Is it possible to enable the Digium web gui with freepbx epm? In basefile edit I see they have an option. However basefile edit won’t save the change.
There’s almost zero reason to do that; I can think of one (free file space for custom ringtones), and that’s absolutely it. If the phones are being provisioned by an upstream platform, then the web UI for the phone should be disabled, because you don’t want someone operating on the web UI and creating a bad situation for the phone or the administrator.
I was hoping to be able to adjust transfer settings. The EPM in Freepbx doesn’t have the option that I can find currently. I don’t disagree with you!
You can open a feature request for options that are missing
https://support.sangoma.com
Ack.
And background then for the query:
Transfer settings aren’t a global thing and they’re not configurable today from the phone’s web UI. We’re unlikely to make that a settable thing from the phone’s web UI or from the phone’s local UI, as the current method of configuration via behaviors for BLF Items is more flexible and follows our model of wanting the configuration to be server-driven, not endpoint managed.
Server makes sense. However at this time EPM in Freepbx doesn’t offer full configuration of Digium phones. Unlike the Sangoma phones.
@mdavenport I can think of another reason. What about Digium Custom Apps (Javascript API)? I would like to enable app development on one of these phones that are currently managed by EPM (remotely as I am not on site) and can’t enable that without having a user manually go into the menu and turn it on.
Moreover, (untested–so may not even be an issue) does the app_dev/ page work without having the webGUI enabled?
While I agree that if the EPM is used to configure the phone, we shouldn’t be going into the Web GUI and overriding stuff, but at the same time, I think we should at least have that option, and for the EPM to force the WEB GUI to off, is frustrating at best. Like the OP–I can set it ‘1’ all I want, and it won’t stick when you submit the change.
Malcom is no longer with Sangoma so I doubt you will get any reply from him on your question.
This appears ti to be an EPM bug, I’ve escalated ti to engineering
When autocorrect sets ‘to’ to ‘ti’ - just español things
edit - resolved in EPM versions 16.0.86.17 and 17.0.1.57
Thank you @lgaetz I appreciate that!
Wanted to chime in myself, and just say, the P series is a downgrade in regards to the things the installer is able to do, as you’re no longer able to login to the phone itself to check statuses, etc - but my biggest GRIPE - been working with a couple outfits who have P series phones in remote locations, and in several instances, frequently, we’ve had to have the client drive all the way out to the site where the phone was, just to have them factory reset the phone so it would reprovision, and come back up. After not making any changes whatsoever to cause the phone to go offline.
This is nothing like one of Sangoma’s competitors, which I’ve worked with extensively - Yealink, for example, offers their “YMCS” service - which allows you FULL control of the phone remotely, up to and including FACTORY RESET the phone, upgrade firmwares, point it’s provisioning URL to a hosted or on-prem PBX, etc.
Sangoma - you should take a look at YMCS and build something similar, take notes from their setup - THAT is how it SHOULD be done. The P series ARE nice phones, don’t get me wrong - but as someone who has to deploy them, and fix issues with them on a daily basis, they SUCK for the installer. Big time. I hate them for this reason, and CRINGE anytime I have to work on the P-series. Please fix this.
Just my $0.20 ($0.02 adjusted for inflATION… LOL)
-Andy
Not to high jack this thread but nobody should ever copy YMCS. It’s the most insecure idea ever provided to phones. You realize with YMCS yealink or anyone who controls yealink has full access to your network the phones are on. They can start PCAPS on the network and all that data is stored in yealink cloud servers.
Numerous security research companies have issued reports on this and gov agencies all over the world are banning yealink and removing them. Even universities now in Europe are ripping them out. Lots of large US based companies have started to ban them.