Comments on: Newbie’s Guide to TrixBox 1.0 and FreePBX 2.1.1, Part I

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:42:14 +0000

I am reading your article and feel that I can have a system set up at home for tracking my advertisements. Is there any way to not have softphones or physical phones attached in the system but just have 1 voip trunk forward to a auto attendant and then from there to the voicemail of the extensions where the caller can listen to a script and leave message which gets emailed to me. It is meant for only incoming calls. [WM: Very possible.] And may be set another incoming voip number to another auto attendant and that to gives choice to enter a extension where there is a script and option to leave a message. [WM: Very possible and easy.] If you have any article that I can read to know on how to configure the system according my needs, it will be appreciated. [WM: We've got a web site full of them as well as dozens of tutorials. Have at it.] How and where are the recordings done for the autoattendant script and extension voicemail scripts. [WM: FreePBX, Setup, System Recordings.] I have installed the VMware version to test it yet. Thanks for your advise. [WM: Do some reading. :wink: ]

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:25:45 +0000

Gibran:
To support international calls you need to add the specific countries you wish to add in both your trunks and your routes, for example if you are accepting call to Spain you need to add:
TRUNK: 00+34XXXXXXXXX
Route: 34XXXXXXXXX
and so on, you can get a list of international dialing codes in: http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm

Good Luck,
Rafael.

By: Gibran27703

Gibran27703 — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:38:08 +0000

Greetings all –
First what a wonderful write-up, I got my server up in no time following the instructions here. Keep up the good work.

I have a quick question about international dial patterns with VoIPDiscount. I have configured the dial patterns as suggested here, but can’t seem to dial international numbers. What should I use in the trunk and outbound route sections?

I have the following configured –

Trunk:
001+NXXNXXXXXX
00+1NXXNXXXXXX

Outbound Routes:
011NXXXNXXXXX
1NXXNXXXXXX
NXXNXXXXXX

Is this suffient to dial internation numbers?

Thanks a bunch,

Gibran

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:26:35 +0000

I would like to use normal phones with Trixbox, you know, the $20.00 specials….is this possible???…and, if so, how can this be done….???

[WM: That’s what the Sipura SPA-1001’s are for. Reread that section of the article.]

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:11:59 +0000

Realy thanx for your articles (Rebuilding Zaptel. )
this one realy saves my day.

i did an update on trixbox. and my server did fail afterwards…
i was almost choosing the easyest way and reconfigure the server. (will cost me something like 5 hours to do the complete installation. inc the voice response system.

your article did save me more than 4.5 hours…..

THANX

Raymond

By: Riz

Riz — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:57:53 +0000

You recommend taking screenshots of every screen built using the Asterisk Management Portal (AMP) for backup. I find just saving each and every web page using File Save As in Internet Explorer much more convenient. All the detail gets preserved and can simply be copy and pasted. Trying to save the same pages usign Opera or Firefox doesn’t work that well as the pages don’t come up the same afterwards for some reason.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:29:47 +0000

Do i need a firewall with trixbox. What do you recommend

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:47:39 +0000

I just installed trixbox....now I am trying to access the GUI, I can but when I go to FreeBox --> SetUp I am offered no choices on the left hand side of the page? HELP!!!!! Please :) [WM: You didn't read far enough in the tutorial. Click here.]

By: Slickrock

Slickrock — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:11:54 +0000

Ward, Thanks for the great work! Could you tell me how to enter a pause into the callback number using either Asteridex or Web Callme? I have tried t post at Trixbox but think this might be more up your alley.

Thanks – Ryan

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:47:43 +0000

Hardware Question: Can I connect my Trixbox/A@H to some kind of switch and connect several analog phones to that switch and the extension numbers then can be configured based on what port of the switch the phone is connected to? Something similar to LAN? [WM: What you're looking for is called a channel bank.]

By: Amos

Amos — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:36:16 +0000

I’m sorry Paul Rupp had a bad experience with Telasip. I’ve just finished setting up my first TrixBox (and first linux machine AND first self-build computer) and Telasip support was integral in getting everything working. I usually had a response to my email in far less than 24 hours and the message usually was good help, too. Written by a person to boot! Thanks Telasip and BIG THANKS to Nerd Vittles!

By: Paul Rupp

Paul Rupp — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:40:36 +0000

I just wanted to post a word of warning - while Telasip is definitely the "low cost" provider, I have had significant trouble getting responses from them. Even sales inquiry e-mails are not answered until I send the same message three or four times. Voicemail messages left for them are never returned; I just have to keep calling every few days until I actually catch someone in the office. If you have a "set it and forget it" installation, and your VoIP plan/lines will never change, they may be the one for you. But if you need additional phone numbers, want to change your service, or things just stop working, in my experience they are very difficult to get ahold of. YMMV, just my experience.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:50:18 +0000

One thing I have noticed about Trixbox 1.0 is that the log file /var/log/asterisk/full never seems to get automatically pruned as it did under Asterisk@Home. I could set up a cron job to do that every night but don’t know the command that prunes the log file from a command line prompt (NOT from within the Asterisk CLI). I know that from within the Asterisk CLI you can do a logger rotate and that’s what I’d like to do every night, but cron jobs operate as if you are at a Linux command prompt. Anyone know how to do this?

