FreePBX Device User Mode – Enforce login

I had responded to a thread on the FreePBX forum about how to restrict calling without a user first logging in on a device/user mode in FreePBX. Here’s a simple dialplan which you can then use for your implementation. For FreePBX users, put these lines … “FreePBX Device User Mode – Enforce login”

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[UPDATED] Asterisk & FreePBX Faxing Solution with IAXModem + Hylafax + AvantFax

Updated: 04-11-2013 This guide attempts to walk you through installing a faxing solution on top of Asterisk that has FreePBX as it’s frontend GUI/dialplan generator. So for it to work, you need to be 1) Using Debian (this is a Debian guide btw). Tested working … “[UPDATED] Asterisk & FreePBX Faxing Solution with IAXModem + Hylafax + AvantFax”

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Cancelling an iPhone AppStore Application Install

Thought i’d write this if someone needs some assistance. Iphone installations using the Appstore while it’s a magical experience, it freaked me out when i had tried to download a game that was over 240MB but i wanted to cancel it and can’t do it … “Cancelling an iPhone AppStore Application Install”

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Unified Communications?– Use Google and Asterisk!

Over the past two weekends, I’ve dwelled in some not-so-light weighted testing of the spanking new Asterisk 1. 8 PBX. While honestly, there’s not a world of improvements from its already awesome predecessors but heck, its technically only a minor version update from the powerhouses … “Unified Communications?– Use Google and Asterisk!”

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Asterisk 1.8 Calendaring with text to speech reading out your calendar info

The Asterisk Calendaring API aims to be a generic interface for integrating Asterisk with various calendaring technologies. The goal is to be able to support reading and writing of calendar events as well as allowing notification of pending events through the Asterisk dialplan. There are … “Asterisk 1.8 Calendaring with text to speech reading out your calendar info”

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Google Voice on Asterisk 1.8 bug is now fixed!

When Asterisk 1.8 was released, it had a perfect integration with Google Voice @voice.google.com service. Sometime in the 4th week of November, this broke and Gtalk worked (calling other google accounts) but calling Google Voice (e.g calling to US numbers for Free), didn’t. I just … “Google Voice on Asterisk 1.8 bug is now fixed!”

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