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.

Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing the latest and greatest version of Asterisk@Home: version 2.1 which includes the CentOS 4.2 version of Linux and Asterisk 1.2. 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.

Here’s the definitive step-by-step guide to quickly installing a functioning Asterisk@Home 2.0 system in under an hour.

Here’s the step-by-step on upgrading Asterisk@Home to the latest, greatest version of Asterisk: Asterisk 1.2.

Three different approaches to keeping the telemarketers off your phone are presented today with step-by-step instructions for implementing each solution with Asterisk@Home.

If your VoIP calls are lacking meaningful CallerID name information, today’s article will show you three quick Perl tricks to solve the problem with Asterisk in under 15 minutes.

This is the third and final article in our series showing HOW-TO build a bluetooth proximity detection system to automatically forward your Asterisk calls whenever you leave your home or office carrying your bluetooth cellphone or headset. Today we get everything working and actually take the system for a test run.