The resellers used to do it manually and charged $1 a phone, which is why I think adoption stalled. Plus documentation is horrible. Once you are in the portal its pretty obvious what can be done.

I have linked my GUI so that when you add a phone's mac address to my service it uses Yealink API to automatically configured RPS.

@bigbear said in Accessing the FreePBX UCP:

If the admin and UCP portals had the responsive firewall logging failed web logins it could provide the same level of security as remote/roaming IP phones.

Yeah I suppose. I guess they take a different tack - you'd only want access if you have a phone there with you to control.

But I can see the point of why you might want access while not having an extension where you are. But this obtainable via DynDNS.

@eddiejennings said in Dialing Plan Logic Sanity Check:

@jaredbusch

Also NXXXXXXXXX is an invalid dial pattern for NANPA. The valid pattern is NXXNXXXXXX.

You're right. I've fixed my patterns. While the invalid pattern works, it would be best to follow the standard.

It is too loose, so it would never have stopped a real call from processing.

NXX - NPA (Area Code)
NXX - Exchange (ILEC Central Office)
XXXX - Line (Station within the Exchange)

N = 2-9
X = 0-9

So this menas that NPA and Exchange 3 digit numbers can never begin with a 0 or 1.

@jaredbusch said in Sample Configuration files for Yealink T42S:

@dashrender said in Sample Configuration files for Yealink T42S:

Here are a few settings many people might like. These will present popups on the phone for each thing mentioned.

features.forward_call_popup.enable = 0
features.missed_call_popup.enable = 0
features.text_message_popup.enable = 0
features.voice_mail_popup.enable = 0

That is certainly a case by case group of settings. I have those disabled about half of the time..

Agreed.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@eddiejennings said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

Quantify your concern. What exactly are you worried will happen?

For the direct-dialing concern, I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't think my concern through fully. I suppose the worst that can happen is a department would be annoyed by potential crank calling their queue directly rather than waiting through the IVR options. But then again, they can simply memorize which single digit to press, and achieve the same thing.

If someone can dial you, they can dial you. Imagine this same discussion about email. "We have to hide our email DLs and aliases, what if people EMAILED us?!?!?"

Um... yeah, that's the idea.

Point taken.

@black3dynamite said in Remote Administration of FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Administration of FreePBX:

Also gives you (if you use GIT like we do) a record of when the port was opened, why and when it was closed again.

How does that work?

You commit your change to your local file system on your workstation. Then you commit it to the GIT repo. When you do this, GIT stores your change as well as the previous state of the system and you add a comment when you commit. This gives you a chance to say "Opening port to work on PBX" or whatever. Then when you are all done, change the firewall back, commit it, comment again saying you are done and closing it and it closes itself.

Makes sense. I'll continue using the method of inbound routes.

I pulled a @jaredbusch and justed used voip.ms 😄

For anyone not familiar, here is a screenshot of my free version.
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here is a paid version at a client with ~40 extensions.
(intentionally not all are shown such as the Snom PA-1 paging adapter, because I know someone will count....)
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@table said in Duplicating IVR entries in FreePBX 13:

@jaredbusch

Is there a better way to do this with whats included in freepbx or commercial modules? I was thinking just putting the script in cron and just have it run every so many hours. Then eventually making a form to add or modify the data.

What I would do is update your ivr3 to include the id and name from ivr_details and think of those as the unique key. Or add them to a separate cross reference table, however you want to handle it.

Then add logic to your system to fail and notify if there is a mismatch (aka someone changed it in FreePBX).

There is no way to do this in FreePBX itself.

Once you change the database, you will have to reload everything.

You can issue the fwconsole reload command from your script. That is the same as clicking the red "Apply Config" button.

Thanks for this post, @JaredBusch . I got the previous month's bill from TPX and am going to start going through it to see how much we can save by switching from our PRI.

We have to upgrade (replace) our Mitel/ShoreTel Shoregear T1, so that will cost a few grand.

@fuznutz04 said in Unable to create a parking lot in FreePBX 13:

Did you try disabling or uninstalling the call park module and then reinstalling the module?

Do that let me get something to save in the GUI, but parking still did not work.

Turns out the asterisk module was not even loaded.

@brianlittlejohn said in Outbound call routing with FreePBX 13:

Is it best to setup a second route for e911 usage?

I always do. Because then I can mark the route as such.

@JaredBusch I see that now. I'm not making plans to make any kind of changes with Asterisk's behavior. I was simply geeking out on the questions of why and how. 🙂

Justy a note, you need to create an OpenCNAM account and fund it if you do not have one.
https://www.opencnam.com/register

I recommend OpenCNAM because it is generally cheaper than your carrier CID charges.
If you recall from the VoIP.ms setup, they charge $0.008 per lookup.
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OpenCNAM is half that at $0.0039 per lookup. https://www.opencnam.com/pricing

Often sales people and management will ask, "How do I check my voicemail from outside?" I always recommend that they enable voicemail to email, but for those that want it, you can set up a silent option in the IVR.

What I mean by silent option is that you will add another option to the IVR, but you will not announce that option in the recorded audio.

Add another entry and choose the Destination category of Feature Code Admin and then select Dial Voicemail <*98>
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It should be noted, that when you create a new extension, FreePBX will create user conference rooms automatically if you create a new User Manager user at the same time.

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