[mythtv] Voice Mail addon

[Kevin Elliott]

I think you might be doing some redundant development, where you could
be saving time for yourself by utilizing other voicemail systems that
already take care of the basics like answering the phone, etc.

For example, Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org) which many of us have
mentioned on this list over the last 6 months.

The problem for many of us with having MythTV handle the phone line
directly, is that many of us already have Asterisk, or some other 
voip service, handling our line(s) and phone(s). It would be more
appropriate to integrate a standardized system rather than just
recreate voicemodem functions. 

Someone recently built a SIP softphone plugin for MythTV. Perhaps you
could collaborate with that person to do things like, add in voicemail
notification from a SIP server (i.e. asterisk should be able to send
data to SIP phones about voicemails associated with the extension),
etc.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but hopefully some people already
working on voicemail and voip stuff will reply to your message as well.

Regards,

Kevin 

Kevin Elliott
kevin at phunc.com

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:02:47AM -0400, David George wrote:
> I have been working on a voice mail addon and wanted to get opinions and 
> give a status update.  I have finished the server part of it that controls 
> the modem and it plays a greeting, records a message, and inserts a record 
> into the voicemail table in the mythconverg database.  Currently it 
> supports the Multitech voice modem using V.253 so it should support other 
> voice modems as well.  It does support caller id and saves the cid info in 
> the database also.
> 
> I am also working on a notification part for it.  It will be able to send 
> email notification and SNPP to a pager over the internet for now, with 
> others coming later.
> 
> I haven't started on the frontend part yet.  To be honest I am not a C++ 
> or Qt programmer so there will be a little bit of a learning curve.  I've 
> only written one C++ program, but I have been programming in C for many 
> years.
> 
> As soon as I do some more cleanup and testing I'll see what I can do about 
> posting it so anyone interested can give it a try.
> 
> Sorry for the cross-posting, but I thought is was something the developers 
> and users lists may want to know about.
> 
> If you would like any additional information or have any 
> opinions/suggestions feel free to email.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 

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