Comments on: VoIP on Steroids: Introducing Incredible PBX 3.7 for the $35 Raspberry Pi

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:30:39 +0000

A few people have asked how this device would scale. How many IP handsets might this support, and how many concurrent calls in/out? OR, is this really just a perfect DEV env for someone wanting to test and learn Asterisk?

[WM: Seems to do just fine from what we’ve seen and heard.]

By: Scott P

Scott P — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:16:44 +0000

Absolute perfection. Other than the slow write speeds to the sd card (you might add a warning note about that part), I had it swapped over to local extension numbers and trunked to existing asterisk servers in minutes. FreePBX is noticeably slower but it doesn’t get any cooler than this!

By: Anirban

Anirban — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:52:08 +0000

I followed the process mentioned above. But whenever I try to make call using Yate Client from my PC. I got a error message " All circuits are busy" Please help. [WM: Please head to the PIAF Forum for assistance. Can't do it on a blog. Sorry.]

By: Anirban

Anirban — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:16:07 +0000

I make lots of international call from my vonage VOIP phone . I want to build a call recorder (incoming and outgoing). Can raspberry pi and Free Incredible PBX and my vonage adapter work together to make it happen?

[WM: If you add an OBi110, you can use your Vonage adapter.]

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:15:30 +0000

Great directions! Just wondering: I have version 2 of raspberry pi. Do you think it has enough processing power to record a conference while it is handling 2 did lines without deteriorating audio quality?

[WM: Only one way to find out. 🙂 ]

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:33:45 +0000

No, unfortunately, I tried re-download; untar on Linux instead of Windows; put on SD rather than on microSD with adapter. the result is the same – it’s hanging right after telling me about eth interface. If there is anything I can do to troubleshoot – please let me know. I’ll happily swap raspberry-asterisk card for Incredible PBX card. Thanks.

[WM: Unfortunately we can’t diagnose networking problems via comments. Please head to the PIAF Forum for assistance. Sounds like it’s not getting an IP address from your router which would cause it to hang. This is a wired connection, right? Without a network address, it can’t access the network to set the clock so Asterisk cannot load.]

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:45:04 +0000

I am trying to install 3.7 on my new Pi (with 512MB of memory), and it hangs starting network interface. Connectivity is not an issue, Asterisk for Raspberry boots up perfectly, as well as Raspberry’s own Debian. Any advice?

[WM: It’s either a bad image on the SD card, or a bad SD card, or a defective power supply. Since you say the other builds boot, that would narrow it down to the first two in my opinion. Does the checksum of the image match what it should be? That would be the first place to look. Then I’d try burning the image to another card.]

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:14:43 +0000

I am running Incredible PBX on my Pi and it is working well. I have a few questions relating to it:

1) Using windows how do I make a backup of the entire SD card that is running Incredible PBX? I have tried win32diskimager, but it only backs up the 1st partion.

2) I would like to be able to call a ‘custom destination’ and have the text to speak engine tell me the status of a GPIO pin. How would I go about do this?

3) How would I setup an IVR that would allow me to turn on/off a gpio pin?

Thank you!!

By: ward

ward — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:02:31 +0000

In reply to chris. [WM: Don't know how much clearer we can be. You cannot use a Google account that is being used for other purposes elsewhere. That means Gmail, Jabber, Jingle, XMPP, SMS, or any other Google function that requires your credentials for use. If you do, you will never get incoming calls to work. One more time: you must use a dedicated Google account for Incredible PBX if you expect inbound calling to work reliably.]

By: chris

chris — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:06:10 +0000

I have not been able to get inbound gtalk calls to work. Looking at the asterisks log, Asterisk does not see anything when a call is made to my gvoice number. Network trace also does not see any xmpp traffic when a call is made. Although outbound gvoice calls work. And I can see JABBER: messages reporting buddy status message changes. Any Advice? I am using a my main gmail account, But I have verified all of my other gtalk sessions were closed on all devices. This used to work a few months ago but stopped, I have not been able to pin down the cause.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:38:12 +0000

Is there any chance to connect 3G-modem Huawei E1550 as SIP-GSM Gateway to Incredible Pi? Any ideas how to do it?

