[VoIP] Time and temp, weather, etc.

[John Novack]

Jayson Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      I think it would be cool if some people, myself included, could provide real-time time and temperature, and possibly weather, service, without having to place a call to a local number, since this call might cost money if placed through a voip provider. Has anyone ever thought of designing something like a thin client running Asterisk, Astlinux or whatever, with a time and temperature app? 
Lee Spenadel has, or had, done just this on his box.
I don't know if it is currently active, but his asked for the zip code 
and went to the NWS for the current weather.
Quite a task to set up, as I remember, hazy now, but it worked.

Would have to revisit to see if it could work with AstLinux, which has 
some limitations, but is quite amazing in what DOES work in a less than 
64 Meg CF card.

John Novack

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