Phoniness

[natbudin]

I've been setting up Asterisk at home.  It's a free, open-source PBX system that uses Voice over IP technology (VoIP).  I've set it up to support SIP, and it also interfaces to the PSTN through a Linksys SPA-3102.

"OK, Nat, what the FUCK does all that mean?"

It means that when you call my land line number (which I will post in a separate, friends-

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[roguesylph]

Nice!

"If anyone has any suggestions for how to make this even cooler, I'd appreciate any and all comments."

Can you get it to do the dishes or make cheesecake?

On a more serious note, can you use it to conference call with multiple people in the house?

[natbudin]

We'll see about the dishes. I'm pretty sure cheesecake is scheduled for an upcoming release.

And yeah, conference calling is definitely in the works - I need to do some more reading before attempting that one though.

[roguesylph]

Mmmmm, cheesecake...

Oh, also: call forwarding to cell phones. Heck, you can make the caller wait through all manner of rings! 3 rings in the room, 3 rings in the public part of the house, 3 rings on a cell phone, 3 rings on the bat phone, 3 rings on a random pay phone in Ottawa (press 3 at any time to just leave a frikkin voicemail already).

[natbudin]

I actually thought seriously about cell phone forwarding. The problem with it is that if you're calling in from a regular phone number, you're already taking up our phone line, which we can't use to place a cell phone call. So we'd have to get some kind of additional phone line to be able to do that (Broadvoice, maybe).

And no, we wouldn't have to make you sit through 3 more rings - it could simultaneously ring the bedroom phone and the cell phone. :-P

[valadil]

Can we get bathroom phones like Jehuda? I wanna be able to tell the phone system when I'm on the can and get all my calls forwarded in there.

I tried to swipe my brother's 7940 btw, but he freaked out and ran away with it. Haven't seen the boy since.

[natbudin]

Jehuda has a BATHROOM PHONE?! That's frickin' awesome!

[neuromancerzss]

Set up an "anyone" number for when people who just want to call your general house call.

[natbudin]

That's not a bad idea. I might very well do that.

[natbudin]

Oh, that would be freakin' sweet. I'm totally going to do that.

[natbudin]

Actually, since making a menu be the default answer for the phone, I haven't gotten one telemarketing call... :)