The (extensive) phone system in my house is reachable from the outside world, but I don't like anyone phoning me overnight.
So I've made all the inbound routes time-of-day aware and they now play this message if you phone them overnight
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I0gfkRpPchc
#asterisk #phones #telephones #voip #phoneExchange #telephoneExchange
@jamesderrick I’d love to say I found it lingering on a crusty old tape in a long forgotten answering machine…
unfortunately, I made it out of some royalty free music I found in an online library somewhere, with an AI text-to-speech thing for the announcement
It’s all a sham!
@lpbkdotnet Well, you clearly know the Sansui CrapPhone 2000 *would* have sounded!
The awful MIDI-in-hardware tune almost gave flashbacks. 😉
@jamesderrick oh no! you've now given me a very cursed idea for a dtmf-to-midi adaptor
I think I'll quickly file that one under "projects not to be started"
@lpbkdotnet 😂
Can I have that sound file?
Doesbthis also aplly for the shed phones? Anybody out there sleeping?
@1000millimeter Sure you can! https://downloads.paulseward.com/Telephony_Audio/announce-asleep.mp3
This announcement is only applied to calls that come in over the pstn, or any of the altnet connections I have (cnet, epvpn etc) - and only then if the call would land somewhere that rings a physical phone in the house.
If someone is managing to sleep in the shed (good luck finding somewhere to lie down) they can still phone their breakfast order in to the house!
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Tom Hayward
James Derrick
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