• From: Vegas Baby
  • Registered: 2007-12-13
  • Posts: 13

Topic: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

Ok, I now have my Chumby working as a musical callerID device.
When someone calls me, my asterisk box triggers the chumby to play an MP3, when I answer the mp3 stops.

I will try to put together the details on how to do this is anyone asks me about it.

Just post a reply to this topic if you are interested.

What you need:
An Asterisk server
A music streaming server (I am using gnump3 on my asterisk box for this)
A Chumby
2 Asterisk perl AGI scripts
2 shell scripts in /psp/cgi-bin

That is it.

  • From: East Bay, Bay Area, California
  • Registered: 2008-01-01
  • Posts: 38

Re: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

YES YES AND YES!

I have a asterisk box and this would be fricking sweet

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  • Ken
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  • From: San Diego
  • Registered: 2006-08-26
  • Posts: 213

Re: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

Nice one!  Happy to see people making good use of /psp/cgi-bin.

Can you post your instructions on the chumby wiki?  Perhaps under a new section in Chumby Tricks - http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index. … mby_tricks

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  • From: Vegas Baby
  • Registered: 2007-12-13
  • Posts: 13

Re: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

I am working with Jodi to post it on the wiki forum.
We are shooting for some time this month.

  • From: East Bay, Bay Area, California
  • Registered: 2008-01-01
  • Posts: 38

Re: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

Any timeframe on when this will be available?

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  • Registered: 2007-10-26
  • Posts: 24

Re: Chumby as a musical callerID device for Asterisk

I can imagine the asterisk server launching an AGI script which makes a http call to the chumby which launches btplay to start and stop a mp3 streaming off the asterisk server, but how are you overriding the current playing widget to display the caller ID on the screen? Are you somehow suspending the controlpanel process and restarting it afterwards, or using fbwrite to (over)write it on to the screen?

~Rolan

ccolumbu wrote:

Ok, I now have my Chumby working as a musical callerID device.
When someone calls me, my asterisk box triggers the chumby to play an MP3, when I answer the mp3 stops.

I will try to put together the details on how to do this is anyone asks me about it.

Just post a reply to this topic if you are interested.

What you need:
An Asterisk server
A music streaming server (I am using gnump3 on my asterisk box for this)
A Chumby
2 Asterisk perl AGI scripts
2 shell scripts in /psp/cgi-bin

That is it.