[Freeswitch-users] FS Webinterfaces - Opinions on wikiPBX, blue.box, fusionPBX

[Avi Marcus]

Hey. Not sure what you really want - FusionPBX's next project is a
permission rewrite - multi-tenant was just added.
Depending on what you want to change though, you might be able to just
change a line or two in the actual php files.
I don't recall hearing any questions on #fusionpbx in freenode. I haven't
heard of any any outstanding bugs...

And yeah, wikipbx seems to be dead. As opposed to FusionPBX who was on the
conference yesterday about the roadmap and he gets sponsorships to add new
stuff.

There's blue.box also as you mentioned. Haven't touched it in a while.

-Avi

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Christian Benke <benkokakao at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm currently working on a PBX solution for customers of my
> company(Small to medium businesses) and since i have to make sure my
> colleagues and customers don't have to dig into the depths of
> Freeswitch i need a graphical interface for the most mundane tasks.
>
> I've spent the last week evaluating FusionPBX and while i was excited
> at first, i stumbled over a few bugs(Which i could partially solve
> myself) and had to dig a bit in the code, so i'm not that thrilled
> anymore. Before i stay with FusionPBX and try to learn some more php
> and work my way through the code(Is there no ORM in php or did Mark
> just leave it out?) and add what i'm missing, i'd like to spend
> another few days trying other projects.
>
> Since it takes a while to get to understand a new webinterface and its
> quirks, i wanted to ask here first if the other options are even worth
> the time. I think the alternatives are blue.box and WikiPBX?
>
> What i'm specifically looking for are:
>
> - Proper AAA/groups
> I want to be able to have a "root"-admin(SuperAdmin in FusionPBX) that
> has access to the full GUI, a local admin(Admin in FusionPBX) that can
> change call-relevant features like conferences, dialplans, follow me,
> voicemail, CDRs and such and finally users, who can only change
> settings for their own extension and have access to their voicemail
> and CDRs. Ideally the root-admin should be able to modify what
> options/features the "lower" groups are able to manipulate(Switch
> on/off GUI-elements). FusionPBX offers that partially - but the "local
> admin" has too much rights and i can't change its rights dynamically.
>
> - A layer between GUI and configfiles(e.g. a database)
> I'll have to do some bulk-provisioning with a script from csv-files
> and if i can write user-information to a DB instead of creating
> xml-files it would make my life easier
>
> - Feature configuration
> Dialplans are complex and individual and i can comprehend that i won't
> find an interface that supports all the features i need.
> FusionPBX was satisfying in this regard, i didn't miss too much and
> while i couldn't trust a customer to setup his PBX with a complex
> configuration with Time Conditions, Hunt Groups, Follow-Me etc. i
> think at least our 2nd level support would be happy to use the gui
> instead of tinkering with the flatfiles. And i hope my time allows me
> to implement some of the needed features to FusionPBX(If i don't find
> a better alternative).
> Some of them are: Voicemail(Setup and file-access),
> Huntgroups/FollowMe, Recording, Click2Call, Conferences, CDRs,
> AutoAttendant/IVR, MOH, TimeConditions, Directory, BossSec/ChefSek and
> other dubious features asked for by upper mgmt
>
> - Phone provisioning
> It would be nice to be able to add a MAC-adress to a newly created
> extension and the rest is taken care of by the GUI-scripts. FusionPBX
> has this feature, but i didn't have time to try it yet(And i'll have
> to adapt the templates to fit the phones i'm going to use, hope it
> really works). Nice to have, if not it shouldn't be too much work to
> write a custom script that can take care of that, given provisioning
> data from the GUI.
>
> - Written in a language i don't have to learn(Python)
> WikiPBX is based on Django - yes! "http://www.wikipbx.org/ -> Current
> Status -> CDR issues improved -> 11 Feb 2010" - Crap! Is this project
> as dead as it seems or is it just so mature there's no further
> development needed? The screenshots look a bit minimalistic.
>
>
> That's all i need in a perfect world. I guess none of the projects
> mentioned above can do that for me - but i'd still love to hear your
> opinions and experiences if it's even worth the time to install/try
> any of them or stick with FusionPBX!
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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