[TriLUG] Speaking of asterisk distros - any experience with plutohome?

Elliot Peele elliot at trilug.org
Sat Nov 5 10:23:47 EST 2005


You might want to take a look at Pound Key.

http://www.rpath.org/project/asterisk/

Elliot

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 09:26 -0500, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> Jon Carnes recently asked about astlinux which seems to be a distro
> targetted at implementing asterisk on appliance style hardware.
> 
> At the other end of the spectrum, have any luggers looked at the
> plutohome project http://plutohome.org/
> 
> This looks like a distro which claims to implement multiple "smart
> home" services and apps in a distributed network architecture.  It
> looks like it's in the same market as high-end home systems
> integration suppliers like Crestron etc.
> 
> Besides telephony (based on asterisk), they also do media center like
> stuff, security, and home automation, all based on FOSS.
> 
> The architecture comprises a "core" server, one or more "media
> directors" (think of set-top boxes), and remote control devices called
> "orbiters."
> 
> I beleive that the core server can also function as a media director.
> The orbiters can be implemented on laptops, or webpads. They also
> claim to have mini-orbiters for Linux/WinCE pdas, and even control via
> bluetooth phones.
> 
> Seems like a pretty impressive portfolio. Does anyone have any experience?
> --
> Rick DeNatale
> 
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