<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have heard<br> about Linux computer based answering machines, that will effectively give
<br> you voicemail. It seems to me that any computer can discern one touch-tone<br> from another. So why can't I use specific tones to run specific commands.<br> -(this is one of the few times I wished I had chosen computer engineering
<br> over mechanical engineering)- Surely some one has thought of this before.<br> Thanks for the replies, and keep 'em coming. -Mat<br><br></blockquote></div><br>what you need is asterisk - then program an autoattendant so regular callers your phone rings several times and then goes to voicemail - but if you press a key sequence - you get a voice menu of things you can do. then connect that to agi scripts that do the things you want.
<br><br>I'm not doing any home automation with mine yet. But I'm working to ward that.<br>