That's all doable. How many residents are you talking about? -- could take quite a while to call them all. Considering you have outlay in hardware, phone-cost, utilities (a 100W computer draws $5-$10/month), consider fixing that well as someone suggested.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:05 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Asterisk Users > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions? > > > In the subdivision where I live, we have a well that time to > time has > problems. Currently, our trustees call me, I take a message, and > then call the people on our "phone calling tree" and give them the > message. They, in turn, pass the message on to the rest of the > residents. > > We have a few problems with the way this works -- people > don't bother > to relay the message, or, when they do relay the message, they get > the message wrong. > > I was thinking about using an Asterisk server -- kind of a > "hot line" > for our subdivision. A trustee can call in and record an > announcement, and the server would phone each resident and play the > announcement to them. At other times we can use the server to play > "up and coming events" and so on. > > Obviously, I need to create the menus and authenticate the trustees, > record the message, and have that trigger an agi to create outbound > dial files -- and some sort of cron or agi job to get statistics of > who has acknowledged the message and who hasn't so that the trustee > can phone the resident themselves. > > I'm thinking about a small PC located at one of the trustees' house > (or perhaps my own) with one phone line interface. Alas, no high > speed internet here so I can't use VOIP instead of a POTS phone line. > > Does anyone have suggestions/tips/cautions for me? Are there any > applications that might help me? Should I create a program that > makes the calls via the manager interface, etc. > > Thanks, > Scott Nelson > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster> isk-users > To > UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
