I got $50 sent to my paypal account for filling in a survey a while back and decided to waste it on random ebay purchases. So I just bought myself a X100P digium FXO (in English this is a piece of hardware that allows me to connect regular telephone lines to any computer and can be used to build my own telephone exchange) . I’ll use that as part of an Asterisk installation that I keep threatening to actually get done. It’ll help me bridge calls seemlessly from the UK to wherever I happen to be. My main UK cellphone will be handled differently, probably through a dedicated VoIP relay service, but I might also have it forward to the line I’ll have this setup to use.
I also bought a couple more wireless cameras. Hannah and Joe had their car attacked by a vandal the other night and my dad recently had someone attempt to break into his car. No longer! For we shall soon have motion watching their every single move with various unpleasant automated reactions, depending upon how evil it is felt must be the response to complete fuckwits fucking around with people’s cars.
Jon.
Can you provide details of the wireless camera(s) – I’d like one !
David.
Cool, you finally got an FXO card. Is it a real Digium one, or a clone? If it is new, its a clone, the X100P was discontinued many moons ago.
Have fun ! We bought a load of these, some ‘grey’ some OEM Digium.
The Digiums’ worked fine, the ‘grey’ ones are a pig as they don’t match line impedance and create all manner of problems with echo cancelation and so forth…
Good to see you are still alive and globe trotting
Jack.