@JaredBusch over on FreePBX forums you references a cfg file to edit, I am about to load up FPBX 14 and was curious where that file is. TFTBOOT directory somewhere?
The only way to get the Yealink T5 android apps installed is apparently to add the pkg path to a provisioning file. This weekend I am determined to figure out how to hard provision with FreePBX.
@JaredBusch I still think of this as a "new thing" whereas pre bandwidth.com owning schmooze there was no mysql.
Somewhere maybe around 2008, before or after.
@JaredBusch So the conf files are still getting written to, but editing the conf files does no good as the database overwrites them?
@Dashrender said in Setup inbound call routing with FreePBX 13:
I don't know anything about other systems than FreePBX and Mitel. Both systems route calls automatically between any registered extensions on the system.
Think about this like a network switch, the switch understand IP enough that an IP registered on port 1 will receive traffic sent to that IP from any other port on the switch.
Its essentially all in extensions.conf (although FreePBX now uses a database and ignores this file)
@EddieJennings said in Setup inbound call routing with FreePBX 13:
other PBX systems where that intelligence isn't built in
Generally these other systems with intelligence dont exist. Take Allworx for example, its just Asterisk forked and customized, then made proprietary.
Everything is generally Asterisk or Freeswitch, or some bastardization of these.
@EddieJennings said in Setup inbound call routing with FreePBX 13:
From what you said it looks like there are other PBX systems where that intelligence isn't built in, I would have to write specific routes for how to handle those calls.
Hmmm, I may not have explained that well. On an asterisk level you have dial plans. This can even be alphanumeric. You can create an extension or even a name like EDDIE and tell the call where to go.
In FreePBX (which is a system controlling Asterisk) you have an Extensions application and Outbound Routes which are manipulating your dial plans in asterisk.
What other routes are you looking to configure?
@scottalanmiller what are you using RocketChat for, internal company discussion?
@EddieJennings Outbound routes would be more applicable to your question. The dial rules match number patterns to determine whether your call is a local extension or external route.
One thing I like about FreePBX/Asterisk/Freeswitch over 3CX is the fact that you don't have to worry about extension numbering. You can create any extension number you want (301, 302, 1045, 2343423).
@scottalanmiller my approach would be more community driven, on higher volume products.
Come here to X organization and buy all your X products. We will go get and share the best wholesale pricing based on that volume and charge a transparent for (or membership?). Spread the word, grow the volume, etc.
One advantage I have, aside from having savings, is an in-place customer base and volume that I can keep. My previous employer isnt interested in this business and so long as I am not selling phone service or competing I can still sell to those customers.
This would require a login, as you have to advertise MSRP.
But the idea would be to create a resources/community you can come to and figure out the best product, see guides on how to setup and order at wholesale while paying a basic upcharge.
If, for example, the community buys a lot of Ubiquiti, its leveraged buy power when the community supports the distributor who is sharing pricing transparently and sharing the fee transparently.
@MattSpeller I've done a lot of wholesale level sales with telecom equipment that stemmed from our primary internet/voice business. Looking at distributor to reseller pricing, its actually a bigger margin spread than many would expect.
I have always found when you are a step away from becoming a distributor for yealink or the like, your distributor will bend to meet pricing. Then you are left with no inventory and no overhead.
I have thought about putting best current market pricing online and drop shipping orders, charging a nominal $3 fee per item. This would allow the wholesale pricing to be transparent. Typical wholesale to reseller pricing is over 20% from what I see shopping around, and many times its much more.
May not be absolutely current to the month but here is an idea on Yealink pricing....
T42S $85
T46S $130
T48S $175
T52S $106
T54S $143
T56A $212
T58A $220
T58V $270
YEA-EXP50 $76
@JaredBusch said in Is ZeroTier failing:
@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:
@JaredBusch said in Is ZeroTier failing:
@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:
ZT announced a new community thing nine hours ago.
Where?
They announced on the Twitter feed which is doing a few posts per day. It's available in a new tab on the my.zerotier.com site.
It is some slack thing.
Is this actually a slack thing? or just slack-like?
What zip is it shipping to and what are they charging for shipping?
Over the past month I have been prepping for a big change. The long story behind it is really irrelevant but a number of us split off into a new company and then ultimately took a buy out from the original ownership. This came with a decent stock buyout and I subsequently resigned (under good terms while making myself available as a contractor).
I've always been a penny pincher and a saver and as such I can afford to go a few years without income. Regardless I went to a job interview with a long time customer this morning that would require little travel and offered excellent pay and benefits. I left feeling like that office would be a cage. The penny pincher in me is battling with the "dreamer" who wants to give a shot at this business.
I want to start a distributorship for telecom/network equipment. Resell to resellers and IT managers. I have great connections and I would love to spend my time examining new products, posting how-to's and providing A-to-Z guidance the way distributors in the 90's used to do. (I could start a whole different post on this, but I am sure many of you remember going to distributor workshops and getting good product advise from you channel distributor).
And again, not a brilliant business concept. Just something I know I would enjoy!
So the dilemma is more about whether I should do this in tandem with a new job, or just go all in for the next 6 months and see where its at. I have the savings to do this, and my previous employer will also be using me on a weekly basis until a replacement is found. I also have a tidy job offer heading my way.
Appreciate your thoughts.
Is FreepPBX 14 ready for production yet?
@coliver I went through all of the drive/sync solutions recently and Sharefile was surprisingly the best. That does not include Nextcloud as I never got around to trying it.
I did try the tool @coliver mentions and a few others, but the lag on my large dataset was too much to deal with.
I do agree the web UI for ODfB is slow and buggy, definitely not something I would prefer to browsing a network drive. The sync was the worst of all tested (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc).
Maybe it will improve with that update in the fall where OneDrive Files on Demand will be integrated in Windows 10.
@Jimmy_K said in How to select right router for 100 users or more?:
@Francesco-Provino Thanks for your response.
I am confusing that the Edgerouter ERLite-3 has price $49 with 1 mil packet per second which is same price with Cisco Linksys E2500 with the packet per second (Not sure). The Cisco one which I am using it is unable to deliver the outbound call. Most of the calls are drop, busy and no voice or breaking voice.
The E2500 series Linksys uses a weak broadcomm CPU and has 64mb of RAM
https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-infrastructure/bcm5358x
Whereas the ERLite uses a beefy Cavium MIPS CPU and has 512MB of RAM
https://cavium.com/pdfFiles/CN50XX_PB_Rev1.pdf
Night and day difference...
@Jimmy_K I am curious as to what the application for voice is. Is it a call center? 60% end point utilization is very high for normal office use.
