Category: WebDev & Code

  • Santa-pi, a music player for a charity fundraising float

    This is a Raspberry Pi. A small, powerful, low cost computer. I’m writing this blog post from the pi you see in the photo. It is very slow compared to my laptop but it works and is in front of me now, whereas my laptop is a whole 2 meters away on another desk. This…

  • Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month

    plus call costs of about 1p/minute Short version: Get SIP trunks from Dial9.co.uk**, get a small Virtual Machine running at DigitalOcean*, install IncrediblePBX, connect to your own phones. Where we start from: BT Openreach are turning off analog copper phone lines and moving everyone to an all IP (Internet Protocol) system. It’s called SOGeA (Single…

  • FreePBX adding additional network card

    New FreePBX virtual machine with two virtual network cards. When installing, only 1 is configured automatically (eth0) and eth1 does not appear to FreePBX. It also didn’t get an IP address from the DHCP server. To enable the second network interface, in command line SSH as root user and change ‘onboot=no’ to ‘onboot=yes’ in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1…