I have a FreePBX setup for my parents. As they are elderly, (95 & 86), I would like to be able to set up a “Panic Button” in each room, that would dial my phone and based on the CID I would know it was an emergency. What I would like is a stand alone button, much like in an alarm system, rather than programming a button on a phone. That way, in an emergency there would be no confusion. Is something like this possible? Are such buttons commercially available?
For less then $ 75 hardware.
I have made a working setup of a panic button system with a Raspberry Pi 2 and a Piface Digital 2 i/0 board.
The Piface gives you 8 inputs.
Installed asterisk 13 on the Pi2 for the calls.
On the python listener script to the inputs I have made a call scripts which moves an call file to the /var/lib/asterisk/outgoing directory which does a Playback of a soundfile after the call is answered.