[Freeswitch-users] What concepts in FreeSWITCH did you struggle with when you first started?

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Wed Oct 26 00:48:32 MSD 2016


Coming from asterisk, I found that the concept that actions were fixed
within a given extension difficult to get my head around.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:57:43 -0400,
Chad Phillips wrote:
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> I remember being confused when learning to design dialplans in XML. There’s variables and conditional logic, but it doesn’t work quite like a ’typical’ scripting language.
> 
> Like Alex said, it made sense once I figured it all out.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:45 PM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  On 25 October 2016 at 10:46, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>  >
>  > I would like to get community input on what concepts caused you the most headache and any input/ideas that would help me design some tutorials / videos that would help new users coming to FreeSWITCH.
>  >
> 
>  setting up users
>  setting up groups
>  setting up ring groups
> 
>  All of those have so many options that it's a little cumbersome to
>  explain in a short document. Fortunately the project has a few good
>  books on the configurations and setting it up. There's also lots of
>  friendly people on the mailing list to help, too.
> 
>  Also, setting up sip trunks contains many options. Which options are
>  necessary? Why? When to use what?
> 
>  For a more in depth tutorial, I'd explain how CDRs work 'out of the
>  box' and what options are available. Explain postgres support is built
>  in but it needs to be compiled (if building from source) with certain
>  config flags (is that still correct, actually?)
> 
>  Because freeswitch can do so much, explain use cases from a small
>  business to how a large corporation can use FS successfully.
> 
>  > Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > --
>  >
>  > Brian West
>  > brian at freeswitch.org
> 
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