Hi guys, I searched but couldn't find much.
I've downloaded the demo thirdlane to get my head around it. I've followed asterisk for a few years but never really got very deep. I'm attempting my first test setup with some phones and a soft phone to try and learn so I can set up a licensed thirdlane PBX for my office.
With the asterisk underpinnings TL has, is it best to go off something like Asterisk without Tears to learn the basic asterisk core and functionality and apply that to thirdlane? Does anyone have any better resources for reading up how to go about setting up a system? I know the asterisk without tears guide is a few years old but im assuming it's the same concepts?
I've had a glance at the TL documentation but it doesn't appear to be very walkthrough like.
If anyone has any further ideas for the best ways to understand basic concepts that would be great - i would rather not post and post and post, everyone here seems really pro!
Sorry if this is a stupid question. All gotta start somewhere though.
Ben.
if you're looking to learn asterisk itself, I dont think anything works better than the Oreilly book (pdf is a free download) to teach you how to get started with asterisk and how to write some basic dialplan. Once you have a grasp on that everything else comes pretty easily.
once you understand how the different files work together, and how the dialplan is what calls the applications that use those files, then using the thirdlane user interface will feel more intuitive because as you change a setting you're going to think to yourself "I know what this is doing, its writing xyz into file such-and-such".