Guys, does anyone have a suggestion on what phone works best with Freepbx?. Thanks in advance.
Its hard to answer that. It depends on what features youāre looking for.Personally I like Yealink t46s. but it does not come with built in bluetooth or wifi, but the Yealink t54w does.
Have you tried a Sangoma phone? They work best with FreePBX, by design.
Thanks. Does it require any configuration in Freepbx if not a Sangoma phone?. I donāt want to buy the wrong thing and find I canāt connect.
All phones will require some configuration.
As far as I know, both Digium and Sangoma were late into the phone instrument market, so Asterisk, and FreePBX will work, to some extent with almost any SIP or analogue phone (subject to Ethernet support for the the former and an FXS card or gateway for the latter.
Where the Sangoma phones may fit in is that they will have been designed with an awareness of how FreePBX handles things like busy lamp fields,
The only devices commonly reported as causing problems are Ciscoās re-flashed with SIP firmware.
As the first reply said, you really need to specify what features you need.
Sangoma S705 or Digium D65 are both going to be the easiest to configure. Endpoint Manager is free for Sangoma phonesā¦you will need to buy commercial Endpoint manager license to use it with any other phone. You also get VPN with the Sangoma products out of the box as well.
For simplicity, buy Sangoma phones.
Our phones are strongly integrated with FreePBX, include provisioning and phone apps at no extra charge.
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Most any open SIP phone will work with FreePBX (Asterisk), even free SIP softphones. For recommendations, it would be best to provide some details of the environment, i.e. is this a few devices for your home or are you deploying to a whole office? Do you need eth passthru and if so gigbit? Do you want built in VPN for remote deployment? Wireless handset? Budge? That type of thing.
For general compatibility and features, Sangoma phones are a solid choice, and also supports the company that supports the FreePBX project.
disclaimer: Sangoma employee
Lots of things can be a voip āphoneā some of those things can do a lot more than be just a voip āphoneā (just like your cell phone can)
Personally I like (and use)
It can be a voip phone wiith 16 registrations, Google PlayStore is trivial to install so it can do zoom/jitsi/sangomaMeet/GoogleMeet/Duo/telegram//whatsapp/whatevermessengeryoulike natively , It can play pandora/tunein/youtube streams , It can receive and send SMS messages over SIP, and you can drive /be driven by, any hdmi device if you need a conference phone or your laptop display dies. It integrates fine with any Home Automation systems, for the nerds among us, it works as both a client and a server for adb.
(Yeah, itās just an android device with an excellent SIP client added, but the other phones proffered here are not, so canāt do much of the above 
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Thanks guys .I have Freepbx installed on a Digitalocean droplet. I just need to make and receive calls, use call waiting, etc, etc. right now Iām forwarding calls to a landline but, Iād like to take advantage of some os the options. Can I use any sip phone with the droplet?.
Yes but we donāt know what you mean by āos optionsā all āoptionsā are rooted in your SIP stack and your chosen SIP client, not your OS
Iām sorry, it was a typo. Iād like to use the options from Freepbx.
Again we ask āwhat optionsā are you needing? (there are lots)
I didnāt know I had to to be specific about options in order to pick a phone. Iāll have to look at Freepbx and see what options I want. I guess these phones donāt work with all optionsā¦
Again, āwhat phonesā most any competent SIP phone will āspeak SIPā at every level. āGuessingā will unlikely be useful to you.
Thank you for all your help. Obviously I have no clue about it. Iāll read about it to understand this.
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When you have a better handle on what your problems are, please come back.
Perfect. Thanksā¦
Hi, Iām looking at the Digium D70. Do I need to install any other equipment for this phone to work, or is it a plug and play?. Also what would be something comparable to this unit?. Thank you.
D70 is end of life. If youāre looking for a current DPMA phone, then you want either the D phones or P phones (not the A or S series):
https://portal.sangoma.com/store/displayStore/main/Phones/Sangoma%20Phones
https://portal.sangoma.com/store/displayStore/main/Phones/Sangoma%20P%20Phones