asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Notification of new voicemail by various methods

I would like to have my asterisk ring my cell phone and let me know when a new
voicemail arrives.  In fact if it would automatically put into the voicemail
menu that would be cool too.  In the future I will probably want it to IM me.

Are there good examples somewhere of doing stuff automatically on the arrival of
a new voicemail ?

I noticed a place for the pager email address in voicemail.conf, but I am
looking to be able to configure an arbitrary action on the voicemail arrival.

I could also do this by having a script do something on the arrival of the
voicemail email, but it should be more flexible to do it from within asterisk. 
Do I have to write my own agi application and call it from the same place
VoiceMailMain is called to do this ?

Thanks in advance,

--Rob

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Robert G. Ristroph
Airlink Systems
rristroph@airlinksystems.com
(512) 231-1240 x103





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I am very interested in this also -- its  one thing the phone
company has which asterisk cannot do.  Maybe if the pager Email were a
phone number some code could call the number and ask for the password.


on Friday 09/02/2005 Robert G. Ristroph(rristroph@airlinksystems.com) wrote
 > 
 > I would like to have my asterisk ring my cell phone and let me know when a
new
 > voicemail arrives.  In fact if it would automatically put into the
voicemail
 > menu that would be cool too.  In the future I will probably want it to IM
me.
 > 
 > Are there good examples somewhere of doing stuff automatically on the
arrival of
 > a new voicemail ?
 > 
 > I noticed a place for the pager email address in voicemail.conf, but I am
 > looking to be able to configure an arbitrary action on the voicemail
arrival.
 > 
 > I could also do this by having a script do something on the arrival of the
 > voicemail email, but it should be more flexible to do it from within
asterisk.
 > Do I have to write my own agi application and call it from the same place
 > VoiceMailMain is called to do this ?
 > 
 > Thanks in advance,
 > 
 > --Rob
 > 
 > -- 
 > Robert G. Ristroph
 > Airlink Systems
 > rristroph@airlinksystems.com
 > (512) 231-1240 x103
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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That would actually be kinda easy to do.  Create an extension/menu that 
puts the person in voicemail or whatever else you want it to do.  Create 
a script that is run from crontab that looks for new voicemail.  If 
there is a new voicemail it creates a call file to the cell number.  The 
call file puts them in the extension that puts them in voicemail menu or 
whatever else you want.

If you want it to IM you, then create a script that can send you a 
message on whatever IM client you are using(there should be a few 
examples on google).  Simply have the crontab script call this for the 
desired affect.


--johann

Robert G. Ristroph wrote:
> I would like to have my asterisk ring my cell phone and let me know when a
new
> voicemail arrives.  In fact if it would automatically put into the
voicemail
> menu that would be cool too.  In the future I will probably want it to IM
me.
> 
> Are there good examples somewhere of doing stuff automatically on the
arrival of
> a new voicemail ?
> 
> I noticed a place for the pager email address in voicemail.conf, but I am
> looking to be able to configure an arbitrary action on the voicemail
arrival.
> 
> I could also do this by having a script do something on the arrival of the
> voicemail email, but it should be more flexible to do it from within
asterisk.
> Do I have to write my own agi application and call it from the same place
> VoiceMailMain is called to do this ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --Rob
>