Asterisk (complete n00b)

[Kevin]

On 7/14/06 10:12 AM, "Derek Neighbors" <derek at gnue.org> wrote:

> You could do easily do this with Asterisk.

Excellent.  Do you think it would be worth the trouble if that's the only
feature I was looking for (granted, I'll probably find many other cool
features later)?


> You could do a combination in Asterisk.  You could have a cron job
> automatically turn on and off on a set time, but you could override it
> by turning on earlier or later.

Do you know if it could be baked into the dialplan using something like the
'GotoIfTime' command?
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+GotoIfTime


> There used to be a developer kit for pretty cheap that got you a digium
> board and FSX, FSO modules for about $150.
> http://bsdmall.com/asdekitrepa.html

Thanks for the link.  So, today I have a Cat3 block in the closet that all
phone jacks terminate on.  The pots line from Cox goes into the block and
it's thereby distributed to all jacks in the house.  If I put the pots line
into the FXO on Digium/Asterisk and the FXS out to the distribution block,
would that work?  I only have a single pots line to think about.

Sorry, I'm getting further and further off topic here.  I'll go off to the
asterisk-user list for the gory details, but I thought at least the general
Q&A would be interesting to this crowd.

...Kevin