Don't monitor it on the phone monitor it on your dhcp server and setup a dhcp assigned static address based on your phone's MAC address. On Mar 30, 2015 4:04 PM, "Chris McQuistion" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought about going that route (monitoring my WiFi IP address, when I > come on the network), but it seems like iOS turns off WiFi access when > you're not actually doing something on the phone (to save battery life, I'm > sure). If I continually pinged my cell phone's IP address, it might keep > the WiFi on all day, but this would drain battery life, considerably. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Chris, >> You could probably avoid the whole geolocation part of this and even the >> mobile OS issue altogether. Have the system monitor your WiFi network and >> when your phone appears on the network, route to it, otherwise route to >> desk phone. This works with any phone and phone OS, not just iOS or >> Android. The only real drawback is the need to have your wifi on on your >> phone but could have the added advantage to make it simple to tell your >> system to not route to your cell by turning off it's WiFi networking, thus >> vanishing from the network and viola! calls are routed to your desk even if >> you are in the building. >> >> Andy >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Chris McQuistion < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Curt and I were discussing this idea this morning and it seems so >>> obvious that I'm sure someone is already doing this and there are probably >>> already some good ways of accomplishing this. >>> >>> Here's the idea. >>> >>> When I'm at work, I'd like our phone system (Asterisk-based Elastix) to >>> just route incoming calls over to my cell phone number, instead. I've got >>> unlimited minutes and it is always on me. >>> >>> When I leave work, I'd like the call routing to route to my desk phone, >>> as usual. >>> >>> It seems like this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish. If nothing >>> else, IFTTT could be used with the iOS Location or Android Location channel >>> to determine my geo-location. From there, I have to DO SOMETHING with that >>> information, and then have Elastix act on it. >>> >>> This is where I'm stuck. My best ideas so far are to create a new file >>> in Dropbox or append a line in a Google Spreadsheet when I'm entering or >>> leaving the geo-location. This seems a little kludge-y to me. >>> >>> Anyone got a better idea of how to accomplish this goal? It isn't >>> really important. It's just one of those ideas that I've had for a long >>> time and I can't seem to let it go until I figure out how to do it... >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
