[Astlinux-users] Digium Asterisk-GUI

[Lonnie Abelbeck]

Request for Info,

I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...

Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ? (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)

Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?

Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.

Thanks for any help.

AstLinux Dev Team

[David Kerr]

I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it
does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans. So I have stopped using
it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible
with it. It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.

There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk. The real
question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based
Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue
that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI
for Asterisk.

David


On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck

Post by Lonnie Abelbeck
Request for Info,
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ? (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to
generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team
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[The Cadillac Kid]

I used to use the asterisk GUI also  but found it really was causing issues more than helping as the asterisk versions developed...  FreePBX is great  but it does a lot of unnecessary-for-me voodoo with the dialplan..  I ended up writing my own set of code that based on INI files  creates a concise, accurate, and efficient dialplan..  as well as populates the users.conf and creates phone configs..   I found that using it on Soekris based systems with complex setups..  lots of Menus, ring groups, various forward options etc  that it kept my CPU down...

if FreePBX could run nicely on a net5501 install  id say astlinux should get that..  however last time I looked at FreePBX it looked to be pretty intensive with AGI scripts..  but that wasa few years ago..
-Christopher




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From: David Kerr <***@kerr.net>
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Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Digium Asterisk-GUI


I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans.  So I have stopped using it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible with it.  It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.

There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk.  The real question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI for Asterisk.

David



On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <***@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:

Request for Info,

Post by Lonnie Abelbeck
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ?  (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team
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[Fernando Fuentes]

I disagree. The main reason why I use astlinux is because is far from a bloated GUI. I hope astlinux stays far away from this types of GUIs.

I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans. So I have stopped using it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible with it. It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.
There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk. The real question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI for Asterisk.
David
Request for Info,
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ? (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team
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[Lonnie Abelbeck]

While googling on this topic, I've found many posts that agree with you Fernando, preferring the Digium Asterisk-GUI over FreePBX, and disappointed about the lack of recent development on the Digium Asterisk-GUI.

Lonnie

Post by Fernando Fuentes
I disagree. The main reason why I use astlinux is because is far from a bloated GUI. I hope astlinux stays far away from this types of GUIs.

I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans. So I have stopped using it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible with it. It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.
There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk. The real question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI for Asterisk.
David
Request for Info,
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ? (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team

[The Cadillac Kid]

I definitely found freePBX BLOATED!..  esp when most astlinux installs are on embedded hardware..  the atoms have the power to run freePBX..  but freePBX is intrusive even in normal call processing..  whereas the original digium GUI simply created pretty decent dialplans and configs that still were pretty efficient..
-Christopher




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From: Lonnie Abelbeck <***@lonnie.abelbeck.com>
To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <astlinux-***@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Digium Asterisk-GUI

While googling on this topic, I've found many posts that agree with you Fernando, preferring the Digium Asterisk-GUI over FreePBX, and disappointed about the lack of recent development on the Digium Asterisk-GUI.

Lonnie

Post by Fernando Fuentes
I disagree. The main reason why I use astlinux is because is far from a bloated GUI. I hope astlinux stays far away from this types of GUIs.

I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans.  So I have stopped using it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible with it.  It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.
There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk.  The real question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI for Asterisk.
David
Request for Info,
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ?  (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team

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[Ron Byer]

I agree also. FreePBX is way too heavy/bloated for an appliance such as
astlinux is targeted at. I struggle a lot with getting any kind of
advanced dialplans to operate within the digium asterisk-gui, and we
have to document which customers have "broken GUI's" due to dialplan
magic underneath. For the most part, we operate the phone systems, and
we could just as well do without the GUI, but occasionally, and usually
with bigger customers, we come across people with tech guys who want to
run the system themselves -- it gives them some job security -- and then
they become part of the team rather than trying to replace you with
something else. I wouldn't want to ever give customers an ssh prompt.
So, we give them the GUI, hide menus from them that they could hurt
themselves with... and keep very good backups in case they wipe out the
conf files.

rb

Post by Lonnie Abelbeck
While googling on this topic, I've found many posts that agree with you Fernando, preferring the Digium Asterisk-GUI over FreePBX, and disappointed about the lack of recent development on the Digium Asterisk-GUI.
Lonnie

Post by Fernando Fuentes
I disagree. The main reason why I use astlinux is because is far from a bloated GUI. I hope astlinux stays far away from this types of GUIs.

I used to use the Asterisk-GUI, but while it is good to get started, it does not lend itself to sophisticated dialplans. So I have stopped using it and my dialplans and conf files are now probably completely incompatible with it. It also is clearly not getting much attention from Digium.
There are far better GUI's out there for configuring asterisk. The real question is whether Astlinux aspires to have a fully fledged GUI-based Asterisk setup/configuration tool, something like FreePBX. One might argue that Astlinux is at a competitive disadvantage by not having a robust GUI for Asterisk.
David
Request for Info,
I know there are fans of the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" out here...
Anyone tried it under Asterisk 11 ? (no changes to the GUI have been made for 19 months)
Does it make sense to include the "Digium Asterisk-GUI" with Asterisk 11 builds ?
Note: You will have to use the Build Engine, build.astlinux.org to generate Asterisk 11 images at this time.
Thanks for any help.
AstLinux Dev Team

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