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Big man, Airsay.

We going fine here. How is it going over there?

Some months back, I completed the IVR task the other time on a Vultr paid host using Zoiper as soft extension. Not willing to spend any more money on further hardwares though, because it seems FreePBX server administrator is not really a skill that can get one a job anymore.

But it was an interesting learning experience for me.

airsaylongcome:
Did anyone by any chance, take this VoIP thing seriously? I’m looking for someone 100% reliable, absolutely capable of learning a lot of things on their own but able to ask the right questions when they run into problems. I am somewhat getting swamped.

Lexdino, how far? We fit collab?

Portiphaaa:
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, non but ourselves can can free our minds"

... Bob Marley

True.
I saw the image of a white jesus on the post, I knew Africans still have a long way to go with mental slavery to the Caucasians

Just registered now. Still no idea what the hackathon is about though

Thanks for the response. The AI part sounds really promising. Looking forward to seeing where you take it once you dive deeper into the AI side.

No worries at all about the delay, I totally get being swamped. Honestly, I’ve been buried in multiple university presentations myself lately and haven’t even started yet

airsaylongcome:
In some instances, yes it replaces the IVR. In other instances, it initiates outbound calls to the business customers. Right now they are using it for marketing calls. Right now I'm focused more on the technical telephony side. But I'm really interested in the AI side and I'm looking to go into that. Just not had the time to start learning/figuring it out.

PS: I've been swamped that's why I haven't circled back to you on "that" task. Also saw your post on the community

Thanks for sharing this update, @airsaylongcome. It's fascinating to see the kind of complex challenges you're tackling head-on. Exactly the kind of complex, real-world problem-solving I'm striving to learn.
Just curious to know how the AI Voice Assistant function within a PBX. Is it like replacing the IVR Main part with AI?

airsaylongcome:
Just to update the "house", I recently deployed a tricky VoIP solution for use with AI Voice Assistants. It is in use in a country that has very strict regulations around VoIP calls from outside the country. I ended up using a VPN to dance around the restrictions. Very interesting project and I'm beginning to consider running a service for this. For the group of countries that have this restrictions. System has been up for a few weeks now and while it hasn't been smooth sailing all the way, I have enjoyed troubleshooting and fixing the issues that have come up.

I was the one who offered to donate money to the OP (@airsaylongcome) for the Info and Support he made available here on this thread. He never tried to ask anyone for money.
He even ended up not accepting my offer because he doesn't need it.
I am not taking sides here, just pointing out something you might have miss-typed while typing.

And my people, please let's learn to encourage people who they try to do good, or at least not attack them. I say this because from the very first post, the OP had clearly stated that they intend to use this thread as a means to connect with other Tech People in the VOIP Tech Space.

I understand you are also trying to help and you have good intentions with the AI responses, I believe you couod be a little bit more diplomatic in how you counter the OP so no one gets offended

MindHacker9009:
@airsaylongcome

Your knowledge of VoIP is based solely on what you've read online or in books, as you haven’t developed your own Asterisk or FreePBX software before. Sorry to burst your bubble, but opening this thread to position yourself as the sole expert and then trying to monetize it is misleading. In reality, you likely know less than 10% of what AI generated resources can provide on VoIP.

Yeah. You raised a valid point. I have therefore modified my posts and I hope @airsaylongcome also modifies his responses.

I was blindly following my personal principle of giving willfully to anyone whom I have benefited from, because by so doing can we help "God" in perfecting his works.

MindHacker9009:
@lexdino, you’re practically giving @airsaylongcome ideas to start charging for his invaluable VoIP insights right here in this open community thread! 😄

Please o @airsaylongcome let us start making some cool $$$ with the VoIP tips your are giving here, before you start charging 😄

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No problem.

Will let you know if I encounter any more issues.

airsaylongcome:
Looool....I was joking with the "offside" comment. ...

airsaylongcome:
You are asking "offside" questions o...lol. ...

Nor vex Chief. Was just curious to know.
Thanks very much.
I will try to dedicate more time to the series, see if I can complete it this month.

Interesting History.
They've really come a long way

So how does the ClearlyIP Clearly Device module enforces payment before use? I ask because it allowed me to freely generate a Provisioning Address already. What happens if I were to manually input this address into the Phone and the Phone comes knocking on the provisioning server when I have not yet bought a License?

