Hospitality Management System For PIAF, Incredible PBX, ELASTIX, FREEPBX

Hospitality Management System For Asterisk Based Systems.

Seeing that there is an interest on out post "Manage Your Hotel Switchboard With Elastix, Easily" I decided to revisit the subject.
Yes the project is very much alive and seem to have continued support on Ward Mundy's PIAF forum and seem to have survive a bunch of upgrades to the related systems. The blog post we pointed to on Elastix is still there but comments are filled with junk so could not find if they continue to support it. The content seemed be fine and validated by the original author on PIAF forum.
What is more is that code is now on GITHUB under PIAF-HMS and could be downloaded from there as well as the resource link provided by / on PIAF forum. Don't just stop at the first page, traverse a bit further and learn about changes that were made by various members.
Ward had this to say about the software;

This is a phenomenal piece of software. I've unfortunately been sitting on it for several months waiting for a spare moment to review it on Nerd Vittles. Anyone in the hospitality business will love it. Period!

Happy Voiping.

Incredible PBX Working Like A Dream.

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Incredible PBX 12 for Ubuntu from PIAF is swinging along nicely. WardMundy and the team seems to have hit the success with the Asterisk, FreePBX and Ubuntu combination. Many long time users of PIAF are testing it and so far have garnered positive response. One exception is IPv6. That seems needing some more work.




If you did not know what Incredible PBX is visit PIAF and get to know. If it fits you bill, download and test. Also join the forum and let WardMundy know how it is going and if you have any suggestions.
Incredible PBX is a secure and feature-rich implementation of the terrific Asterisk® PBX. By rethinking the PBX security model from the ground up, Incredible PBX was engineered to provide rock-solid security while delivering the most comprehensive collection of Asterisk utilities available on the planet including free calling in the U.S. and Canada courtesy of Google Voice.

Take Asterisk 10 For A Spin WIth PIAF-RED

PIAF-RED with Asterisk10 http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
For those who are adventures, Tom at PBX in a Flash has put together PIAF 1.7.5.6.3 ISO with the new Asterisk 10 incorporated. @NerdUno informed us.
There were some issues with FLITE and Cepstral TTS but Wardmundy later told us that Cepstral TTS has been fixed by Darren Sessions from Digium.
If you are wondering about Asterisk 10 it is the new versioning system adapted by Digium. What was to be Asterisk 1.10 became Asterisk 10.
You can follow the PIAF-RED discussion at http://t.co/akyNqFj
PIAF RED download sites;

SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pbxinaflash/files/
Google - http://nerd.bz/ppelCH
Vitelity - http://nerd.bz/pPegxo

Keep Your PBX in a Flash ( PIAF ) Running During An Internet Outage!

PBX in a Flash ( PIAF ) Can Run without Internet http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
If you experienced PIAF server was not able to route any calls after losing your Internet connection, even between local extensions Ward Mundy just Tweeted how we could avoid this.
The solution is to run a Bind DNS Caching Server running on your PIAF box to keep it going with an Internet outage. If you decided to use this solution, and if you are using FDQNs on your phones, the primary DNS server address must internal or external IP address of your server, where your phones are attached.
Ward Mundy, on the PIAF forum, has provided a simple script to run on your server and a set of files to get everything setup properly like ROOT server information and forwarding DNS queries to Google DNS servers.. The script is not shell script so you will have to run each line by themselves. (You can convert it into a shell script, if you have many PIAF servers running.)
After logging into your server with root capability (root or a sudo account) run the following code at the end of the article. Once you run the code and satisfied that everything is fine, run a dig command (e.g. dig inbound1.vitelity.net) for each of the FQDNs of your SIP trunk providers! This will cache the DNS information on your server to be used when the need arises. You can find the info with FreePBX: Tools, Asterisk Info, SIP Info, SIP Registry. Happy calling;

yum -y install bind*

cd /var/named
service named stop
wget http://pbxinaflash.net/source/bind/bind.tgz
tar zxvf bind.tgz
rm bind.tgz

echo nameserver 127.0.0.1 > /etc/resolv.conf

sed -i 's|$nameserver|127.0.0.1|' /sbin/dhclient-script

service named start
service network restart

dig pbxinaflash.com
dig pbxinaflash.com

# look at the output for the second dig command issued above
# 2d dig command should show a very short DNS lookup time, e.g.
#;; Query time: 1 msec
#;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
# IF ALL IS WELL...

#be sure to set named for auto start on bootup

chkconfig  named  on --level 2345
chkconfig --list named

# named should be configured to start with RunLevels 2,3,4,5

Manage Your Hotel Switchboard With Elastix, Easily

Elastix, the other Asterisk http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
If you are familiar with Elastix, A member of the Elastix community has cooked up a configuration based off PBX In A Flash (PIAF) Hospitality Management System . They have made some minor adjustments make the project work with Elastix.
The Hotel Room Management system for Elastix is a very complete on with abilities like restrict the calls from Ext’s when they are not checked in, per-second billing etc.
Follow the links to get it running on your favorite incarnation of Asterisk.

Elastix Hotel management system could be found here.
If you prefer, the PIAF Hospitality Management System by claudiopizzillo is here.

Why Nerd Vittles Work For 5¢ An Hour

http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
You should know by now that we are fans of Nerd Vittles and PBX IN A FLASH. Some how we manage to run PIAF in most restricted locations when needed and that is most of the time.
But I have always wondered why Ward worked for 5¢ an hour!
I just found out after visiting his blog after a long while! Thank you and congrats Nerd Vittles, and Ward Mundy.

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