Asterisk and Google contacts

So, now I’ve got this shiny new Milestone with Android 2.1 on board. And as a consequence of this fact, I have up2date contacts on google to sync the address book with. I also have a voicemail implementation on my own asterisk that sends me an email with wav attached in case of a missed call ( using voicemail “redirect” of the provider with my own number ). Why not to use both of these and get some...

Getting Asterisk to speak with Google Calendar

The need: A client of mine wants his Asterisk based PBX to be aware of office hours. Simple stuff, he wants the callers not to ring the phones and not to listen the music when there is nobody to answer the call. Problem: The office has 09:00-13:00, 14:00-19:00/Mon-Fri opening hours and this is the easy part because these rarely change and are “fixed”. What about extra ? Holidays? meetings? corporate...

asterisk and skype

Big news, really big this time. The company that leads the proprietary VoIP is opening the doors gates for the standards. Predictably  you have to pay for entrance. Ironically, they do it with the company leading the open VoIP, Digium: GLENDALE, Ariz. (AstriCon 2008)—September 25, 2008—Digium®, creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the leading open source telephony platform, and Skype™, the...