[asterisk-users] How do you like TrixBox?

[Noah Miller]

> So I'm sure many of you are using or have tried to use TrixBox. Thus far, I'm in
> love with it. I haven't had a single snag. Then again, I don't need to get into
> anything overly nitty gritty with my Asterisk box.
>
> What are your views?

I've played with AAH/trixbox, but I'd have to say, in all honesty, I
can create a dialplan faster, set up phones faster, set up hardware
faster, and set up providers faster using just the basic conf files in
asterisk.  Of course, I've been doing this a while now.  It was quite
a learning curve when I first started, but at the time AAH did not
exist.  This may be a good thing, too, because my clients have asked
me to do some pretty odd things that AAH/trixbox cannot do in the GUI,
so I would have needed to learn the basics anyway.  Now that I have a
somewhat better understanding of how * works, I can turn around and
try to help people on this list, too.

So, my perception of trixbox is that it slowed me up and restricted
what I could do, but it certainly eliminates a steep learning curve,
and that's probably much more important to a lot of people.


- Noah


On 10/13/06, Ejay Hire <ehire at cbrweb.com> wrote:
> No, not really.  It makes the dialplan complex, to accommodate all it's
> options.  The asterisk sample configs (make sample-configs?) are a much
> better place to learn from, once you understand the basic concepts.
>
> Personally, I really could have used a 2 page asterisk quick reference sheet
> with a sample of a sip.conf entry, the extensions.conf commands Quick
> reference, dial-patterns, and extension patterns.  I Couldn't find one so
> drilled around in voip-info.org till I made it work.
>
> -Ejay
>
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> Dovid B<asteriskusers at dovid.net> Wrote on: 10/13/2006 9:51 AM:
> >. . .  A)If something goes wrong they wont know where to  start. They
> >only know the GUI. B)They will never know the "real way" of  working
> >asterisk.. . .
> >
>
> But,  can't it be one way of "learning"?  Can't one setup and modify a
> Trixbox setup, then peruse the conf files, to get familiar with
> (almost) all things Asterisk?
>
> Spoke as one who was not very pleased with their own foray into Trixbox and
> is still creeping up to speed on Asterisk.
>
> joe
>
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