In case you weren't aware, I am a VoIP nutcase. I have an Asterisk phone system at home, and all the phones in the house are VoIP of some description (either real VoIP devices or analogue handsets through an ATA). While I haven't converted to VoIP as a replacement for PSTN, I have some connectivity … Continue reading Upgrading from Cisco
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I've written an XML app to display rain radar images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on the screen of a graphics-capable Cisco IP phone. It seemed like it would be simple to do, and I couldn't work out really why no-one had done it. Well it wasn't hard to do, but I can see … Continue reading BOM Radar for Cisco 7970
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail