Great that you make this updated series, thanks! A note on PRI and BRI, where i live all ISDN services ends within the next year, it's becomming to expensive to keep alive.
You can setup a Hunt with Telco on POTS lines and they will advertise the main caller ID for any of the trunks the call originate on. You also have strait T1 E&M with winking. They handle 24 calls instead on 23.
In Proxmox you have it almost like on bare metal. No problems at all, really easy setup ;) It is not good to say virtualization is bad. It is way better than hosted one in the cloud, where it is usually virtualized as well and usually even 10s of miliseconds far. I rather buy one quality 1U server with ECC RAM for more services than to use tons of small cheap chinese boxes.
i installed more than 10 freepbx in VMware and proxmox of 100+ user, and it is stable for past 4 years and not faced any technical problem, snapshot, live automated backup is very easy, more over High Availability and Fault Tolerance can be configured, it is the concept matter....not the virtualization platforms
Yes - it's not a question of whether or not it's possible. The issues that I typically see with FreePBX installed into VM's is that they are not configured and/or maintained properly. People don't take the time to learn how to do it right. This is why when we support customers who have installed FreePBX in a VM, our support is always 'best effort.' Whereas with a bare metal server - especially one that we've certified for use with FreePBX, we have a much greater success rate.
I was directed to this series by a friend but I think this may be overkill for my goal. I recently moved and the home has an obscene number of phone jacks including in the bathrooms and elevator (these still have the wall mounted slimline phones attached) all neatly terminated at a punch-down block in the network room and I thought a fun summer project would be to set them up with some local extension type set up so you could have a toilet to toilet conference :)
i have an on site.. 20 user freepbx deployment behind a pfsense firewall handling the vpns/port forwarding and routing... the onboard gig nic on the firewall box went dead about 3 weeks ago... so i put in a nic card and was back up... then yesterday the new nic went down.. Grrr... 2 nic failures in 3 weeks in the same box... odd to say the least.. everything is on UPS... wan plugged into the cable modem direct... lets see how long this one lasts.. ive been in the network business for 30 years... nic failure is somwthing we barely ever see..
I would start looking into what's feeding the NIC via its power source. Start measuring for appropriate voltages are in the appropriates places, along with a visual inspection of the entire unit, no blown caps etc, etc. Did the NIC PCB have any signs of visual failure? Can be tricky to spot usually, but something like that can be really helpful in the midst of diags.
Thanks for this series!! Great stuff, I've been into telelphony off and on and I've been trying to get FreePBX with Asterisk running in VM, but it doesn't look like that's very efficient as you stated. Great series looking forward to more!
Is there a way to modify the incoming caller id for example if I have two different toll free numbers and want to distinguish which number is being called I can change the caller id to show the last for digits of the toll free number.
I just wish I could have a box, connected between two or more phones, regardless if they're rotary dial or touch tone and assign each a phone "Numbers" hear a real dial tone, then ring one of the other phones when the assigned numbers are dialed, without the need for VOIP nonsense, nor needing a land line from the telephone company. Like a private telephone system, if you will.
I have already an older version of freepbx but it's GUI is not working and phones are connected with it on the same network. Now I have installed new GUI freepbx and I want to migrate all settings from old to newer version, so that I can have admin control on all phones on newer version. How can I do this?
Chris, was running through this very good series. I have a situation where I want to log a deskphone and web phone into the same extension of freepbx. is it possible given that the webphone is using webrtc?
first day learning VOIP. all i need to do is create a messaging system, press 1 hear a message press 2 hear a different message and so on. wish me luck , any advice would be welcomed
New to FreePBX. Let's say I have FreePBX at home connecting only 2 or 3 voip phones. Can a remote voip connect to my FreePBX through Internet connection ? I know I have to open up SIP and RTP ports on my firewall and do port forwarding. Aslo Do I need to sign up with SIP provider for this scenario ?
