We’ve just recently replaced our company PBX with FreePBX and Asterisk 1.4. We were getting complaints about format_mp3 and how it plays the same song, from the beginning every time you put someone on hold. This is honestly a bad way to do hold music, and I’m not sure why the Asterisk Developers haven’t fixed it, but, it’s easy enough to fix. Here are the steps to take to use madplay instead....
This weekend I enlisted the help of a programmer friend of mine to help me make FreePBX / Asterisk 1.4 capable of taking md5secrets for the password, instead of just the unencrypted secret field. I’m not sure why FreePBX doesn’t include this functionality already, I suppose the developers don’t see a need in password security for their peers, but we do! It wasn’t very hard to get this done, and we’ve submitted a patch to FreePBX....
Hi Guys, With the help of one of my contractors Eli Sand, we’ve developed a little howto for FreePBX and Ubuntu. This should work on LTS and Regular versions of Ubuntu with minimal changes. We install all required software, asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX. It’s been working for 2 of our clients without issue, so it was decided that it’s time to post it up for the world. In the interest of keeping it easy to read, I’ve decided to post it up as word format, and PDF documents....
Here is a quick and dirty HowTo on getting SpanDSP to work with the latest editions of Asterisk 1.4. If you have any issues let me know in the comments and we’ll get them sorted out. First we’ll have to download the asterisk source from their site. # cd /usr/src # wget ftp://ftp1.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4.5.tar.gz # tar xzvf asterisk-1.4.5.tar.gz Now we’ll have to grab the latest SpanDSP from Soft-Switch. We’ll also have to compile this and make sure no other SpanDSP versions are available on our server....
Today I was trying to upgrade to the latest Asterisk-Addons on my Asterisk server. I am using the 1.4 series (as you all should be by now) and the most current release of Gentoo Linux. Because Gentoo uses somewhat “unstable” software I have differing versions of libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh. In order to get around this I had to do the following # cd asterisk-addons-1.4.2 # cd asterisk-ooh323c # nano configure and then I had to hit control-w, and search for libtool....