Any Asterisk fans out there?

[Beach]

Since I now work at home part time, I needed a more professional phone system than my current Vonage setup. I installed an Asterisk server and was able to setup a VoIP trunk using another VoIP service provider. This gives me a business like appearance (Voicemail, music on hold, faxing, etc...).

Anyway, I have three lines that I use; my main house line, my business line, and my daughters line. I route the inbound calls to both IP based phones and soft phones. The advantages are many, including the price.

One of the things I wanted was the ability to see and hear who is calling when a call is received from the VoIP provider. A Text to Speach CallerID setup that can be installed on all the computers in the house and receives caller information from the Asterisk server.

I was able to bang it out nicely using PureBasic's network functions and Esteban1's excellent PureTTS lib.

I would be happy to share it if anybody is interested. Here is a more detailed information: http://www.penguinbyte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=93

[PB]

Reading the subject, I thought you meant fans of Asterix:

[Fangbeast]

Me too. My daughter and I loved the adventures of Asterix And Obelix

[Tommeh]

Asterisk is awesome, especially if you find a company that need a phone system set up and your confident to do it

The only problem i found was the limit of good (reasonable priced) VoIP phone's. I always end up going with this one http://www.grandstream.com/y-gxp2000.htm[/url]

[Beach]

I wish I had bought that one first. I have the cheap version, the BudgeTone 101. Its not a bad phone, it just can't do the speaker phone very well. I really need that feature. Also, if you mute the call - there is no indication on the phone - so you are never really sure if you are muted or not.

Other than that - its solid. It would be a good break room phone maybe.

[PB]

[Off Topic] Can any Firefox users see the cartoon image of Asterix in my post
above? Because I can't, but I can with Internet Explorer, and I'm trying to work
out why. Even if I disable AdBlock it shows as a broken link, and if I try to view
the image directly with its URL in the Address Bar it says file not found. Weird!
And clearing the cache and restarting Firefox doesn't fix it. Totally stumped.

[Fangbeast]

[Off Topic] Can any Firefox users see the cartoon image of Asterix in my post
above? Because I can't, but I can with Internet Explorer, and I'm trying to work
out why. Even if I disable AdBlock it shows as a broken link, and if I try to view
the image directly with its URL in the Address Bar it says file not found. Weird!
And clearing the cache and restarting Firefox doesn't fix it. Totally stumped.

yes, I can see it. In the past, when I've had this problem, I've also had to check my firewall software and my antivirus and found that I had blocking enabled on all 3, for all sorts of things. Now, I only have FireFox blocking things. No more insanity.

[PB]

Well, a fresh cache delete fixed it, but I don't know why it didn't before.

[Derek]

Reading the subject, I thought you meant fans of Asterix:

Me too!

[Trond]

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[Derek]

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