asterisk users - Aug 2011 - Looking for ideas for nice home phone system

I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
system.

Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
house system, etc.  

I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
leave it at that for now.

What is everyone doing ?

Thanks !

On 08/22/2011 04:11 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote:

I have a home and business system that just ties all the lines together 
(combo of zaptel, and sip incoming at several locations), inbound 
routing based on which line it came from. Was using a t1 card and 
channel bank for extensions but migrated away from that to a mix of 
multiline sip hardphones, sip softphones (touchscreens, as well as 
clients on pcs and wifi on android phones), as well as good old analog 
phones hooked up to SPA's (they are all in 2 central locations and just 
use legacy phone wiring), got physical fax machines hooked to those as 
well for outbound, inbound fax on all lines to iax softphone and 
hylafax, even door phones on the spa's in immediate answer mode.

Second dial tone provider for ld on the physical lines all hidden by the 
way dialing is done.
Conference rooms, speed dials, voicemail unified messaging.

Even have forwarding like :
- incoming call rings local phones and sip on wifi if its connected (to 
android phone)
- call rolls over to call out another trunk and dial cellphone (hiding 
this from inbound caller entirely)
- still no answer rolls back in to unified messaging voicemail so no 
messages are ever left on cell phone and subscribing to vm not even 
necessary.

 From my android handset any call I dial I can choose to use cellular or 
sip to complete the call.


Works just fine, really have no major complaints about it. Use the 
freepbx gui.

> I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
> system.
>
> Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
> house system, etc.
>
> I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
> leave it at that for now.
>
> What is everyone doing ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
> system.
>
> Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
> house system, etc.
>
> I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
> leave it at that for now.
>
> What is everyone doing ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>
Asterisk maybe,

Do your homework before coming in and asking for someone to give you all the
options and answers, or go to the biz list and pay someone.....  "Let's
leave it at that for now", geez, talk about something for nothing.  Is
there
anything else that  you need but don't want to pay (money or learning
curve)?

You will get a much better response if you have at least tried something.
For me, I would have built a system, decided what type of phones I wanted to
use, and define my scope of work or end result.  I would try hard to make it
all work, and then if I was stuck on something for over a day, trying
everything I could logically come up with or find on Google, I would post a
SPECIFIC question with all relevant facts.

Sounds like you should just buy something out of the box or hire a
consultant.  This one must be the new record for asking for something for
nothing.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
> system.
>
> Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
> house system, etc.
>
> I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
> leave it at that for now.
>
> What is everyone doing ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>
Asterisk maybe,

Do your homework before coming in and asking for someone to give you all the
options and answers, or go to the biz list and pay someone.....  "Let's
leave it at that for now", geez, talk about something for nothing.  Is
there
anything else that  you need but don't want to pay (money or learning
curve)?

You will get a much better response if you have at least tried something.
For me, I would have built a system, decided what type of phones I wanted to
use, and define my scope of work or end result.  I would try hard to make it
all work, and then if I was stuck on something for over a day, trying
everything I could logically come up with or find on Google, I would post a
SPECIFIC question with all relevant facts.

Sounds like you should just buy something out of the box or hire a
consultant.  This one must be the new record for asking for something for
nothing.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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Panasonic KX-TA824
Or the Panasonic KX-TAW848
Or the Avaya Partner ACS 8.0


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
> system.
>
> Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
> house system, etc.
>
> I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
> leave it at that for now.
>
> What is everyone doing ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________
> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
> New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.asterisk.org/hello
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On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 22:13 -0400, C F wrote:
> Panasonic KX-TA824
> Or the Panasonic KX-TAW848
> Or the Avaya Partner ACS 8.0
Are these Asterisk/VOIP based solutions ?

My original post didn't mention it, but I would like my home system to
be Asterisk based.  

Has anyone figured out how to minimize cell charges when on the road via
making calls via the home phone system ?

Does anyone have their cell phone forwarded to their home phone system
and have it do their messaging ?

Is anyone using Google Phone capabilities in conjunction with Asterisk ?

Thanks !

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 14:11 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> I'm looking for ideas for building a innovative, powerful home phone
> system.
> 
> Something that does voicemail well, integrates cell phones into the
> house system, etc.  
> 
> I know there are a lot of details that need to be discussed, but lets
> leave it at that for now.
> 
> What is everyone doing ?
> 
> Thanks !
>

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> Has anyone figured out how to minimize cell charges when on the road via
> making calls via the home phone system ?
>
> Does anyone have their cell phone forwarded to their home phone system
> and have it do their messaging ?
>
> Is anyone using Google Phone capabilities in conjunction with Asterisk ?
Invest a couple of days reading http://nerdvittles.com/

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 22:13 -0400, C F wrote:
>> Panasonic KX-TA824
>> Or the Panasonic KX-TAW848
>> Or the Avaya Partner ACS 8.0
>
> Are these Asterisk/VOIP based solutions ?
I tried using google translate to see if it will detect another
language here. Unless google thinks like humans I think it was written
in English.
>
>
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The 824 is NOT discontinued.

On 8/23/11, John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
wrote:
>
>
> C F wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:21 PM, John Novack
>> <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>  wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> What do you mean by MD?
>>>
>>
> MD is a common telephony term for Manufacture Discontinued
>
> John Novack
>
> --
>
> Dog is my Co-pilot
>
>

NBX100 by Polycom.  True plug and play.  Can be IP but uses MAC on the LAN
except for the PBX.

It may be discontinued but there is plenty on Ebay.  Cheap, scales well,
tons of options.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:34 AM, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> The 824 is NOT discontinued.
>
> On 8/23/11, John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > C F wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:21 PM, John Novack
> >> <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>  wrote:
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>> What do you mean by MD?
> >>>
> >>
> > MD is a common telephony term for Manufacture Discontinued
> >
> > John Novack
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dog is my Co-pilot
> >
> >
>
> --
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Hans Witvliet
>Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:09 PM
>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Looking for ideas for nice **Asterisk** home
phone system
>
>On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 07:41 -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, linux guy wrote:
>> 
> > How much power does the home asterisk box need ? 
>
>I use a small box (like those hp thin clients) But these are a bit stronger
aluminium housing, instead of plastic, and better foor cooling.
>
>Power consumption: 8 Watt under full load
>CPU:  Model: 6.28.2 "Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z530   @ 1.60GHz"
>Memory Size: 1 GB
>Disk /dev/sda: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 bytes This model has just one ethernet
port, others have two
>Size: 10x10 cm
Is this a custom build box or does a company sell them preassembled?    We are
always on the lookout for potential boxes we can use for small installations.

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:03 -0400, Eric Wieling wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Hans Witvliet
> >Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:09 PM
> >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Looking for ideas for nice **Asterisk**
home phone system
> >
> >On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 07:41 -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
> >> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, linux guy wrote:
> >> 
> > > How much power does the home asterisk box need ? 
> >
> >I use a small box (like those hp thin clients) But these are a bit
stronger aluminium housing, instead of plastic, and better foor cooling.
> >
> >Power consumption: 8 Watt under full load
> >CPU:  Model: 6.28.2 "Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z530   @ 1.60GHz"
> >Memory Size: 1 GB
> >Disk /dev/sda: 64.0 GB, 64023257088 bytes This model has just one
ethernet port, others have two
> >Size: 10x10 cm
> 
> Is this a custom build box or does a company sell them preassembled?    We
are always on the lookout for potential boxes we can use for small
installations.
> 
It is pre-assembled,
You can opt for either no internal disk small (8GB) sdd, larger (64GB)
sdd or ordinary disk, And either no, MS, or ubuntu pre-installed.
Also with/without wifi antenna.

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