[sudo-discuss] there is now a payphone outside Omni

[hol at gaskill.com]

this is really neato, thanks jake and rob for continued creative 
projects like this

On 2015-10-19 00:21, Jake wrote:
> tonight Robb and I bolted a payphone to the outside of The Omni, next
> to the front door (on the right).  There is no coin box or cover, and
> the coin slot is filled solid with hot glue.
> 
> it's wired to a VOIP box inside with the door opener computer.
> 
> There is an asterisk server in sudoroom made entirely by Robb, which
> provides telephone service to the VOIP box on the payphone, as well as
> two other VOIP phones so far - one for sudoroom and one for CCL.
> 
> The "phone numbers" are
> sudoroom:            SUDO# (7836#)
> counter culture labs: CCL# (225#)
> front door:          LULZ# (5859#)
> 
> the asterisk computer is running "FreePBX" and I have no idea how it
> works.  Robb is the expert but he is just getting started/
> 
> My vision for the system is thus:
> 
> Person picks up payphone, gets an immediate recorded message saying
> "Welcome to the Omni.  Please enter the extension of the collective
> you are trying to reach, or 1 for a directory" and then have it give a
> directory if you press 1.  Then when the collective picks up the
> phone, they hear that you're outside the door and they can "buzz" the
> door open by pressing * or whatever on their phone.  (Insert magic
> asterisk script here)
> 
> Person outside presses the doorbell button:
> 
> Instead of the doorbell ringing, the button goes to a computer which
> then calls the payphone, causing it to ring (yes it rings).  Person
> who pressed the doorbell button answers the phone, and hears the above
> message, since a "doorbell" is really not appropriate for a space like
> the Omni.
> (We can still have it be wired to the doorbell but it should do the
> above and get the people to use the payphone to contact the collective
> they want)
> 
> There is no limit on the number of phones we can add.  We can put them
> all over the Omni and probably all over the world with a tiny bit of
> network routing.  Also if you have nice non-cordless telephones (not
> rotary though) please consider donating them to the project.  Or VOIP
> boxes.
> 
> I don't think we should tie the system into the regular telephone
> system, for several reasons.  But I do think we should allow
> hackerspaces around the world to tie into it and be able to call
> sudoroom and CCL and each other, but we will have to see what the
> network traffic adds up to on our DSL.
> 
> Please get in contact with me or Robb if you have ideas for the system
> or want to help administrate it.  We have no idea how to operate
> Asterisk or FreePBX.
> 
> thank you
> -jake
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