100 Great Halftime Projects For You & Your Asterisk IP PBX
13.03.2008 03:07 VoIP Asterisk
- Source: nerdvittles.com100 Great Halftime Projects For You & Your Asterisk IP PBX
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Over the past twelve months, we’ve covered lots of territory in building an Asterisk PBX for home or small office use. While most of our projects have relied upon Asterisk@Home or TrixBox, many are easily accomplished using any Asterisk system running the Asterisk Management Portal (AMP) or freePBX. Today we offer our latest catalog of what’s available on the Nerd Vittles site and some great links to other Asterisk resources on the web. We’ll keep the list updated as we add new articles down the road so bookmark this new spot and check back from time to time. You can also follow our progress with a news reader. Both RSS2 and Atom feeds are available for Nerd Vittles. You’ll also find our feeds on Planet Asterisk and Planet Gadget. We try to bite off projects which can be accomplished in about 30 minutes. Your mileage may vary depending upon how many bells and whistles you choose to add to the basic project. If you have a pet project we haven’t covered, drop us a line or post a comment. Yes, we actually read ‘em. Some articles include more than one project. Installing a basic TrixBox system can be completed in less than an hour. Taking into consideration that such an installation includes the full Linux operating system and complete Asterisk application plus the Apache web server, the SendMail and Asterisk mail servers, the PHP and phpMyAdmin applications, the MySQL data base management system, the SugarCRM contact management system, and the Asterisk Management Portal or freePBX, the feat is nothing short of amazing! And, if Linux isn’t your strong suit, not to worry! Check out the VMware edition of Asterisk@Home which self-installs as a Windows application on your Windows XP desktop in about 30 minutes.
With the exception of choosing a VoIP provider and telephones, all of these projects have at least one thing in common. None of them will cost you a dime. We do encourage you to support the development efforts of those that have made all of this possible by contributing even a dollar or two to the cause to help defray the costs of hardware to test all of this stuff, but that of course is left completely up to you.
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Introducing PBX in a Flash: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine (Available Now!)
Some Asterisk Stocking Stuffers from Santa
Introducing Phone Genie 2.0 for Asterisk
Introducing U-Rang II: Windows Desktop Screenpop Utility for Asterisk
Click2Dial for Every (Asterisk)Man and Woman
Great PBX in a Flash Setup Guide With Big Pictures
Introducing Asterisk@Home 2.8 and freePBX
Asterisk@Home 2.7 Soup to Nuts Installation and Update Guide
Installing the VMware-edition of Asterisk@Home 2.5 on a Windows PC
The Big Picture:Chapter I, II, III, IV, and V
Basic IP Configuration for Asterisk
Using AMP to Configure Asterisk@Home
Configuring Outbound Trunks for Asterisk@Home (or choose your VoIP provider below)
Creating Asterisk@Home Extensions
Configuring Asterisk@Home for Outgoing Calls
Mastering Outbound Call Routing and Dial Plans with Asterisk@Home
Configuring Asterisk@Home for Incoming Calls
Configuring Ring Groups to Simultaneously Ring Multiple Phones
Using Asterisk Call Queues to Manage Incoming Calls
Email Forwarding of Voice Mail
Troubleshooting Asterisk@Home Systems
Making System Backups with Asterisk@Home
Backups and Redundancy with Asterisk
Deploying Voice Over Wi-Fi with Asterisk
Adding HTTPS Support (Secure HTTP) to Asterisk@Home
Using Streaming Audio for Music on Hold
Adding a Custom Calling Directory
Adding Extensions to Call Friends by Name
Creating Voice Mail Addresses for the Internet
Managing Incoming Calls with a Custom Dial Plan
Advanced Dial Plan Tips and Tricks
Adding Automatic Callbacks to the Asterisk Voice Mail System
Adding Customized Recordings to Your Asterisk@Home System
Turning On the Feature Codes With Asterisk@Home
Setting Up An Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) System with Asterisk
Introduction to AutoAttendants and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems
Introducing the CallerID Trifecta for TrixBox 1.2.3 and freePBX 2.2.0
Handling Callers Without CallerID and Other ‘Special’ Callers
Managing Outbound Caller ID with Asterisk
Implementing Prefix Dialing in Asterisk@Home Dialplans
Getting Remote Dialtone with Asterisk@Home – 3 Great Solutions!
Integrating Mobile Phones and Cellphones Into Your Asterisk Dialplan
How To Make Unlimited Cellphone Calls for $5 Using Your Asterisk Dialplan
Upgrading the Asterisk Management Portal to freePBX with Asterisk@Home
Platform Recommendations and Costs
The Perfect Asterisk Server: Ice Cube HU 61 (about $500) … But Any Old Clunker Will Do!
