[asterisk-users] Asterisk to switch on electric heaters remotely?

[Darren Wiebe]

  We recently completed a project using products from here:  
http://www.controlbyweb.com/webrelay/  They were easy to setup and can 
be controlled in a variety of fashions included http queries.

Darren Wiebe

On 18/10/2010 8:34 AM, Marco Signorini wrote:
> Hi
> Did you looked at Arduino + Ethernet Shield?
> Is something you can program in C or C++ to receive a simple TCP and/or
> HTTP packet and turn on an external relay.
>  From the dialplan you can run an http query through curl and/or an
> external AGI command.
>
> Best regards,
> Marco Signorini.
>
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> Marco Signorini
> http://www.ethermania.com
> http://www.ingegnitech.com
>
>
> Roberto Piola wrote:
>> we're using a Damocles Mini
>> (http://www.hw-group.com/products/damocles/damocles_mini_en.html). of
>> course, the damocles will have to drive a high-power relay.
>>
>> the damocles can be driven via snmp, so you'll have to simply call the
>> snmpset unix standard utility
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Gareth Blades
>> <list-asterisk at skycomuk.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Something like http://www.audon.co.uk/udin.html UDIN-8R. It can only
>>> control 750W so you will probably need to get it to control a more
>>> powerfull relay as a heater is going to take a lot of current.
>>> It can be controlled by a virtual serial port so you just program the
>>> extension to make a system() call to a simple script which sends a
>>> string of characters to the serial port.
>>>
>>> That device is quite expensive. You could probably find something much
>>> cheaper on ebay.
>>>
>>>
>>> Gilles wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure someone has already tried this: I use a couple of electric
>>>> heaters to heat my office.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to somehow connect them to Asterisk so that I could switch
>>>> them on remotely by either calling the IVR or sending an e-mail to the
>>>> Asterisk host, so that the room is warm when I get to the office :-)
>>>>
>>>> Any information appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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