hodrige
join:2004-04-23
99999
|  [Asterisk] A Wife Friendly Asterisk@home
I am not an asterisk expert. I have installed it and I like it. I am trying to learn it.
One thing I know, wives don’t like simple tasks that they used all their lives to become complicated all of a sudden (like phones and making phone calls).
I would like to setup an asterisk box at home in a way that it is wife friendly. The features that I would like to implement are:
I would like to have my asterisk PBX with 2 digium X100P FXO cards
I would like to use Cisco 7960 hard phones
I would like to be able to use soft phones
I would like to be able to dial out without having to dial 9 first.
I would like to be able to use my asterisk box as an answering machine that rings all the phones for 20 seconds and then plays a greeting and record the caller’s message. To be emailed to an email account I specify. I would like to have the ability to implement a “follow me” feature if I was expecting an important phone call. (If this could be done using a phone rather than “vi” that would be a great plus.) I would like to tell friends that they could dial “9” if the voice mail picks up and they want to get hold of me. Similarly they could dial “8” and get hold of my wife. I would like to be able to dial a 7 digit code and get a dial tone and make long distance/international calls using my home LD provider when calling from my cell phone and office phone.
Is this doable?
Any idea how this could be implemented? Any other ideas to make this a better solution?
Thanks,
Hodrige. |
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Armada1
Heat Miser
join:2001-05-16
Chicago, IL
1 edit | All of these are doable, NONE are spouse friendly. I too have been exploring Asterisk. I will be keeping one POTS line with a regular phone attched to it for her, for a long time to come. |
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LostAussie
Voip Enthusiast
join:2004-02-03
Hoboken, NJ
| said by Armada1  :
All of these are doable, NONE are spouse friendly. I too have been exploring Asterisk. I will be keeping one POTS line with a regular phone attched to it for her, for a long time to come.
I do not know why it can't be done in a wife friendly manner. I am setup so all dialing is identical to the POTS phone we used to have. Visitors etc do not even know that its not a normal phone line. All Asterisk does is looks for dialing patterns and uses different providers to place the call.
For example
•See 01161 the call goes out my Australian provider.
•See 911 the call goes out POTS line.
•See 393 the call goes out through FWD.
•Else the call goes out my US VOIP provider.
All calls into any of the numbers get routed to same phone system.
For general use you would never know it was going through Asterisk.
If they want to use any of the advanced features like 2 stage dialing it becomes less spouse friendly but unless they need those features they are never exposed to them.
To get to 2 stage dialing they hit "*" during my voice-mail greeting. They then get prompted for a pass-code. Then they can access all the same dialing rules (except 911) as if they were picking up the receiver.
I have not tried dialing multiple SIP phones at once but this should be doable through Asterisk. I just use a Sipura which plugs back into my phone wiring which I find very workable. (I don't need any functions from a SIP phone.
The push 8 for wife etc is also easy enough to setup using some extensions.conf modifications.
Again it's only when they need to access the advanced features that it may become less wife friendly but for general use there is no reason this cannot be wife friendly. |
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JayM713
join:2004-04-16
Chicago, IL
| I have such a system running just fine.
911 calls go through POTS (even hangs up the line if it is in use, giving 911 priority)
1800 and 1700 calls go through via IAXTEL (fall back to VOIP, then POTS)
1392 calls go through FWD
011xx calls go through sipgate.de (fall back to VOIP, then POTS)
1xxx calls go through our VOIP line with xxx areacode (fall back to other VOIP)
1yyy calls go through our VOIP line with yyy areacode (fall back to other VOIP)
44.. calls go to extension phones
66.. calls are "speed dial"
8... calls allow me to pick the trunk, then dial
*111 checks general inbox (voicemail)
*222 checks my business voicemail
*44.. could check extension voicemail if needed
all other LD calls go through our VOIP provider with unlimited long distance
Incoming calls ring all phones, except calls coming in on my business line which go straight into voice-mail "dial 0 for operator..."
Incoming calls from our cell-phones get an extended menu which allows us to check voicemail, ring an extension or get a line to dial out on.
I'm currently working on implementing white- and black-lists. If a telemarketer calls, I'll be able to *666 them to the black-list. Any subsequent calls from that number will receive a "not wanted" recording. I'll maintain a white-list for friends and family -- they will receive instructions on how to reach our cell phones directly.
All this is VERY wife-friendly. |
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voorj
join:2004-01-04 | Would you mind providing your extensions.conf file? |
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stufried
Premium
join:2003-10-13 | reply to JayM713
do you really find sipgate's international rates that much better than most. |
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JayM713
join:2004-04-16
Chicago, IL
| Considering only German rates, sipgate is very competitive. 0.019e =~ 2.2c/minute within Germany is the best rate of any provider except Vonage (2c/min), but Vonage is about to leave my house. Also, family can make domestic calls to Duesseldorf, which is much less expensive than calling overseas.
As for the extensions.conf, I'll get that up here in the next few days -- need to find a few minutes to remove phone#s and such. |
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voorj
join:2004-01-04
2 edits | Is sipgate.de works for outbound? I am getting error while trying to register.
Any update on providing the extensions.conf setup you have to the community?
Could you please provide with the sipgate part of sip.conf if possible.
TIA |
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svikash
join:2003-02-16
Sunnyvale, CA | LostAussie/JayM71,
Whatever you guys have listed out sounds quite interesting.Can you list the h/w required for building something like this...like what/how many interface cards etc etc... |
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JonR800
Premium
join:2003-08-06
Farmington, MI
| reply to hodrige
All of this is very doable. It's also possible to make it completely seamless through extensions.conf.
As for friends having priority to reach you, I would do this through caller id. It is possible in extensions.conf to setup specific rules for callers matching a certain caller id string. Check »www.voip-info.org for more information.
For routing local call look here »scottstuff.net/scott/archives/ca···isk.html ... look for asterisk-lca-map. This tool will extract a list of numbers that are local to you. Read the site for a little more info.  |
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