Just have to say - having installed "Free"PBX, I'm inclined to remove it immediately because it seems to require handing over contact information as part of activation - and I'm spammed with adverts. It wasn't like this the last time I used the product. I presume Sangoma are monetising this?
I have an old copper line, kinda rural and internet beamed via mtn top ubiquiti radios to my home. Nothing is reliable. the copper line goes out when it gets wet from rain. Just put in a new tree install for the radio and look to get, 20-30mb down load, 5 mb upload and 20ms latency often. What can you reccomend is best install for me? Hosted? who?
Hello, I have 4 Axis PA system connected to the Allworks server. I can page each one of them but not together. The system does not list the generic SIP. Any idea or suggestion? Thank you for your videos.
June 2021... Nice... What is the tipping point for your suggesting a PBX? Setting up DIDs appropriately in a small setup I can't see the benefits for one or two phones/lines setup. What about 5, or 10 seats?
Hey! I'm new to FreePBX. I've set up Raspbx on a Raspberry Pi 4 and would like to make calls using a 4G SIM router (TP Link - TL-MR6500v/ VoLTE, VoIP, VoiceMail). The router works fine on the RJ11 port with a standard phone. I previously attempted to use the chan_dongle module, but it appears that the 4G SIM doesn't work with it. I don't believe the mobile carrier provides any SIP settings for 4G SIMs. Is it possible to connect the VoIP router with Raspbx over Ethernet?
big fan of your channel !! l... I'm trying to link Mitel phones (6940s) to be specific with 3cx , I love the videos you made about this topics , ever since I've been using it .. we love your work .. found little about this in the forums etc ... which you could do a video about linking phones not listed on compatible 3cx list ...there are a lot of people out there looking for a solution ...
I just found this tutorial series a few minutes ago. I'm looking forward to watching it. :) Would this be appropriate for a single voice line + fax in/out line? I run a small office from home that's just me, and I keep ending up having to change VoIP providers because after a year or two whatever company I'm with jacks up my rate to something insane. The provider I'm with now as nice enough to tell me *when* it was going to double in price, at least. If this software is overkill for that, what would you recommend instead? Thanks again!
Great series refresh Chris! Thank you for the hard work on this! I´m wondering how is sangoma going to deal with the CenOS fiasco on the new build for Freepbx distro 16, rocky linux maybe? Cheers
For version 16, they're sticking with their SNG7 CentOS fork - not sure what they'll do after that, but they've got at least a year or two to figure it out.
Is there a TFTP server within ver 15? Need to run some Upgrades from Cisco to SIP . Finally have some free time never loaded ver14 on mu machine. What type of hard drive is recommended if I plan on voice mail? Conventional HDD or SSD.
Yes - FreePBX still has TFTP server capabilities. But these days, we mostly rely on Zero Touch Provisioning vs. Option 66. SSD is always recommended for any production server...no moving parts means less chance of failure.
Thank you for this series. Can we mix channel and metered? I can argue for four channels in my organization for users, but we also are required to maintain two emergency elevator phones that are never used. Thoughts? I am debating whether to keep our fax line. Nearly all of our use stopped in 2020. Thoughts on various online services that convert to email? Thanks.
I'm probably going to ditch freepbx once chan_sip is fully deprecated since all my attempts to swap over to pjsip have failed. Either that or stick with an old version and set up call limits with the provider + disable auto top up.
POTS does NOT stand for Plain Old Telephone Service! that is just a lazy misunderstood and repeated ad infinitum acronym. The term actually refers to Post Office Telephone Lines which adhere to a particular though very common generic technical standard. Originating in the UK which issued and serviced telephone lines through the government run GPO.
Hi Chris Dharashan here from South Africa. Really excited for this new series. Watched the old one from start to finish. Can you spend some time on the command line in this series. May be show people how to backup freepbx via ftp and mount external drives for back up of call recordings and stuff like that. Keep it up mate. PS would you consider opening your training to online as well?
