[ale] Remote automation...

[Dan Newcombe]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Byron A Jeff wrote:
> > I'm trying to devise a way of being able to dial my
> > home computer from the office using a phone (not a
> > modem), have it answer, and then somehow tell it to
> Yes it's possible. The application you're looking for is called xringd. It'll
> happily monitor ring sequences on the line attached to your modem, then
> execute strings of commands based on those sequences.

There is a difference between ring sequences and DTMF tones.

What John is looking for is Telephony.  Take a look at
www.linuxtelephony.org.  Good luck - I think the site is chaotic and hard
to use (in other words: sucks)

Other useful links:
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue82/4468.html
http://www.slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/04/12/2023214.shtml
http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=linux+telephony&hc=0&hs=1

Under windows, it is done via TAPI.  Combine it with SAPI (Speech API) and
you can do fun things like call your computer, say "Reboot" and have it do
that.  

	-Dan
Little Story:  My office mate did a simple TAPI program where you call it,
press 1 to start notepad and notepad would start on his machine.  I called
it, pressed 1, and then pressed 1 over and over as fast as I could before
he unplugged the phone line.  Windows98 doesn't do a good job running
50-100 copies of notepad :)




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