[asterisk-users] Survey: In what ways do you use Asterisk at your house?

[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.

On 11/13/06, Dave Fullerton <dfullertasterisk at shorelinecontainer.com> 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
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