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airsaylongcome:
It has been hitting me left right centre with bans. Let's see if it bans me on this. If not I will edit and respond to your questions ...

Thank you very much.
I am really grateful for the clarification you gave.
Please go on with the FreePBX, Sangoma, Crosstalk et al.

@MindHacker9009, thank you for the AI generated points as well.

airsaylongcome:
Oh was it yours? Too bad. Wasn't really needed and may have overwhelmed you sef. It's one of my guys that was presenting his FreePBX module. Nice stuff but may have been too technical for you

Hello Chief, I hope all is well with you.
I was unable to see any of your responses yesterday due to the bots deleting them.
I really do appreciate all your efforts so far in answering my questions with great details.

I'm currently 1/3 into that video series but unfortunately its also beginning to turn into another version of the current program I'm studying in Automotive embedded systems.

Like learning something and just at the point you feel you're beginning to understand it, you're taken away from it and have to start learning something else. Rinse repeat until the end, and in the end, you neither have a concrete idea of what kind of knowledge you have acquired nor how you can use it to get jobs or start your own entrepreneurial venture.

To be precise, the series so far has made me switch the repo from freepbx to clearlyIP for "security reasons" according to the tutor. Then I had to also switch the GUI's branding from Sangoma PBX to Crosstalk PBX for cosmetic reasons. Now the modules in my setup are both a mix of Sangoma's and ClearlyIP's. To even make it worse, now the series is teaching how to use this setup to zero touch provision a Crosstalk 270 SIP phone.

In a production-grade setup, doesnt it make sense that Sangoma, ClearlyIP and Crosstalk should each have their own tooling?

I understand the terrain though and I'm not complaining.
Do you do paid mentorship?
I would like to have a paid mentorship to give me a structured learning plan that follows a path of least resistance to professionalism in this tech space and I understand such doesnt come for free.

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airsaylongcome:
You can also set up a local with SIP Trunk and DID too o.
...

Thanks a lot, Chief.

I have registered for it now.

And yes, if it gets to any point where I have to make some financial investment on VPS, that won't be an issue.

airsaylongcome:
Depends. A cloud hosted setup will give you real life hands-on for getting an actual phone number and configuring it to work with your PBX. But if not, we can simulate it if you prefer to stick with your local

Thanks.
Will let you know when I get there.

airsaylongcome:
I'm good o. Getting bogged down a bit with one sideshow. But mostly good. How's the learning going? You will have one assignment at the end of it o. To setup an entire call flow for business hours, after hours and holidays. Ring different extensions depending on time of day and whether the calls are answered after a certain number of rings. The full works. Nothing to complicated but sufficient enough to get your hands dirty.

Also progressing slowly with the learning over here.

Do you think my local setup will work or do I have to move my setup to a Hosted Server in order to be able to do the Assignment when I get there?

Nice!

Almost gotten to part 10 of that FreePBX series you dropped.

How's everything over there with you?

airsaylongcome:
Nice one @SangomaNG. I think your specialty in Freeswitch and my experience in Asterisk/FreePBX would be beneficial to the younger ones watching and wondering what this field is all about. Feel free to guide them how to get started. I’ve started some out on FreePBX, perhaps tutorials on Fusion would be great so they can see how to accomplish the same call flows across the two major open source VoIP offerings. Glad to have you on board

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Thanks in advance

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Lol.

These two accts invalid. So I had to give slot to next in line.

Today I plan to donate 5,000 Naira to 5 people who really need it here.

Just reply with your account details and later in the day I will transfer to the 5 lucky people as the spirit leads.

They deleted my post
I was asking if attending that "Master your call flows..." event you dropped the link has any significance, since I'm still at the very beginning of learning that Series.
Anyway, I ended up not being able to attend.

airsaylongcome:
Lol! I'm liking this Nairaland block feature.

Sapiosexuality:
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But when you look at people who started the journey with us, like Singapore, South Korea, Saudi, etc., whose resources were exploited and you notice how divergent and progressive their formula was...

