EDIT: My original quest has turned into a fling with FusionPBX. If you are interested in giving it a go message me for help or join #fusionpbx on freenode. Moved 2 businesses offer so far its all pros and no cons. I have still reached out to multiple people about the original subject to see if we can get anyone else to release a FOSS competitor.

Based on some of the comments in this thread I am thinking about reaching out to developers of various projects to elicit a release of a FOSS version of a their stand alone PBX product that we could throw community support behind.

FreePBX currently is the most recommended small PBX solution on the market, FOSS or not. But as @JaredBusch mentioned in the aforementioned thread it still isn't a clear FOSS product. Everyone is interested in a production level system that is "cloud ready".

I thought I would outline a list of requirements, and I can add to the list based on anyone's feedback to this thread. Once I have enough feedback I am going to start to reach out to vendors/developers referencing back to this thread.

• Basic PBX Functionality (Voicemail, Extensions, Ring Groups, Dial Plan, Call Forwards, Users, Presence, BLF)

• Share line appearance (Something FreePBX doesn't mimic or support)

• Built in Security/Firewall or SBC (border controller)

• Simple installation process primarily for a hosted environment

• Some type of clear/simple provisioning template system

• No limits on users, devices, trunks, etc. In other words a true FOSS solution with feature parity to FreePBX

This could be the combination of several projects or a single product modified for a simple single tenant installation. Surely someone out there will support this as it could lead to exposure for their other products and services.strikethrough text

Check out the front page of reddit

You have to go to /r/popular (Above Link

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Youtube Video

Follwed link from SW to Jared's FreePBX Guide. Had some questions...

1.) Jared mentioned in another post using config files to manual provision the phone system. Is he hosting them on the client freepbx install or a random FTP/Server?

2.) Is the dynamic firewall safe to use or hosted PBX and remote phones? I assume if you get locked out you can always access the direct console from vultr's and disable the firewall.

3.) Is it best to still use CHAN_SIP or is PJSIP viable for hosted pbx?

4.) Has anyone used the Remote FreePBX RMS module. There is no indication of the monthly cost per install so I am reluctant to waste time setting up a demo.

Thanks!

https://www.sangoma.com/press-releases/sangoma-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-digium-inc/

Just noticed this while hanging around on FreePBX support forums this morning...

I know the pose is lame, but I was 16 years old so give me a break! I am the one with the fro standing up.

Disagree, pose it legit!

@fuznutz04 said in Replacing FreePBX with FusionPBX:

@bigbear I downloaded the ISO, I just need to find some time to try it out. I do like the fact that it is based on FreeSwitch, which seems to be used by a lot of the big players. (Flowroute for example)

Best to spin up Debian 8 on Vultr and run the Jessie script.

I'm working on outlining that onto a very simple single page specific to a Vultr. There is no documentation on Twilio, Telnyx or flowroute so I thought I would add that.

@tim_g said in Spec me a new desktop:

@bigbear said in Spec me a new desktop:

@tim_g said in Spec me a new desktop:

I'd be happier with a laptop and a dual monitor USBC/3 dock. There's some cheap i5 linux laptops that'll do Linux and cock.

Linux and cock is a useful feature

That was a typo! (fixed)

It will live on in my quoted reply though...

Unit is now SOLD

My last garage sale post... which I think would be a cool category for ML, buy/sell/trade? Selling with a new account on Ebay I got zero sales and almost scammed about 4 times by people wanting me to ship to a PO box that forwards out of the country.

Anyway, I also have this unit, unused in the box. Ordered and didnt use or return in time.

Think it was $895 some odd months ago. How bout BUY IT NOW for $499 which s about 50% of current price, or make offer.

How do you like my Fusion login screen?

Has turned out to be very much a developer/freeswitch project. Just messing around with it has given me so many ideas...

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX iOS/Android Mobile App in public beta now:

Oh nice, they are using TestFlight for iOS testing. I've used that for testing some apps in the past. Worked decent enough.

It resolves the primary gripe I had about FreePBX with the mobile sip clients and responsive firewall issues.

Now if only it could be multitenant...

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX iOS/Android Mobile App in public beta now:

@bigbear said in FreePBX iOS/Android Mobile App in public beta now:

Just wanted to share that you can download the mobile iOS/Android beta for FreePBX's Zulu now if you are a user.

This went online Wednesday August 28th
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/ZU/Zulu+Mobile+Installation

You can get 2 free licenses for your installation for free. Just getting ready to provision my phone to check it out.

The latest desktop version of Zulu has worked pretty well. There is a Slack/Teams feature that isnt bad, but since you cant invite outsiders to it its probably not going to gain much traction. The whole interface is pretty nice though.

I hope they change the licensing model from the $199 per 20 users per year to something per actual user.

That is only $10/user/year. That is not all the bad.

What price point you after?

Also, I was on their forum today and did not see a notice for this!

The Zulu app on Fedora works okay-ish.

I would like it to be just $10/user/year

Currently if you have 9 users you have to buy 20 and if you have 22 users you have to buy 40. At least that’s the only option in the portal. Increments of 20 and I think 50

Just wanted to share that you can download the mobile iOS/Android beta for FreePBX's Zulu now if you are a user.

