Telephony

It’s free software day at Nerd Vittles again, and today we’re pleased to introduce TeleYapper, Part II, an Asterisk-based telephone broadcasting service for neighborhoods, schools, little leagues, fundraisers, municipal governments, and anyone else that just wants to pester folks with annoying, but free, prerecorded phone calls. Today we hook up all the pieces and actually start placing calls using our MySQL database engine.

[UPDATED version now on line!] It’s free software day at Nerd Vittles again, and today we’re pleased to introduce TeleYapper, an Asterisk-based telephone broadcasting service for neighborhoods, schools, little leagues, fundraisers, municipal governments, and anyone else that just wants to pester folks with annoying, but free, prerecorded phone calls.

Today we provide a step-by-step Asterisk incoming fax solution which works reliably with PSTN, SIP, and IAX trunks. No dedicated fax line or additional hardware required!

Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing the latest and greatest version of Asterisk@Home: version 2.2 which includes the CentOS 4.2 version of Linux and Asterisk 1.2.1. In addition, you’ll get an Apache web server, SendMail and Comedian mail servers, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, SugarCRM, and much more. The whole project will take you about 90 minutes to complete, and it’s free of charge.

This is the first in a series of articles on backups and redundancy for Asterisk servers. In today’s installment, we provide the recipe for automating backups between Asterisk systems or any two systems running the Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X operating system.

Today we review the TomTom Go GPS units and show you how to connect one up to an Asterisk-based Bluetooth Proximity Detection system or, better yet, a home automation system to warm up that hot tub.