On 14:50, Mon 13 Nov 06, Earle Clubb wrote: > The main thing I'm trying to do right now is replace my answering > machine with *-based voicemail. I want to retain the ability to screen > calls (listen on a speaker while a person is leaving a message), but I'm > not sure of the best way to go about this. Recommendations are > welcome. Note that my * box and answering machine are on two different > floors in my house, so running a speaker in the kitchen (answering > machine location) from the sound card on the * box is doable, but not > desirable.
There's an example of how to do it on the wiki (http://voip-info.org). Cant find it right now but google can help you here and maybe someone here knows what page I mean and can post it > The main reason for this e-mail is to see what other people are doing. > - What service provider/technology do you use for origination/termination? I use IAX2 and have a X100P to terminate my analog phoneline. I dont use the analog line so all asterisk does here is play a soundfile that tells ppl to call my main number. > - What hardware/software do you use and how does it all tie together? A X100P for the analog line. The machine itself is a Debian testing machine running on a P3 600Mhz with 256 MB Ram > - What tasks do you use * to accomplish? Home phone number, business number and conference number. > - Any other pertinent info. I have setup mythtv at home. Asterisk is linked with it with some scripting. What it does is: If a call comes in it puts my livetv on pause and displays callerid information on my tv. I can decide with my remote control to send it to voicemail or I can pickup the phone. When the call is hangup I have 20 seconds to get back on the sofa and the tv will continue to play. Gotta love that ! It does some other stuff like reading rss feeds and system status etc, but that's just something for me as a geek. Good luck with your system. It will be fun, believe me. -- Michiel van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?" _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
