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This is a complete guide for installing FreeSWITCH™ and its prerequisites on macOS, and for establishing 24x7 operation.
**What Is FreeSWITCH™? FreeSWITCH™ is an application that manages VOIP phones and connections to ITSPs (Internet Telephony Service Providers).
What Can You Do With FreeSWITCH™? It's powerful customization provides our incoming calls to do this: Normal ringing is replaced by: “Hi Pam, hold on while our phones ring", phones ring and Pam hears music, after 25 seconds: “hold on Pam while our iPhones ring", internal phones keep ringing and multiple iPhones ring, if no answer: “sorry we missed you Pam, please leave a message", Pam’s voicemail is taken and emailed to multiple iPhones!
Who Are These Pages For? This document is for people who want to install FreeSWITCH™ on macOS and are not familiar with Linux/Unix commands and directories.
What Is Available on the FreeSWITCH™ macOS Wiki? Here is a list of the macOS Wiki pages:
| Description | Page |
|---|---|
| FreeSWITCH™ macOS Installation options | macOS Installation |
| Automated installation utility | macOS macFI Installation |
| Manual installation using Terminal | macOS Manual Installation |
| Install Homebrew FreeSWITCH version | macOS Homebrew Installation |
| Basic testing and diagnosing problems | macOS Testing and Diagnostics |
| Customization, tips and screen sharing | macOS Customization |
| 24x7 operation and automatic restart | macOS 24x7 Preparation |
| Email voicemail files to an iPhone | macOS Email Voicemail |
| Archive since 2010 starting with OS X 10.6 | MacOS Archive |
How This Documentation Was Developed and Maintained FreeSWITCH™ is tested and runs 24x7 on a headless Mac Mini. There was almost no FreeSWITCH™/macOS information when I replaced a VOIP PBX in 2010. So I compiled what I learned through searching, trial and error, the FreeSWITCH™ mailing list, etc. and created this documentation.
Mario G
macOS Wiki History Major changes occurred:
- May 14, 2022 - Created "macOS Homebrew Installation" page
- March 12, 2017 - Created "Manual Installation", "Testing and Diagnosis", "24x7 Preparation", "Email Voicemails" split from other pages
- October 18, 2015 - Split installation and customization pages, combine installation sections, updated for FreeSWITCH™ 1.6, OS X 10.11 and Xcode 7, archive OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8
- April 28, 2014 - Major updates for new OS X releases and Xcode
- Mar 21, 2013 - extensively updated and split into multiple pages
- Nov 22, 2010 - Created initial documentation