Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
Earle, I'm running Astlinux on a PIII 550 with 384 megs of ram. Booting from a Compact Flash card. Non-Volatile storage on a USB Keydisk. I have three SIP DID numbers in three different area codes here in Western Washington via IPKall. I use a local SIP termination provider and also retain my Qwest POTS line with callerid, which connects via an X100P clone board. All in all, I've got less than $50 sunk into the system. Past that, I added an SPA3K, which is an utter disappointment, regardless of what old Ward Mundy has to say about them. I'm got various services running. Weather reports via an cepstral speech synthesis (runs off-server in a wmware instance). I use it to block unwanted callers from reaching my home based on values stored in the ASTDB and simple dialplan logic. Speed Dials, wakeup calls, music on hold customized to the caller based on Caller ID, Conference bridge (remember, I've got three DIDs via my broadband), and I'm also working on automating retrieval of e-mail and conversion to speech so that my in-laws, who don't have a computer, can hear their e-mails as soon as they arrive, via the telephone, subject to common sense time of day rules. I have DISA service setup for the rare instance that I get an urge to call overseas from my cell phone. And when they build FAX capability into AstLinux, I'll use that, too. On 11/23/06, Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earle Clubb wrote: - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. Until last summer I had Asterisk doing the normal call handling my home. You know selecting which line to call out on via an SPA-3000 and SPA-3102. We do have trouble with the SPA's as the echo can be quite bad or the volume is quite low (take your pick). I'm also routing various calls to various vm-boxes and sending selected callers to the SIT. I also had an extension that interfaced to Mr. House home automation software. I could control and monitor a few things in my home. This system is no longer working due to a drive crash and the lack of backup for parts of this setup. I'm hoping to get the time towards the end of the year to put it back together. I may try to integrate the voice recognition (Sphinx) into the setup also. This was running on a 1GHz/512M/300G vanilla x86 clone. I had printer services, DNS, DHCP, file sharing, home automation, Asterisk and a few other things running. It's also my development system. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/My HA Blog http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
Earle Clubb wrote: - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. Until last summer I had Asterisk doing the normal call handling my home. You know selecting which line to call out on via an SPA-3000 and SPA-3102. We do have trouble with the SPA's as the echo can be quite bad or the volume is quite low (take your pick). I'm also routing various calls to various vm-boxes and sending selected callers to the SIT. I also had an extension that interfaced to Mr. House home automation software. I could control and monitor a few things in my home. This system is no longer working due to a drive crash and the lack of backup for parts of this setup. I'm hoping to get the time towards the end of the year to put it back together. I may try to integrate the voice recognition (Sphinx) into the setup also. This was running on a 1GHz/512M/300G vanilla x86 clone. I had printer services, DNS, DHCP, file sharing, home automation, Asterisk and a few other things running. It's also my development system. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/My HA Blog http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ Backup site ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
At 02:08 AM 11/14/2006, you wrote: From memory... the strike was around $95, the relay board between $25 and $50, and the power supply was only a few dollars, so you could do it all for under $200. Do be careful with these. I was installing one and discovered that I could open it by the proper application of force. Must have had a weak spring or something as I could bounce the door and it would pop in a few seconds. They're not really intended to keep people out of your house, more to keep honest people from going through guarded doors. Ira ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
All, I'm starting to tinker with Asterisk for use in my home. Here's my current setup: Cox broadband telephone -- spa3k-fxo analog phones + answering machine (all on one line) -- spa3k-fxs I can pick up a phone in my house, dial a certain extension, and the spa3k will connect me to Asterisk, which currently plays a message and hangs up (not particularly useful). If I dial any other number, the spa3k dials that number out on the fxo. The main thing I'm trying to do right now is replace my answering machine with *-based voicemail. I want to retain the ability to screen calls (listen on a speaker while a person is leaving a message), but I'm not sure of the best way to go about this. Recommendations are welcome. Note that my * box and answering machine are on two different floors in my house, so running a speaker in the kitchen (answering machine location) from the sound card on the * box is doable, but not desirable. Also of note: I only have basic no-frills phone service (no caller id, no call waiting, etc), though I am open to adding options if there's a good reason. The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. I'm trying to find practical uses for *, but I'd like to throw in some fun/pointless stuff as well. Thanks for your time. Earle ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