This went online Wednesday August 28th
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/ZU/Zulu+Mobile+Installation

You can get 2 free licenses for your installation for free. Just getting ready to provision my phone to check it out.

The latest desktop version of Zulu has worked pretty well. There is a Slack/Teams feature that isnt bad, but since you cant invite outsiders to it its probably not going to gain much traction. The whole interface is pretty nice though.

I hope they change the licensing model from the $199 per 20 users per year to something per actual user.

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@bigbear said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@bigbear said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

I know this was discussed in the past, but I am not able to find the thread on it.

Windows to Fedora using RDP is fine,.. it's Fedora to Fedora using Remmina that I get the issue.

Thoughts?

Is this a Type or are you saying that you RDP from a Windows box to a remote Fedora box?

At that time, I was going from Fedora to Fedora

But you are using RDP protocol and not VNC?

Sadly I don't remember currently. And for the moment, I am mainly all Windows again due to some hardware issues. Once things getting settled - oh sometime about 2025 - I will have another go at it.

I was just reading the part where you accessed a Linux PC via RDP from your Windows box, and wanting to make sure I read that right. I am assuming you meant that you accessed a WIndows BOX for Remmina RDP from your Linux box.

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@bigbear said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

I know this was discussed in the past, but I am not able to find the thread on it.

Windows to Fedora using RDP is fine,.. it's Fedora to Fedora using Remmina that I get the issue.

Thoughts?

Is this a Type or are you saying that you RDP from a Windows box to a remote Fedora box?

At that time, I was going from Fedora to Fedora

But you are using RDP protocol and not VNC?

@gjacobse said in Remmina: Fedora to Fedora issue.:

I know this was discussed in the past, but I am not able to find the thread on it.

Windows to Fedora using RDP is fine,.. it's Fedora to Fedora using Remmina that I get the issue.

Thoughts?

Is this a Type or are you saying that you RDP from a Windows box to a remote Fedora box?

@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@syko24 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear - Duplicati is a free option for backing up to B2. I have not personally used it with B2 but seems to be very flexible with various storage platforms.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/duplicati-backups-cloud-storage/

I do use duplicati with B2 for it's target storage. Works great.

What type of file server are you running?

It's NextCloud on my home lab box. So really... nothing. Maybe 500MB worth of things to actually back up.

If you run nextcloud as a premise server can it serve as a bad to thr local network? Or only accessed via sync tool?

You can use it as the only on-premise file server if you want. Everything can access it via webdav now, and you can tie it into any AD or OpenLDAP domains already on site. Just makes end-user life that much easier. If setup properly, it's always accessible via a website anyway. The sync client is really the most painful way to access it, honestly.

Wow my typos....

So you can use it as a NAS/File Server and it does file locking etc like a windows file server?

I haven't specifically tested it's shared file locking, so I won't say for sure myself.

But you use it to map a network drive, correct?

And by file locking I just mean basic "this file is in use by XX user, the basic SMB stuff)

Yes, you map a legacy network drive.

I am debating whether to load up NextCloud or just some CentOS setup for basic file sharing services. I am worried I am going to come back one day and see that he has installed FreeNAS or some other junk. But I cant speak from any personal experience about NextCloud.

Not sure we could rearrange the current gear to do a SAM-SD setup.

@pete-s said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

@bigbear
It's udev that has a rule with eth0 and the old mac address.
Don't know what distro you're running but try looking in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
Delete the line that has NAME="eth0" in it. And change the line with NAME="eth1" to eth0.
And then you have to swap back eth1 to eth0 in your network settings.

Perfect!

@travisdh1 said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

@bigbear said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

Is your hardware address right? Duplicated MAC address might be an issue?

I ended up deleting everything in eth0, which the system no longer recognizes as "connected" and entered the settings in eth1, saved and restarted network service. Now I am able to edit network settings from system admin and they are immediately reflected in the the network scripts.

Just rebooted and came up perfect!

I think this is an unlikely scenario, restoring snapshots to a different IP address or different vultr account. I am guessing this is what caused the issue.

No on to the FreepPBX 14 updates.

This happens on a number of different distributions that I know of when restoring. The network adapter will pickup the next one in line, eth1 instead of eth0 in your case. I haven't been watching the boards here during the day at the moment, probably could've saved you some headache

I would like to figure out where I could remove/repair the references to eth0 and delete eth1, but I am satisfied that I got it working for now. I believe it was because the hardware ID as @JaredBusch mentioned was in the eth0 profile, and no longer matched the mac address vultr was assigning it under the new account.

@jaredbusch said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

So at this point I would assume a clean install of FreePBX 14 with Asterisk 14 is recommended?

I've had better luck with Asterisk 15.

So FreePBX14 with Asterisk 15?

That's what we are using.

Yes, FreePBX 14 with Asterisk 14 is what I have everywhere.

I was thinking this. 14 and 14. Have you used FreePBX14 with asterisk15 in production?

All of my production FreePBX 14 are Asterisk 15.

So now that everything is fixed and the update is complete I see the update software section of System Admin is gone. I had read that they can automatically manage security and updates now. Is that what you are doing, or did you disable it?