FreePBX IP PBX Phone System Tour 3.5

In today's video, I'll be doing another tour of my home phone system that runs on FreePBX. this video was long overdue and I apologize for the delay, but we're here now so it's all good now.
Got questions? Let me know in the comments section!

[@Martin-NT]

Apologies for the long overdue video, but here it is, FreePBX Home Phone System Tour 3.5! If you got questions, feel free to comment them below and I'll respond! We'll have a Mobile Workstation review video coming up soon as well so keep your eyes peeled for that. Hope you enjoy the video!

[@wolfzarrowalarms]

Great Video Martin! I love all of your FREEPBX videos!

[@Martin-NT]

Thanks for your feedback!

[@idontexisttech]

about time lol but nice video, i should make one soon.

[@jaygreentree4394]

You can buy wall plates to mount phones on.

[@dave24-73]

Nice thing with freePBX is you can run it on something as simple as a Raspberry Pi.

[@JonathanMakrodimitiris]

do you need to change anything on the cisco phones with the software like om the 7900 series or do the 3PCC ones work without a firmware change

[@Martin-NT]

The 3PCC phones do not need a firmware change. For the 79XX series, I believe you need to change the firmware to SIP for FreePBX but there are plugins like SCCP Manager that you can use. I don't have much experience with 79XX series phones though.

[@_tylerkinney]

There’s a descriptive guide on KZbin if you search “How to convert non 3pcc Cisco phone to 3pcc”

[@Subgunman]

Waiting to figure out how to reprogram my Cisco phones to SIP. Can’t get the phones to take the programming, very frustrating. Do I have to do reprogramming through free PBX because trying to reprogram via direct connect to a window computer does not seem to work. Even on the help sites there are some individuals with serious attitude issues like they are in god mode and seem annoyed at receiving questions. As for hooking up to the outside world I have a 4 port Grandstream FXO box. For external connection to the pots line, I have a Grandstream four port FXO adapter. The reason for this I’d that these older Cisco phones have (had?) a security exploit where people could hack into your network and into your computers on everything inside your home network. This adapter will also allow me to add a pair of two way radio interfaces to Pots line adapters to the system. This allows me to monitor what is going on with a radio network as well as allowing radios to contact me directly at my office. If you have any suggestions on reprogramming older Cisco phones, please share. It would be greatly appreciated!

[@Martin-NT]

Cisco phones on other PBX's instead of CUCM can be infuriating. I've registered my Cisco phones on FreePBX as I have the 3PCC verison.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Oh maaannnn I miss these kind of phones if Smartphones become a privacy nightmare let's bring back landlines and pay phones to cut the bills in half my folks probably don't want something like this even though I think it's a good idea just in case of power outages.

[@Martin-NT]

Agreed! Landlines and IP Phones aren't going away anytime soon, especially IP Phones.

[@br3wdev]

coolio

[@_tylerkinney]

Can you do a tutorial with setting up tandx with freepbx? That would be SICK!

[@Martin-NT]

Unfortunately I'm not enrolled in the TandmX network so I can't do that. I do remember trying to do it once but gave up after a while.

[@DanielTekmyster]

After years of running cisco, indecided to try freepbx 16 and what crap…. Every way I try and install it I run into some sort of issues at one point or another

[@Martin-NT]

FreePBX can be difficult to get set up if you are first starting with it. I recommend browsing the FreePBX forums and watching tutorials online. Chris from Crosstalk Solutions has an excellent series of videos on FreePBX for beginners.

[@connorpearl9415]

hey amazing video, i would love to see how you did custom page sounds, i have freepbx set up an right now im just using the default beep tone and i really hate it lol.

[@Martin-NT]

You can upload a page tone through System Recordings and then set it through the Paging and Intercom tab.

[@connorpearl9415]

@@Martin-NT thanks, i didn't know how easy that was lol

[@Martin-NT]

@@connorpearl9415 no problem

[@captainchris2016]

What did the poly phones do? Have not had very many issues with the ones I have

[@Martin-NT]

Well, Paging and Intercom does not work on it unless I set it into auto answer, and I've also had issues in the past where it would not place or end calls properly.

[@captainchris2016]

@@Martin-NT you have to put a few lines into the phones config files to get paging to work. The Polycom templates in the freepbx endpoint manger which I use for my community PBX has those but you can just add those by exporting the phones config and adding them and importing it again

[@Martin-NT]

@@captainchris2016 I see, thanks for letting me know. I'll look into this in the future.

[@MickeysTechSpot]

Have you ever tried to use a magic jack connected through a ata box to get outside lines 😎🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗😣😁

[@Martin-NT]

Nope, but theoretically that could work.

[@trincolio]

how do you set a custom tone for paging?

[@Martin-NT]

Please check the comments below as somebody asked the same question.

[@_tylerkinney]

Why name the extensions sta? That’s not descriptive what does it mean

[@Martin-NT]

To be honest, I don't really have a reason for having it named STA #, STA just stands for "station", such as station 310.

[@_tylerkinney]

@@Martin-NTinteresting! Also just to tell you, don’t feel ashamed for being late for the 3.5 tour, take your time. ;)

[@Martin-NT]

@@_tylerkinney Thanks!

[@Jayden-et3uc]

do you have a discord server?

[@Martin-NT]

I do but it's mainly inactive so I don't really advertise it or use it

[@lewiskelly14]

Seeing this as the first video without briefly covering some context is confusing

[@Martin-NT]

Sorry if that has confused you, I recommend you watch my previous phone system tour videos then as this series is to show the progress I've done to my home PBX.

[@apricotcomputers7915]

are you phreaking kidding me!!!

[@exboisv]

I have freepbx in my house for personal use. I never registered it with FreePBX. Have you registered your system and if so, did they give you any issues?

[@Martin-NT]

By registering, I'm assuming you mean register your instance with Sangoma. I haven't had any issues without registering it but to install commercial modules you must register. For homelab not registering it is fine.

[@MichaelWallace-oq3wd]

Do you have discord :)