Earle Clubb wrote: snip The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. snip I'm using a plain old POTs line for my termination. I have a Pentium III 450 w/192 megs of RAM, a TDM400 with 2 FXS and 2 FXO ports, and asterisk 1.2.13. The two FXS ports provide an extension for upstairs cordless phones and another extension for the downstairs cordless phone. I also have a budgetone 102 in the office. One of the FXO ports terminates my POTs line and the other is connected to a Dock-n-Talk device that I use to plug my cell phone into when I'm home. I don't get great signal at my house, so I dock it in the location where I get the best signal. Any calls coming into my cellphone then ring all the extensions in the house. I can call out on my cellphone by prefixing any number with a 9 from any phone in the house. Asterisk provides voicemail and emails a copy of the voicemail to me at work. I have asterisk linked to another asterisk box where I work (via IAX over the internet, which is cable) so I can call home from from my desk or dial any extension at work from home and connect directly. Works great for talking to the wife on her day's off. I also have it connected (in a very limited fashion) to some X10 equipment. I've used it to turn on and off Halloween decorations in separate rooms all at once. Hope that's the kind of info you were looking for. Asterisk really is cool once you get it figured out. -Dave ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
On 14:50, Mon 13 Nov 06, Earle Clubb wrote: The main thing I'm trying to do right now is replace my answering machine with *-based voicemail. I want to retain the ability to screen calls (listen on a speaker while a person is leaving a message), but I'm not sure of the best way to go about this. Recommendations are welcome. Note that my * box and answering machine are on two different floors in my house, so running a speaker in the kitchen (answering machine location) from the sound card on the * box is doable, but not desirable. There's an example of how to do it on the wiki (http://voip-info.org). Cant find it right now but google can help you here and maybe someone here knows what page I mean and can post it The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? I use IAX2 and have a X100P to terminate my analog phoneline. I dont use the analog line so all asterisk does here is play a soundfile that tells ppl to call my main number. - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? A X100P for the analog line. The machine itself is a Debian testing machine running on a P3 600Mhz with 256 MB Ram - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? Home phone number, business number and conference number. - Any other pertinent info. I have setup mythtv at home. Asterisk is linked with it with some scripting. What it does is: If a call comes in it puts my livetv on pause and displays callerid information on my tv. I can decide with my remote control to send it to voicemail or I can pickup the phone. When the call is hangup I have 20 seconds to get back on the sofa and the tv will continue to play. Gotta love that ! It does some other stuff like reading rss feeds and system status etc, but that's just something for me as a geek. Good luck with your system. It will be fun, believe me. -- Michiel van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x71C946BD Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
For about a year and a half now I've had Asterisk set up to unlock my front door at my house when calling a certain number. I locked it down by using caller id (not the most secure, but hey nobody knows the phone number to my door). Speed dialing your front door is one of the coolest things you can do. On 11/13/06, Dave Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earle Clubb wrote: snip The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. snip I'm using a plain old POTs line for my termination. I have a Pentium III 450 w/192 megs of RAM, a TDM400 with 2 FXS and 2 FXO ports, and asterisk 1.2.13. The two FXS ports provide an extension for upstairs cordless phones and another extension for the downstairs cordless phone. I also have a budgetone 102 in the office. One of the FXO ports terminates my POTs line and the other is connected to a Dock-n-Talk device that I use to plug my cell phone into when I'm home. I don't get great signal at my house, so I dock it in the location where I get the best signal. Any calls coming into my cellphone then ring all the extensions in the house. I can call out on my cellphone by prefixing any number with a 9 from any phone in the house. Asterisk provides voicemail and emails a copy of the voicemail to me at work. I have asterisk linked to another asterisk box where I work (via IAX over the internet, which is cable) so I can call home from from my desk or dial any extension at work from home and connect directly. Works great for talking to the wife on her day's off. I also have it connected (in a very limited fashion) to some X10 equipment. I've used it to turn on and off Halloween decorations in separate rooms all at once. Hope that's the kind of info you were looking for. Asterisk really is cool once you get it figured out. -Dave ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Mitchel Constantin Snap - A desktop user interface for Asterisk www.snapanumber.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
