RasPBX Installation for Beginners
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RasPBX Installation for Beginners
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Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#2I am going to show you, how you can install telephony server Asterisk on a small computer RaspberryPi in order to be able to make calls from your computer or smartphone to ordinary phone numbers. So basically, you will end up literally with your own PBX in your pocket. Actually no, because RaspberryPi needs to be connected to power supply and network, and you would look weird with cables going into your pocket, but you get the idea.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#3How is this better than just getting a VoIP line in the country you want cheap calls to/from, and installing a SIP softphone app on your phone or computer?
Or using something like Signal, where the call is not only better than "HD voice", it's e2ee encrypted? There are other services that offer varying levels of encryption.
Does it really cost lots of money to call someone from one part of the EU to another?
As an American I resent how much I have to pay for cellular data (though things are certainly better than they used to be; I've now got ~4GB for slightly under $20/month) but the concept of having to pay extra charges for calling someone who is ~100 miles away is quite foreign/confusing, especially given the EU is, well....the EU?
Unlimited calling is virtually defacto here, as is free long distance calling. I can call someone 3,000 miles away and it doesn't cost me a dime.
Area codes are so irrelevant these days that nobody really bothers to switch phone numbers even when they move cross-country.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#4How is this better than just getting a VoIP line in the country you want cheap calls to/from, and installing a SIP softphone app on your phone or computer? Or using something like Signal, where the call is not only better than "HD voice", it's e2ee encrypted? There are other services that offer varying levels of encryption. Does it really cost lots of money to call someone from one part of the EU to another? As an Am…
This is guaranteed to give you more privacy because the data stays inside your own VPN. When using any 3rd party infrastructure all packets can be silently duplicated/mirrored to snooped upon by altering setup and teardown, e.g. mitmproxy.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#5How is this better than just getting a VoIP line in the country you want cheap calls to/from, and installing a SIP softphone app on your phone or computer? Or using something like Signal, where the call is not only better than "HD voice", it's e2ee encrypted? There are other services that offer varying levels of encryption. Does it really cost lots of money to call someone from one part of the EU to another? As an Am…
Yeah I get 60gb for 20 euro here in Spain and that's not even on a contract but on prepay. 4gb is measly.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#6While these tutorials are a great way to teach system administration to those who want to start tinkering, I wish people would put more energy into building well crafted firmware images using frameworks like openembedded or buildroot and teaching people how to use those.
Most of the raspbian-based tutorials or images out there treating the raspberry pi like a normal server are just going to trash the SD or fail because system state is mutating in unexpected ways.
Start building immutable images that hold temporary data strictly in RAM.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#7How is this better than just getting a VoIP line in the country you want cheap calls to/from, and installing a SIP softphone app on your phone or computer? Or using something like Signal, where the call is not only better than "HD voice", it's e2ee encrypted? There are other services that offer varying levels of encryption. Does it really cost lots of money to call someone from one part of the EU to another? As an Am…
Yes, calling any other EU country from the EU costs a lot. 1 dollar/minute and more. The most expensive plans (50+ dollars a month) usually include 100 EU minutes or so, but not many people have these plans.
Data costs vary a lot across the EU. I pay 70 dollars a month for unlimited data with unlimited speed, for example.
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#8I am going to show you, how you can install telephony server Asterisk on a small computer RaspberryPi in order to be able to make calls from your computer or smartphone to ordinary phone numbers. So basically, you will end up literally with your own PBX in your pocket. Actually no, because RaspberryPi needs to be connected to power supply and network, and you would look weird with cables going into your pocket, but y…
Battery pack and wifi?
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#9While these tutorials are a great way to teach system administration to those who want to start tinkering, I wish people would put more energy into building well crafted firmware images using frameworks like openembedded or buildroot and teaching people how to use those. Most of the raspbian-based tutorials or images out there treating the raspberry pi like a normal server are just going to trash the SD or fail becau…
That sounds actually like a good idea. Do you have a resource on how to get started?
Re: RasPBX Installation for Beginners
#10How is this better than just getting a VoIP line in the country you want cheap calls to/from, and installing a SIP softphone app on your phone or computer? Or using something like Signal, where the call is not only better than "HD voice", it's e2ee encrypted? There are other services that offer varying levels of encryption. Does it really cost lots of money to call someone from one part of the EU to another? As an Am…
Yes, calling any other EU country from the EU costs a lot. 1 dollar/minute and more. The most expensive plans (50+ dollars a month) usually include 100 EU minutes or so, but not many people have these plans. Data costs vary a lot across the EU. I pay 70 dollars a month for unlimited data with unlimited speed, for example.
That's not true for over two years. Capped by EU at 19 eurocents a minute. And 70 dollars is pretty expensive, I think you should check if there aren't better deals available (I assume it's CZ?)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...