So, I finally got around to running the phone line from my office into the living room. I then unpacked our answering machine and plugged it in, only to find that it died in the move. Now, I had a choice in front of me: break down and spend another $20 on a piece of 1980s technology that will surely break in a month or build my own.
I chose to build my own. I dug up my trusty old external modem which I remembered as having some sort of voice capability. Then I started searching the web for details on Linux telephony.
Several hours later I'd found my tools: vgetty to handle the modem and VOCP to provide the UI (both DTMF and web). VOCP is written in Perl and looks very nice. Unfortunately, I can't say anything nice about vgetty. It's basically undocumented, seemingly unmaintained and I had to actually hack C code to get it to recognize my modem! But, by 4am I had Cartman calling me a bitch out of my modem speakers. Ah, the sounds of success...
-sam
I'm seriously considering a Bang & Olufsen BeoTalk 1200 for my next answering machine. This thing looks very cool.
Re:keeping it lazy
samtregar on 2002-09-09T17:42:59
Ah, but I'm Jewish!;) So, how much does this wiz-bang thing cost anyway? I couldn't find a price anywhere. It does sound cool. -sam
Re:keeping it lazy
gav on 2002-09-09T17:57:44
About $250 I think. B&O aren't cheap...:)