On 11/13/06, mitcheloc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For about a year and a half now I've had Asterisk set up to unlock my front door at my house when calling a certain number. I locked it down by using caller id (not the most secure, but hey nobody knows the phone number to my door). Speed dialing your front door is one of the coolest things you can do. On 11/13/06, Dave Fullerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Earle Clubb wrote: snip The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? - Any other pertinent info. snip I'm using a plain old POTs line for my termination. I have a Pentium III 450 w/192 megs of RAM, a TDM400 with 2 FXS and 2 FXO ports, and asterisk 1.2.13. The two FXS ports provide an extension for upstairs cordless phones and another extension for the downstairs cordless phone. I also have a budgetone 102 in the office. One of the FXO ports terminates my POTs line and the other is connected to a Dock-n-Talk device that I use to plug my cell phone into when I'm home. I don't get great signal at my house, so I dock it in the location where I get the best signal. Any calls coming into my cellphone then ring all the extensions in the house. I can call out on my cellphone by prefixing any number with a 9 from any phone in the house. Asterisk provides voicemail and emails a copy of the voicemail to me at work. I have asterisk linked to another asterisk box where I work (via IAX over the internet, which is cable) so I can call home from from my desk or dial any extension at work from home and connect directly. Works great for talking to the wife on her day's off. I also have it connected (in a very limited fashion) to some X10 equipment. I've used it to turn on and off Halloween decorations in separate rooms all at once. Hope that's the kind of info you were looking for. Asterisk really is cool once you get it figured out. -Dave ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Mitchel Constantin Snap - A desktop user interface for Asterisk www.snapanumber.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users I am wondering how you do your door. is there a howto? It will also be cool if I can speed dial my garage door so I can take deliveries when I am not home. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
My * at home is a P-3 400 256 meg with a TDM 400. 2 cordless phones, 3 snom 200's. Termination is through an IAX provider. All of the standard stuff works, transfer to cell, web voicemail,etc but the interesting thing that I do is a script that polls the Canadian weather service every 10 min looking for severe weather warnings (happens quite often in Alberta) and if it finds one, uses sipsak to push the weather warning to the display of the Snom 200's and sends it to my cell as an SMS. I also have a script that allows you to read back the weather on demand using Festival, sounds crappy but works like a charm. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
I did not write a how to, but it essentially involves installing a door strike that I purchased from smarthome.com, running some wiring, and a serial port relay controller hooked up to the Asterisk server. I then used the System command and a script to send the signal through the board to send power and thus unlock the door. I would highly recommend getting the strike professionally installed even if you are the handy type. However, there seems to be an unspoken code among lock smiths not to do such things for the average consumer On 11/13/06, Yu Safin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering how you do your door. is there a howto? It will also be cool if I can speed dial my garage door so I can take deliveries when I am not home. -- Mitchel Constantin Snap - A desktop user interface for Asterisk www.snapanumber.com ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
I've beeing using Asterisk for 3 years, principally in support of my home office, but recently the home phones as well. I work from home full time, have done for ten years. At present I use Astlinux running on an H-P T5700 thin client. Prior to that it was Astlinux on a Soekris Net4801, before that a VIA fanless box. Fanless, diskless, silent dead reliable were my criteria for platform selection. My primary desk phone is an Aastra 480i CT, although I have a few Polycom (500s 600s) around the place as well. The home line rings to a Linksys SPA-2002 plugged into an old Panasonic KX-TG4000 with two deskphones and two corldess phones. My greatest joy was dropping SBC/ATT completely. My two numbers (work home) ring to an account with Nuvio to the Astlinux box via SIP. Outgoing calls are placed through Nufone, VOIPjet and Voxee via IAX2. An incomming 800 number is provided by Clearpath via IAX2. I'm presently using G.711 everywhere, but have used G.927 in the past and will once again if I can find the time to load the codecs to the T5700. I'm hoping that the faster CPU on the T5700 handles G.729 better than the Geode in the Net4801. My FWD account rings into Astlinux via IAX2, although I hardly use it. I've tried using PSGW to bring Skype calls into the SIP domain, but it was not acceptable. Michael ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?