A hosted PBX system running on Digital Ocean / Vultr / Linode / etc. is not the same thing as someone attempting to run FreePBX on VMWare/Hypervisor/Xen.
Freepbx? Don't bother your far better of using the Asterisk software it sits on. Far more features and control are avaliable by simply using VI commands editing the Asterisk conf files.
@@CrosstalkSolutions we have been for 12 years now. You simply do not have the same call control using fpbx. Using extn.conf you can create any call scenario you need.you can't in fpbx. Likewise sip.conf allows any custom sip configuration.
Great that you make this updated series, thanks!
A note on PRI and BRI, where i live all ISDN services ends within the next year, it's becomming to expensive to keep alive.
Yup - VoIP is a really attractive option. I haven't had to deal with ISDN in probably a decade.
You can setup a Hunt with Telco on POTS lines and they will advertise the main caller ID for any of the trunks the call originate on. You also have strait T1 E&M with winking. They handle 24 calls instead on 23.
In Proxmox you have it almost like on bare metal. No problems at all, really easy setup ;)
It is not good to say virtualization is bad. It is way better than hosted one in the cloud, where it is usually virtualized as well and usually even 10s of miliseconds far. I rather buy one quality 1U server with ECC RAM for more services than to use tons of small cheap chinese boxes.
Agree. I've installed about 20 freePBX on proxmox without any issue
@@GuillermoPradoObando is it opensource?
How would you compare a Proxmox installation to an installation on let's say XCP-NG (Xen)?
@@avamaria8447 yes it is. They have a community edition and a commercial edition
I love FreePBX. I just upgraded ours from 13 to 15 and it works great. I'm anxious to see what v16 offers! Thanks Chris!
Need your help
i installed more than 10 freepbx in VMware and proxmox of 100+ user, and it is stable for past 4 years and not faced any technical problem, snapshot, live automated backup is very easy, more over High Availability and Fault Tolerance can be configured, it is the concept matter....not the virtualization platforms
Yes - it's not a question of whether or not it's possible. The issues that I typically see with FreePBX installed into VM's is that they are not configured and/or maintained properly. People don't take the time to learn how to do it right.
This is why when we support customers who have installed FreePBX in a VM, our support is always 'best effort.' Whereas with a bare metal server - especially one that we've certified for use with FreePBX, we have a much greater success rate.
I am really grateful for this course Chris. It is the content that I craved. Thanks again
Great series!
FreePBX 16 General Availability hit the street today! Video overview??
Thanks for taking time to add actual Captions for the Deaf :)
Thank you Cris. Was missing your freepbx Videos. ☎️📞
I was directed to this series by a friend but I think this may be overkill for my goal. I recently moved and the home has an obscene number of phone jacks including in the bathrooms and elevator (these still have the wall mounted slimline phones attached) all neatly terminated at a punch-down block in the network room and I thought a fun summer project would be to set them up with some local extension type set up so you could have a toilet to toilet conference :)
i have an on site.. 20 user freepbx deployment behind a pfsense firewall handling the vpns/port forwarding and routing... the onboard gig nic on the firewall box went dead about 3 weeks ago... so i put in a nic card and was back up... then yesterday the new nic went down.. Grrr... 2 nic failures in 3 weeks in the same box... odd to say the least.. everything is on UPS... wan plugged into the cable modem direct... lets see how long this one lasts.. ive been in the network business for 30 years... nic failure is somwthing we barely ever see..
I would start looking into what's feeding the NIC via its power source. Start measuring for appropriate voltages are in the appropriates places, along with a visual inspection of the entire unit, no blown caps etc, etc. Did the NIC PCB have any signs of visual failure? Can be tricky to spot usually, but something like that can be really helpful in the midst of diags.
Hi Chris, I noticed you left Flowroute off your SIP provider list. Other than limited E911 service, what other concerns do you have with them?
