Unfortunately due to oversight and an zealous pattern matching used to ensure data integrity, upload2s3 breaks starting New Year’s Day 2020. We will upgrade this for free for all users who have ever purchased a license. You may use the…
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How to Replace exten with same in Asterisk
Replace “exten =>” with ” same =>” Today I’m going to give you a simple perl one-liner that will let you convert an entire extensions.conf file with a simple command. Disclaimer! This code comes with no warranties, implied or expressed…
Upload Asterisk Recordings to Amazon S3 in Real-time
Hey guys, today we’re going to talk about uploading asterisk recordings to S3 in realtime. This will work for both plain Asterisk and FreePBX, and can be adjusted to work with any derivative. In addition! This will also convert your…
Tagged with: Amazon S3, asterisk, freepbx addons, live transfer, programming, scripting
Posted in Asterisk, FreePBX, Tips n Tricks
Posted in Asterisk, FreePBX, Tips n Tricks
How to Delay or Confirm (not prevent) Dialing 911
Hey everyone, Today we are going to approach an issue that every business with more than 50 people has encountered at least once. 911 Calls. Here is the problem: Let’s say you have to dial 9 to get an outside…
Posted in FreePBX, Tips n Tricks
How to make FreePBX include -custom contexts
Hey guys and gals, This is a quick article that has come up because in recent versions, FreePBX has changed the default setting so that custom contexts are NOT included by default. This means that we need to enable this…
Posted in FreePBX
FreePBX – Use CPU Affinity to isolate Asterisk from MySQL + Apache (httpd)
A lot of people are using FreePBX as their distribution of choice. It’s a pretty awesome program (not without flaws, but what is?) that simplifies configuration of asterisk to make it easy for anyone to deploy their own phone system.…
Tagged with: add-ons, asterisk, extensions, programming, scripting, tricks
Posted in Asterisk, FreePBX, Tips n Tricks
Posted in Asterisk, FreePBX, Tips n Tricks
Installing Asternic with FreePBX
First let’s mention what Asternic is before how to install asternic.. Asternic is a reporting platform for FreePBX and Asterisk that focuses on Queues. It scans the queue_log created by asterisk, and develops excellent reports and graphs from this data.…
Tagged with: add-ons, asterisk, extensions.conf, freepbx, hints, queues
Posted in FreePBX, Troubleshooting
Posted in FreePBX, Troubleshooting
Blocking Outbound Calls to Area Codes / States
If you run a large business, eventually you will run into problems with certain people or places, as the saying goes, you can’t make everyone happy all the time. For example, say you need to stop calling a certain state,…