From: <ko...@us...> - 2000-03-30 15:41:19
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Evan, >Someone else's product (not mh compatible) that does what you describe: > http://www.automatedliving.com/ - you will need to follow several links (support, > FAQs, phone connections) to get to the descriptions. Yep, I've looked at Hal2000, does just about everything I want, but of course I want to have free/low cost cake and eat it too. $500+ is a little steep for my tastes. I'm already using mgetty/vgetty to do the dial in voice/DTMF/fax stuff, working great, but I want local control too. Unfortunately my background is in software, so the hardware would have to be pretty much done, although I could probably construct/solder a kit or do simple mods to marry kits (once someone else laid out what those mods/kits should be). Thanks for the info. Kevin |
From: <bi...@in...> - 2000-03-30 20:50:45
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>>Someone else's product (not mh compatible) that does what you describe: >> http://www.automatedliving.com/ - you will need to follow several links >(support, >> FAQs, phone connections) to get to the descriptions. > We've got an old Zyxel external modem that we use with some software under FreeBSD for an answering machine. It will play/record digitized sound via the serial port, send and receive faxes, decode calling # ID, and dial and decode DTMF tones. Any more, most of this is standard on modems, with the exception of decoding touch-tones (as far as I know, anyway). We picked it up for about $25 after a little web searching. For the price, it makes a pretty good starting point for any kind of computer-telephony project... Bill Richman http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf microcomputer simulator!) |
From: <ko...@us...> - 2000-03-31 14:46:25
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After a little bit if digging, it looks as though a VFD (voice/fax/data) modem that has local hand set capability could be the way to go. Poking around the Hal 2000 site, they show a wiring diagram for a typical 4 wire home phone system. They assume you're only using 1 set of wires (bad assumtion in most homes, they also support PBX). They suggest you switch the external lines coming in to the two unused lines, now all your phones are dead. Then use a 3-way line splitting phone connector to plug the lines back into the suggested Digicom 5601-A handset jack on the modem card. It looks like now, Hal/modem is making the connection from the external lines to the internal lines all your phones are on. When you hit #, Hal does something to the external line (the support rep was a little cloudy here), but then 'listens' on the internal lines. Pretty much makes sense, I've got a VFD modem and am doing voice mail, DTMF control, fax ..., but it doesn't support local handset control. The mgetty group pretty much has always said the Zyxel modems where the way to go. Where did you find the $25 Zyxel, I've only seen them for much more? Thanks. Kevin bi...@in... (Bill Richman)@lists.sourceforge.net on 03/30/2000 03:45:51 PM Please respond to mis...@li... Sent by: mis...@li... To: mis...@li... cc: Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] Phone input >>Someone else's product (not mh compatible) that does what you describe: >> http://www.automatedliving.com/ - you will need to follow several links >(support, >> FAQs, phone connections) to get to the descriptions. > We've got an old Zyxel external modem that we use with some software under FreeBSD for an answering machine. It will play/record digitized sound via the serial port, send and receive faxes, decode calling # ID, and dial and decode DTMF tones. Any more, most of this is standard on modems, with the exception of decoding touch-tones (as far as I know, anyway). We picked it up for about $25 after a little web searching. For the price, it makes a pretty good starting point for any kind of computer-telephony project... Bill Richman http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf microcomputer simulator!) ________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 |