The CompUSA Special (under $400)
The MicroCenter Special ($249)
The Outpost.com Special (under $300)
The Wal-Mart Special ($219.84 or cheaper … see inset above)
Configuring the Sipura SPA-3000 for Asterisk
Best Remote Phone Solution for Asterisk: The IAXy Version 2
Configuring the Xlite Softphone for Asterisk@Home
Configuring AxVoice for Asterisk@Home
Configuring BroadVoice for Asterisk@Home
Configuring DialPad for Asterisk@Home
Configuring FreeDigits for Asterisk@Home
Configuring FWD for Free Outbound Toll-Free Calls with Asterisk@Home
Configuring GoIAX for Free Outbound Toll-Free Calls with Asterisk@Home
Configuring IPkall for Free Incoming Calls with Asterisk@Home
Configuring StanaPhone for Free Incoming Calls with Asterisk@Home
Configuring TelaSIP for Asterisk@Home
Configuring VoipDiscount.com for Asterisk@Home
Configuring Voxee for Asterisk@Home
Other VoIP Providers for Asterisk@Home
Securing Your Asterisk@Home System … a Must Read!
AsteriDex II: Free Web-Based RoboDialer for Asterisk
AsteriDex III: Free Web-Based RoboDialer for TrixBox
U-Rang II: Windows Desktop Screenpop Utility for Asterisk
Blacklisting: Keeping Telemarketers At Bay
Get Your Email By Telephone: Introducing MailCall for Asterisk
Get Your News By Telephone: Introducing NewsClips for Asterisk
Introducing the CallerID Trifecta for TrixBox 1.2.3 and freePBX 2.2.0
3 Perl Ditties to Automatically Restore Names to Inbound Caller ID
Managing Outbound Caller ID with Asterisk
One Ringy-Dingy (No Cost Dialup DISA-on-Demand)
Phone Home (Web-Activated DISA)
Email Forwarding of Voice Mail
The Idolizer: Speed Dialer for American Idol? Addicts
Weather Forecasts Using Airport Codes, Part I
Weather Forecasts Using Airport Codes, Part II
TeleYapper: Asterisk Message Broadcasting System for AAH 1.5 and AAH 2.2
TeleYapper 3.0: Asterisk Message Broadcasting System for AAH 2.5 and later (we hope)
Follow-Me Phoning: Bluetooth Proximity Detection with Asterisk, Part I
Follow-Me Phoning: Bluetooth Proximity Detection with Asterisk, Part II
Follow-Me Phoning: Bluetooth Proximity Detection with Asterisk, Part III
Follow-Me Cruising: Bluetooth Proximity Detection with a TomTom GPS
Follow-Me Phoning: Bluetooth Proximity Detection with an iPhone
Follow-Me Phoning: Implementing Bluetooth Proximity Detection on a Single Asterisk Server
Telephone Reminder System for Asterisk
Telephone Reminder System 3.0 for AAH 2.5 and later
Binary Revolution (just for phun)
Free Samples. Everybody loves free samples. Not sure about a VoIP provider? Well, here’s your chance to take TelaSIP for a free test drive. Just call our Charleston number (shown in the inset) and wait for the fast busy to hang up. There’s no charge for the call because you’re never “connected.” Within 15 seconds you’ll get a return call allowing you to make a FREE 10-minute phone call to almost anywhere in the U.S. All you have to do is key in the password you’re provided when you answer the return call. Keep in mind a few things. You have to call from a phone with CallerID so that the system knows where to call you back. Both legs of the call (to you and to the person you call) use GSM compression so you’re seeing TelaSIP at its most efficient but not necessarily with the best voice quality. You can set it differently on your own system if you like.
Nerd Vittles Demo Hot Line. You now can take a number of Nerd Vittles projects for a test drive… by phone! The current demos include NewsClips for Asterisk (latest news headlines in dozens of categories), MailCall for Asterisk with password 1111 (retrieve your email by phone), and Nerd Vittles Weather Forecasts by U.S. Airport Code. Just call our Stanaphone number (shown in the left margin) and take any or all of them for a spin. The sound quality may not be perfect due to performance limitations of our ancient Intel 386 demo machine. But the price is right.
Want More Projects? For our most recent articles, click here and just scroll down the page.
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Headline News for the Busy Executive (you) and the Lazy Loafers (us). Get your Headline News the easy way: Planet Asterisk, Planet Gadget, Planet Mac, and Planet Daily. Quick read, no fluff.
Got a PDA or Web-Enabled Smartphone? Check out our new PDAweather.org site and get the latest weather updates and forecasts from the National Weather Service perfectly formatted for quick download and display on your favorite web-enabled PDA, cellphone, or Internet Tablet. And, of course, it’s all FREE!
Who Is This Guy?Ward Mundy, the author of this Asterisk article series, is a retired attorney who spent more than 30 years providing legal and technology assistance to the federal courts in the United States.
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