[asterisk-users] Hotels...

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On 8/7/06, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> I have to bid on a hotel contract, but there are some things I don't know
> how to do -- but clearly Asterisk has been used by hotels before, so I
> figure someone on here must have some answers:
>
> 1) While the majority of the phones will be SIP, there will be a couple
> hundred analogs (due to wiring logistics); what should I terminate them
> into?

Use channel banks, I like the Adit 600 which can take 48 FXS per 2
T1s, or one CMG card for 48 channels (however to actualy utilize the
CMG you loose a slot which is 8 channels so it only goes for 40
channels). A quad T1 card will then allow you to utilized 96 channles
over 2 Adit 600s.


>
> 2) Phone activation at check-in/phone de-activation and billing at
> check-out.  Are there GUI tools for this, or should I write my own
> back/front end?

The easiest way to do this is to have the outbound extens defined for
the phones (zap channels or the like) to go thru a check in the
asterisk DB, and the asterisk DB is updated by the checkin/checkout
program thru a shell command something like this:
/usr/bin/asterisk -rx "database add OUTBOUNDACTIVE/ZAP4=1"
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,GotoIf($[${DB(OUTBOUNDACTIVE/ZAP${CHANNEL:4:1})}=1]?50)
;if the value is one goto 50 and continue dialing
exten =>_1NXXNXXXXXX,2,Congestion()
;if we got here then the value is NOT 1 so disallow dialing
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,50,Dial(whatever)


>
> 3) Anything else that those familiar with hotels have bumped into that
> might not be obvious at the outset?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>
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