asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Asterisk up & running, now what?

Hi,
I've recently got * working (thanks Clive and list!) at home. We have
2 PSTN lines
connected via X100P cards. I've got 3 x SIP phones (2 are Budgetone,
the other is
a Tecom SIP).

One of the lines is our standard home line, the other a business line. Presently
I've got * set so you dial 91<tel no> and 92 <tel no> to select
which
line to dial out on.

I should probably say at this stage I am located in the UK. I set * up
to learn more
about this great project and also provide a neat way to be able to
transfer calls
between rooms and the workshop!
I've also found it useful to be able to call extensions at home, from
work via X-Lite softphone and also make calls out via our pstn lines!

I'm looking for suggestions on other useful and of course cool things
I can now do with it?!

Thanks
Mike

Cool things to do for home/small business use...

1. Bring up voicemail on your extensions.

2. Get a US phone number free from ipkall.com.  Get some more free numbers 
from various places. Maybe even pay for one or two. Call forward your POTS 
lines on busy, so that people can be sent to voicemail or to ring in on a 
second appearance while you are on the phone.

3. Create a menu tree (dial one if by land and two if by sea and I on the 
opposite shore will be).

4. Implement paging? On the sound card?

5. Buy some SIP or IAX outgoing minutes. Experiment with less expensive 
outgoing service. For instance, voipjet will terminate in the UK for 1.5c 
(us) per minute. At the current rate of exchange, that's about 1p/min.

6. Implement MeetMe so you can host conferences.

7. Implement tie lines to other Asterisk boxes. For instance, if I dial 11 
and an extension, I get connected within another friend's system over IAX. 
Meanwhile, he dials 2368 and is connected to my inbound menu tree.

That should keep you busy :)

Best,
</edg>



--On Monday, December 13, 2004 11:21 PM +0000 Mike Dent <mcdent@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I've recently got * working (thanks Clive and list!) at home. We have
> 2 PSTN lines
> connected via X100P cards. I've got 3 x SIP phones (2 are Budgetone,
> the other is
> a Tecom SIP).
>
> One of the lines is our standard home line, the other a business line.
> Presently I've got * set so you dial 91<tel no> and 92 <tel
no> to select
> which line to dial out on.
>
> I should probably say at this stage I am located in the UK. I set * up
> to learn more
> about this great project and also provide a neat way to be able to
> transfer calls
> between rooms and the workshop!
> I've also found it useful to be able to call extensions at home, from
> work via X-Lite softphone and also make calls out via our pstn lines!
>
> I'm looking for suggestions on other useful and of course cool things
> I can now do with it?!
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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