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:16:03 +0000

Does anyone know if I would be able to install this on my MAC MINI? I want to dedicate my mini to our home PBX system because of the low power and noise it makes. Running my PC not only costs more, but sounds like an airplane while I am trying to sleep! lol… If its possible, do I just insert the burned CD into my mac? thanks in advance.

By: trai

trai — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:11:34 +0000

Your detailed instructions on how to set up trixbox are so helpful to so many, but those wanting to install on a i586 epia are left to fend for themselves because trixbox does not support the i586 platform. For this reason I wanted to inform you of a very detailed trixbox installation for the i586 epia platform. Here’s the link:
http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=88&forum=2&%20viewmode=flat&order=ASC&start=10
If you could link to it or post these details on your website, I am sure it would help those wanting to run trixbox on an epia machine.

Thanks,
Trai Davenport

By: JP

JP — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:09:21 +0000

This is great for getting installed. But before setting up all kinds of VOIP trunks, is it possible to simply use X-Lite or something to connect from a PC on the local network to the asterisk box? That would be a great addition to your tutorial as a very first step after installing. Thanks!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:07:13 +0000

Ward, any chance you will re-visit AsteriDex and Real Caller Names again… (Can’t seam to get real caller names working under Trixbox, if anybody can please post!!!)

Thanks!!!

[WM: It’s already on my list.]

By: neighbhr

neighbhr — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:34:05 +0000

What happens if you have 2 directories under /src/kernels/?

Which is which:
2.6.9-34.EL-i686
2.6.9-34.EL-smp-i686

On the boot loader I see 2 options (even before yum -y updates):
CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-34.ELsmp)
CentOS-4 i386-up (2.6.9-34.EL) <--what is the "i386-up" ? I can't see any 34.0.1 kernel version. Would appreciate some feedback. Thanks.

By: ward

ward — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:09:59 +0000

Because of a serious security vulnerability in Asterisk, we have modified the original article to show how to upgrade to the the latest version of Asterisk (1.2.9.1). You can complete the upgrade in about 15 minutes by following these steps.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:47:58 +0000

I like TrixBox generally but have found one glaring omission: The Asterisk MP3player command, documented at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+MP3Player is NOT implemented. It was available in previous versions of Asterisk@Home, but it just doesn’t work in TrixBox 1.0. As best I can determine this is because the program that MP3player calls, mpg123, is not installed as part of the TrixBox installation. Instead, it appears that a different program is used to play Music on Hold, and while this works for that application, it breaks existing applications that rely on the MP3player command. I read on another site that you can SOMETIMES use Playback instead of MP3player if you remove the file extension (usually .mp3) from the argument of the command.

I wonder why mpg123 is no longer being installed – in any case, if you are having problems playing MP3 files to callers after upgrading to TrixBox, that is why. I hope in the future they will either bring back mpg123 or link the MP3player command to whatever’s replaced it.

[WM: You might want to post this on the TrixBox forum and see what type response you get from Andrew.]

By: Maceo Woodward

Maceo Woodward — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:55:31 +0000

All,

What exactly is the difference between the first release of TrixBox and the last release of A@H? I have never really seen the differences enumerated.

Also, has anyone had any luck with backing up A@H with the FreePBX option and restoring it after installing TrixBox?

By: Joel Smith

Joel Smith — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:59:06 +0000

Port 10000 and webmin – perhaps I am missing a trick here, but surely there is no conflict between webmin and asterix over port 10000? Webmin uses tcp port 10000 and asterisk uses udp port 10000 for the voip traffic – different protocols, so no conflict. Or have I missed something?

[WM: You’re correct. Thanks.]

By: Francois

Francois — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:54:20 +0000

First, thanks. I learn a lot from your articles.

I’d like to ear about anyone’s experience on hosted PBX. I have a kind of messaging service in mind and I’d like to have the server hosted in a farm with good bandwidth, maintenance, backups and maybe quaranteed QoS for VoIP traffic etc.

I know I could rent fresh or Linux boxes and install Asterisk on it and it would do the trick. But I expect a better performance and better support using specialized providers or resellers.

Does anyone know or has experience with one or more such providers? Would a shared server work for an initially small system (I think delay with first access after a long unused time as with Web Hosting)?

I’ve found providers like offShorePBX.com, EasyPABX, VoiceRoute but the all seem to provide a somewhat shielded environment with only GUI access and that is not enough since I’d need to do some custom scripting to provide customized features.

TIA

By: james

james — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:55:56 +0000

Webmin is in the trixbox repository, so you can just use ‘yum install webmin’ now.