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

@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

Ah ok because of the price blocks. Yes, I agree there.

@FiyaFly - This should make your heart happy based on how much fun you had with Sangoma in past years.

@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!

@bigbear said in Blinking Cursor on Fresh Fedora 28 Install after reboot:

So I made a full USB installer for Suse Tumbleweed this morning and loaded it up, I am afraid to reboot.

I am hoping its something Fedora is missing the Suse got right...

/me hands you a dang helmet.

Good luck!

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

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@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

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@travisdh1 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

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@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.

Ubuntu Server 18.04 live installer makes it easy to quickly deploy nextcloud during the install to test Nextcloud.

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

@bigbear said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

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@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?

I prefer to do it myself because I don't want to deal with a down PBX. Granted that has never happened from a normal update, at least to me.

It is now under Admin -> Updates
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It has this scheduler, but it does not seem to actually do anything except check.
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I'm not sure but thats a great idea. I need to look into it as well.

@bigbear said in EDIT: Microsoft Teams Edition Support - Yealink T58V's For Sale:

Microsoft is going all in on the Teams client as the new softphone for desktop and mobile, Skype for Business will be EOL.

Dead before it ever got started. Doesn't bode well for Teams.

I may have to check this out. Trying to use Google Voice currently for rental property management and it just doesn't seem to be cutting it. Most of our calls would be inbound and the extra features like virtual receptionist would be nice.

@stuartjordan said in History happening right now - live link:

@jaredbusch said in History happening right now - live link:

@stuartjordan said in History happening right now - live link:

That was brilliant, how mad them rockets landing back down where they wanted. Normally the rockets are destroyed on re-entry??

NOt for SpaceX. They have been landing them for years now.

I wasn't aware of this to be fair, don't normally follow, but still amazing to say the least, should imagine they can do more flights saving the rockets.

Every rocket that lands successfully saves tens of millions if not more on than larger ones. And the scale of a 10+ story building landing is something else as well...

I've not seen this, either.

@bnrstnr said in Remote Control Software:

@wrx7m Right, an agent is the SC software installed on each machine, which varies per plan. $300 = 25 Agents, $600 = 100 Agents, etc. I believe you can have unlimited technicians with any of these pay per agent plans. I could totally be wrong though...

You are correct. I was confusing agents with techs.

Fun fact, I have been using UNMS on EdgeSwitch since 1970..

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Updated Phone System In Office 365 Pricing shows that it still is $8 add-on for Microsoft Teams, plus the $12 add-on for domestic PSTN calling.

So it is $20/month/user for Phone System and PSTN calling to the US.

However, the $8 is lower than the previous $12/month/user for Cloud PBX. If you can use Hybrid mode to connect to your own SIP trunking its coming way down.

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I've seen it mentioned but maybe it wasn't here.

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr Dallas Outage:

We've not seen an issue, but Vultr listed that there was a problem.

Have an Opensips node there, took it offline for latency issues. Didnt realize there was an actual outage until someone else mentioned it to me just now.

Releasing an order tomorrow (Tuesday Jan 3rd) after which the discount pricing will be gone (see original post, I updated it).

15. No Blocking. Consumers who subscribe to a retail broadband Internet access service
must get what they have paid for—access to all (lawful) destinations on the Internet. This essential and
well-accepted principle has long been a tenet of Commission policy, stretching back to its landmark
decision in Carterfone, which protected a customer’s right to connect a telephone to the monopoly
telephone network.

@scottalanmiller said in Signal Group Chat:

@jaredbusch said in Signal Group Chat:

I use Telegram because it is convenient and multi-platform. I do not use it for security.

I do also like that, to my knowledge, I can hand out the user name I setup in Telegram (@sorvani fyi)and people will not obtain my cell#.

Yeah, that's really big. A huge piece of security that makes Signal not very attractive to me. A key purpose of using stuff like this is not sharing phone numbers.

Agreed what the hell were the ting requiring that? And then not having a work around for not using them in the app?

@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 - Skype For Business - Cloud PBX:

@mike-davis said in Office 365 - Skype For Business - Cloud PBX:

Can you do what you do for under $20 per phone? (or under $30 after taxes) Can you do that without a long term contract?

Those are trivial numbers to hit. Even on month to month.

Yeah to answer @Mike-Davis's question we don't usually do a contract unless new phones other hardware is included.