OpenPBX

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I’ve spent a good chunk of today playing with OpenPBX, which is a fork of the Asterisk project. As far as I understand OpenPBX is aiming to be truly open source to make it more stable than Asterisk, which has some non open source codecs included, thus hopefully making it more stable. Well let me tell you now, it’s very stable for me…. stable in a non working state that is! Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s going to be great once I manage to get it working. The problem lies with the Digium card we bought. Digium support proved to be truly useless. I called them up, and seemed I knew more about the product than they did, and as I wasn’t using Asterisk, they offered me very little support and certainly wouldn’t take a look at our server.Â

Not perturbed I managed to compile the drivers manually after a while and it reports its up and running. However, now OpenPBX now fails to load, it reports an error initializing chan_misdn, returns -1. So now I’m in the middle of going through all the source code to trace the problem. Nightmare!

 On another note, I’ve just put a couple more photos of the garden up.