BRCTC PBX with soft phone
I have the basics of the BRCTC system working at home. The server I purchased to host the software came in on Friday. I borrowed a CD ROM from a friend, inserted the trixbox-2.2 CD and let it do its thing. It took less than 15 minutes to get the system installed and running. The PBX is presently wired (CAT5) to my Netgear router. I also have a laptop connected to the router using WIFI.
- Purchase TK System from Ewayco ($342).
- Remove cover from TK System, connect CDROM, insert CD, reboot, respond to a few brief questions, let the software install itself.
- Log into the console as root. It will tell you the URL to access to administer the machine (e.g. http://192.168.1.5).
- Configure an extension. Before you can connect to the asterisk server from an IP phone, you need to configure the extension on the server. Here are the steps to configure a basic extension.
- Point your web browser at that URL (e.g. http://192.168.1.5). Click the link labeled "switch" in the upper right hand corner and use maint:password as the login:password combination.
- Navigate to "Asterisk | FreePBX | Setup | extensions".
- Add a generic SIP device and click submit.
- Add the following options to the extension.
Ext : 2000 Display : SysOp Secret : 2000
- Configure the IP phone. I prefer to use X-Lite because once it's installed, you can copy the folder onto a thumb drive and take it with you. Here are the steps needed to configure X-Lite to connect to the asterisk server.
- Start X-Lite.
- Right click on the application window and select "SIP Account Settings...".
- Click on the "Add..." button and
- Provide the following options.
Display Name : 2000 User name : Sysop Password : 2000 Authorization.. : 2000 Domain : 192.168.1.5 Proxy : 192.168.1.5
That's all there is to it. Using the soft phone is a realy nice way to troubleshoot problems. Once soft phone is connected properly I can add any number of other extensions and place an inter PBX call.