[Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?

[Jay Milk]

That's all doable.  How many residents are you talking about? -- could
take quite a while to call them all.  Considering you have outlay in
hardware, phone-cost, utilities (a 100W computer draws $5-$10/month),
consider fixing that well as someone suggested.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Nelson [mailto:sbn at thermeon.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 3:05 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Asterisk Users
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Telephoning Announcements -- Suggestions?
> 
> 
> 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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