Everybody I know that was doing ISDN in those days was using a loophole in the business ISDN (at least with the Bell Atlantic tariff) that allowed "voice" calls to be placed for 10 cents a call. Then you'd get a Data-Over-Speech-Bearer capable router, like the Ascend Pipeline, and make exactly two calls per month; one per B channel.
Presto. 112K full-time connectivity for $35 a month. Plus twenty cents, of course.
It's not Linux, but www.keware.com has a fantastic product for Win32 (Home Seer) that lets you set up web enabled, voice-regognition enabled, scheduled, X10 and other event driven home automation tasks.
They have a beta Home Seer Phone product that interfaces with a voice modem so I can do things like this:
As I'm driving home, I call home from the cell phone. Home Seer Phone picks up and says "yes?"... I say "porch light on" or "MP3 play eva cassidy" or tell it to read me my emails or voice mails...
Lot cheaper than Stargate. Cries out for an open source version...
--Stig
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Everybody I know that was doing ISDN in those days was using a loophole in the business ISDN (at least with the Bell Atlantic tariff) that allowed "voice" calls to be placed for 10 cents a call. Then you'd get a Data-Over-Speech-Bearer capable router, like the Ascend Pipeline, and make exactly two calls per month; one per B channel.
Presto. 112K full-time connectivity for $35 a month. Plus twenty cents, of course.
It's not Linux, but www.keware.com has a fantastic product for Win32 (Home Seer) that lets you set up web enabled, voice-regognition enabled, scheduled, X10 and other event driven home automation tasks. They have a beta Home Seer Phone product that interfaces with a voice modem so I can do things like this: As I'm driving home, I call home from the cell phone. Home Seer Phone picks up and says "yes?"... I say "porch light on" or "MP3 play eva cassidy" or tell it to read me my emails or voice mails... Lot cheaper than Stargate. Cries out for an open source version... --Stig