Asterisk/MemberPBX/FreePBX

Introduction

FreePBX is a GUI for Asterisk, currently maintained by the same company behind Asterisk Sangoma, it's available as a standalone OS based on CentOS, a community made Docker container, or installed next to asterisk on your preffered OS.

Requirements

The requirements are as follow

• A Wireguard or other VPN connection to the space
• A computer or a VM if you're not containerizing it
• a trunk account and extenstion for said trunk
• (optional) a SIP phone (available in multiple flavours from the space recommended from the chef is Poly(com) VVX series)
• (optional) a Softphone like Linphone,3CXPhone,SimpleSIP etc etc

Demo Setup

At home i run it as follows

• A VM on a "server" using the FreePBX OS iso link
• Within said OS a Wireguard tunnel to the space link (you might need Google to help you out due it throwing some errors)
• A Polycom/Poly VVX400 series phone

Trunks

Found under Connectivity>Trunks

=== General ===
;
; Trunk Name: Custom Name
; Hide CallerID: No
; Outbound CallerID: Example 3011 (Tahtkev)
; CID Options: Allow Any CID
; Maximum Channels: N/A
; Asterisk Trunk Dial Options: System
; Continue if Busy: No
; Disable Trunk: No
; Monitor Trunk Failures: No

Dialed Number Manipulation Rules

We do nothing here we'll manipulate that within Outbound Routes

pjsip Settings

General

Username: "your trunk username"
Auth username: ^
Secret: your trunk password that you've recieved
Authentication: Outbound
Registration: Send
Language Code: English
SIP Server: 10.208.11.13
SIP Server Port: 5060
Context: from-internal
Transport: 0.0.0.0-udp

Advanced

DTMF MODE: RFC4733

Verification that things are working

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