Oh yes! Thank you
Thanks for this series!! Great stuff, I've been into telelphony off and on and I've been trying to get FreePBX with Asterisk running in VM, but it doesn't look like that's very efficient as you stated. Great series looking forward to more!
How about 3CX? I read lots of very different opinions on that.
The white label phones look great! Love seeing your logo in them. 👍🏻
Is there a way to modify the incoming caller id for example if I have two different toll free numbers and want to distinguish which number is being called I can change the caller id to show the last for digits of the toll free number.
I just wish I could have a box, connected between two or more phones, regardless if they're rotary dial or touch tone and assign each a phone "Numbers" hear a real dial tone, then ring one of the other phones when the assigned numbers are dialed, without the need for VOIP nonsense, nor needing a land line from the telephone company. Like a private telephone system, if you will.
I'll like to attend your training if possible. Kindly let me know when the next one will be coming up and the cost implication. Thanks
Great, yet another FreePBX tutorial 👍
I have already an older version of freepbx but it's GUI is not working and phones are connected with it on the same network. Now I have installed new GUI freepbx and I want to migrate all settings from old to newer version, so that I can have admin control on all phones on newer version. How can I do this?
Chris, was running through this very good series. I have a situation where I want to log a deskphone and web phone into the same extension of freepbx. is it possible given that the webphone is using webrtc?
These videos are great!
Will this series be useful for me to set up FreePbx v16 or is the setup process dramatically different?
first day learning VOIP. all i need to do is create a messaging system, press 1 hear a message press 2 hear a different message and so on. wish me luck , any advice would be welcomed
New to FreePBX. Let's say I have FreePBX at home connecting only 2 or 3 voip phones. Can a remote voip connect to my FreePBX through Internet connection ? I know I have to open up SIP and RTP ports on my firewall and do port forwarding. Aslo Do I need to sign up with SIP provider for this scenario ?
hi Crosstalk solutions team. When are you planning to have the next FreePBX course and how much is the cost?
Just have to say - having installed "Free"PBX, I'm inclined to remove it immediately because it seems to require handing over contact information as part of activation - and I'm spammed with adverts. It wasn't like this the last time I used the product. I presume Sangoma are monetising this?
I have an old copper line, kinda rural and internet beamed via mtn top ubiquiti radios to my home. Nothing is reliable. the copper line goes out when it gets wet from rain. Just put in a new tree install for the radio and look to get, 20-30mb down load, 5 mb upload and 20ms latency often. What can you reccomend is best install for me? Hosted? who?
Hello, I have 4 Axis PA system connected to the Allworks server. I can page each one of them but not together. The system does not list the generic SIP. Any idea or suggestion? Thank you for your videos.
June 2021... Nice... What is the tipping point for your suggesting a PBX? Setting up DIDs appropriately in a small setup I can't see the benefits for one or two phones/lines setup. What about 5, or 10 seats?
2-20 seats for our Cloud PBX, and 10 seats and up for our standard hosted or on-premises PBX solutions.
Hey! I'm new to FreePBX. I've set up Raspbx on a Raspberry Pi 4 and would like to make calls using a 4G SIM router (TP Link - TL-MR6500v/ VoLTE, VoIP, VoiceMail). The router works fine on the RJ11 port with a standard phone.
I previously attempted to use the chan_dongle module, but it appears that the 4G SIM doesn't work with it. I don't believe the mobile carrier provides any SIP settings for 4G SIMs. Is it possible to connect the VoIP router with Raspbx over Ethernet?
Chris, if you are going to host with vultr, what server would you use? Cloud compute, bare metal, or dedicated cloud?
Do you recomend this over 3cx? Whether you do or not, I just got freepbx running and sitting at the dash!
For a second, I thought I heard "sh*t" when you said "ship." :)
So informative. Thank you very much.
big fan of your channel !! l... I'm trying to link Mitel phones (6940s) to be specific with 3cx , I love the videos you made about this topics , ever since I've been using it .. we love your work .. found little about this in the forums etc ... which you could do a video about linking phones not listed on compatible 3cx list ...there are a lot of people out there looking for a solution ...
