Part 10: Recipes

The reference chapters document each piece of FreeSWITCH on its own. This part shows how those pieces fit together into complete, working call flows. Each recipe states the goal, gives the exact configuration and dialplan to paste in, explains how it works, and links back to the chapters that document each part in depth. Every example is built from features documented elsewhere in this manual and verified against the bundled conf/vanilla/ configuration.

📄️DID to IVR to Voicemail

Route a PSTN DID through the public context into an auto-attendant IVR menu, then fall through unanswered options to a user's voicemail.

📄️Ring Group / Hunt Group

Ring several phones at once (ring group) or one after another on no-answer (hunt group) using the bridge application's comma and pipe dial-string operators, with per-leg timeouts and voicemail fallback.

📄️Time-of-Day Routing

Route calls to the operator or IVR during open hours and to a closed greeting plus voicemail after hours and on holidays, using XML dialplan time conditions.

📄️Box-to-Box Trunk

Link two FreeSWITCH servers with a SIP gateway or IP-authenticated trunk so users on box A can dial users on box B.

📄️Conference with PIN

Callers dial an extension, are prompted for a PIN, and join a moderated conference room. Built on the conference application's own PIN and member-flag handling, with a dialplan play_and_get_digits variation.

📄️Click-to-Call (originate)

Trigger an outbound call from fs_cli or the Event Socket that rings a user and, on answer, bridges them to another extension, an IVR, or a PSTN number using the originate API command.