OpenVBX

OpenVBX ??

My impression is that most Twilio customers are big. To fill in the gaps they support this php based PBX thing called OpenVBX.

I decided yesterday (11/30/16) that I don't really want the bother of running Asterisk at home to support 2 phones. And I want the option to pick up calls on my mobile, so why have the calls go first to my Asterisk server at home?

12/4/16 I tried OpenVBX by running it in Docker. For 10 minutes. Another learning curve and it does not look like it's set up to support my SIP phones here at home, so what is the point? I already climbed the Asterisk curve so I think I am better off running Asterisk on my own Internet server.

Short feature list

1. Required
   1. Ring SIP phones at home on incoming call
   2. Ring cellphone on incoming call
   3. Send call to voicemail on no pickup
   4. Forward all incoming SMS to cellphone and email
2. Nice to have
   1. Control forwarding based on presence detection (follow me) and calendar
   2. Screen incoming calls
   3. Send critical notifications via SMS
   4. Convert voicemail to text and email it to me.

Asterisk part: support for home phones

Twilio part: pretty much everything else, via Python and hooks