Next steps after downloading the image
Instructions on how to write the downloaded image to your card can be found here:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
The image is only utilizing 4GB of your card, even if you bought a
bigger one. On a bigger card, you can make more space available to your
root partition by running on the console of your booted RPi:
raspi-config
Select the option
expand_rootfs. If you rather prefer to do this manually, one of the easiest ways is using GParted on Linux. Details can be found here:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Partitions#Manually_resizing_the_SD_card_using_a_GUI_on_Linux
1. Determine hostname / IP address
Once your RPi is booted, you need to know it’s hostname or IP address
for ssh login or to open the web GUI. On Windows computers, you can
just use the hostname
raspbx to access your RPi.
SSH login:
ssh root@raspbx
Web GUI:
http://raspbx
On Macintosh, use
raspbx.local instead:
ssh root@raspbx.local
Web GUI:
http://raspbx.local
In case this is not successful you can check your router’s DHCP client list, and search for the IP associated with the name
raspbx.
If this is still not working out, you can always just connect an HDMI monitor and USB keyboard, log in to the console with user
root, password
raspberry, and run the command:
ifconfig
2. Basic configuration
After your RPi has booted successfully, log in either on the console or by ssh with user
root and password
raspberry. Follow these steps to complete the initial configuration:
Choose your timezone:
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Configure locale settings:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
Configure keyboard settings (not needed when working with ssh only):
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
3. Email setup
Email delivery from your RPi is needed if you plan to have voicemails
sent to users by email. Email already works in the default
configuration using Exim4 as MTA. By default, Exim is configured to
directly send mails to the recipient MX hosts. This is however
discouraged, as many email providers classify emails coming from dynamic
IP adresses as spam. To avoid this, you need to set a smarthost. Unless
you have an open SMTP server on your network that can be used as
smarthost without authentication, you will need to specify SMTP
authentication credentials as well. It is basically possible to use
almost any publicly available freemailer as smarthost with the RPi. Have
username and password as well as SMTP hostname (sometimes also referred
to as outgoing mail server) of the email account you are going to use
ready. Run on the console:
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
On the first configuration page select “mail sent by smarthost; no
local mail”. On the following pages just keep the default values by
pressing enter, until you reach the page starting with “Please enter the
IP address or the host name of a mail server…”. Here, enter the SMTP
hostname of your email provider. Again, keep default values on the
remaining pages.
Then, edit the file passwd.client by running:
nano /etc/exim4/passwd.client
Add your credentials at the bottom of this file in the following format:
SMTP_HOSTNAME:USERNAME:PASSWORD
In most cases, the SMTP hostname used in this file is identical to
the hostname used as smarthost before. If email fails to work, specify
the reverse lookup of your email provider’s SMTP host IP address here.
For Google Mail, this is currently
gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com
Some email providers also require you to use sender addresses
identical to one of the public email adresses of your account. In this
case, edit:
nano /etc/email-addresses
On the bottom of this file add:
root: your_email@someisp.com
asterisk: your_email@someisp.com
This configures the sender address of all outgoing mail to
your_email@someisp.com.
Finally, to activate your configuration run:
update-exim4.conf
You can test your email setup with this command:
send_test_email your_email@someisp.com
A test email should reach your inbox shortly.
4. Initial Asterisk setup
Point your browser to the RPi’s hostname or IP address (
http://raspbx).
The default login to FreePBX is:
user:
admin
password:
admin
For inital setup please follow this guide:
http://www.freepbx.org/support/documentation/installation/first-steps-after-installation
Most of the configuration steps presented here apply to the RPi as
well. If you are going to use SIP technology, you absolutely need to
follow section 5, “Configure Asterisk SIP Settings”. After filling the
Asterisk SIP Settings page, you need to go back to the console and run:
amportal restart
This step is only required once after Asterisk SIP Settings have been
configured for the first time. For all other configuration changes just
use the red
apply config button in the GUI.
