I'm in the same boat, finding the transition from Asterisk to FS very frustrating. Something I can do in Asterisk in 10 minutes is taking me a day with FS.
Do I think it's worth it? Absolutely, but it's incredibly painful at times.
What I've done is to create some WIKI pages to help those familiar with Asterisk to understand the nuances of FS. I posted them in the user pages. Hopefully when there are enough contributions we can have a section on the main WIKI entitled 'Asterisk conversion' or something.
Asterisk is very forgiving and takes a lot of the pain away from doing simple tasks. FS on the other hand is less forgiving, but you have more control. Being a control freak I like that.
I kind of liken Asterisk to the early versions of basic. Each command had a line number. You could be up and running basic apps in a few hours. Then jump to C, and you'll spend ages doing a simple task, but once you've mastered it, you'll never go back.
(7 Day FS veteran J)
Regards,
From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Tim Mattison
Sent: 15 February 2009 02:20
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] [newbie] Clean start with asimple configuration
I think the crux of the matter is "I can't get Freeswitch to do _just_ this" (emphasis added). Users that are relatively new to FreeSWITCH but Asterisk veterans want to know how to build a simple, lean configuration. I'm trying to figure it out myself right now.
If simplified configs are only going to be posted after 1.0.3 what's the best place to post my findings and configs? Is there an explicit, sanctioned place for this kind of thing on the Wiki already?
Tim
On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Brian West wrote:
FreeSWITCH default config already has this feature. Register two
phones... 1000 and 1001 both with password of 1234 then you can call
between them. That will work exactly as you want out of the box.
Expect more simplified configs to show up after 1.0.3.
/b
On Feb 14, 2009, at 6:02 PM, xs wrote:
I want that also with Freeswitch. It is a good starting point but i
am fiddeling with it for a couple of days now, read the docs but i
can't get Freeswitch to do just this. So just calling between a few
local sip phones with transcoding and _everything_ else disabled.
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