Comments on: Introducing Telephone Reminders 2.5: The Free Asterisk Telephone Reminder System

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:36:02 +0000

Has this wonderful app been updated for trixbox 2 ?

[WM: Not yet.]

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:21:35 +0000

Two more issues, I’ve setup email address for the extensions using database put email. When a reminder is picked up, the following lines appear in Asterisk CLI:

77,1″, "email=EMAIL/100″) in new stack
— DBget: varname=email, family=EMAIL, key=100
— DBget: set variable email to myemail@gmail.com
— Executing GotoIf("Local/100@from-internal-1e77,1″, "0?4″) in new stack
— Executing System("Local/100@from-internal-1e77,1″, "mime-construct –to myemail@gmail.com –subject "Telephone Reminder" –attachment /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/reminders/1354.20061013.100.gsm –type audio/gsm –file 1354.20061013.100.gsm –multipart multipart/mixed –string "An important reminder is attached to this message."") in

However, no email is received on my gmail account. I know email is working as voicemails left on extension 100 get forwarded to the gmail account as attachments w/o a problem.

Secondly, if the reminder call is not picked up quick enough, it gets picked up by one of my IVRs, and obviosuly, the phone stops ringing then. I had a similar problem with *62 reminder. The fix by fluke for that is described here: http://www.trixbox.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3610&forum=2#forumpost14600 , can something similar be done such that reminder calls are not intercepted by the IVRs?.

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:15:56 +0000

One more thing, I’m using a SPA3102 as an FXO to dial out through the PSTN. I’ve defined number starting with 123 to be dialed out via the PSTN trunk. When I punch in 1230101234567 (my cellphone) as a reminder number..m at the reminder time, the reminder kicks in…my cellphone rings, but when I pick up, the reminder message is alreadt played, and is being repeared the 2nd time…. if I let the phone ring a few times, I guess I would completley mis the message. How can I make sure the message is not played back UNTIL the cellphone is picked up?. My setup is described here : http://rizsher.tripod.com/trixbox/main.htm

Thanks.

By: Rafael Cortes

Rafael Cortes — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:02:38 +0000

Hey Ward, any plans to update this app to Trixbox? Also I found this app and though it would be a nice touch… http://rminder.com

[WM: Just add a Misc Destinations for Reminders with the extension 123, and everything works as is. In fact, it’s part of the VMware version available for download from Nerd Vittles. The site you referenced looks interesting. I’ll see what I can do.]

By: David Nuttall

David Nuttall — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:57:48 +0000

This works almost straight out the box on Trixbox 1.1.1. The only changes I made were:
Used the 2.7 version, not 2.5
Installed the web interface. I changed line 40 of /var/www/html/reminders/index.php to read
if (preg_match("/[0-9]*\.[0-9]+\..*\.[a-z]+/",$entry)) {

I did this so that the other files that I record in their don’t get displayed as well. This regular expression seems to match only the sound files that are part of the reminder system.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:51:49 +0000

Are there any plans to create a web interface to add reminders? I would not mind one that simply used festival on a text message at a given appointment.

[WM: There is an open source web-based reminder app floating around, but it would make sense to add it to ours so I’ll put it on the Wish List. Thanks.]

By: Ward

Ward — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:21:21 +0000

An update to this article has been posted which addresses a problem with time stamps in the original code that appears to have arisen since the latest Linux kernel was released. This applies to anyone using Asterisk@Home 2.7 and those who have applied a yum update after early April, 2006.

By: Marcial

Marcial — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:04:24 +0000

I installed reminder 2.5 on A@H2.7 and it works up to the password prompt and then it just sounds a busy signal. Has anyone installed it successfuly on 2.7. Thanks. BTW this site ROCKS!!!!!! [WM: Thanks. Just tried it on our system, and it worked fine. If you moved it from a previous version, did you remember to recreate the /var/spool/asterisk/reminders directory? Run CLI and then agi debug and see what it says when you attempt to schedule a reminder. Then post the results in another comment. ]

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:13:05 +0000

Hi Ward,

Thanks for the wonderful work. As part of the wish list, would it be possible to add 1 more field in Asteridex (ie email address) and use these emails to send reminders. At least, by then Asterisk admin can maintain only 1 database.

Again, thank you.

By: Update announcer

Update announcer — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 02:36:59 +0000

Asterisk@Home 2.6 has been released. Is that another soup-to-nuts I smell?

By: Christopher Ford

Christopher Ford — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:07:34 +0000

Awesome, I’ve been waiting like a 4 year old for Christmas morning, and Christmas has finally come. I followed the directions, and it works flawlessly. Made a few test calls, and whammo, right on time delivery. Thanks Uncle Ward. Again, excellent work!!!

(PS The AMP facelift was great too, thanks for including that in here, looks very nice now)