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....