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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK 4d ago

Now the other two are ported - all the #analogue #trunks are ceased and all traffic to and from the #PSTN from this #PBX is now #VOIP (using #PJSIP trunks on #FreePBX )

I disconnected all the analogue lines as #Openreach leave battery on them, that way they show as RED alarm on #Asterisk and won't be selected for any calls (worst case is they return a busy trunk status and the route will go to the next trunk, but I've taken away all the analogue circuits from every PSTN route)

#Telecoms #Telephony

@vfrmedia
You're having way too much fun aren't you? 🙂

@gemlog some bits were a bit nerve wracking as the last two were our main number for a health and social care organisation, and the port depends on British Telecom as well as a company in London and another in Manchester all talking to each other and working together, but at least the supplier of the VOIP trunk accepted my plan to do the work in stages so I could test everything works (this includes checking 101, 105, 111, 112 and 999 route correctly with expected caller ID and site address)

@vfrmedia That would have been a nightmare to do all at once! I wouldn't have been able to sleep.
Well done!
I only played with asterisk a little bit with a dev board years ago. A couple of my IT clients had KSU's but I didn't have to do much with them. At the last two alarm companies I worked for, we had really good telephone guys and, again, I had little to do with telphony. Actually, my last place, it was a telephone gal, not a guy, and she was wizard.

@gemlog Asterisk has improved a lot, but I was working with phone systems even during analogue / hybrid digital days so was used to all the strangeness and edge cases and even had to recall things I learned on work experience with British Telecom in the 1980s (in UK signalling can be subtly different for every analogue circuit, even within the same town, and the same turns out to be the case with SIP trunks - the base priniciples are similar, but every provider seems to do their own thing..

@vfrmedia When I was 15 I hadn't figured out a way to get into electronics, so I memorized anything I thought might be useful like the north american colour codes for telephones, resistor codes, marine radio... just anything I came across that seemed related! :-)
Anyhow, knowing telephone wiring did come in very useful over the years, even though it was never my main job. Obviously R codes are mandatory for board repairs and so on too.
I've noticed there is a plugin for Galene to use SIP, but I can't imagine a situation when it would be useful to me?
https://galene.org/

Galene videoconference server

Galene is a free and open source self-hosted WebRTC videoconference server

@gemlog this is more for businesses where someone might dial in via a mobile phone to the conference (its not a practice encouraged at my work as although they do use online conferencing they would rather have in person meeetings if possible and if someone is driving they are encouraged to concentrate on the road instead (in fact we have a legal duty of care to keep anyone who is driving as part of their work safe)

@vfrmedia In my province, they will fine your ass hard and raise your insurance (we have socialized car insurance like our medical) if you use a phone while driving!

@gemlog here only hands free audio is allowed, and even then if it leads to bad driving or an incident its a serious traffic violation.

For all their faults, both Google and Apple do seem to begrudgingly obey the requirements of traffic safety authorities worldwide, and there are strong rules about what is accepted on Android Auto or Carplay screens and their functionalities, including all the phone / messenger apps - for instance I can make an external mobile call from my car but Linphone is currently only read only for text messsages (which I don't use, and wouldn't normally want to make an internal call from my car anyway, as i'm normally only calling the office to alert them to traffic issues (so they can make frontline staff be aware of them)

@vfrmedia I don't use google or apple, so I don't know what they do.
I'm alone in my age group though.
Virtually all of the old ladies I know use gmail and google. All of them are on facebook. If I wasn't their only geek (and, usually, the only man around) I'd be a pariah.
There are 50 volunteers who work the Seniors Corner and our shindigs and luncheons and I'm the only man - it's a bit weird, but in a Good Way 🙂 I love being around all these super smart, talented, energetic women.
But, as a society, we have over 500 members which do include a lot of men, so I don't really understand what's going on there.

A2 Engineering Services Feb 25

@vfrmedia years ago we used to call it DC wetting - a voltage to indicate the line was in use for something even though no tones could be heard. Mostly used on Private Wires.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Feb 26

@a2es there is 61V on the pairs for my office with a newly provided SoGEA circuit, it seems Openreach are still using this (although its strange it appears on the ceased line im the office, as thats not going to be used for anything - unless its there as a marker for the MDF at the Telephone Exchange as a reminder there's a working line card at the other end when they do decide to recover it)