I just found this tutorial series a few minutes ago. I'm looking forward to watching it. :)
Would this be appropriate for a single voice line + fax in/out line? I run a small office from home that's just me, and I keep ending up having to change VoIP providers because after a year or two whatever company I'm with jacks up my rate to something insane. The provider I'm with now as nice enough to tell me *when* it was going to double in price, at least.
If this software is overkill for that, what would you recommend instead?
Thanks again!
Great series refresh Chris! Thank you for the hard work on this! I´m wondering how is sangoma going to deal with the CenOS fiasco on the new build for Freepbx distro 16, rocky linux maybe? Cheers
For version 16, they're sticking with their SNG7 CentOS fork - not sure what they'll do after that, but they've got at least a year or two to figure it out.
Thanks for sharing
Is there a TFTP server within ver 15? Need to run some Upgrades from Cisco to SIP . Finally have some free time never loaded ver14 on mu machine. What type of hard drive is recommended if I plan on voice mail? Conventional HDD or SSD.
Yes - FreePBX still has TFTP server capabilities. But these days, we mostly rely on Zero Touch Provisioning vs. Option 66. SSD is always recommended for any production server...no moving parts means less chance of failure.
Thank you for this series. Can we mix channel and metered? I can argue for four channels in my organization for users, but we also are required to maintain two emergency elevator phones that are never used. Thoughts? I am debating whether to keep our fax line. Nearly all of our use stopped in 2020. Thoughts on various online services that convert to email? Thanks.
ClearlyIP trunks are metered above your purchased channels - check them out! Make sure you hit my referral link!
I'm probably going to ditch freepbx once chan_sip is fully deprecated since all my attempts to swap over to pjsip have failed. Either that or stick with an old version and set up call limits with the provider + disable auto top up.
What trunk provider and handsets are you using? I switched to pjsip without much issue a while ago.
POTS does NOT stand for Plain Old Telephone Service! that is just a lazy misunderstood and repeated ad infinitum acronym. The term actually refers to Post Office Telephone Lines which adhere to a particular though very common generic technical standard. Originating in the UK which issued and serviced telephone lines through the government run GPO.
But other than that - very helpful videos.
Hi Chris
Dharashan here from South Africa. Really excited for this new series. Watched the old one from start to finish.
Can you spend some time on the command line in this series. May be show people how to backup freepbx via ftp and mount external drives for back up of call recordings and stuff like that.
Keep it up mate.
PS would you consider opening your training to online as well?
how to configure fail2ban
If I'm already running FreePBX 14, should I jump to 15 or wait for 16 to become stable? Isn't 16 their next LTS release?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Lol Level3. Long live Lumen.
how often are you gonna make one of these freepbx videos? every week? every 2 weeks?
Time permitting - no set schedule.
@@CrosstalkSolutions
:-(
nice t-shirt :-)
You don't recommend virtual machines but you resell them yourself for hosting.... what
A hosted PBX system running on Digital Ocean / Vultr / Linode / etc. is not the same thing as someone attempting to run FreePBX on VMWare/Hypervisor/Xen.
@@CrosstalkSolutions Really? What hypervisor does Linode use?
Freepbx? Don't bother your far better of using the Asterisk software it sits on.
Far more features and control are avaliable by simply using VI commands editing the Asterisk conf files.
Lol - ok. Have fun with that.
@@CrosstalkSolutions we have been for 12 years now. You simply do not have the same call control using fpbx.
Using extn.conf you can create any call scenario you need.you can't in fpbx. Likewise sip.conf allows any custom sip configuration.
@@212MPH can you please create a 15 part video series on how to do this?
@@stephendetomasi1701 how good is your unix knowledge? You need to be able to compile, VI and understand SIP.
@@212MPH yeah I don't have that sort of free time!