Wouldn't it be cheaper to just get her her own phone line?
Or better yet, a cell phone with unlimited minutes of service?
That way you'd be able to call her to come home for dinner (yeah, right),
or she can call for a ride when everyone is too drunk to safely drive.

Lyle Hazelwood wrote:
>
> As I am slowly piecing my home control system together,
> one of the "later someday" ideas is to add a similar type
> of switch to my residential line.. While this method is not
> directly applicable to your situation, some may find these
> (as yet just dreamware) ideas interesting.
>
> I have seen Caller ID units that include a standard serial
> port for ASCII output. Since I'll be wiring my own
> house up for all the goodies, I'll tie all the phone lines
> together in a star configuration. Later when this part
> of the project is done, I'll be able to add relays to
> selectively ring only particular phones based on the
> caller ID number.

So how do you plan to handle the 'pickup' of a phone when
it is NOT ringing? It's not easy to separate the 'ringer' lead
on today's electronic phones.

> I am hoping to get my system to not only know what
> rooms are occupied, but WHO is in each room. That
> way, if a caller is recognized as the friend of a particular
> family member, only the phone in the room that they are
> in will ring. Of course, unrecognized callers or callers
> recognized as other family members (in-laws) will
> ring house wide.
>
> Anyone on this list that does not see the value of this
> feature has probably never had a 14 year old daughter.
>
> I'll get there, I just have other parts of the project
> to finish first.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lawrence Lile" <llile@TOASTMASTER.COM>
> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [EE]: Yet Another Telephone monitor
>
> > Years ago small businesses could buy a two line switch pretty reasonably
> at
> > Radio Shark.  Now they just give me a dumb look.
> >
> > My father-in-law has a situation where he would like a system to answer
> his
> > phone:  "Press 1 if you want Joe, Press 2 if you want Jim"  the phone
> siganl
> > would end up in two places, either at his renter's house, or his cabin
> right
> > out back which he stays in all summer.  Right now, he jsut has a phone
> line
> > to both, resulting in the inconvenience that everyone tries to answer
> > everyone else's calls.
> >
> > Is there anything like this out there?

Yes. If memory serves, 'Phoneblaster' from Diamond Media did this.
Most 'voice response' software on a PC can do this, although it's been
years since I've looked at 'voice capable' modems.
And I picked up a 'fax router' switch at a garage sale that had a canned
voice that said 'Press * for fax'. Joe would just have to tell his callers
that he was the fax machine <G>.


Robert

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