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

[Daniel R. Allen]

That does sound like a lot of fun.  I've got the reverse problem; not
enough screens around the house.  So I can broadcast my incoming CID info
onto the radios around the house which are streaming music from my
computer (over FM)...  But I like the jabber client solution.

How much work was it to set up asterix at work?  What sort of hardware do
you need on your end, for the phone?

-Daniel
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On Tue, 11 May 2004, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> 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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