[asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

[Gareth Blades]

Something like http://www.audon.co.uk/udin.html UDIN-8R. It can only 
control 750W so you will probably need to get it to control a more 
powerfull relay as a heater is going to take a lot of current.
It can be controlled by a virtual serial port so you just program the 
extension to make a system() call to a simple script which sends a 
string of characters to the serial port.

That device is quite expensive. You could probably find something much 
cheaper on ebay.


Gilles wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm sure someone has already tried this: I use a couple of electric
> heaters to heat my office.
> 
> I'd like to somehow connect them to Asterisk so that I could switch
> them on remotely by either calling the IVR or sending an e-mail to the
> Asterisk host, so that the room is warm when I get to the office :-)
> 
> Any information appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>