[asterisk-users] Looking for ideas for nice **Asterisk** home phone system

[Skyler]

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:49 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> OK.  I'm a 54G guy.  I just bought a E4200 the other day for our media
> network.

 Nice. The E4200 is what I wanted but it wasn't in stock anywhere when I
was on the hunt. I just recently bought an Asus RT-N16 ... my boss is
hooked now so I will probably be working on this at work and do this one
next ;)

> Are you using a POTS connection or SIP provider for your phone system ?
> 
 SIP only. 

> :drool:  So you can receive faxes that arrive at home on the road then,
> as an email attachment, right ?   Without having to find a fax machine
> while traveling and coordinating with the sender ?
> 
 Yep, arrives as a pdf in my email.

> If we wanted faxes received on the fax machine, can asterisk recognize a
> fax tone and route the call to the fax machine ?
> 
 IIR asterisk can detect fax with nvfax or something like that, I didn't
bother and went with a dedicated voxnumber.

> Will the fax machine send via an analog connection to the asterisk
> system ?  Or does it need its own line directly out ?
> 
 Fax is receive only. I don't have a physical fax machine, I scan/email.
You could easily use a PAP2 or HT286 for the fax machine and register it
to the router.

> What information resources did you use when setting up your system ?
> 
 Google when I was stuck. I didn't document the sites as I actually
couldn't make this work using DD-WRT or Tomato without having to install
everything on the USB key. I didn't like this so kept going as I'm
familiar with cross-compiling, linux etc. and ended up with my own
firmware. You can go with the DD-WRT or Tomato + asterisk-on-usb setup
if you like, it does work but not what I wanted.

 I can tell you to focus on compiling the firmware, getting that to work
100% re-flashing and you're good to go. Then work on the asterisk
install. The Asterisk install is minimal (ie: only loads what modules
are needed and no more) all extra files etc are removed for space.
There's no gui, so I hope you are ok with SSH for config changes. The
callback/call-through/fax2email are agi's, those took the longest to get
working as I knew nothing about this.


> Thanks again for the replies.
> 
> LG
>