Chris Carey

Category: Asterisk

  • Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone 0.12 Released

    This should be much more simple to install than previous versions.

    http://chriscarey.com/projects/asterisk/iphone/

  • Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone updated to 0.12, then 0.20

    I worked a lot on Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone today. I added a bunch of great icons and cleaned up the code a lot so that the next release will be the easiest ever to install.

    Here is a screenshot of v0.12:

    I got so motivated that I decided to rewrite the frontend in a new AJAX library. This cut load times from 7 seconds down to 2 seconds! Its very snappy now. Here is the new version 0.20 which is using the CiUI JavaScript interface

    I hope to release version 0.20 in the next few days.

  • g729 Codec for Asterisk

    http://asterisk.hosting.lv/

  • Installing Asterisk from source on Ubuntu

    These packages must be installed in order to get Asterisk to compile from source on Ubuntu:

    aptitude install bison flex libncurses5-dev build-essential

  • Ideas for a new home Asterisk system

    Here is a response from Hans Fugal, to my PLUG posting back in March 2007

    – 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