[misterhouse-users] Solution for ringing all phones based on Caller ID?

[Chris H. <ch...@ba...>]

Ok, I've had it with the telemarketers. I was wondering if anybody else 
has any cheap solution that will ring the house phones based on the data 
from Caller ID.

This is how I was thinking it would work. A module answers the incoming 
call. It can see Caller ID and puts that out on a serial port. My 
computer then parses the data, does a lookup and sees that its a friend 
calling. It then tells the module to ring the phones (and puts the 
Caller ID back into the phone lines) and I can then answer it. If the 
computer doesn't recoginise the name then it will go to an answering 
machine that is basically my spam box. Even better would be that if 
somebody is calling from a different number than usual and the computer 
doesn't know that number than can enter a special code that will allow 
them to ring the phones.

So does anybody have any ideas on this? Please tell me its not hard :-) 
I think the hardest (and probably most expensive) is the part that 
re-rings the phones with Caller ID.

Thanks for the help!
Chris

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