PIONEERS Gemeinschaft 3 Development Returns

[Sascha Daniels]

Hi together,


I am the maintainer of the three "Gemeinschaft" projects and I am very happy, that people are still interested in Version 3 as well. There have been some weird rumors about license changes.

There are now changes!

The installer was for several reasons not GPL. That has changed during the last minutes in the master and 3.2 branch.
Gemeinschaft 3 was GPL, is GPL and will stay GPL.
Gemeinschaft 5 is MIT.

In the original posting it was mentioned, that Gemeinschaft 5 development is discontinued and Gemeinschaft 3 was reactivated.
The answer ist: No and No.
There is still development in Gemeinschaft 5 and Gemeinschaft 3 development never stopped ;-)
It is only a problem of time. At the moment there is much background work needed for the build process of Gemeinschaft 5 so there is no time left for features.
The 3.2 Release shows, that there was development the whole time.
Now some experiences with Gemeinschaft 3 and 5 on small hardware.

Gemeinschaft 5 for the RaspberryPI was a nice idea, but I would say it is not a good combination. The hardware is just to weak and it is nor really usable. The whole bunch of software around Freeswitch needs at least a Atom CPU and a small SSD.

Gemeinschaft 3 is different. I only tested it on a Beagle Bone Black and it was usable. Much better then I expected. If you don’t have a callcenter, you can deactivate silverbullet (feeds the Queuemon and Peermon) and purge some cron jobs. Load went down near 0,
For now I would say: Have fun with Gemeinschaft and have a good start into 2015.
For me now it is family time till next year ;-)

Greets

Sascha

 

[hecatae]

Oops my German is more rusty than I thought it was, sorry

 

[wardmundy]

SkykingOH: The silence is deafening. Never knew you not to have an opinion especially on important open source issues. Don't be shy. We won't tell.

 

[wardmundy]

Adding FLITE to GS3

# Add Flite for TTS support in Asterisk
apt-get -y install libsdl1.2-dev libflite1 flite1-dev flite
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pbxinaflash.com/flite-ubuntu14.tar.gz
tar zxvf flite-ubuntu14.tar.gz
cd Asterisk-Flite*
make clean
make
make install
service asterisk restart
asterisk -rx "core show application like flite"

 

[wardmundy]

Adding Travelin' Man 3 IPtables Firewall with WhiteList Support to GS3

NOTE: Fail2Ban is NOT yet installed!

# Add Travelin Man 3 IPtables Whitelist Firewall to GS3
# USE iptables-restart ONLY to restart the firewall
# Server IP and your IP will be whitelisted during setup
# To add other addresses: add-ip OR add-fqdn
# To remove addresses: del-acct
# DO NOT RUN THIS MORE THAN ONCE!!
cd /
wget http://incrediblepbx.com/gs3-tm3.tar.gz
tar zxvf gs3-tm3.tar.gz
cd /tmp
./gs3-tm3.sh

After installation, status will work!

 

[wardmundy]

Hang in there, arztde. We'll get to all of that, but I wanted to get a few key components built so that pioneers could play... safely! Happy New Year.

 

[wardmundy]

Command Line Utilities for GS3

Unlike most other GUIs for Asterisk, there are command-line scripts for virtually every function in GS3. For example, you can add, delete, and display users, groups, permissions, queues, hosts, phonebooks, pickupgroups, wakeup calls, etc.

You'll find them here:

/opt/gemeinschaft-source-3.2-RC/opt/gemeinschaft/scripts

There are also dialplan scripts to do many of the same things and more...

/opt/gemeinschaft-source-3.2-RC/opt/gemeinschaft/dialplan-scripts

 

[wardmundy]

Documentation for GS3

There is detailed documentation available in German for GS3. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent English version but it can be translated from the German PDF version.

