Have you thought about going at it the other way most people do, by using an IM client or other groupware system? Jabber and/or Lync is designed with this kind of setup in mind!
" 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the biggest problems you're going to have with this is that > even though Wifi is a big battery hog, constantly refreshing > geolocation is an even bigger battery hog. While I don't have an > application that can do this, my inclination would be to use something > along the lines of Bluetooth proximity devices, possibly along the > lines of two proximity devices along your path to the exterior door. > When the proximity devices sense in one direction, you set one state, > while if the proximity devices trigger in the opposite order, you set > the opposite state. > > Alternately, you could use a state table whose values were triggered > on/off either by a code entered into your desk phone, your cell phone > (with an appropriate password), or even by time-based signals (think > cron job). > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Chris McQuistion > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Curt and I were discussing this idea this morning and it seems so obvious > > that I'm sure someone is already doing this and there are probably > already > > some good ways of accomplishing this. > > > > Here's the idea. > > > > When I'm at work, I'd like our phone system (Asterisk-based Elastix) to > just > > route incoming calls over to my cell phone number, instead. I've got > > unlimited minutes and it is always on me. > > > > When I leave work, I'd like the call routing to route to my desk phone, > as > > usual. > > > > It seems like this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish. If nothing else, > > IFTTT could be used with the iOS Location or Android Location channel to > > determine my geo-location. From there, I have to DO SOMETHING with that > > information, and then have Elastix act on it. > > > > This is where I'm stuck. My best ideas so far are to create a new file > in > > Dropbox or append a line in a Google Spreadsheet when I'm entering or > > leaving the geo-location. This seems a little kludge-y to me. > > > > Anyone got a better idea of how to accomplish this goal? It isn't really > > important. It's just one of those ideas that I've had for a long time > and I > > can't seem to let it go until I figure out how to do it... > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
