Voice over IP Integration - Call from Any SIP Softphone

For those that might want to do this, I was able to call Assistant via FreePBX with the following settings.

  1. Make sure you have the OPUS codec enable (I didn’t see the above posts and debugged with asterisk to find out the missing codec). This is under Settings->Asterisk SIP Settings and then Codecs section, tick opus.
  2. Create a Custom Extension. Application->Extensions->Add Extension->Custom Extension. Set the Extension number and Display Name.
  3. Select the Advanced tab, in the Dial field enter “SIP/[email protected]”, where 192.168.1.102 is the IP address of your HA server. Hint: The called extension number, #1 in the example, didn’t seem to matter or I just got lucky.
  4. Update your FreePBX configuration
  5. Dial your Custom Extension and you should hear the HA Assistant

While these are pretty simple steps, it took me some searching on how to dial a SIP URI with FreePBX

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