Ideas for Asterisk

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Asterisk is an Open Source PBX. Here are some ideas I've had for implenting new features.

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Wake-Up Call

You dial a prefix and the time you wish for the wake-up call. At the requested time, your extension rings until picked up.

Needs:

  • Daemon on the Asterisk box to place outbound calls
  • Somewhere to store the wake-up call details
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Caller ID Lookup

An external call comes in but you don't recognise the number. A script on the server looks up the country code (if applicable) and area code, and sets the displayed Caller ID string appropriately. For example, the following number: 

+442079460391

would be replaced by 

United Kingdom

if you were in the USA and didn't have UK phone area codes stored on your Asterisk server. If you were in the UK, or had the UK area codes, the following would appear: 

London / Sun Hill

(note that Sun Hill is a fictitious place)

An enhancement would be to have incoming numbers matched against an LDAP database, with the caller's name appearing: 

John Sample (MOB)
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