[clue-tech] Asterisk @ Home 2.8 with FreePBX Upgrade

[Mike Staver]

I set up an Asterisk based PBX in my office a while back using Asterisk 
@ Home 2.8. Apparently the people who started that project have 
completely abandoned all support for it now that they moved to 
TrixBox.org.  I'm having what I feel should be a relatively simple 
problem, and my forum posts have been ignored when I ask about it on 
their site since I'm not using the new trixbox setup.  There is no clear 
upgrade path to using the new system, and since I have a fairly large 
set up now I have no intention of moving a few months after I just got 
the other system working mostly.  The one issue I have left to figure 
out is puzzling to me - what's happening is that when a phone extension 
registers with the server, it is somehow linked up to an outgoing SIP 
trunk.  My VoIP provider requires a seperate SIP trunk for each DID I 
have.  I wish they didn't, but they do.  So, what happens is that if I 
have 5 extensions, each one that registers "locks onto" a SIP trunk, so 
for outgoing calls, only that extension can use it. Incoming still work 
fine and will take any incoming trunk open.  Currently, the solution is 
to have a trunk for each extension - but then whey you try to make a 
conference call, you get a message about all circuits being busy for the 
second number being called, even though all other trunks are not being 
used at the moment.  This also means I can't have 10 internal extensions 
and only 3 trunks for example, which I should be able to do if I wish. 
I'm exhausted with trying to get people at the Asterisk at Home project to 
help me and at this point, I would like to pay somebody locally to help 
me figure out the issue.  If you can help, I'm in Denver at 18th & Grant 
St.  It obviously doesn't have to be today - but my employees would like 
to be able to make a conference call at some point here.
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                                 -Mike Staver
                                  staver at fimble.com
                                  mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com