One of the features I find interesting is the ability to have you incoming phone calls announced by this system, thus in a sense making this a techno geek's way of screening phone calls.. a call comes in, your house announces who it is, answer if you wish, ignore otherwise...(i.e. mother in law, long distance promotional salesppl, donate to my charity, take my survey...blah...all the annoying type of calls:)
one of the less expensive ways of doing this is with the NetCallerID device, available recently at http://www.dfwmetrotechs.com for around $15 inluding shipping & handling, Among some of the code contributions in the MisterHouse archive is a little perl job that seemlessly integrates the data that little device sends, both Caller ID and Caller ID on Call Waiting data is passed over a serial link.
Maybe next they might invent a way to screen out the unwelcome guests at the door:)
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One of the features I find interesting is the ability to have you incoming phone calls announced by this system, thus in a sense making this a techno geek's way of screening phone calls.. a call comes in, your house announces who it is, answer if you wish, ignore otherwise...(i.e. mother in law, long distance promotional salesppl, donate to my charity, take my survey...blah...all the annoying type of calls :)
one of the less expensive ways of doing this is with the NetCallerID device, available recently at http://www.dfwmetrotechs.com for around $15 inluding shipping & handling, Among some of the code contributions in the MisterHouse archive is a little perl job that seemlessly integrates the data that little device sends, both Caller ID and Caller ID on Call Waiting data is passed over a serial link.
Maybe next they might invent a way to screen out the unwelcome guests at the door :)