Outgoing line selection with Trixbox
Submitted by ZackP on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 8:21pm.
Let me ask this as a separate topic, I am pretty sure that many people would like to know.
Using Trixbox GUI (management WEB interface) is it possible to select which line will be used to dial out calls?
To stir things up. I have two regular FXO lines and (Vonage) VoIP feed coming in next day or two. Since Vonage subscription has 500 minutes included I would prefer dialing out on that line, but flexibility in selecting is desirable.
Thanks in advance,
Zack
There are ways to hack this
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 8:51pm
There are ways to hack this but they would untrix your box so I can't recommend the to a new user. You would have to do all your updates by hand.
Seems to me like you are doing things the hard way. Why would you not subscribe to a Voip provider that allows multiple lines on a single registration? Most are significantly less than two Vonage lines.
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Scott
aka "Skyking"
In the outbound route
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 10:33pm
In the outbound route screen, you can select the order of outbound trunks.
Also, you can configure different dial prefixes to select outgoing trunk, so the user can choose outgoing line on dial.
Out of the box, trixbox can't use up 500 vonage minutes and automatically switch to different trunk afterwards...
Thanks for
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 5:28am
Thanks for answers.
SkykingOH whom can you recommend instead of Vonage, can you name 2 of the providers?
I don't want to do anything hard way. I had hard time so far to get things operational and I don't wont to spoil that. I don't know how to do line programming in Linux and all I can do is things I can set in trixbox GUI.
I am attracted to Vonage for 3 reasons:
* trixbox setup already indicates a Vonage as one of the pre-set VoIP providers
* I already have one account with Vonage and things are functioning pretty well.
* 10 bucks for 500 any minutes sounds reasonable to me for soft phone service
you can create a custom
Thu, 08/28/2008 - 3:30pm
you can create a custom context in extensions_custom.conf and there'd be some programming involved.. but it's doable.
have the context check the total minutes out on the trunk from the 1st of the billing cycle to current and if it => 499 then Goto(Some-Other-Context-To-Dial-Out) else use vonage trunk.
Pseudo code, but doable.
if that makes sense.
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