On 05/01/2013 09:53 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
I heard once about some linux program that would make use of a voice modem. As I recall you could set it up to watch the caller ID data and give out different incoming messages based on the number of the caller. Get something like this and set it up with one of those press (1,2,3,etc) for each person that lives there. For fun include the pets.
Digium (the company behind asterisk) used to sell an adapter called the X100P that was just a very slightly modified modem. In fact they sold theirs for $100, but you could purchase one one ebay that was identical to it hardware wise for $9 (I think that might have even included shipping). In any case, I had one of those $9 X100P in my overkill answering machine for about 6 years... worked great!
Mine was pretty much press 1 to find out why you actually haven't reached CVS Pharmacy or hold to leave a message. (My home phone number is so close to a CVS number that I think I might actually get more of their calls than they do, including faxed in prescriptions). I also had a secret way of power cycling my home system through my "answering machine" via and X10 appliance module.... never did have to use it though.
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