Month: February 2022

Evaluating CallerID (CID) based solely on the number is a design flaw of FreePBX. At FreePBX's heart it relies almost exclusively on the CID number instead of the CID name. Their design makes little allowance for evaluating the CID name. The Dynamic Route module changes this, as it allows you to evaluate the caller by looking at the name, and then allows you to route based on that (on either that alone or together with the number). There's a feature in the Inbound Route and the Ring Group (and maybe others) that allows you to set the CID Prefix (their description is "You can optionally prefix the CallerID name. ie: If you prefix with "Sales:", a call from John Doe would display as "Sales:John Doe" on the extensions that ring.").…

This article covers various things such as updating the system and the fallout from that, as well as using ZFS on an external USB device, and switching from SAMBA to NFS. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that runs Proxmox. I have many containers. These work. When I configured it I set it up as ZFS on an external USB. This was a bad choice. I ended up wiping the external storage and switching from ZFS to EXT4. I was able to do this because I'd set up backups for the containers that triggered on a regular basis. But first I updated the system and ended up dealing with several other problems. After an update I noted that the system would not give me an IP address. So, I took…