Weekend Project: Connect a letterbox to Jabber with XBee
As i promised this is my first XBee Project. I just needed a more or less useful application i can “test” the XBee’s in a real environment.
It is in my nature to do crazy things, so i thought it would be really cool to have a notification Jabber Message to my Phone when someone put some letters for me in my letterbox. Here it is ;)
01-08-2010 Update:
The FTDI Chip gives me A fscking LOT PAIN more to come in the next Post. DO NOT USE IT :)
This is my Setup:
- XBee “Coordinator” API Mode connected through a FTDI USB Chip to a linux box
- XBee “End Device” Interfaced with an Atmel ATTiny13v power by two 1.5v AA Batteries
- Perl XBee Module API.pm from Thomas Jager
- Jabber Perl Modules to enable sending messages
- Siemens S685IP DECT Phone that can recieve Jabber messages
Before you read further you should note that i flashed the ZIGBEE firmware (XB24-ZB) API on my XBee’s because i don’t want to miss the mesh feature.
This Setup now runs with 2x Alkaline Batterys in the End-Device for 4 weeks now, and is still running!
Multi-Boot USB Thumb Drive
Ever thought it might be cool to only have an USB-Stick where all your individual security / pentest / recovery / hack-a-tack bootdiscs can be booted?
I thought so!
Crawling the Internet looks promising and shows two different ways how to get an bootdisc on your USB thumbdrive:
- Booting a bootdisc as ISO stored on the drive (which is not compatible to most bootdisc’s)
- Booting abootdisc ISO extracted to a extra Partition on the USB-Drive (which is more compatible)
Remember: both ways are possible on a single Stick, so you can have ISO’s there AND extra partitions with the contents of the original ISO.
SipToSis with Asterisk
I was little busy these days, had a lot of work to do like re-waterproofing my bathtub..
2010-02-17 Edit: Please Read the references i shown on the end of this Post to have an HowTo how to exactly install SipToSis! If i find the Time i can write a detailed Howto with Display environment variables etc, but only if i get some comments to do so :)
Nevertheless i finally managed to Get a working Skype <-> Asterisk connection via SipToSis. Hurray!
I didn’t get Skypeiax to work..
This is how i did it - with Asterisk 1.4.x branch on the same machine skype should also do – running Debian 5.0
