[plug] phone fax / answering machine

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

There is a company here in WA thats has a working implementation of it.  
My understanding is that it may be that you do not have an account or 
you do not have the right equipment.  As you you need to have someone of 
getting off the telephone exchange to a person's house.  A VOIP phone 
company will give you that.

Also you do have voip telephone equipment to change the structure of the 
data. 

BTW the only reason I know bugger all about this "product" is because we 
are going to implement it in work shortly with an old dual pentium we 
have lying about and we are actually using asterisk or going to use 
asterisk as the program on a debian 3.0r2 box that will hide in the corner.

I can't do anything put rave about asterisk anyways because you can set 
it up to switch between your telephone carrier and an internet carrier. 
You can look for the cheapest method and get it to use that method.  YOu 
can have your own message bank.  Divert the phone calls to your mobile 
and if you don't pick up go to a message bank at home.

Basically these big company type telephone services for free because of 
the maginificent open source.

http://www.techtopia.com.au/index.php

Thats the company in WA.

HTH

Marc

Steve Boak wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 05:56 pm, Russ Powers wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Anybody out there use a linux box as an answering machine and fax
>>send/receive? Any success stories?
>>
>>I have a fax/answering machine but I also have a server that's on all the
>>time so it seems a waste of power having them both on all the time.
>>
>>I also change the answering machine settings depending on the time of day
>>and day of the week. For instance weekends I set it to pick up immediately.
>>But I have to do that manually and usually forget. It would be nice to have
>>a cron job do it automagically.
>>
>>I've been looking around and most seem to involve using vgetty with a
>>modem. Don't know how vgetty and linux would go with an on board modem or
>>how this would impact adsl.
>>
>>I'd be interested in any decent gui's too. Didn't see much available.
>>
>>Thanks.
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>I have been investigating Astersk at http://www.asterisk.org/ for use as an 
>exchange for Voice over IP phones (and *almost* have it working - I can dial 
>out, but not get calls in yet :-). It has all the features you could want for 
>voice menus, multiple message banks for extention numbers, and can be set up 
>to change it's behavior at different times during the day. It comes with a 
>whole host of recorded messages built in when you install it. Unfortunately 
>it requires a telephone line interface card to do what you want, and as it is 
>only just coming up to release status the documentation at 
>http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk is still a bit hard to follow.
>It's probably a bit more complex than you were after and doesn't have it's own 
>setup GUI, although there is a GUI add-on called 'actos' that may do the job. 
>You will have to download the source and compile it yourself, but for me that 
>was simply 'make' and 'make install' and it worked. Then you have to work out 
>how to configure it :-)
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>Oh, I almost forgot - astersk does not do faxes, but you should be able to use 
>your modem as the fax device (if it works as a regular modem under Linux) 
>connected to your normal phone line without bothering your ADSL connection. 
>Software wise, I don't know - I've never tried it.
>
>By the way, does anyone else have a working implementation of asterix using 
>IAX protocol that I could ask a few questions of?
>
>Steve
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