[Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?

[Chris]

    A lot of that could be accomplished with the TAPI driver for Asterisk.   It's easy to write a simple application for the TAPI and even Outlook will use it.    

Sometime I plan to develop a TAPI program for Asterisk, but I haven't had the time recently.

Regards,

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Welter" <mike at introspect.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hotel Setup?


> Have you seen the 3Com LAN-switch-in-a-wall-jack device?  It's a four 
> port device that could also be used for the guest's PC.  It can supply 
> PoE to the phone using a wall wart or PoE on the incoming LAN circuit.
> 
> You'll need some logic between Asterisk's management interace and the 
> property management system's (PMS) telephone interface.  The PMS will 
> expect call detail to be received in real time.
> 
> Depending on the PMS, outside calling is switched on during checkin and 
> switched off upon checkout.  Some PMS restrict toll calls if non-adults 
> occupy the room.  Also, some PMS have certain codes that the maids (and 
> supervisors) dial from the room to indicate availability.  And the staff 
> need to be aware of any 9-1-1 calls.
> 
> You'll have to be able to empty a room's voice mailbox upon checkin. 
> And some properties want the guest's name in the caller id.
> 
> So it's not simply putting a SIP phone in the room...
> 
> 
> 
> kurth at ozonecomputer.com wrote:
> > Small world.
> > 
> > The Inn was going to work on absorbing the cost of the system and the VoIP
> > service.  The phones would be just cheapie grandstream phones, which work
> > out to about the same as regular analog phones.  More features, no cost,
> > the owners are thinking they can lever this edge to attract more business
> > customers and such.
> > 
> > I have a serious problem with more hardware in each room.  More things to
> > get stolen, broken, etc.  Plus have the costs of the adapter, plus the
> > cost of the phone, and you are right back to a Budgetone price.  More
> > cables, more things to play with.  Plus you need to provide an outlet,
> > whereas I could do PoE and eliminate yet another source of problems.  I
> > would like a phone, and a cat5 cable.  That's it.  You want internet
> > access, use wireless or the cable.
> > 
> > You can't depend on the customer to do the right thing.  Ever.  In fact,
> > count on them doing the wrong thing.  All the time :-)
> > 
> > On a sidenote, I would like to know how using a port based PVLAN setup and
> > DHCP won't provide adequate isolation between rooms.  Am I unclear on
> > something?
> > 
> > ~kurth
> > 
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