[misterhouse-users] homebrew pbx and/or telephone control

[Robert B. <rw...@gm...>]

Has anyone on the list done a homebrew pbx and/or controlled
misterhouse with their in-home telephones?  I don't have MH installed
yet, but am kicking around ideas for doing this.  What I'm thinking is
that I have a telephone in every room, so it could be a convenient
interface to my future MH-enabled PC.  For example, I pick up the
phone and hit 7 for misterhouse operations.  Then another dialcode for
"all lights on" or even speech recognition for "lights on".  If I hit
9 instead of 7, it's outbound dialing as usual.  Or something like
that.

Any thoughts?  It seems like this could be done fairly inexpensively
with some of the newer soft-modems.  My laptop modem (which I never
bothered to make work in Linux) is now detected as an Alsa sound
device.  With a little poking around I could probably learn how to
make it go on and off-hook, or record my phone calls.

Thanks for any discussion or ideas.

-Rob
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Robert W. Brewer