Not surprised they finally caved to this. It was needed, but I am sure it will be a huge support hit in the short term.

@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 Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: @scottalanmiller said in Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: In other firmware revisions, Opus is in the codec list. But now it is missing. This is not what you stated in your opening post. You clearly stated several updates. @scottalanmiller said in Yealink T46S Missing Opus Codec in 66.84.0.15 Firmware: Anyone noticed that several firmware updates for Yealink T4xS phones seems to be missing the Opus codec It's been multiple for us, not just this one. Older ones have had the issue, then we update and Opus appears. But now we update and it disappears again. So yes, several just as I said. I never said "several consecutively."

@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.

@JaredBusch said in Broadvox Outage 15 April 2019: Broadvox is now named Inteliquent as far as where the domain redirects to. Yeah, while passing through on Onvoy page along the way of the redirects.

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

@JaredBusch said in Major outage at VoIP.ms today: @scottalanmiller said in Major outage at VoIP.ms today: Wait, I think we are talking on a voip.ms line right now, weird. The problem is inbound termination from upstream of them. Everything else works. Also not all inbound providers are affected. Okay, that makes sense then.

@wrx7m happy to help!

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.

You get the EPM for Sangoma by default. You have to buy the full EPM for all other devices. I believe it is $125 usd.

@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 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.

@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.

@JaredBusch said in Yealink VoIP Phone Powered by Ubiquiti ER-X PoE: @scottalanmiller said in Yealink VoIP Phone Powered by Ubiquiti ER-X PoE: Anyone tried this combination? Does the power output on the one PoE port of the UBNT ER-X properly power the PoE input on a Yealink phone? We are specifically looking at the T42S. The ERX should work if the power injector that you’re passing through is one design for the phone and not the fixed voltage unifi The ER-X models have warnings in the manual that you need a different power source than the included wall wart if you're going to provide PoE to a device. At that point, just use passthrough from a compatible phone adapter. @JaredBusch already nailed it.

@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 - The Endpoint Manager has it Enabled. I set it as disabled to match your settings to see if that fixes it. I will report back later with the results. As always thank you for your assistance.

@jaredbusch Ok thanks for the explanation