Chan-SCCP-B not working / installing

[George2312 (George VDG)]

Hello, I’ve been trying to install Chan-SCCP-B on my instance of FreePBX. I have followed all instructions possible on the internet and nothing is working. Can anyone help me. I’ve been mainly following this link: but I can’t get past the Configuring stage. Please help - thanks

[ErikVandergeld]

Hi!
So, the procedure to install chan_sccp is this (skip to sccp_manager if you already have it installed):

• First, let’s update the server and install some configuration files

yum update
yum upgrade
yum install git asterisk-devel autoconf automake gcc

• To provision the phones with their config file, we need to have a tftp server.
  To make sure a tftp-server is installed we run:

yum install tftp tftp-server* xinetd*

After that we have to update/edit the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file to enable the tftp server.
You should only have to change the disable line to “no”. It should look something like:

service tftp
{
    id              = tftp
    socket_type     = dgram
    protocol        = udp
    user            = root
    wait            = no
    disable         = no
    server          = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
    server_args     = /tftpboot
    FLAGS           = IPv6 IPv4
}

Then restart xinetd

systemctl restart xinetd

After updating the packages and installing the TFTP server, let’s move on to downloading chan_sccp:

cd /usr/src
git clone https://github.com/chan-sccp/chan-sccp chan-sccp
cd chan-sccp

And now lets install it:

./configure --enable-conference --enable-video     # check './configure --help' for more options
make -j2
make install

After that, we activate it on FreePBX GUI:
Via the FreePBX GUI navigate to Admin->Asterisk Modules, under

• under ‘Excluded Modules’ add chan_skinny.so
• under ‘Manually Loaded Modules’ add chan_sccp.so

After that, save it, apply it, and i like to do a fwconsole chown and a fwconsole restart to ensure everything is installed and running correctly.

Now that everything is ok with Chan_SCCP, let’s install SCCP Manager!

PS: in my experience, the stable version presented some errors, mainly when configuring the devices. The DEVELOP version works perfectly, I have been using it for more than six months (in test and production environments) and it has never presented any bugs, unlike the stable version, so I recommend using it. But you can test both on your own and see which is best for your scenario.

• Log in to FreePBX
• Go to Admin → Module Admin
• Click Upload Modules.
• Enter one of the following urls:

https://github.com/chan-sccp/sccp_manager/archive/refs/tags/v14.2.0.11.zip (Stable Version)
https://github.com/chan-sccp/sccp_manager/archive/refs/heads/develop.zip (Develop Version, works better for me)

• Click Download From Web
• Do a fwconsole chown from CLI to prevent permission errors after downloading
• Click Manage Local Modules
• Find and click SCCP Manager. Check Install. Click Process button.
• Confirm installation.
• Close Status window.
• Apply Config to FreePBX.

After that, you can use SCCP Manager normally to configure and provision your phones.

Source of information used:

GitHub

GitHub - chan-sccp/sccp_manager: SCCP Manager

SCCP Manager. Contribute to chan-sccp/sccp_manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

and

GitHub

GitHub - chan-sccp/chan-sccp: Replacement for the SCCP channel driver in…

Replacement for the SCCP channel driver in Asterisk. Extended features include Shared Lines, Presence / BLF, customizable Feature Buttons, and Custom Device State. Visit our discussion mailing list…

[George2312 (George VDG)]

Thank you however yum doesnt seem to work for me it just says invalid command.

[ErikVandergeld]

Does your FreePBX instance use FreePBX Distro (SangomaOS/CentOS) or use some other operating system?

[George2312 (George VDG)]

I am using RasPBX so Raspbian. I have tried to install yum (if you can) but to no luck

[ErikVandergeld]

Oh, unfortunately I don’t have much experience with Debian/RasPBX… this tutorial is only valid for FreePBX Distro/CentOS based systems.

Well, I know that Raspbian uses “apt-get” as its package manager instead of yum, so I think maybe replacing yum with apt-get might work, but it’s possible that you’ll find other differences (like the installation path) so unfortunately I’m not sure how to proceed in this specific case

[George2312 (George VDG)]

Thanks for your help anyway