Installing Cdr In Free Pbx Raspberry Pi
We’re not sure why this use didn’t immediately come to mind when we got our hands on a Raspberry Pi board, but. PBX, or Private Branch Exchange, is basically an in-house phone system. This guide which [Ward] put together shows you how to do some interesting things with it. When talking about PBX setups the most common software package is Asterisk.
That’s what’s at work here, rolled up with a bunch of other helpful software in an RPi targeted distro called Incredible PBX. All it takes to get up and running is to partition and burn the image to an SD like any other RPi distro. The configuration ends up being most of the work, starting with changing the default password, and moving on to customizing the environment to match your phone numbers and your needs. As with, Google Voice is your best friend. The service will set you up with a free phone number. This guide doesn’t delve into hardware connected hand sets. You’ll need to use a SIP phone.
Welcome to RasPBX – Asterisk for Raspberry Pi This project site maintains a complete install of Asterisk and FreePBX for the famous Raspberry Pi. Check the download page for the latest RasPBX image, which is based on Debian Stretch ( Raspbian ) and contains Asterisk 13 and FreePBX 14 pre-installed and ready-to-go.
But that’s easy enough as there are free apps for most smart phones that will do the trick. [Thanks Jamie] Posted in Tagged,,,,, Post navigation. I would recommend the Linksys SPA-1001. You can get them for around 20€ on Ebay from china, and they work relatevely well. I have been using them exclusively to speak with my family after moving from Canada to Europe, and they have worked flawlessly. This was the perfect soltuion for my mom who is an absolute technophobe. Basically you configure them via a web interface, then plug any normal analog phone into it (be it a cordless phone, or a normal corded phone) In the 2 years that they have been running, I have had to have one reset by unplugging and plugging back in, but other than that it has been flawless operation.
I am using voip.ms as a provider, but they also work with Asterisk. If anyone has any suggestions for some FXO/FXS hardware (either USB or GPIO?) which can be made to work with a raspberry pi I would be interested to hear about it! I’d love to be able to replace my home asterisk server with a pi, but I need 2 FXO and 2 FXS ports to connect it to my 1957 strowger exchange, and currently the most cost effective way to provide those is with a PCI card. I did find a sangoma USB FXS/FXO adapter which works with linux, but it costs more than I spent building my existing solution and has half as many ports. Homebrew suggestions welcome! @nes – I’ve looked into using ATAs and they solve part of the problem. They would allow me to make a call from my strowger exchange to my asterisk server (or any other voip provider) using their FXS port.
An FXS port wouldn’t allow calls to go the other way and be routed through my strowger exchange. To do that, I need an FXO port. A lot of ATAs claim to have FXO ports, but what they really mean is that they have a passthrough port that allows the phone connected to the FXS port to call out through the FXO port. They won’t pass a call from the voip interface out through the that port and into my strowger.
Otherwise, yes. I’d totally be doing that;-). @lpbk Ah, I see. How does the signalling for incoming calls to the exchange work? Is it still pulse dialling?
If so, I am wondering if hooking a relay up to a GPIO on the R-Pi and writing a script to tap out the internal number might work, in conjunction with one of these boxes. As an aside, are you UK based? I have a big box of ex-GPO relays, maybe 50 or so, all different. Most have oddball coils with multiple windings for doing relay logic I guess. They’re not much use to me so if you’re interested, feel free to PM me on the hackaday forum. @nes – yea, it’s all pulse dialing all over the place (although I have some boxes which which can do dtmf->pulse translation if necessary) I wonder if I could use a usb soundcard (and some line isolation transformers so the soundcard doesn’t unexpectely get 50V up it) in combination with some relays etc hanging off the GPIO port for doing the signalling.
A bit hairy but it might get me somewhere. I am in the UK, and I may very well be interested in a big box of relays!
Especially any with multiple windings. I’ll have a crack at getting in touch with you (never used the forum before;-). Roberto: There certainly have been other Asterisk ports. But you won’t find anything comparable to this build: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, IVRs, SMS messaging and message blasting, free Google Voice service, email delivery of voicemails, directory lookups and dialing by just saying the name of anybody in your phonebook, CallerID name lookups for your incoming calls, inbound call alerts on your desktop, XBMC, wired or wireless operation, and the list goes on and on. We love FreeSwitch, too, so stay tuned. In the meantime, take Incredible Pi for a spin.