r/Asterisk

Hello everyone!

I recently got into Asterisk and set up a home PBX to learn and experiment with it, and I'm having a lot of fun already.

It just so happens that almost all of my relatives still have landline phones, so I'd love to build some fun and interactive projects that my whole family can use.

Here are a few ideas of things I'd like to build..

- An IVR adventure/puzzle game.

- A "regional dispatch" IVR (since I have relatives all over Italy), where callers choose a region and hear local music on hold and voice prompts in the local dialect before being connected to the chosen family member.

- Multiplayer games that cousins can play with each other over the phone.

I'm sure there are lots of cool ideas that I haven't even thought of yet.

What are the most fun, creative, or unusual things you've built with Asterisk?

I'm interested in anything whether it's games, IVRs, home automation, weird experiments and useful utilities...

I'd love to hear about your projects and get some inspiration.

Thanks in advance!!

I’ve been working on AVA Operator, a self-hosted, multi-tenant platform for managing AI voice agents across multiple customer PBXs.
I’m looking for feedback from people who actually deploy and manage Asterisk/FreePBX for customers.
If you have 5–10 minutes, I’d appreciate you taking a look at the live demo:
https://demo.agent6789.com
I’d love feedback on:
Multi-tenant workflow
Customer/tenant management
White-label experience
Anything missing that would stop you from deploying it for clients
The open-source core is here:
https://github.com/hkjarral/AVA-AI-Voice-Agent-for-Asterisk
I’m the developer, so don’t hold back—I’d rather hear the hard feedback now than later.

I have a very small collection of landline phone but they are mostly non-functional right now As I do not have a landline service. Ive wanted to make something that allows me to provide functionality, so that you can hear them ring, dial and call services. Calling other phones on the network is what im mainly worried about, but I may try to set up external calls to the public telephone exchange.

I have come up With countless ways to do this, including building my own phone exchange, but one that has shown the most promise is the Cisco VG series. I can find VG3xx series devices for dirt cheap on ebay. They have 24 ports, which is way more than I need, as well as they support pulse dialing. I have yet to find other devices that support pulse dialing.

The only reason I'm heasident to just buy one of the VG310 s, is that It is not a stand alone devices and seems to need a voip server. I have seen people say running a voip server is anywhere between "not that bad" to "worse than ceph".

Also, if there are any options that allow me to control the phones with my own software, that would be Ideal, As I can come up with my own gateway system.