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

Overnight Phone Announcement

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@lpbkdotnet I really hate to think what Y2K-non-compliant yellowing answering machine that RAN came from originally! Delightfully effective.

@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"