David Smiley wrote:
Hello!
I'm totally new to the world of Asterisk, and so my apologies in advance if my
question has been asked before or is in the manual because I'm too new to even
know what to search for.
I own a property far-away that isn't inhabited year-round. I want to come up
with a low-temperature alert system so I can be notified that there is
insufficient heat for whatever reason (e.g. failed boiler, or ... ?). There
are some systems in the several hundreds of dollars price range that could
either hook up to my WIFI to a monitoring service (sometimes with monthly
fees), or a cell-phone based one that sends a text message. Then there are
inexpensive ones for about $60 that can hook up to a plain old telephone jack
and dial a number with an automated voice to alert the receiver of the problem.
But I don't want to buy phone service to this place just for this device.
So I'm wondering if I could buy an adapter of some sort with a phone port and ethernet
port. An "ATA"? But then I'm sure it'd need to talk to some sort of VOIP
service. Where I live year-round I have an underpowered build-your-own HTPC computer
that stays on the internet all the time and occasionally I access it remotely. Perhaps I
could install asterisk there. But then I have no idea. Ultimately I want to get
notified somehow (e.g. email) that this phone dialer sent an alert. Maybe this is more
trouble than its worth :-)
~ David
Sounds like a nice application for an HP Thin Client, AstLinux and an FXS ATA
Even simpler would be an ATA and a VOIP service, though I don't think much of
SIP exposed to the Internet. I suppose since this will only be placing calls
from the ATA though.
What would you do IF there is an alert?Do you have someone who could respond
that is nearby and is able to fix whatever is wrong?
John Novack
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