Comments on: Introducing the Stealth AutoAttendant for Asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:08:00 +0000

It does take a bit of set-up to get it running just right. But, once you’re done, it is really a time saver. Anything that keeps me focused on whatever I happen to be doing at any given moment is a good thing. And most phone calls can wait… or be ignored. Thanks for this detailed setup guide. It helped a lot.

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:55:19 +0000

just one thing: THANKS ! i’m new to asterisk&freepbx, but i’m really enjoing the setting-up of my new phone system ! thanks, this tutorial helped me a lot in the discovering of new asterisk features.

By: mahya

mahya — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:06:31 +0000

Hi,
When I use Voicemail function, there is a default system greeting
before voicemail recording. Is it possible to change that greeting?
How? Actually I want to change the sequence of sound file that played for greeting.Please send the solution to my E-mail.
Thanks

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:24:43 +0000

Does anyone else have a problem when dialing out and trying to press numbers, extensions, commands, etc... using PBX in Flash? I am using vitelity & polycom ip430s, do I need to enable a setting in PBX in a Flash in order for the other phone systems to recognize the numbers that I have pressed? [It's the DTMFmode setting. Post the issue on the forums if you can't figure it out.]

By: Ed Lally

Ed Lally — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:05:20 +0000

Hey Ward, I don't know if others have run into this problem, but after installing the other Nerd Vittles goodies (Mail Call, Weather by ZIP, etc.) with this article, my PBX In A Flash wouldn't restart correctly. I tracked the problem down to the /tmp directory not having correct permissions. Running the command chmod 1777 /tmp at the Linux command line fixed it. For those unfamiliar with Linux, the command grants all users permission to write temp files and sets the "sticky bit" to prevent users from deleting each others' files. Thanks again for all your telephony work -- I love my FreePBX! [WM: Thanks, Ed. That's how mine was actually set. Not sure what happened, but we'll add it to the patch list.]

By: Troy Carpenter

Troy Carpenter — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:51:38 +0000

There's a few things I don't understand. First, when creating the cellphone extensions, shouldn't you use the "Other(Custom)device", which will not set up a sip extension for a device that will never register. Instead, it presents the "Dial" field where the cell phone number goes there like this "Local/xxxxxxxxxx@outbound-allroutes" Secondly, I use cell phone numbers in my ring groups all the time. I use the cell number directly in the extension list, putting a # sign after the number. My cell phones always show the original caller's number without any extension context modifications. This has been the case back when I first installed Trixbox and is still the case on my newly installed PiaF system. Finally, have the weather/new/email etc apps been ported to use the swift tts engine yet? Thanks for all you do! [WM: Troy, as you've discovered, there are literally dozens of ways to do the same thing in FreePBX. If your way works, great! If not, try our way. This was actually Philippe's suggestion. Your way instead of SIP device makes more sense, but it may not matter. As for forwarding calls to cellphone numbers, it only became problematic (at least for us) when you were using nested IVRs as was the case with the hypothetical situation in this article. As for porting our apps to Cepstral, you'll have to wait 'til Valentine's Day which also happens to be the 3d (month) anniversary for PBX in a Flash.]