[kw-pm] Jabber, Asterisk and Net::Jabber Fun

[Pham, Khue D]

I have the C-source version of it :-(.  Let me know if anyone want it.
Also, to make it works, you would need a modem that supports Caller ID.

[ K. P. - Farmer Khue ]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kw-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org 
> [mailto:kw-pm-bounces at mail.pm.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:36 PM
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [kw-pm] Jabber, Asterisk and Net::Jabber Fun
> 
> I tend to play music loud when I'm in my living room with the 
> laptop on my lap.  I usually can't hear the phone ring, or if 
> I am watching TV or otherwise near somewhere where a screen 
> exists, I don't like to get up to see who's calling or dig 
> around for the cordless phone, only to find the battery's 
> dead anyway and make the mad dash to the kitchen phone.
> 
> I also don't have a phone line at home.  All my calls are 
> through Asterisk and VOIP, which leads to some interesting 
> convergence.  :-)
> 
> I finally got around to making a little utility I've been 
> wanting for a while
> now: something which pops up and lets me know who's calling 
> so I can decide whether to get my lazy butt up  and answer 
> it, or if I should just leave it ring.
> 
> Enter astbot.pl.  At 97 lines it's just a wee thing, but it 
> does one thing and one thing well: notifies me of who's calling.
> 
> Features:
> - Stays out of sight in my Jabber Roster until a call comes in
> - Puts the CID information in its online status message
>   (I have my Jabber client, Psi, pop up whenever someone comes online)
>   (Doing it this way doesn't LOG the caller ID info in my 
> jabber client)
> - Written in Perl (natch.)
> - Tries to format the incoming phone number into something 
> intelligible.
> 
> Basically I have Psi set to do MSN-style popups whenever a 
> contact comes online.  The window that comes up is 
> unobtrusive and hangs around for about 5 seconds before 
> disappearing again. When a call comes in, Asterisk runs the 
> script which makes the bot come online (with the CID info in 
> its status
> message) then drop off again.  That's it.
> 
> http://www.mixdown.ca/~andrew/astbot
> 
> Net::Jabber really is quite spectacular.  You could write a 
> really amazing remote control bot with this.  I just barely 
> scratched the surface of what it can do.
> 
> -A.
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