On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 at 19:39 -0600, Chris Carey wrote: > I've finally got a working Asterisk install at home, and I'm trying to > think of how to add some pizzazz. Any suggestions? > > The setup is basic. Inbound/outbound calls are working. Two extensions > (one cisco phone, one sipura). > > Some things I'm planning on: > IVR - Press 1 for front room, Press 2 for the office > Voice Changer > Forwarding to Cell Phones
- Distinctive ring
- Mother-in-law logic (aka ex-girlfriend logic)
- e.g. different messages or behavior depending on who's calling
- or even change the CID name for incoming calls to something more
hip, for a finite set of numbers (or a match of numbers)
- ring only one of the phones depending on who's calling
- DND
- room-to-room calls
- Set up a meetme conference that you can use at the drop of a hat, e.g.
to get a bunch of people together to sing happy birthday to your cat
- TTS announcing who's calling. aka couch potato caller ID
- caller ID pops up on the screen of your laptop/desktop/whatever - aka
computer geek caller ID
- system access, e.g. uptime, load, memory, run a script (might want to
password-protect that)
- call in and secretly monitor your cat in the living room using the
console
- call in and scare the cat with the console (aka paging or intercom)
- zapateller
- make up a wacky answering machine message with Audacity
- dial-a-song
- dial-a-madlib (markov chain)
- math game for the cat
- horoscope
- dictation machine
- control your rhoomba
- jukebox control
- place an automatic call to yourself when some event occurs (using the
manager API)
- new PLUG email
- SCO stock drops further
- alarm clock
- get a motion sensor and combine the intercom and call placing ideas,
to scare the cat (burglars)
- time-of-day logic (fewer rings at night, or no rings)
- write a script to place a crank call
- places call
- with spoofed CID (Jason Hall <801-555-4956>)
- playback(tt-monkeys)
- Use that crank call script automatically from a spam filter, but use
the FBI's CID this time. Or maybe Bill Gates.
- Don't abuse caller ID too much and ruin it for the rest of us who want
to use it for legitimate purposes (look like we called from a business
phone even though we're at home)
- voicemail to email
- time and temperature (and other weather)
- speed dial
- gambling IVR (blackjack hand - if you win your call will be completed.
if you lose you will be disconnected)
- DUNDI
- Allow extended family to place calls in your local area over VOIP
- Set up family voicemail (press 1 for Chris, 2 for the wife, 3 for the
cat...)
- music on hold that reflects what you're currently listening to
Hope that gets the creative juices flowing!
--
Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
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