Comments on: Introducing PBX in a Flash: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine

By: Sushant

Sushant — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:40:49 +0000

I am soooo sooo eXcited to try this baby out, but before I do I have laundry of questions:
1. I run VMware ESXi v4 on a Dell PowerEdge. Any gotchas w/ running PiaF?
2. Contemplating running PiaF on dedicated appliance/mini-pc.
Recommendations? Following are my requirements:
A) Support up to 5 simultaneous calls
B) Would like RAID 1 or 5 support
Instead of minimal configuration recommendations, I am looking for rather optimal configuration. Ideally, just like a turnkey PiaF, I would like to get recommendations on a “turnkey” appliance to host PiaF.

By: Daka

Daka — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:46:34 +0000

Hello!
I have a Cisco Call Manager Express (runs on a router), and some 7940 phones. I’m wondering if I could use PBX in a Flash/Asterisk for voice mail, auto-attendent, etc. applications, but leave my phones controlled by the CCME. I’m assuming that Asterisk has to control the phones directly (via SIP, obviously), for basic things like key presses to be recognized properly. Is that right? Any options/workarounds you can think of would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,
Daka

By: seun

seun — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:47:44 +0000

Pls can this allow me to make free call to all countries..

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:43:19 +0000

Is it possible to install pbx in a flash entirely remote? Even the ISO?

Can it then be configured and managed remotely?

[WM: There’s no remote network install… yet. It can certainly be configured and managed remotely with a number of tools: ssh, FreePBX with a browser, WebMin, etc.]

By: Marv

Marv — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:22:59 +0000

AxVoice is no longer offering the free month.
“Thank you for your interest in the service. We have reached our limit of Beta test accounts.” -AxVoice website

By: ward

ward — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:15:37 +0000

For Nerd Vittles users, AxVoice has extended an offer of a free DID and free U.S. and Canada service for the next month. You can read about it in the forum. Here are the Trunk settings that you will need to get your new service running smoothly:

TRUNK NAME: axvoice

PEER DETAILS:
allow=ulaw
authname=***username***
canreinvite=no
context=from-trunk-axvoice
defaultip=magnum.axvoice.com
disallow=all
dtmfmode=rfc2833
fromdomain=magnum.axvoice.com
fromuser=***username***
host=magnum.axvoice.com
insecure=very
nat=yes
port=9060
secret=***password***
type=friend
user=phone
username=***username***

By: StevenK

StevenK — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:14:39 +0000

consolidated my mini asterisk (running on NSLUG) and the big one (running on gentoo) onto a dedicated machine.. very nice installer, can’t wait to mess around with the scripts! Now to figure out what all those default thingies in the dialplan do (I’ve always compiled asterisk from scratch, build ‘very basic’ dialplans myself too). Your extensions_*.conf looks like magic 🙂 Cudoz on all the great work, guys !!!!!

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:44:25 +0000

The Install is Graphical by default. Is this correct – or am I doing something wrong. It’s installing right now.

[WM: Just the install is graphical. Ain’t it pretty! Enjoy.]

By: wow thatsfast

wow thatsfast — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:29:43 +0000

the torrent completed downloading for me in <12 minutes, in case anyone was wondering. [WM: Yeah. This may be The PBX That Torrent Built. The torrent downloads are running neck in neck with the free http downloads.]

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:44:52 +0000

Has the forum been hacked?.. get this when I got nerdvittles.com/forum : ooooooops your sit owne3d by djekmani4ever home:www.sec-evil.com

[WM: Looks like vBulletin’s latest release 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 still has a hole. We’re on it. Thanks.]

By: Gaijin

Gaijin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:54:31 +0000

I am not being sarcastic when I am saying it is great that all the custom graphics look, well, ordinary. Too much about Trixbox is how flashy and pretty is all looks, when it would be really nice if they just focussed on getting something that works!!! There will be plenty of time for fancy graphics later, that is the beauty of open source, some graphic designer out there I am sure will come to the party…

Well done Uncle Ward & Team, I know how hard you guys must have worked on this one.

[WM: Credit also goes to Joe Roper for the heavy lifting. And a graphic designer already has volunteered to assist. As you can tell, that’s not where the initial energy was focused.]

By: SpaceLeeB

SpaceLeeB — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:48:29 +0000

Great work – looking forward to the hosted option and flexibility to move to that and then possibly back to internal hosting if needed. Any more info on timing or whatever for that provider/service you mentioned in your first post about this new system?

By: twingeckos

twingeckos — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:04:51 +0000

Awesome job!

By: ward

ward — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:17:26 +0000

The ISO MD5 checksum is 5efe29c17a54d7ab26f2b6f1c80def61. Here's a link on how to calculate an MD5 checksum for pbxinaflash.iso on any platform.

By: ward

ward — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:37:22 +0000

New PBX in a Flash forum has been added for bug reporting and fixes.

By: jpe

jpe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:37:22 +0000

Thanks Uncle Ward, Uncle Tom and the Nerdvittles Team!
I can’t wait to start learning again so that I may contribute back.
See you in the forums…

jpe

By: Paul Dobbertin

Paul Dobbertin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:11:57 +0000

Excellent work! Bittorrent was my friend today. I haven’t gotten the scripts yet, but the base install went perfectly on my Parallels virtual machine. Once I’ve put it through its paces, I will be installing on a dedicated machine. It looks great!

[WM:Bittorrent is a great product. Wish more folks would use it. We’ve moved the ISO off of pbxinaflash.net so you should be able to complete your install now.]

By: hardocp

hardocp — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:45:17 +0000

Does your ISO include options for installation of a soft echo canceler such as OSLEC? [WM: Post this on the forum and someone will respond.]

By: joshua

joshua — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:13:58 +0000

AXvoice is telling me to use port 9060 (not 5060) for sip... how do i configure this trunk without screwing up other trunks that use 5060. [WM: See this forum post for config instructions.]

By: Erick

Erick — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:16:07 +0000

Congratulations
Downloading Now…
Thank you

By: James

James — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:03:55 +0000

Thanks guys. The timing is perfect.

By: cvander

cvander — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:18 +0000

Looks like this puppy is popular. I can't install because of a 503 service unavailable response from the server... must be getting hammered! -Chris [WM: Yeah. We're getting hammered at the moment. Once you have the ISO installed, you can just reboot to try the download link for the script data again. For short-term workarounds, see this thread.]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:58:34 +0000

Thanks a million to Ward and friends. The efforts of all contributors are greatly appreciated!!! Can’t wait for the download to finish and start playing.

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:45:13 +0000

…And…… Here we go!!! Let’s start testing, testing and testing this release… let’s try everything!

Thanks to all of the people involved in this new project!!!!