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

[Tom Lynn]

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 <ncherry at comcast.net> 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.
>
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