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Balu, Do you want events passed to Asterisk from the refrigerator? Or does a reminder type phone call need to be placed on an interval? Please be more specific, since this sounds like a special purpose refrigerator, does it have any way of passing events to an external device? Omar A. Sabek On 10/17/07, Balu Raman <braman09 at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the > refrigerator storing vaccines. > I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ? > Thanks, > balu raman > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Quoting Balu Raman <braman09 at gmail.com>:> Hi, > I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the > refrigerator storing vaccines. > I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ? > Thanks, > balu raman >I used this way back for something similar but forget the details there is a call queue directory you drop files in that can call an arbitrary number, and play a recording. I think for that sort of application though, wouldn't something like digitemp->snmpd->opennms->pager numbers or sms be more appropriate ? the problem I found with the call and play is they build up when the calls go unanswered and the whole sequence of things goes to hell. Then you get calls when all is well again, etc etc., and it really gets annoying when its 3am. opennms has escalation to page other people if unacknowledged, etc., and can try other contact methods if the initial ones fail. you also have built in thresholds like certain temperature might be a warning, another temperature is critical. Jon Pounder _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Inline Internet Systems Inc. Thorold, Ontario, Canada Tools to Power Your e-Business Solutions www.inline.net www.ihtml.com www.ihtmlmerchant.com www.opayc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
The refrigerators will have external outputs to trip relays (even if your customer doesn't know that), ask for the number of their refrigeration mechanic he will tell you how to get electrical/relay outputs for the alarms. These are then connected to asterisk via an interface board so when something trips it results in an event in asterisk (check out the asterisk at home X10 configurations for some ideas), this will then result in a call with a number (or even better a recording being played), eg "meat fridge number 1" "at" "6" "degrees celcius" That's pretty much your answer :-) Regards, Dean Collins dean at collins.net.pr <mailto:dean at c> +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Balu Raman Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2007 4:47 PM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Refrigerator Alarms Hi, I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the refrigerator storing vaccines. I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ? Thanks, balu raman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20071017/5c84385d/attachment.htm
Omar, I am hoping that there may be some temp sensor interface that can be routed to a pc and if the temp falls out of a range, I can have this event call someone. I know what to do in asterisk to make a call. I have to do some research. may be, someone has already done a similar thing. Has to be event driven. Thanks, balu raman On 10/17/07, Omar A. Sabek <omar.sabek at gmail.com> wrote:> Balu, > > Do you want events passed to Asterisk from the refrigerator? Or does a > reminder type phone call need to be placed on an interval? Please be > more specific, since this sounds like a special purpose refrigerator, > does it have any way of passing events to an external device? > > Omar A. Sabek > > On 10/17/07, Balu Raman <braman09 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the > > refrigerator storing vaccines. > > I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ? > > Thanks, > > balu raman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > > > asterisk-users mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Balu Raman wrote:> Hi, > I want asterisk to call a person on the phone for monitoring the > refrigerator storing vaccines. > I am clueless where to look. Can someone clue me in ?OWFS for sure! Here is a screenshot of a program I created a couple years ago to monitor refrigerators/warmers. It would be trivial to have the alarm script call a phone. I have been out of the OWFS loop for a while, but I'm pretty sure there is native alarming and set points now. http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=85502&ssid=33253 Here the owfs website: http://www.owfs.org/ Msg me off list if you have any questions. -jc