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

[Yu Safin]

On 11/13/06, mitcheloc <mitcheloc at gmail.com> 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 <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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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.