cbrain
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| Nice addition to simultaneous ring!
Trixbox has a new option when ringing an outside line. When you answer a recording asks to press 1 to accept or 2 to reject the call. If another extension answers the recording informs. This is great when simultaneously ringing a cell which will go directly to voicemail on weak signal or on another call. A very simple solution I hope VoIP providers pick up soon. |
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tommy13v
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Glenville NY | Interesting, did they say where they got the new feature from?
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cbrain
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| said by tommy13v  :Interesting, did they say where they got the new feature from? I noticed it this morning ... and took a break to test it out. I think it was a part of routine updates I applied this week. |
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Almost certainly this would be a feature of FreePBX, Always remember that Trixbox is for the most part just a collection of software, almost none of which is original to Trixbox. The beauty of Trixbox is that they package it all on a CD so that a new user (even one that knows next to nothing about Linux) can pop the CD into a machine and in half an hour or less have a fully installed system (then the fun of configuring it the way you want it begins). The downside is that sometimes Trixbox gets it wrong, and occasionally you see a report on the FreePBX bug tracker that only affects Trixbox users, because the Trixbox install put a file in the wrong place or didn't set permissions properly or something like that. Their worst sin in the past year or so (IMHO) was releasing Trixbox with a BETA version of FreePBX that was known to have bugs, simply because they were too impatient to wait a few more days for the release version.
Anyway, the three main components of Trixbox are the CentOS operating system (the open source derivative of Red Hat Linux), Asterisk, and FreePBX (the graphical configuration utility for Asterisk - in effect it saves you from having to write all the Asterisk scripts yourself, and adds a bunch of features). Those are the main three - there are others that add some additional functionality, but without any of those three your phone system wouldn't work (unless you wanted to write all the Asterisk scripts by hand).
Point is, Fonality didn't actually write much of anything that's on the Trixbox CD, except for the installation scripts and a few added features that (IMHO) you would probably not miss at all if they weren't there. That's not to say that their contribution is insignificant - a lot of us wouldn't have working phone systems without Trixbox - but I haven't cared for some of the things they've done in recent releases (like enclosing the FreePBX web-based interface in a useless Trixbox frame that consumes screen real estate, and leads people to believe that they are looking at the "Trixbox" software when what they're really using is FreePBX).
If people understood that Trixbox and FreePBX are two very different things, there would be a lot less confusion. FreePBX is only part of Trixbox in the same sense that the basic Linux kernal is part of a particular Linux distribution. And this feature that you like almost certainly is part of FreePBX, not Trixbox. |
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tommy13v
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Glenville NY | reply to cbrain
Do you have a link that discusses this feature? I wrote this feature last year and offered for free on my site and was wondering if the code was the same or not.
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cbrain
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| I haven't seen an announcement or discussion. I'm not even sure the feature wasn't there and I didn't notice it, but I think it is new. I do know it is a great addition and seems to work well. Great idea and thanks for your efforts.  |
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