Am Montag, den 13.11.2006, 16:51 -0500 schrieb mitcheloc: For about a year and a half now I've had Asterisk set up to unlock my front door at my house when calling a certain number. I locked it down by using caller id (not the most secure, but hey nobody knows the phone number to my door). Speed dialing your front door is one of the coolest things you can do. ot In my parents' home (installed nearly 10 years ago, when I stilled lived there), we have a Logitech mouse with a CAT5 cable (instead of PS/2) connected to a RJ45 wall outlet in the hall - click the right mouse button to open/stop/close the garage door (left button is broken - Darwin selected this neat mouse for us). With LED light indicator of door status of course. /ot Well, for the original topic: My * server is in a colo about 300km from here (strictly speaking, not my house). It connects to five different SIP providers, about 15 SIP provider accounts. There are a few softphone users on it, and I have a DSL-connected Fritz!Box in my flat which has a POTS connection (unused except for 112 emergency - I have to rent a POTS to get DSL on the same line) and internal ISDN S0 for my Siemens Gigaset with two mobile handsets and two internal numbers. Additionaly, most of my family has some kind of VoIP equipment because nowadays you get it for free when getting your DSL setup. So I assigned internal numbers and can call them for free through my *. Of course * does least cost routing, voicemail, forward-to-mobile can be activated or deactivated by dialing a certain extension. Callback for my mobile (because in certain situations that is way cheaper than calling directly), e-mail notification of calls and voice messages... For selecting the outgoing line, I decided to use the numbering scheme also used on german landlines: Dial 010xx or 0100yy to select a phone company, then the regular number. If I ommit this call by call prefix, the default provider is used. I do not like to dial a 0 prefix for _all_ my calls (because it is so eighties, isn't it?), so I defined that area codes MUST be dialled along the number in all calls. I use to dial them anyway because most of my calls are not in the same area code anyway. To make phonebook dialling easier with softphones I reserved the numbers starting 44 and 49 to be international numbers (rewrite to 0044 and 0049, and +44 and +49 work as well - 99+% of all calls are to Germany and UK). All other [2-9] numbers are defined internal, with the 9 numbers being functions like setting the voicemail delay (931 + number of seconds) or the most important extensions of them all, the talking clock (999) Most recently I figured the SMS problems I had, so now I have *-internal SMS facilities, like texting over to my family (and back), and I can even update my handset with new ringtones and logos. Pretty pr0n. I should use that for system notifications once I finish mending the scriptworks. One feature I just love is the ability to have parallel ringing. If I am away, carrying my laptop, I can turn on twinkle (or X-Lite, for those few minutes a month that I actually run windows) and will receive those calls arriving on my landline number. A customer of mine would not believe me I was calling (answering an email) from San Francisco back to Bonn, having my regular landline CallerID... Sent her a postcard later that day ;-) I love playing around and testing features. Having the possibility to listen in to voicemail recordings is one of my goals for the time coming, but I do not yet know which part of my equipment to use for it (I'd need a phone to answer when calls from a specific callerid come in, e.g. 300 which is my VoiceMailMain extension). I could of course use a softphone for that, as my PC is running most of the time when I am awake and at home - and my flat is small enough. We'll see. BR Anselm ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
