[CS-FSLUG] TrixBox for DayCare

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz [mailto:christiansource-
> bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Linc Fessenden
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:02 PM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] TrixBox for DayCare
> 
> Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> > A church I'm associated with is interested in implementing Asterisk,
> > probably TrixBox, to provide an intercom system to 16 day care
> > classrooms and the front office. They'd also like to be able to send
> out
> > announcements.
> >
> > The current implementation plan, assuming open-source solution is
> > selected, would be to purchase a bunch of cheap SIP phones like the
> ones
> > from GrandStream and connect them up to the network (to be run) in
> each
> > room. Then setup Asterisk to operate those phones. This may later be
> > connected to the building PBX, but not immediately. Then for one-way
> > announcements, installing speakers in each room to be either wired
> into
> > a phone or a soundcard on the Astrisk PBX.
> >
> > At this point this is all theory. I'm curious if anyone has played
> with
> > this sort of implementation of Astrisk, or any use of it at all and
> > might have some pointers.
> >
> > Quality of the audio is not a significant concern.
> >
> Well, as a matter of fact I run Trixbox and also use some Grandstream
> Budgetones.  The phones are supposed to be able to be configured to
> auto answer (to speakerphone) which would be fine for point to point.

Cool, thanks for sharing. I was looking at that auto-answer stuff, but
it looked like it could be potentially tricky and a simple
implementation is going to be preferred. By tricky I mean editing config
files by hand as opposed to using the web interface.

> You could also use another and a wireless speaker setup (or wired) and
a
> cheapo amplifier to provide a central paging as well (the phones have
> an audio jack on the back).  

Nice, they have an audio out jack? That could be really useful. Is it
just a standard 1/8" mono jack or something?

> You also then have the ability to not only
> connect these phones to the existing pbx, but you can completely
> replace
> it as well.

That would be a larger undertaking, but may work out once the existing
system is in place and people start liking it.

JSR/