Manual for installing version 1.3.X on the FreePBX Distro 16 (SNG7-PBX16-64bit)

Table of contents:

0. Installation security

1. System Requirements

2. Installing the basic Pbxunit system and the "Call Records" report

3. Installing the "Auto-call" module

4. Installing the "Automatic Polls" module

5. Installing the "Text to speech" module

0. Installation security

After installation, change the admin user password in the pbxunit web interface.

1. System Requirements

ОС: Linux (Python 3.X, MySQL or MariaDB database, web-server Apache and PHP7)

FreePBX modules must be installed: Recordings, IVR, Queues

Tested on: FreePBX v14, FreePBX v15, FreePBX v16

Tested on distributions: FreePBX Distro SNG7-PBX16-64bit

2. Installing the basic Pbxunit system and the "Call Records" report

Install the OS distribution FreePBX Distro SNG7-PBX16-64bit: https://www.freepbx.org/downloads/

During OS installation, the system will ask you to enter the root password. Remember it.

Perform basic FreePBX setup, start trunks and at least 1 route for outgoing communication.

Change to your home directory and create a directory for the installation files:

cd ~

mkdir src

cd src

Download the archive with the latest version of Pbxunit for PHP 7.

wget https://pbxunit.com/downloads/pbxunit-php7-en-last.tar.gz

Unzip the archive:

tar xvf pbxunit-php7-en-last.tar.gz

Extract the archive: Find out the password from the MySQL database user - freepbxuser.

You can view the username and password in the freepbx configuration file:

cat /etc/freepbx.conf

The password is contained in a variable $amp_conf['AMPDBPASS']

Navigate to the database directory from the unpacked archive. Enter the command to import tables into the asterisk database:

cd ~/src/pbxunit/database

mysql -u freepbxuser -p -D asterisk < asterisk.sql

Enter the database password for the freepbxuser user.

To speed up reports, it is desirable to add the missing indexes to the cdr table for the asteriskcdrdb database. Attention - if your system already contains a large amount of statistics in the cdr table, adding indexes can lock the table for a long time, run the command with the Asterisk service stopped.

Enter the command to create indexes in the asteriskcdrdb database:

mysql -u freepbxuser -p -D asteriskcdrdb < asteriskcdrdb_indexes.sql

Enter the database password for the freepbxuser user.

Navigate to the web directory from the unpacked archive. Copy the pbxunit directory to the web server directory:

cd ~/src/pbxunit/web

cp -r pbxunit/ /var/www/html/

Edit the Pbxunit configuration file:

nano /var/www/html/pbxunit/config.php

Enter password from user freebxuser, MySQL database:

For asterisk database, example:

$_AST_CONFIG['DBPass'] = 'db password for freepbxuser';

For asteriskcdrdb database, example:

$_AST_CONFIG['DBPassCDR'] = 'db password for freepbxuser';

The password for the freepbxuser database user can be found in the FreePBX configuration file:

cat /etc/freepbx.conf

Run the command to change script permissions:

fwconsole chown

Full description of the configuration file: Web-interface configuration file

Now you can log in under the Administrator account to the web interface at:

http://<server IP-address>/pbxunit/

Default login: admin password: pbxunit

In "Administration -> Modules and licenses -> Edit company name" enter your company name and save.

3. Installing the "Auto-call" module

Run the command to create a symbolic link for Python 3:

ln -s /bin/python3.6 /bin/python3

Install the MySQL Python library:

yum install python36u-pymysql

Install the pip package manager:

yum install python36u-pip

Update pip:

pip3.6 install --upgrade pip

Install the pyst library for Python:

pip3.6 install pyst

Change to the Pbxunit installation directory:

cd ~/src/pbxunit

Copy the directory with the configuration file to the directory /etc:

cp -r configs/pbxunit /etc/

The password for the freepbxuser database user can be found in the FreePBX configuration file:

cat /etc/freepbx.conf

Find out the admin user password for the Asterisk Manager Interface, you can see it in the /etc/asterisk/manager.conf config:

cat /etc/asterisk/manager.conf

The password is in the [admin] section, the "secret" parameter.

