@scottalanmiller said

But you still need to know NOT to use them. That's all you need to know.

Thats a good quote...

I think somewhere on here the other day we were just discussing how the WAN device is the bottleneck. Of course there is also the shameful limiting of upload speeds with ISP's. If you have 5mb to 10mb up and a decent router you should be fine.

Even when we run into places where they are dropboxing the crap out of their bandwidth I prefer to limit the non-realtime protocol that is causing the issue over creating a queue for RTP streams. In reality a queue can only have priority when there are other things queued.

@wirestyle22 I dont think you should feel bad for thinking this. If you rewind 10+ years vendors like Allworx (grrrr) would deflect every quality issue as a result of you not deploying VLANS and QoS on your 12 phone network. Hah! And I am talking about Allworx with a PRI attached who is telling you your LAN is some kind of bottleneck.

Allworx had and may still have a header issue.

I still come across customers with band issues that have some legacy VLAN/QoS configured (and configured wrong most of the time).

So, point being, you really couldnt fault someone for having this "misinformation".

Unless you need to record internal calls I would use your sip providers API, everyone offers it these days and usually for .0002 or so per minute. (Twilio, Telnyx etc)

I would trust Freepbx about as far as I could throw it for this task.

@EddieJennings you did it correctly then

@EddieJennings 6/6 is about 7% savings on average, it's not as simple as the way your calcing it.

I have to apologize but Telnyx being outbound at the rights I described above is at over a million minutes per month of usage, which is the last number I paid attention to. So it's on par with voip.ms

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Remix Mini: as a Thin Client:

@FATeknollogee

Do you get advs and shit like that when you do productivity work? and how do you combat that, with paid apps ? anything else ?

What is advs?

http://doxygen.asterisk.org/trunk/sip.conf.html

Skip down to "Media Handling"

Will give it a try tomorrow. With it being hosted I wonder if I need to do the directmedia=yes entry.

Will report back whatever configs work...

Yes, directmedia I suppose.

So the issue appears to be with FreePBX's GUI not offering video codec settings in the web interface for PJSIP.

I was able to set it on each extension as per the comments in this bug report...

https://issues.freepbx.org/browse/FREEPBX-11577

And you have to set it as: h264,ulaw,alaw under allowed codes under Advanced in each setting.

Now I am trying to figure out if I can get phones on the same remote LAN to send RTP streams direct (phone to phone) so that the video doesn't freeze up. It's really more of a gimick I think (the video calling). Seems like it would be annoying to have people peeking in at you over intercom all day.

But still, I would like to figure out how to get the direct RTP stream going. This can be done in Freeswitch so I imagine Asterisk will do it. Not sure the GUI would have a setting for it though.

@scottalanmiller this is description I needed to know I hate this key, thank you.

@NashBrydges said in Ubiquiti Unifi Key needed?:

Yeah no key needed and no license. I'm running mine locally on a Ubuntu VM but I'm finding that after updates and reboot, the damn mongo db tends to corrupt so I have to run the db clean up to get it fixed. A pain in the ass that I'm told can be completely avoided if you use the CloudKey instead.

Who told you the cloud key solves this?

Is it that the key runs the controller? So lost...

Yeah again, no clue why its needed. So do you buy a license to put the unifi controller in the cloud? I thought the key was more a of a license pack.

Just didn't want to leave the key behind as the store is a 30 minutes drive for me.

~Andy

@JaredBusch said in Yealink T58V and Video Calling:

@bigbear I would expect it to, yes.

I have not had any clients ask for video phones, so I have not tested this.

I figured out I could pay $23 more on bulk orders and get the T58V over the 58A. The unfortunate side effect of this deal is that those customers are now asking about it. I told them its not supported but then thought I would give it a try.

So I thought I would pick up some Ubiquiti gear this weekend since Micro Center stocks it all. Is it such that you buy your USG, switch and AP's and then buy a Unifi key and plug it in to the switch or USG? I never really understand what the key was all about.

I have seen where guys install Unifi in the cloud on a Vultr server. Thought I would give it all a try firsthand and see how well it works. Dont want to waste time with the key if it can be setup to contact a central server.

I just assumed it wasnt supported by default. Gonna spin up a fresh install of FreePBX and try from scratch.

So you think they should just work by default?

I had some very old yealink video phones that have never worked on FreePBX. I am not doing any provisioning though, just entering sip server ip, user, auth information.

Has anyone attempted to use a Yealink T58V phone with FreePBX for video calling with FreePBX? I feel like the only real need for the camera would be for the android apps themselves at this point.

With FreePBX I have never gotten HD calling or Video calling to work, internally or otherwise I have never tried to turn it on and I am posting here out of laziness. It doesn't work by default.

I am running some cloud backup software (Testing a few products) on my 2016 RDSH Server (which also is holding all my files in attached block storage) and doubles as a domain controller.

Do I still need to run whatever the equivalent of ntbackup is so that sysvol and active directory database gets compacted? Not sure how much has changed. Using Solarwinds (GFIMax Backup) it does ask to backup sysvol and system state, but I am not sure that does all that is required.

@EddieJennings said in Twilio as a SIP provider:

@scottalanmiller No. I'm trying to go through the Altigen CDR to try to get an accurate count of non-toll free inbound minutes.

Add a couple zeros and its a pretty big deal. Just look at annual savings for example.

Inbound will be huge, 50% or more savings over voip.ms

I would use Telnyx for outbound. Way easier to configure and its .0075 with 6/6 billing on outbound. Also, when you call out to 800 numbers Twilio will charge you, Telnyx will terminate the call for free (as it should be for the calling party)

There are some other advantages with caller ID passing via Telnyx that Twilio will give you problems with if the number isn't in your DID list.