FOOD FOR THOUGHT Freeswitch & The Bunny

[mystere]

Actually, I believe that wikipbx was included in a much earlier release, and it was basically abandoned. I don't know why.

 

[Sippy]

SipFoundry

The open source SIPXFoundry site has Nortel playing in the Open source arena. As a Toshiba dealer, we are closely watching how this is going to change the way our business is done. Traditionally the service MAC model has sustained our business for over 16 years. Now this business will be exciting as PIAF type products improve.

Check out the SIPXFoundry and see if it could be used. It uses Freeswitch someway.

 

[wardmundy]

Here's a good comparison of sipXecs with Asterisk. Be aware that sipXecs also is licensed under LGPL. That's a good thing! For additional info, go here.

 

[jvangent100]

I actually run sipx for quite some time now, as I run Exchange UM, so I'm using that as the voicemail for PIAF, and since asterisk 1.14 doesn't do SIP over TCP, I needed sipx as the go between so to speak.

As to compare sipx to asterisk, I prefer the latter.

Now I actually tried freeswitch today. I first tried to compile it using Windows (longhorn) but I failed, and to be honest, I have never compiled anything under windows

But of course they are very nice for the OSX people, and they have a dmg on the site, that will install it under leopard. This is what I tried today, and their sample configuration works fine, IVR is working, (press 5 for screaming monkeys I love people with a sense of humour)

But I guess I need to do a lot more research before I could make that work. The documentation is very basic, but they did provide some config's for VOIP providers.

I might try this on a centos machine and play with it some more.

 

[tusc]

I've recently put together an MSI file of Freeswitch compiled for Windows including sound files for both 8khz and 16khz endpoints. Because of the sound files the MSI is a bit large at ~ 52MB in size. Let me know if anyone's interested and I can upload it to a site.

They're about to release 1.0.1 this week and should be releasing an MSI with it.

 

[wardmundy]

FreeSwitch for Windows

For those that would like to play with this on a Windows machine, you can download the MSI and README here. Be sure to actually read the README before you begin as there is a prerequisite (free) install from Microsoft before it will run. Thanks, Carlos!!

 

[tusc]

The Windows build has been updated to the latest svn 8997:
http://pbxinaflash.com/tusc/

You can see the change log history here: http://fisheye.freeswitch.org/changelog/FreeSWITCH/

I've also expanded the Windows guide for first timers: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_Guide#Windows_2

Carlos

 

[tusc]

One last thing. Remember to backup your "C:\Program Files\FreeSWITCH\conf" folder before uninstalling the previous version. The MSI builder I'm using does not allow advance configurations.

Carlos

 

[lmatter]

Over the past week or two I have been moving my setup from PIAF over to Freeswitch and it has been an interesting road. I am now completely off of Asterisk and am pleased with how it's working

While I love the convenience of FreePBX, and the smooth installation of PIAF, I have been plagued by the "core" of asterisk since I first started using it. One of the complications for me was insisting it run in a Xen domU (custom kernel and ztdummy, etc.).

Freeswitch, by comparison runs just fine in a Xen domU with none of the timing hiccups I had with asterisk. But there is definitely a learning curve going from point/click to editing XML.

My needs are not complicated and for now it's just me using it. I have one IP phone (Cisco 7940), a Sipura 3000 (FXO/FXS) and they are all working fine. There was some NAT config I needed mess with but otherwise it went smoothly. I am using ipkall, freedigits, les.net and voicepulse for trunks and they work great as well. After a bit of playing around I was able to configure per-extension setting of callerID and a followme dialplan.

Doing all this by hand really gave me an appreciation for all the hard work everyone has put in to pbxinaflash and its components.

 

[gaijin]

Not sure if this has been posted

But I really like

their​

sense of humour:

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/What_FreeSwitch_cannot_do

 

[tusc]

Open Source VoIP: Asterisk or FreeSwitch?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=233

 

[wardmundy]

Instant FreeSwitch

If you've downloaded one of the FreeSwitch versions (ISO or Windows app) and want to get things running in a couple of minutes, here's a terrific tutorial with all the sample code you'll need.

 

[tbooth]

are trixswitch and freeswitch the same guys?

 

[wardmundy]

The two aren't related. trixswitch actually is Andrew's new baby. Not sure if it's Fonality-funded or not.

 

[cosmicwombat]

In a year or two...

I just caught your Aug 7th piece and found your assessment spot on.

I think that all of us would do well to subscribe to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality on the behalf of our business customers.

A stable system can be built and proper system admin protocols can be used to lock down the maintenance of said system.

Unfortunately, I run into more unhappy users because common business IT practices are ignored. Yes, I see this because I get paid to clean up such things (if I didn't get the chance to prevent it, ) but still... IT skills should be woven into out how-to's or something.

Sorry for the digression, but traction gets lost by more than Digium's coding habits.

As for Freeswitch. I built one and played with the SLA. I got it to work and had trunks, voicemail and several extensions going for a bit. I came into this scene when Coalecent (sp?) was working on what is now FreePBX and while I do alot of CLI... I am too spoiled by FreePBX and I really doubt anything short of FreePBX/Freeswitch would sway me.

I'd say we are between a year or two... Or at least I am.

 

[FitnessPlus]

A new forum?

would it be beneficial to add a new forum group to these forums for those of us wanting to play with freeswitch?

 

[kenn10]

There is a forum on the freeswitch.org site but its pretty dead. It might be good to use that forum to add some interest there. Maybe some synergy between PIAF users and Freeswitch might be good.

 

[tbooth]

actually they are the same according to trixswitch.org

triXswitch was designed to give people a chance to work with and experiment with FreeSWITCH. This will hopefully build interest and community support for FreeSWITCH.

 

[TheShniz]

I am too spoiled by FreePBX and I really doubt anything short of FreePBX/Freeswitch would sway me.

I'd say we are between a year or two... Or at least I am.

^^^ I agree 100%... sure it may be 10x better, and 100x more stable than Asterisk, but Asterisk has a tremendous advantage of not just FreePBX, but every single script or application that comes along as well. There's just so much developed for Asterisk, I think the true statement in whatever blog/review I read was Asterisk is just so flexible. I eagerly wait for Freeswitch to play catch up, but it's going to be a long process me thinx.

...call me paranoid, but I think I'm done with anything that has 'trix' in the title.

 

[mp3geek]

Unfortunately, Trixswitch IS funded by Fonality, and Andrew makes a point in one of the posts (after defending the TB trojan) that similar things may be built into Trixswitch.
http://www.trixswitch.org/?q=node/7
No Thanks

Mike