We encourage people to make GUIs for FreeSWITCH and we have mixed results. Being controlled externally is actually baked into the design of FreeSWITCH. Many of the abstract concepts int the core that people are still unearthing are all about developing external apps. The exercise to build one was intentionally left to the end user. The point was to harness the hard part about telephony so you could focus on your business use case. Really, based on the requirements of the original poster, I think a comercial solution is in order. I also would not judge activity by release dates / commits etc. FreeSWITCH itself has not been released since 2009 yet the C code has grown by 35 megabits since then with commits nearly hourly. We just happen to be more open about our development than others may be comfortable with.Anyway, I know for a fact all of the above list in the original post are still up and running but not everyone has the resources to run an active community.As referred to earlier in this thread, we made the CudaTEL PBX at Barracuda Networks which is an appliance designed to do everything described above and that effort could not be done without a commercial incentive to develop it and a team of dedicated employees.Everything you ever wanted is typically hard to come by when dealing with Free GUIs so the alternative is to invest in one of them and get them to focus on the functionality you seek.Anthony Minessale IIOn Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Brett Wilson <brett@launch3.net> wrote:
I checked out freepbx. Freepbx v3, the complete rewrite that was supposed to work with freeswitch, actually got spun off into the blue.box project. Seems that the blue.box project is basically dead. The last commit was November 2011. Fusionpbx looks to be the only game in town. I was wrong, it is still being developed. I just did a new install of it today, and allowed it to auto update. There are indeed some changes that I see from my install from about 4 months ago. So that is a positive thing, but its too bad that the feel is still lacking. I took a look at some code, and what I saw did not impress me. Display code mixed right in with the logic. I did not look for more than about 30 seconds, but IMO it is not ‘proper’ application design. I am a big proponent of MVC architecture, and what I saw of fusionpbx code does not look all that impressive. I give credit where credit is due. The platform is functioning to an extent, most things actually work. I do realize that developing something of that size requires tons of effort. My ideal solution would be something driven by ExtJS and PHP on the backend. ExtJS provides the most advanced and rich javascript controls i have seen. Plus its sister product, sencha touch, would enable great admin functionality from a smartphone or tablet device. Here I go rambling on… I wish someone would develop an awesome GUI for freeswitch to help get it into the limelight where it deserves to be. If I had the time I would love to create a comprehensive and great looking GUI.
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From: Andrew Cassidy [mailto:andrew@cassidywebservices.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] State of GUIs
Look at http://www.freepybx.org although I didn't manage to get it installed. I do have fusion installed on a text box although personally I'm not keen on it.
On 7 March 2012 08:35, 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. 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. 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?
Brett Wilson
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