On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Brett Wilson <brett@launch3.net> wrote:

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone had any info on the current state of FS guis? It seems that most of the gui projects (blue.box, fusionpbx) have been mostly abandoned in terms of development.

Hardly.

I don't follow the 2600hz / blue.box project, but it could be they are mostly focusing on enterprise management and deployment, rather than actual PBX functionality. They have a pretty slick setup already..

FusionPBX - if you simply watch the SVN commit log - is being refactored with a new layer of database normalization for both compatibility and ease of writing new applications, that can be deployed and/or migrated to any system with your data. (IDs have recently been changed to UUIDs to ease migration.)

These projects are hardly abandoned.

I would like something simple for end users to self-administer if needed. The problem I have with fusionpbx is that config files are overwritten by whatever is in the database. If you hand-edit a config file, fusion will not parse the file and load those settings into the interface.

Indeed, such is the case. If you create a file in fusionpbx and want to edit it.. you can rename it (remove the v_ prefix) and fusionpbx won't overwrite it.. you'll have to remove (or disable) it in fusionpbx though or you'll have duplicate entries.

If you want it to suck back in changes...

it's an edge case, most people don't really need that. If you do, you can write it. I'll even help you test it.

I realize that takes much more coding to do than using a database to simply write config files. But I feel that the freeswitch interface could be improved anyway. Unfortunately it seems that project has been abandoned. There have not been any releases since mid-2011.

Anything new out or around the corner?

http://www.freepybx.org as mentioned was just released - python with flash stuff for a fancy UI.

There's also vbilling but that's more a billing management than PBX functionality.

None of the PBXs really let you enforce per-minute billing though (there's too many places to lock down if you let them set up the dialplans...) so that's still a major hole. I wrote my own stuff... mostly, without a gui for users to make changes, yet.

-Avi Marcus

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