Edit the config file:

nano /etc/pbxunit/pbxunit.conf

In the [mysql] section, enter the MySQL user password freepbxuser, for example:

db_user=freepbxuser

db_pass=freepbxuser DB user password

In the [ami] section, enter the details from the admin user for the Asterisk Manager Interface:

user=admin

pass=ami user password

In the [path] section, specify the path for the directory with sound files along with the language code, for example, for English:

sounds=/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/en

The selected language must be downloaded in FreePBX, you can check it in the Admin -> Sound Languages tab in FreePBX

Full description of the configuration file: Service configuration file

Copy the Python libraries to your version's python libraries directory:

cp -r python-lib/pbxunit/ /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/

Change to the modules/autocall/ directory from the installation archive:

cd ~/src/pbxunit/modules/autocall

Enter the command for additional fields in the cdr table from the asteriskcdrdb database:

Attention - if your system already contains a large amount of statistics in the cdr table, adding indexes can lock the table for a long time, run the command with the Asterisk service stopped.

mysql -u freepbxuser -p -D asteriskcdrdb < database/asteriskcdrdb.sql

Enter the database password for the freepbxuser user.

Copy the files from the modules/autocall/agi-bin directory to the Asterisk agi-bin directory:

cp agi-bin/* /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/

Copy the service startup files from modules/init.d to the /etc/init.d directory:

cp init.d/* /etc/init.d/

Make the files executable:

chmod a+x /etc/init.d/pbxu_*

Add the contents of the dialplan/extensions_custom.conf file to /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf

cat dialplan/extensions_custom.conf >> /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf

If necessary, edit the /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf config. In the [pbxu-autocall-dial] section, change the language of the channel to the required one, for example:

exten => _.,n,Set(CHANNEL(language)=en)

If you need disable recording CDR. In the [macro-pbxu-autocall] section, you can disable recording CDR statistics during auto-call, to do this, uncomment the line:

#exten => s,n,NoCDR()

When recording in CDR is disabled, the Duration field will not be displayed in reports.

Reload the Asterisk dial plan:

asterisk -x 'dialplan reload'

Add services to startup.

Option 1:

ln -s /etc/init.d/pbxu_start_autocall.py /etc/rc3.d/K01pbxu_start_autocall.py
ln -s /etc/init.d/pbxu_queue_autocall.py /etc/rc3.d/K01pbxu_queue_autocall.py
ln -s /etc/init.d/pbxu_start_autocall.py /etc/rc3.d/S99pbxu_start_autocall.py
ln -s /etc/init.d/pbxu_queue_autocall.py /etc/rc3.d/S99pbxu_queue_autocall.py

Option 2 (there were problems in the latest builds of FreePBX Distro):

nano /etc/rc.local

Add lines:

/etc/init.d/pbxu_queue_autocall.py restart

/etc/init.d/pbxu_start_autocall.py restart

Set execute permissions for rc.local:

chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Run the command to change script permissions:

fwconsole chown

Start services:

/etc/init.d/pbxu_queue_autocall.py start

/etc/init.d/pbxu_start_autocall.py start

To import large job files, you may need to edit the php.ini file on your OS.

Edit the file:

nano /etc/php.ini

Increase the data upload limit, for example, up to 50 MB. Find and edit the post_max_size variable in /etc/php.ini

post_max_size = 50M

After changes in php.ini - restart the web server:

service httpd restart

4. Installing the "Automatic Polls" module

You must first have the "Auto-call" module installed.

Change to the modules/autopolls/ directory from the installation archive:

cd ~/src/pbxunit/modules/autopolls

Copy the files from the autopolls/agi-bin directory to the Asterisk agi-bin directory:

cp agi-bin/* /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/

Copy the contents of the dialplan/extensions_custom.conf file to /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf

cat dialplan/extensions_custom.conf >> /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf

Reload the Asterisk dial plan:

asterisk -x 'dialplan reload'

Run the command to change script permissions:

fwconsole chown

5. Installing the "Text to speech" module

Amazon Polly

Install the boto3 python library for Amazon Polly to work:

pip3.6 install boto3

Yandex Cloud Speechkit

Install the requests library:

pip3.6 install requests

Install the package for converting from ogg format for Yandex Cloud Speechkit:

The utility from it should be located along the path: /usr/bin/avconv

For the 64-bit FreePBX Distro 16 distribution, you can copy the compiled file from the pbxunit distribution:

cd ~/src/pbxunit/

cp opt/x86_64/avconv /usr/bin/

chmod a+x /usr/bin/avconv