[Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?

[Darren Wiebe]

If you do add a bounty, I'll add a little bit $50US or so to it.  I know 
there are others that have written or would like a script like this as 
it was discussed a few months ago on this list I believe.

Darren Wiebe
darren at aleph-com.net

Dean Collins wrote:

>Hi Scott, everything thing you are looking to do is possible.
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>You might need to offer a bounty for someone if you don't feel
>comfortable to do it yourself but checkout the call agi scripts.
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>Cheers,
>Dean
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Nelson
>>Sent: Saturday, 2 July 2005 4:05 PM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Asterisk Users
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?
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>>In the subdivision where I live, we have a well that time to time has
>>problems.  Currently, our trustees call me, I take a message, and
>>then call the people on our "phone calling tree" and give them the
>>message.  They, in turn, pass the message on to the rest of the
>>residents.
>>
>>We have a few problems with the way this works -- people don't bother
>>to relay the message, or, when they do relay the message, they get
>>the message wrong.
>>
>>I was thinking about using an Asterisk server -- kind of a "hot line"
>>for our subdivision.  A trustee can call in and record an
>>announcement, and the server would phone each resident and play the
>>announcement to them.  At other times we can use the server to play
>>"up and coming events" and so on.
>>
>>Obviously, I need to create the menus and authenticate the trustees,
>>record the message, and have that trigger an agi to create outbound
>>dial files -- and some sort of cron or agi job to get statistics of
>>who has acknowledged the message and who hasn't so that the trustee
>>can phone the resident themselves.
>>
>>I'm thinking about a small PC located at one of the trustees' house
>>(or perhaps my own) with one phone line interface.  Alas, no high
>>speed internet here so I can't use VOIP instead of a POTS phone line.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions/tips/cautions for me?  Are there any
>>applications that might help me?  Should I create a program that
>>makes the calls via the manager interface, etc.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Scott Nelson
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