 So we moved to FreePBX earlier this year and I've been really happy with the change, but of course the question comes up How do you connect to FreePBX? Well one of the great ways to do this Of course you can get a desk phone and we have a couple in the office and we have some of the alien wireless phones Which are nice, but using an Android phone works Wonderful using Zojper and I remember a couple of them that I tried and I didn't find them quite as intuitive or working Quite the way I wanted and the Zojper product of the ones I tried turned out to be wonderful They've done a great job with it. Now, they do have a desktop app. I've tested it But I never bought the whole version of it. It wasn't really interested. I didn't need something else running on my computer I have a Google Pixel 2 XL phone and I figured hey if I got a fancy phone and a fancy blue tooth Why not make all my calls from this because it's where I make all my other personal calls as well and While I'm in the office. This is a very smooth. You can tell who's calling you it shares your contacts It shares your ring. It looks just like the Google dialer So all the same numbers I have in my contacts I'm able to call from our office phone or add someone to the contact list and that works really well Especially when someone puts like a phone number in a calendar event to call the full Google integration Of Android works very very smooth to go back and forth in there Now this is a feature of the premium version I did buy the premium version the Zuiper Pro and it's only eight dollars and fifty cents and It's completely worth it to me So for I could have bought a desk phone, you know So I had this and have something I hold or get a desk phone that connects my Bluetooth But like I said, I already have the phone and a Bluetooth and one device now I have kind of a unified communication I can do all from one place and makes this really really simple Now if you start with just their basic version, you lose some of the encryption features You lose some of the forwarding features and everything else when you get the you know whole eight dollars and fifty cent version here It's no problem and you can get the full features on here The UI is really nice It does not pull too much battery because I know that was a concern a couple people seem to have is So how is it on battery now? It does run in the background so it does pull a little bit of battery But while I'm at the office here I don't really mind because I have it plugged in and setting on my desk and so it's never really a drain issue here And it's not that bad anyways running So it is an easy simple way to connect But one thing I did do is change it to TCP over UDP So by default depending on how you set it up actually But I believe the default was UDP of how it wants to connect to free PBX And I'm sure it will connect to our phone systems. Well, I set it up to TCP and setting up to TCP I was having random timeout challenges when it was UDP that completely annoying I don't know if it's because it goes to sleep or doesn't register But all those issues just disappeared when I set it to TCP now the next question is when you leave the office How do you get connected? Well, that's easy open VPN. So same thing Zoipur Pro sip softone app and then I use open VPN on my office Please note I noticed when I searched open VPN the first result was not the official open VPN app I am using the official open VPN app and that is tied in not with free PBX But with our PF sense firewall. So I use open VPN You can use the VPN tutorials I have on PF sense and the connection that comes in from there It will create an inline Android Export if you use the export tool like I have in my tutorial and then you can connect your phone to your VPN Obviously, you can do a lot more than Connect Zoipur and phone services to it, but it works perfectly fine for that I've even been able to make calls while I'm on a 3g network So I've been out areas where the phone service is not as good. I turn on the VPN and make phone calls VoIP it does not take a ton of bandwidth So it would work even on a couple of 3g networks I'm at of course most of the time in the greater Detroit area where I met him on a 4g very fast network So there was no call quality issues or dropping and of course It's wrapped into the VPN so you can even connect to you know Wi-Fi hot spots You may find at places and all of your traffic is safe to encrypt it now They do have but I have not tested this with a And Apple phone they do have open VPN for Apple. They do have Zoipur for Apple I've tested neither of these. I will say the last thing when I said about the TCP This is the setting right here, which was not too hard to find you go over here. You're gonna go to the Kinsfig then the SIP settings and enable TCP This is what allowed me to do the connections and TCP Now it's one other thing you do have to do if you're setting this up over a VPN Connections is when you're doing free PBX make sure you allow the VPN network for us The VPN network is a separate network and kind of the default configuration When you're setting up a PF sense for example for open VPN open VPN has its own separate bridging network That will be a separate IP range So you do have to add that to your free PBX to make sure it isn't allowed network down there So we allow our primary network that the phones are on and then we allow another network Which happens to be open VPN network that way the phones that are out of office can easily open up the VPN Connect and make calls just like they're here now like I said once they make the calls I can even transfer people out of the office. So when I'm working from home I can receive a call forward it over to someone else or someone can forward a call to me the extension works Just like it does in the office I can dial directly to extensions and the whole process works very very smooth But after several months of using this app, I've had no problems with it. It works really well I've not really done or spent much time with the desktop app kind of a lack of need I have for it I don't need something else running on my desktop or want it But I will note that they do have versions for Mac and for Linux not just Windows So they are pretty diverse in what they support the app is intuitive easy to use So I definitely give it a thumbs up So if you're looking for a simple way to connect your phone to a PBX system specifically free PBX I've tested it with here and it works really well Big thumbs up. Absolutely worth the $8.00 I paid for it on my Android platform It's almost a no-brainer to buy this and then you know not have a desk phone in here and have one phone for all my communications Both personal and business makes it really simple. All right. 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