2013/2/1 Don Kelly <[email protected]> > -----Original Message----- > <snip> > > > > What I had in mind is to use someone's cellphone as a presence detector. > > Let me explain: > > - as the first thing you take along when leaving a room or location, > > is your own cellphone, why not use chan_mobile and a bluetooth dongle > > on your on PC (as you're not supposed to be within bluetooth range > > from an asterisk server ;-)) to advertise you're away from your desk > > > Being completely ignorant of Bluetooth dongles, and knowing less than I > should about Asterisk, I'm happy to throw in my two-cents worth. > > It seems that the Asterisk server need know nothing about the Bluetooth > dongle--it only cares if the user is in their office. > > An application can run on a pc in the office that simply decides if a > device > it's paired with is nearby or not. Probably want to have something that > makes sure it's lost a few times over a minute or so. Then the application > informs the Asterisk server (a web service?) that the individual is gone. I > would expect that a single pc could keep track of several people. > > That said, I was thinking this was a simple "Bluetooth presence detection" > issue, so I Googled that. One result was this: > > http://nerdvittles.com/?p=78 >
This article seems updated with http://nerdvittles.com/?p=803 I read it and still questions remain: as presence detection is done though a program (inside a proximity.zip file) - on which platform can this software be installed beside CentOS ? - is it possible to install the software on a different machine from your asterisk server ? > --Don > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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