On 8/21/07, Steve Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Edwards wrote: > > > Almost every room in my house has a phone -- if I could teach my kids to > > put them back where they belong. > > > > This could easily be extended to recognize which phone was used so it > > could control the Myth FE in that room. > > > > Also, it could/should be extended to control x10 devices as well... > > > > "To control the tv in this room, press 1. To control a tv in another > room, > > press 2. To control the outside lights, press 3. To control the > > sprinklers, press 4, ..." > > A while back I was thinking along the lines of using a phone as a > home automation interface, though I was thinking of it in combination > with a voice recognitition system such as Lumenvox. It occured to > me that when you want to turn the lights on, you don't really want to > pick up a phone, dial a special extension, and then start using menus. > > What I was thinking about was what if instead of a dialtone you are > brought directly to a home automation voice menu which works in > parallel with your normal dial plan. If you wanted to make a call, > just ignore the voice menu and dial normally. If you wanted to > turn on the lights, just say "lights on." or somesuch. Having a > traditional dialtone seems unnecessary when you can get more function > instead. > > The trick is doing this without giving up on the use of nice existing > GUIs to manage the dialplan that we have now. I'd like some way of > merging in the "voice dialtone" function with the existing dialplan > such that initially both are active, but as soon as either a phrase is > recognized or a button is pressed the system branches to one or the other, > but that button or phrase is passed through to the rest of the processing > and not just an extra prompt getting in the way. > > Does this spark anyone's imagination or ideas to implement?
Sparks my imagination thusly: Suppose you have a speaker phone in every room. When the phone is "onhook," Asterisk automatically opens up a call to the speaker and places it in the automation context. When you pick up the phone, it grabs a different line, and drops the automation connection. Now, you can address Asterisk by saying, "Computer, raise lights 20%" and impress all of your trekkie friends when the lights turn up.
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