[asterisk-users] Is there any Asterisk controllable thermostat?

[Henry.L.Coleman]

The Message Waiting Lamp (neon) on these phones requires a 90v signal
which is generated and switched to the phone via a special "station" card
on an analog PBX. This feature was developed mainly for Hotel and Motels
but I doubt there are any manufacturers who would develop this
functionality for any ATA's as this technology is very old. your best bet
is to use the  stuttered dial tone or buy (as a previous person has
suggested) a cheapo Grandstream (you can re-spay them any colour)


Henry L.Coleman CEO
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Toronto Ontario
Canada


> John,
>
>  Two questions on your comments....
>
>  I have no seen an Insteon computer controller similiar to the old bottle
> rocket. Is there such a device? I am thinking of getting an Insteon
> starter kit bit I have so many X10 devices it will be awhie before, if
> ever, that I get it all changed over. Many items, like spotlights, are not
> available in Insteon.
>
> I would be interested in the Ethernet MWI. I am using many phones on an
> SPA3000 fxs and I can't seem to find an MWI on an analog phone that works
> with Asterisk and the SPA3000, although I have been told that there are
> some that do??? The quick answer would be to put a SIP phone with MWI
> where your wife wants to be able to see the light. I have a Budgtone 200
> and MWI works fine on it. Of course then you have styling and color issues
> that might not past the muster.
>
> Doug
>
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, John Marvin wrote:
>
>>
>> I would suggest that people who don't already have an investment in home
>> automation equipment should look at Insteon rather than X10. Insteon is
>> a next generation version of X10 that provides backwards compatibility
>> with X10. The devices are a little more expensive, but not as expensive
>> as some of the other alternatives. Insteon provides 2 way communication
>> and is a lot more reliable than X10.
>>
>> If you already have an investment in X10 devices you can slowly convert
>> to Insteon, since Insteon provides backwards compatibility, i.e. X10
>> controllers can control Insteon devices and Insteon controllers can
>> control X10 devices, however you won't get all the advantages of Insteon
>> until you have Insteon controllers controlling Insteon devices.
>>
>> For people with some soldering and basic circuit design skills, you may
>> want to consider using ethernet as a home automation bus for some
>> things. I love the Olimex PIC WEB and PIC Mini Web development boards
>> (they cost $49.95 and $39.95 respectively). They have an ethernet port
>> and an expansion connector for the available PIC I/O pins. Microchip
>> provides a free C compiler for Pic processors, and they also have an
>> open source networking stack that works on the Olimex boards. So with a
>> ribbon cable connector and a small breadboard with a few IC's and/or
>> driver transistors you can build a device that responds to commands via
>> the network (or via a built in web server) from your Asterisk server
>> that does about any task you can think of. Lots of fun ... I'm currently
>> building a voicemail indicator (my wife didn't like me taking her
>> answering machine away with the blinking lights when we switched to
>> Asterisk voicemail) using a PIC Web board. Next project will be a web
>> based sprinkler controller.
>>
>> John
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