Someone who knows nothing and understand that they know nothing will get the chance to learn.
Someone who knows nothing but confidently claims they are knowledgeable is doomed.
None of those countries you mentioned above were relegated to producing raw materials and cheap labour according to the globalization order created by the West.
Dont be deceived by the fact that we're operating a democracy. In reality, A lot of African presidents who seem to be democratically elected are actually no more than Warrant Chiefs whom France/Britain selected and issued "certificates of recognition" to rule their countries according to instructions dictated from Paris or London.
Have you ever asked why your Presidents can be summoned to Paris or London without hesitation?

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

Around the 9:43 timeframe of the part 5 of that series, when Chris started explaining the downsides of using the Responsive Firewall option, he talked about an alternative which is using a "Dynamic DNS Name" to authorize an employee accessing the Server remotely from a dynamic IP address, e.g., bobhome.dyndns.org
Does this mean besides the public IP address (visible when I visit Websites like whatismyip.com) that changes each time I reboot my home router, there is a DNS Name for my router that remains static and publicly visible?

airsaylongcome:
You don "turn" German finish. You should keep up with those "The VoIP Guys" on YouTube. Their Asterisk Content was so good that I actually considered translating their Mikrotik German content

Not really though.
Just trying to save up a little, learn some skill and leave here as soon as possible.
Na PC wey I buy recently but too lazy to download English language pack for it.

airsaylongcome:
We run away from IPv6 in VoIP o.

Thank you.

Now the ping is successful.

Will continue with the video tomorrow, and keep you updated.

It's v16 from that link you dropped earlier.

Thank you, I've seen the step I missed now.

Now I need to refresh my memory on a netpractice project I did 3 years ago in order to remember subnet mask and other networking terms properly.

Will let you know how it goes.

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

Hello man,
The FreePBX dashboard is now behind an IPv6 link-local in Virtualbox (interface:eth0, IP:fe80::d6cd:34b:33f8:44cf)
My research so far says browsers do not support link-local requests.
SSH forwarding to redirect localhost calls from my Windows?
How to setup such?

airsaylongcome:
Anyone watching the Crosstalk Solutions videos? Need clarification? Feel free to ask. I will answer to the best of my ability. Would focus on answering any questions related to the videos over the weekends.

Crawling slowly through them over here
Will be continuing from part 5 later this evening.

A short presentation I made about my People's History during one of my seminar Presentation at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

The Benin Bronzes are works of arts originating from the Kingdom of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria (Not to be confused with the nearby Country called Benin).

Created primarily by the Edo people from the 13th century onward, these works are mostly made of brass (not bronze, despite the name) using the lost-wax casting technique. 

They include commemorative heads of Obas (kings), plaques depicting court life, and items of religious and historical significance, originally adorning the royal palace in Ancient Benin Kingdom. These artworks were originally meant to serve as historical records, depicting scenes of royal ceremonies, warriors, and divine figures; narrating the Kingdom's history through detailed engravings.

But their purposes came to an end in 1897, when the British invaded the Kingdom of Benin, purportedly as a retaliation for an earlier attack on a British delegation. The city was burned, and thousands of artifacts, including the Benin Bronzes, were looted. These were later auctioned in Europe, dispersing them to museums and private collections globally, notably the British Museum, Ethnological Museum in Berlin, and institutions in the U.S. The invasion marked the end of the Kingdom's independence, bringing it under colonial rule.

This event led to the decline of the Kingdom's political and economic power. However, the legacy of the Ancient Benin Kingdom still lives on, with its cultural and artistic contributions still celebrated today. Efforts are being made to return some of the looted artifacts to the Oba of the present-day Benin, in order to restore a piece of the Kingdom's history to its rightful home.


Political Dimension: 
Nigeria has sought the return of these artifacts since independence in 1960. Recent years have seen increased momentum:

[list]
[*]Germany agreeing to repatriate over 1,100 Bronzes, with transfers beginning in 2022.
[*]The Smithsonian Institution and the University of Aberdeen have returned pieces.
[*]The Horniman Museum in London restituted 72 items in 2022.
[*]The British Museum, holding the largest collection, has resisted permanent returns, proposing loans instead.
[/list]


Conclusion:
Although The Benin Bronzes were initially created by the Edo People to narrate the Kingdom's history through detailed engravings, Western Colonization legacies have made them become deep political artworks that shows global conversations about Imperialism, Exploitation, Justice, Erasure of Cultural Identities, and a reflection of whose narratives matters.