[Asterisk-Users] Difference between Asterisk and Asterisk@home

[Mark Elkins]

My 2c worth...

For the beginner, AAH is great. The PC that you install on will be
totally reformatted / fdisk-ed (assuming single drive - etc).

With AAH 1.3 - the installation "goes to sleep" and sort of finishes
when its Syncing with a Time Server. A reboot at this point seems to do
no harm.

As Asterisk is configured via AMP - you are limited in functionality as
to what AMP can do for you - but one can edit the config files directly
as well for custom configs. (I needed to program an incoming (Fax) zap
line to go to one particular extension)

As it starts - there are a number of dialplan features which are quite
cool, eg Time, Weather, Wakeup-Call, "You extension is..", VoiceMail,
IVR, Do-Not-Disturb, FAX handling.

Sure - these are all things Asterisk can do, but with the default
asterisk download, you start with a pretty clean slate...

My current AAH limitations include:-
a) In IVR, no ability to program "or hold for an operator" timeout for
the DTMF challenged.
b) Support for junghanns cards (or HFC cards)
c) Multi-Company support - Default is one primary IVR

Just did an install with many extensions & 16 lines (4 x TDM400P) - 2 to
Fixed line Cells, 14 to Telco (no "services" except DTMF dialing - its
in East Africa).

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