Mashing up Tripit with Adhearsion

A friend of mine in Barcelona who travels frequently, and runs his own business, recently asked me if he could tie his Tripit location to his business phone routing. Even when he is traveling across the Atlantic, he must be able to provide telephone support to his clients but only based on a reasonable time in the timezone he is in.

Of course you could setup routing rules in your phone system each time you move to a new timezone, but good luck remembering to do this. Tripit now makes a blog badge available that reports your current location based on city, state or country:

My Tripit Adhearsion Comonponent on Github allows you to mashup the details from your badge and use them in your dialplan. Now, you may add this component to your project and add something like this to your Adhearsion dialplan:

adhearsion {
  user_time = tripit_user_time?('jdoe')
  if user_time
    ahn_log.tripit.debug user_time
  else
    ahn_log.tripit.debug 'Error'
  end
}

You may then use this information to decide whether to dial your mobile at your destination, or send it straight to voicemail. This is a great example of using Adhearsion to mashup data available on the web and use it to control your communications.