[asterisk-users] How are you using Asterisk at Home ?

[Alan Lord]

D4rk F1ber wrote:
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> One of the next projects for me personally is to get a SIP client for
> my Cingular/AT&T 8525, it has wifi and hsdpa running Windows Mobile 6
> and I am certain I have run across SIP clients before for these
> things.  Be fun to play with and get working.
> 
> So yes I am asking because I am unimaginative and need ideas on
> selling this to the wife.  :-)  That and I am just curious about what
> others feel are useful uses for it within the home, and what others
> get excited about regarding it all.

I run a small Open Source consulting/training company here in the Uk and 
am starting to build an * server so that myself and my business partner 
(who both work from our respective homes) are communicating properly.

I have an analogue line coming into my home-office which connects to an 
x100p clone. Our plan is to be able to use that number for several of 
our business ventures (we have a couple of others between us :) and 
calls can be routed to our local handsets or voicemail or perhaps, to 
our mobiles or WiFi phones in the future...

It's an interesting project, which serves two purposes for me.

1, We get an advanced, networked PBX system for a 2 man company :-)
2, We get to learn about using/deploying asterisk so we can advocate it 
in our business discussions. There's no better way to learn about 
something than by using it :-)

My plan for the unit at my house, being a low power device, is to 
install something called Untangle (a fairly recently Open Sourced 
security platform), alongside Asterisk and Samba for a 24/7 home server 
and web filter/cache/firewall etc. (Possibly I'll add a UPnP backend if 
I have any grunt left in the machine).

I'm blogging about it as I go if anyone is interested. Here's the first 
part of the story: 
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/09/08/untangle-asterisk-pbx-and-file-server-all-in-one/ 


Cheers

Alan

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