Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-19 Thread marvin horst
...@gmail.com *Sent*: Monday, October 18, 2010 7:55 PM *To*: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com *Subject*: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely? Ah Sandman http://sandman.com use a relay that goes onto an fxs port

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-19 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:09:50 +0200, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: I'm sure someone has already tried this: I use a couple of electric heaters to heat my office. Thanks everyone for the great feedback. Following Steve Edward's advice, I won't automate the process and will only switch the

[asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Gilles
Hello I'm sure someone has already tried this: I use a couple of electric heaters to heat my office. I'd like to somehow connect them to Asterisk so that I could switch them on remotely by either calling the IVR or sending an e-mail to the Asterisk host, so that the room is warm when I get to

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Gareth Blades
Something like http://www.audon.co.uk/udin.html UDIN-8R. It can only control 750W so you will probably need to get it to control a more powerfull relay as a heater is going to take a lot of current. It can be controlled by a virtual serial port so you just program the extension to make a

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Roberto Piola
we're using a Damocles Mini (http://www.hw-group.com/products/damocles/damocles_mini_en.html). of course, the damocles will have to drive a high-power relay. the damocles can be driven via snmp, so you'll have to simply call the snmpset unix standard utility On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:24 PM,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Steve Edwards
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Gilles wrote: I'd like to somehow connect them to Asterisk so that I could switch them on remotely by either calling the IVR or sending an e-mail to the Asterisk host, so that the room is warm when I get to the office :-) X10. (X10's web site, x10.com sucks.)

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Marco Signorini
Hi Did you looked at Arduino + Ethernet Shield? Is something you can program in C or C++ to receive a simple TCP and/or HTTP packet and turn on an external relay. From the dialplan you can run an http query through curl and/or an external AGI command. Best regards, Marco Signorini. -- Marco

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Danny Nicholas
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Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Darren Wiebe
We recently completed a project using products from here: http://www.controlbyweb.com/webrelay/ They were easy to setup and can be controlled in a variety of fashions included http queries. Darren Wiebe On 18/10/2010 8:34 AM, Marco Signorini wrote: Hi Did you looked at Arduino + Ethernet

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Lyle Giese
Gilles wrote: Hello I'm sure someone has already tried this: I use a couple of electric heaters to heat my office. I'd like to somehow connect them to Asterisk so that I could switch them on remotely by either calling the IVR or sending an e-mail to the Asterisk host, so that the room is

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel Tryba
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:34:34PM +0200, Marco Signorini wrote: Did you looked at Arduino + Ethernet Shield? Is something you can program in C or C++ to receive a simple TCP and/or HTTP packet and turn on an external relay. From the dialplan you can run an http query through curl and/or an

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread C F
The other way is to use an RC3 from vikingelectronics.com http://www.vikingelectronics.com/products/view_product.php?pid=217 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM, C F shma...@gmail.com wrote: Ah Sandman http://sandman.com use a relay that goes onto an fxs port, call that fxs port and you have a

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

2010-10-18 Thread Bryant Zimmerman
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