Here's how to generate the PDF documentation in German:

cd /opt/gemeinschaft-source-3.2-RC/opt/gemeinschaft/doc/de
apt-get -y install docbook-xml docbook-xsl docbook-utils xsltproc xmlto
make pdf
ls /opt/gemeinschaft-source-3.2-RC/opt/gemeinschaft/doc/de/pdf/*.pdf

 

[ou812]

I have completed the install of GS3 and have root access but I do not know what the default User & Password is for the gui I have not been able to find it with google searches.

Gary.

 

[ou812]

Thanks arztde, I must have missed that picture, so is there anyway through root I can set a new admin password.

 

[briankelly63]

Big advantage to have the scripts to work from in case you want to experiment with changing the functionality.

 

[briankelly63]

It feels like a New Year's Eve present!

In 2015 please use all energy that normally goes toward: Google Voice, 8 year old PC's, Simplistic Router-Firewall fails and all problems posted without any required details... to this instead.

 

[wardmundy]

arztde: I'm working on translation of the 200+ manual with Google Docs as we speak.

 

[wardmundy]

Thanks arztde, I must have missed that picture, so is there anyway through root I can set a new admin password.

You can retrieve your existing one:

/opt/gemeinschaft/scripts/gs-users-get | grep Admin
OR
/opt/gemeinschaft/scripts/gs-user-get --user=admin

The admin password for web access is the entry just before the word "Administrator"

 

[ou812]

Thanks to All, password is now easy to find.

Gary

 

[wardmundy]

I'm feeling a little guilty cheating on Asterisk-GUI like this. I just met her last month. Anyway, there's a new version of Incredible PBX for Asterisk-GUI as well. Just follow the original instructions to install. Happy New Year everybody!

 

[briankelly63]

It's time for PIAF to have a midlife crisis and try out as many GUI's as possible.

 

[darmock]

darn..... this might have to go into PIAF 4.0 as an alternative gui..... Change is good


Tom

 

[wardmundy]

arztde: No problem at all. We're all about experimentation with new things, and this is a New Year and new GUI to all of us. So... it will take a little while to get our arms around it to see if it will meet our needs or not. I'm very impressed, however.

Interestingly, Gemeinschaft's design bears some striking similarities to FreePBX and the older Asterisk Management Portal. All of these GUIs make extensive use of MySQL to store data and settings. I'm not sure I don't like Mark Spencer's Asterisk-GUI model better even though it may not be quite as flexible from a GUI standpoint. It does 99% of its magic simply by manipulating config files in /etc/asterisk and with that comes enormous control over Asterisk itself.

I'm also one of those that never quite got used to the Windows Registry. There's a lot of voodoo in those hidden tables.

 

[wardmundy]

arztde: Most Americans (including me) are guilty of being internationally lazy. We only speak one language*. We only do things one way. Why? Because it's the only way we know, and we're too busy/lazy to learn a different way of doing things. If you want Incredible PBX to be more internationally-friendly, then you'll have to roll up your sleeves and pitch in to make it happen (not just for you but for everyone else). All of the time you put into making the international dial plan work, where is the code?? I'm not being negative. Just saying that there's a lack of expertise AND time on our end to do it without halting development on dozens of other projects that people (in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and elsewhere) care about. And our first half a million visitors each year come from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

Many of the Incredible PBX tools are focused on English and the American way of doing things because they were the only available options, e.g. Google Voice. Incredible PBX supports many international SIP providers, but we can't fix the Google Voice problem. That was Google's decision. I can't fix the lack of international weather and news tools that are as easy to use as Yahoo. We've tried international weather sites in the past. They've all disappeared. Perhaps someone else can fix it, but we can't. Making dialplan adjustments for international use is again something we're not comfortable developing because we don't have the expertise. If you or someone else does, sharing your efforts would be greatly appreciated.

Bottom Line: We are a map-driven project. Look at the list of 2014 unique visitors in the Nerd Vittles table below. It may help you better appreciate why our focus is the way it is. Click on the table for more detail...


* In complete candor, I'm not personally quite as lazy as I've described. My high school and college years included 2 years of Latin, 5 years of Spanish, 2 years of French, and 2 years of German. I can order a hamburger in almost any country except China.