How to disassemble in Asterisk for a beginner from scratch?

Question

Asterisk

For many years I have been wanting to sort out telephone solutions in the kitchen, and the most popular is Asterisk, but nevertheless not the easiest, because. overgrown with all possible extensions from the outside: assemblies, modules, etc. How to identify the most basic asterisk, its core, the minimum stable long-supported release. What literature can you read, where to start?

Answer 1

IMHO. purely subjective opinion.
Studying asterisks is better to start from scratch EXACTLY from the assembly from source codes and text configs. And the above-named book gives EXACTLY such a description in the main sections.
Learning asterisk from ready-made assemblies with all sorts of GUIs is like trying to drive a car without realizing what the pedals, buttons, etc. are for...
I initially tried to start with FreePBX... Without knowing the basics, I can’t determine where the glitches and features of FreePBX are, and where are your glitches and mistakes...
I freaked out to deal with his glitches and went to a bare asterisk. Which I have never regretted.

Answer 2

For starters, you can read Asterisk: The Future of Telephony . A wonderful book, will give an initial idea of ​​​​Asterisk.
And then - you can start solving real problems, gradually increasing the complexity.

Answer 3

install freepbx, see what functions are there, how it works, for 90% of solutions this is more than enough, then try to do similar functionality on a bare asterisk.

Answer 4

Again, we go from the task. No task? We put it on ourselves. For example, transfer all home telephony to SIP. to Asterisk. We pick up the "Future of Telephony" and use it to assemble a home PBX.