David Neal <dan@sun.uucp> (06/17/91)
I'm looking for a switch that shuttles between one or more lines based
on distinctive ringing patterns. Ideally the switch would send a
normal ring pattern down the leg selected, thus saving me the expense
of shunts/modems/faxes/answering machines that also detect DR.
The point of all this is to have my otherwise idle home phone appear
as a business phone, and to hopefully allow me to wire up a
voicemail/fax system at home.
Personal 800 number is forwarded to special ring number.
Normal Ring
POTS -------<DR BOX>-------------------------------Answering machine
| |
| Two Line Cordless (Line 1) (Line 2)----
| |
| |
| Modified Ring |
| |
|----<Cheesy voice/fax detection switch> |
| | |
| fax tones detected | |
| | voice detected | Ext 42
<Cheap fax> | |
(or same PC w/fax board) | |
<PC running voicemail board> |
|------------|
PC says:
"Please dial the extension of the party
blah blah blah blah"
Ext 1 = My voice mail
Ext 2 = Roland's voice mail
...
Ext 11 = Take a # via tone detection
and page me with the #
Ext 12 = Take a # and page Roland with it
...
Ext 42 = Ring Cordless phone on line 2
(known to few but keeps home # totally private.)
Ext 911 = Take message, ring me on cellphone and playback.
Any improvements, brandnames, or suggestions, are welcome. John
Higdon 15 lines at home on a 64x16 PBX in your basement smart alecs
need not apply :-) ... (but anything else you might have to say would
be great, Mr. Higdon.)
Also, if this system could be setup so that answer during the day with
a secretary and multiple lines could easily be added later, that would
be even better. In fact, it may be that a very small PBX would scale
better?
David Neal - Unix Contractor at large -- dan@chemsh.uucp - (800) 486-3972