GXW4200 Series Gateway

[MammerJammer]

Has anyone used one of these high density analog gateways with FusionPBX? I see a GXW4200 device template in FusionPBX and I've just ordered a GXW4224 for some testing. Any wisdom or experience here would be most welcome.


David

 

[Kenny Riley]

Good luck.

I tried a GXW4104 and ran into this really weird issue where if say FXO 1, 2, and 3 were in use and FXO 1 hung up -- FXO1 wouldn't free up / hang up and would stay in use until FXO 2 and 3 hung up.

Another example would be if FXO 1 and 2 were in use and FXO 1 hung up -- FXO 1 wouldn't free up / hang up and would stay in use until FXO 2 hung up.

I played with it for about 3 days before I just gave up on it. Would be interested to know if you have this issue as well.

 

[MammerJammer]

Kenny,

Thanks for your reply. How were you configuring the SIP accounts and extensions to function? Were you provisioning a SIP trunk to each port directly inside the 4104 GUI or configuring the SIP as gateways in FusionPBX and treating each FXS as an extension?

In our case, the way we need it to function is by registering each FXS port as an extension in FusionPBX and working off the global set of in pound outbound routes.

David

 

[Kenny Riley]

It's been probably 6 months since I messed with it so I'm trying to remember exactly how I did it. FYI, this was my first time working with an analog gateway for anything else other than a fax machine so I may not have done things right but..

I essentially manually configured each port in the gateway to an extension on FusionPBX. Then on FusionPBX I mapped my inbound route to a ring group that contained all of these extensions as members and used the "rollover" strategy. This customer had an ESI phone system onsite with 4 lines that were connected into the GXW gateway.

Things worked fine aside from the ports on the gateway not hanging up properly like I mentioned.

Not sure if that was the proper way to do it or not though. I'd be really interested to see if you can get it working and how you managed to do so.

 

[MammerJammer]

Kenny, I'm not sure if you're still following this thread, but I've got to say that compared to the AudioCodes MP124, the Grandstream GXW4224 is flipping brilliant.

I literally set up the device/MAC in FusionPBX, set up some test extensions, logged into the 4224, added the IP of the PBX, added extension/password to the FXS port. Done. It was 5 minutes before I was making inbound/outbound calls with this thing and I was shocked to say the least. I believe AudioCodes has cashed the last check it will ever receive from me.

** Also, I did some testing specifically with ports off-hook simultaneously and I could not recreate that issue you had with the ports failing to recycle and go back on-hook. Zero issues to report.

 

[Kenny Riley]

That's great! I'm actually really glad to hear that, because the configuration of the GXW device was fairly simple and seemed to work pretty flawlessly -- until the off hook problem I mentioned with the FXO ports. This sounds to me like I may have ran into a faulty device. I may try another one in the future after reading your comments on the 4224. Thanks for the update!