By: Raymund

Raymund — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:32:03 +0000

Am still waiting for my Pi to arrive… I intend to make this as my first project, however, I would like to know if someone has done this with a USB stick 3G modem (Huawei) as extension to transfer calls to a gsm network. I understand that there are "cheap" GoIP sip-gsm gateways but if the project can just be on one device, why not? I have tried venturing into asterisk + chan_datacard and chan_mobile sometime ago but I could not make it work. There’s this nice win program from Oktell called sipgsm… has anyone ported such in linux? Thanks

By: DennisDunbar

DennisDunbar — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:30:31 +0000

I have a static I/P address and a FQDN that I want to use with 3.6 on a Pi. I tried setting SIP from within FreePBx and set the changes to be accepted from my server and it doesn't work. I modify interfaces and I added dns-nameservers and it crashes. Any ideas? [WM: See this thread on the forum for some suggestions.]

By: Francis

Francis — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:59:56 +0000

Never mind. I didn’t know Incredible PBX doesn’t show a login prompt on the serial console which is why the system appears to be hung. (I don’t have a graphical display.) I can log in through SSH now.

Thanks.

By: Francis

Francis — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:57:54 +0000

I haven't been able to boot v3.6 successfully. It keeps getting stuck at the same spot: ... [ 17.450507] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: (null) [ 17.955682] bcm2708 watchdog, heartbeat=10 sec (nowayout=0) [ 18.082264] bcm2835 ALSA card created! [ 18.088798] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.108266] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.119225] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.127708] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.136138] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.144602] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 18.152828] bcm2835 ALSA chip created! [ 25.949645] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor ondemand [ 25.961321] bcm2835-cpufreq: switching to governor ondemand [ 28.339789] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 32.709849] Adding 897020k swap on /var/swap. Priority:-1 extents:27 acrossS [ 86.499399] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [ 89.714954] watchdog stopped I've tried 2 different cards and 2 different Pi's all with the same result. I created the cards using the make_sdhc script. This is the first version I've tried. I'm going to downgrade and try v3.5 and see if it works better. But, any idea what problem is here? Thanks.

By: Karl Miller

Karl Miller — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:36:35 +0000

Thanks sooo much for all this work. As a software engineer, I know all the work this took, and it is so nice to have everything working in one package. I have had several false starts with Freeswitch, Asterisk by itself, plugpbx, etc. I am waiting for my new model PI and will eagerly set this up and get it going with my Nexvortex.com account (these guys are great for a very cost-effective SIP account).
My next effort will be creating a package for a SOHO SMB that can be easily turnkey’d SD card image that can be setup for multiple offices (one with a PI pbx, and the rest with just phones behind their router).

Amazing coordination and thoughtfulness in putting this together.
Thanks again, your place in heaven is preserved 😉

By: Dawid

Dawid — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:48:59 +0000

Is it possible to incorporate Skype gateway into this Rasspberry Pi distro?

[WM: Skype is proprietary, and M$FT has not chosen to release a version for this ARM processor. Sorry.]

By: ward

ward — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:10:54 +0000

Incredible PBX 3.6 featuring Incredible Fax is now ready for testing. http://nerd.bz/UOOgL9

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:12:19 +0000

I have v3.5 on a 256K Pi running at home to help me learn Asterisk. I have 3 SPA942 phones with a trunk to the outside world. All is working great, but is there anyway to do paging to all the phones ? PiAF talks about a Paging module, but I can’t see it as a built-in or an available module.

By: Crusadio

Crusadio — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:31:43 +0000

Have you tried adding a heatsink to keep the CPU cooler when overclocking? There seem to be a bunch of different heatsink kits for the Raspberry Pi available.

– Crusadio

By: ward

ward — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:26:05 +0000

Incredible Faxing for the 512MB Raspberry Pi finally has arrived. Install instructions here: http://nerd.bz/TSbzqC

By: SAm

SAm — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:27:35 +0000

I was thinking maybe this would be good for a sip door phone?

By: Nerd Uno

Nerd Uno — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:50:43 +0000

CallCentric network outage may cause IPtables to fail with Incredible PBX for Raspberry Pi. Here’s the fix: http://nerd.bz/Sc6FBw

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:27:46 +0000

Argh, please disregard last message. I was logged in to google chat through my android phone.