<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/1 Don Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dk@donkelly.biz" target="_blank">dk@donkelly.biz</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> What I had in mind is to use someone's cellphone as a presence detector.<br>
> Let me explain:<br>
> - as the first thing you take along when leaving a room or location,<br>
> is your own cellphone, why not use chan_mobile and a bluetooth dongle<br>
> on your on PC (as you're not supposed to be within bluetooth range<br>
> from an asterisk server ;-)) to advertise you're away from your desk<br>
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</div>Being completely ignorant of Bluetooth dongles, and knowing less than I<br>
should about Asterisk, I'm happy to throw in my two-cents worth.<br>
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It seems that the Asterisk server need know nothing about the Bluetooth<br>
dongle--it only cares if the user is in their office.<br>
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An application can run on a pc in the office that simply decides if a device<br>
it's paired with is nearby or not. Probably want to have something that<br>
makes sure it's lost a few times over a minute or so. Then the application<br>
informs the Asterisk server (a web service?) that the individual is gone. I<br>
would expect that a single pc could keep track of several people.<br>
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That said, I was thinking this was a simple "Bluetooth presence detection"<br>
issue, so I Googled that. One result was this:<br>
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<a href="http://nerdvittles.com/?p=78" target="_blank">http://nerdvittles.com/?p=78</a><br></blockquote><div><br>This article seems updated with <a href="http://nerdvittles.com/?p=803" target="_blank">http://nerdvittles.com/?p=803</a> <br>
<br>I read it and still questions remain:<br>as presence detection is done though a program (inside a proximity.zip file)<br>- on which platform can this software be installed beside CentOS ?<br>- is it possible to install the software on a different machine from your asterisk server ?<br>
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