Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:06:50PM -0500, James Golovich wrote: To bring this back on topic. Have you considered leaving a phone with the handset off the base, or speakerphone turned on in the room? Set the zap channel to immediate and send it to a special context. Have the s extension

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-19 Thread Steve
On Monday 16 February 2004 08:51 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Do any of you know of a cost effect device that could be connected to an Asterisk station port to provide room monitoring? I'm looking to replace the wireless baby monitor we currently have, since there is too much interference

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-19 Thread Jim Flagg
- Original Message - From: Greg Hill To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:04:02PM -0800, David Liu wrote: Well use a Polycom IP 500

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-19 Thread Walt Reed
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:01:37AM -0500, Jim Flagg said: - Original Message - From: Greg Hill To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-19 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:28:09AM -0500, Walt Reed wrote: Hmm. Is it just me, or does this sound like a sledgehammer for a thumbtack kind of application? Radioshack has cheap intercoms that work fairly well. They have 900Mhz wireless and FM over powerline versions. Most cheap baby

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-19 Thread James Golovich
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Actually the baby monitors tend to be in the 47Mhz band, but yes they still suck. There are newer models in the 900Mhz and 2.4Ghz range. However, reviews of the 900Mhz models are almost unanimous in declaring them to be worse than the 47Mhz

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-18 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:04:02PM -0800, David Liu wrote: Well use a Polycom IP 500 and put to auto answer and ringer off. Then you can use it as a room monitor device. Seems like that could do the trick. However, I was hoping for a sub $200 solution. Anyone know of a less expensive

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-18 Thread Regovich, Timothy
Two coffee cans and a tight string? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamin W. Collins Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:04:02PM -0800

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan Moore
I think the Grandstream Budgetone has an auto answer option. Not sure how good the mic pickup is, but you could probably wire in a better mic cheap and that would only run you about $65 plus shipping. Happy monitoring. -- Jonathan Moore Director of Technology Winfield Public Schools Office

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-18 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:58:19PM -0600, Jonathan Moore wrote: OK, I think I was wrong on the Grandstream. I loaded up the web config and I am not seeing the option. I would suggest contacting them directly to see. If not that I am pretty sure the snom100 has an auto answer mode. It's listed

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-18 Thread Greg Hill
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:04:02PM -0800, David Liu wrote: Well use a Polycom IP 500 and put to auto answer and ringer off. Then you can use it as a room monitor device. Seems like that could do the trick. However, I was hoping for a sub $200

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-17 Thread Jonathan Moore
What about a phone, analog or IP, put in an auto answer mode? -- Jonathan Moore Director of Technology Winfield Public Schools Office 620.221.5100 Fax 620.221.0508 Quoting Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do any of you know of a cost effect device that could be connected to an Asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:36:20PM -0600, Jonathan Moore wrote: What about a phone, analog or IP, put in an auto answer mode? Do you know of any off hand that support this? Perhaps one with the ability to turn off the ringer? -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yourself when the whole world

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-17 Thread David Liu
Well use a Polycom IP 500 and put to auto answer and ringer off. Then you can use it as a room monitor device. - Original Message - From: Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

[Asterisk-Users] Room Monitor

2004-02-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
Do any of you know of a cost effect device that could be connected to an Asterisk station port to provide room monitoring? I'm looking to replace the wireless baby monitor we currently have, since there is too much interference between our daughter's room and our room for it to work effectively.