I am just getting back to playing with pfsense/freeswitch after being pulled away for a couple of weeks. I upgraded the install.
Welcome back!
When I dial my voicemail, I get "the person at extension 1001 is not available." When I dial 4000, I just get "goodbye". Same with 5000. What have I screwed up?
In the latest version all default FreeSWITCH feature codes have been moved behind the * so 4000 is now *4000, 5000 is now *5000, 9999 is now *9999 and so on. Another recent change is *4000 is the general voicemail box and *98 is the voicemail box that auto detects your extension so that it only need to ask for the password. The reason the feature codes have been moved behind the * is because this makes those number available for you and others so that they can use any 3 or 4 digit number for extensions, auto attendants(IVR), and hunt groups.
One other thing to note after doing an upgrade from an older version. The textareas in the GUI are handy because they give a lot of flexibility to you for advanced configuration. However it also creates an issue for the upgrade. That is that the installation does not update the textareas with the new default config. Why because I don't want to wipe out any of your customizations to those files. So to make it easier I created a 'Restore Default' on the bottom of each one of the textareas. So if you have no customizations simply click on those buttons to set it back to the default. You may need to do this for 'Vars' tab Public -> public.xml, 'Dialplan' tab -> default.xml, and occasionally for the Profiles tab for the internal, and the external profile. Please note this is not always necessary. It is only needed if the version of FreeSWITCH has changed and the default config has changed enough to conflict with your current settings.
And - If a person wanted to completely delete all of freewitch from a firewall and reinstall from scratch, what are the file to get rid of?
You would need to go to System -> Packages and Remove the FreeSWITCH package. This will remove the package files but not the configuration that is stored in pfsense's xml config file. To get rid of the config require manually to remove the freeswitch tags in the xml from the config.xml. Warning! you have to do this carefully or you can break pfsense and prevent it from loading.
Because of that I suggest you first backup the file to something like config.xml.bak
You can open the file with Diagnostics -> Edit File once you have loaded /cf/conf/config.xml change the path to /cf/conf/config.xml.bak and click on save. That will create a current backup. Next remove all tags that use 'freeswitch' anywhere in the tag name. Make sure to delete everything between the start and close tag.
Then to get pfsense to see the change delete the config.cache from the /tmp directory.
rm /tmp/config.cache
Thanks again for all your hard work!
You're welcome.
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