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* [http://asterisk.org home page] | * [http://asterisk.org home page] | ||
* {{wikipedia|Asterisk PBX}} | * {{wikipedia|Asterisk PBX}} | ||
* [http://www.asterisknow.org/ AsteriskNOW]: customized [[Linux distro]] with Asterisk ready to run | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [http://freepbx.org FreePBX.org]: "a standardized implementation of Asterisk that includes a web-based configuration interface and other tools" | |||
* [http://www.digium.com/en/wheretobuy/digiumdirect/productview.php?category_id=17&product_code=RTDM11B Asterisk Developer's Kit Retail Package] | * [http://www.digium.com/en/wheretobuy/digiumdirect/productview.php?category_id=17&product_code=RTDM11B Asterisk Developer's Kit Retail Package] | ||
===hardware=== | |||
* [http://www.x100p.com/products_1.htm FXO for Asterisk PBX] | * [http://www.x100p.com/products_1.htm FXO for Asterisk PBX] | ||
* <s>[http://www.sipura.com/products/spa3000.htm Sipura SPA-3000 Analog Telephone Adapter]: a simple way to integrate Asterisk into any phone system</s> page no longer available; Sipura seems to have been absorbed by [[Cisco]] | |||
** [https://www.myciscocommunity.com/docs/DOC-7654 Configuring the Cisco SPA8800 IP Telephony Gateway in an Asterisk Environment] | |||
===scripts=== | |||
* [http://www.junghanns.net/en/callback.html callback]: useful for avoiding charges for dial-out minutes on your cellphone | |||
==Notes== | |||
Interesting things one could possibly do with Asterisk (suggested by email from [http://hans.fugal.net Hans Fugal]): | |||
* Distinctive ring | |||
* Mother-in-law logic (aka ex-girlfriend logic) | |||
** e.g. different messages or behavior depending on who's calling | |||
** or even change the CID name for incoming calls to something more hip, for a finite set of numbers (or a match of numbers) | |||
** ring only one of the phones depending on who's calling | |||
* DND | |||
* room-to-room calls | |||
* Set up a meetme conference that you can use at the drop of a hat, e.g. to get a bunch of people together to sing happy birthday to your cat | |||
* TTS announcing who's calling. aka couch potato caller ID | |||
* caller ID pops up on the screen of your laptop/desktop/whatever - aka computer geek caller ID | |||
* system access, e.g. uptime, load, memory, run a script (might want to password-protect that) | |||
* call in and secretly monitor your cat in the living room using the console | |||
* call in and scare the cat with the console (aka paging or intercom) | |||
* zapateller | |||
* make up a wacky answering machine message with [[Audacity]] | |||
* dial-a-song | |||
* dial-a-madlib (markov chain) | |||
* math game for the cat | |||
* horoscope | |||
* dictation machine | |||
* control your rhoomba | |||
* jukebox control | |||
* place an automatic call to yourself when some event occurs (using the manager API) | |||
** new PLUG email | |||
** SCO stock drops further | |||
** alarm clock | |||
* get a motion sensor and combine the intercom and call placing ideas, to scare the cat (burglars) | |||
* time-of-day logic (fewer rings at night, or no rings) | |||
* write a script to place a crank call | |||
** places call | |||
** with spoofed CID (Jason Hall <801-555-4956>) | |||
** playback(tt-monkeys) | |||
* Use that crank call script automatically from a spam filter, but use the FBI's CID this time. Or maybe Bill Gates. | |||
* Don't abuse caller ID too much and ruin it for the rest of us who want to use it for legitimate purposes (look like we called from a business phone even though we're at home) | |||
* voicemail to email | |||
* time and temperature (and other weather) | |||
* speed dial | |||
* gambling IVR (blackjack hand - if you win your call will be completed. if you lose you will be disconnected) | |||
* DUNDI | |||
* Allow extended family to place calls in your local area over VOIP | |||
* Set up family voicemail (press 1 for Chris, 2 for the wife, 3 for the cat...) | |||
* music on hold that reflects what you're currently listening to | |||
* (from Wzl) Automatically send email to [[DNCR]] complaints center when blacklisted numbers call | |||
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Overview
Asterisk PBX is a free, open-source software package which creates a telephone exchange (PBX) in software.
Reference
- home page
- Wikipedia (Asterisk PBX)
- AsteriskNOW: customized Linux distro with Asterisk ready to run
Links
- FreePBX.org: "a standardized implementation of Asterisk that includes a web-based configuration interface and other tools"
- Asterisk Developer's Kit Retail Package
hardware
- FXO for Asterisk PBX
Sipura SPA-3000 Analog Telephone Adapter: a simple way to integrate Asterisk into any phone systempage no longer available; Sipura seems to have been absorbed by Cisco
scripts
- callback: useful for avoiding charges for dial-out minutes on your cellphone
Notes
Interesting things one could possibly do with Asterisk (suggested by email from Hans Fugal):
- Distinctive ring
- Mother-in-law logic (aka ex-girlfriend logic)
- e.g. different messages or behavior depending on who's calling
- or even change the CID name for incoming calls to something more hip, for a finite set of numbers (or a match of numbers)
- ring only one of the phones depending on who's calling
- DND
- room-to-room calls
- Set up a meetme conference that you can use at the drop of a hat, e.g. to get a bunch of people together to sing happy birthday to your cat
- TTS announcing who's calling. aka couch potato caller ID
- caller ID pops up on the screen of your laptop/desktop/whatever - aka computer geek caller ID
- system access, e.g. uptime, load, memory, run a script (might want to password-protect that)
- call in and secretly monitor your cat in the living room using the console
- call in and scare the cat with the console (aka paging or intercom)
- zapateller
- make up a wacky answering machine message with Audacity
- dial-a-song
- dial-a-madlib (markov chain)
- math game for the cat
- horoscope
- dictation machine
- control your rhoomba
- jukebox control
- place an automatic call to yourself when some event occurs (using the manager API)
- new PLUG email
- SCO stock drops further
- alarm clock
- get a motion sensor and combine the intercom and call placing ideas, to scare the cat (burglars)
- time-of-day logic (fewer rings at night, or no rings)
- write a script to place a crank call
- places call
- with spoofed CID (Jason Hall <801-555-4956>)
- playback(tt-monkeys)
- Use that crank call script automatically from a spam filter, but use the FBI's CID this time. Or maybe Bill Gates.
- Don't abuse caller ID too much and ruin it for the rest of us who want to use it for legitimate purposes (look like we called from a business phone even though we're at home)
- voicemail to email
- time and temperature (and other weather)
- speed dial
- gambling IVR (blackjack hand - if you win your call will be completed. if you lose you will be disconnected)
- DUNDI
- Allow extended family to place calls in your local area over VOIP
- Set up family voicemail (press 1 for Chris, 2 for the wife, 3 for the cat...)
- music on hold that reflects what you're currently listening to
- (from Wzl) Automatically send email to DNCR complaints center when blacklisted numbers call
