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I'm looking for a better, more private solution to an intercom I have between the house and my barn. I have Ethernet run out there, and I currently use the "drop-in" feature on some Amazon echo devices. I'm looking to get away from the Amazon devices entirely (maybe implementing the pine speaker they announced?)

I don't have a lot of requirements, though VoIP would be preferred over a radio style, since it's a metal barn and blocks a lot of signals. I'm good with some self hosted solution, and ideally there's a dedicated device, as I don't want to use my phone or computer for it all the time. I'm probably missing some obvious solution, but figured I'd try to get some ideas together.

Thoughts?

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Look into asterix

https://www.voip-info.org/asterisk-paging-and-intercom/

You should be able to pick up voip phones relatively cheaply these days with all of the commercial offices going to remote.

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That looks pretty good. Looks like a lot of information to parse through, reading up now, thanks!

[–] grapemix@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But you need to know where your family/friend are. Or can the system broadcast to multiple locations?

I saw some companies develop modern walkie talkie solution without wifi nor mobile signal for emergency rescue or expedition. But they are expensive.

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Well in my scenario, both locations would be fixed, so I'm not really concerned about finding locations.

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