GUI that does not affect vicidial context

[fintech]

Is there a gui that is vicidial friendly. I would like to be able to create trunks, extensions and routes.

[mflorell]

not that I have found. Usually if you need that you would put it on a separate machine from VICIDIAL and connect the two machines over IAX.

There are several people who have gotten FreePBX and VICIDIAL to work, but there is a severe performance hit because of FreePBX and it is a lot of work to get the setup working in the first place.

[js19]

I initially wanted to use a gui because i first got started by playing with asteriskNOW. Now that I'm comfortable (about 2 weeks of dedicated effort), I find it much better to make your alterations manually. It's not like asterisk dialplans are difficult to understand. Once you learn to use templates and macros, adding extensions or making changes is very fast using vim and just requires an extensions/sip reload from the CLI. Plus you won't have some script messing out your layout if you make changes that aren't handled by the gui. When I'm playing around with dialplans i'll typically open 3-4 ssh windows, one for extensions, one for sip, one for asterisk, and one for my shell. I find it very efficient.

[mflorell]

One more issue with GUIs like FreePBX is that they can make it extremely difficult to debug problems because of the 70+ steps that every call goes through to be placed, as opposed to only a few steps for a hand-coded dialplan.