Asterisk, Sipgate and Gigaset N300

Hi folks

I'm hoping someone can help me understand the terminology and setup around VOIP (specifically "SIP") and how I might potentially be able to make use of Sipgate Basic, Asterisk and my Gigaset N300 unit.

I already have the Sipgate Basic account, and the N300 is connected to it. That's all good.
However, I was hoping for more advanced features (such as do not disturb times, do not disturb times and better blacklists etc.). I know that Sipgate allows you to add numbers to block lists, but that's about it.

I've then learned about Asterisk, and have a spare Raspberry Pi3 kicking around so I've installed it using the RasPbx project (http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org)

However, I'm at a loss as to what to do next with it.
Does anyone use this and can recommend how best to use it?

Thanks in advance

search for crosstalk solutions and check out there youtube channel freepbx videos

hope it helps

Thanks, I'll give them a look.

Asterisk is indeed very flexible and powerful but as with all good tools, there is some learning to be had. Its been a few years since I've used it in anger, but FreePBX is/was quite a good distro with a fairly large well established community forum. Might be worth some exploration.

Thanks Pheasant, I'll check out the community there and see what I can garner.

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Thanks Pheasant, I'll check out the community there and see what I can garner.

FreePBX basically puts a web front end to setup and administer asterisk. Asterisk is a full blown software PBX. You can do some crazy stuff with it. I hacked mine to run native video calling, amongst other stuff, over Cisco 9971 desk phones, that was 2012/13 ish. Think you can find me over there as simcity. It’s been a few years since I posted in anger.

Yeah, it looks pretty powerful with a number of modules that look interesting.
Part of the problem for me is the terminology and working out what goes together (“SIP Trunk” for example)…I just need to find the right source and spend time reading up and practicing.

Though I need to concentrate on actually migrating the landline to Sipgate really (after the FTTP is installed at the end of the week)

You can use your sip extension details as the SIP Trunk

Thanks
Dan

Indeed so, and the single SIP registration over the SIP trunk means multiple, simultaneous calls are then possible over the 'trunk'

Thanks Dan, I can see that Sipgate provide a really helpful guide for the FreePBX setup here:
https://teamhelp.sipgate.co.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/115...

The bit I'm missing is...what details would I put into my Gigaset N300 to point to the FreePBX install?
I presumably need to work out what the PBX settings are for the local PBX server and apply them on there.
I will dig into that at the weekend!