Kim Plowright wrote:
So… an aquaintance is organising a pervasive gaming event on the south
bank, and wants to run a mobile phone based game during the event.
Is anyone here a genius with any of the following, or know any harware
types that might be willing to provide sponsorship in kind?
This is *completely without my BBC hat on* by the way.
/- automated messaging service (that you can configure to only
receive SMS messages so people with old phones can play)/
/- a way of recording phone calls to hard disk (so that we can
pick out the best encounters & cut together the finished poem in
the translation we create)/
/- A connection between the two things so that you get another
SMS once you've called the hotline/
/- an easy way of of editing the sound files together/
/ /
/Ideally this whole process would be automated so that we don't
need volunteers to man phone lines all night... /
/ /
/We have no money to speak of so freeware / begborrowsteal
solutions greatly appreciated... As you can probably tell from
this email I am a dunce when it comes to tech stuff so please
speak very slowly... /
Kim
Hi Kim,
The best option is Asterisk (http://asterisk.org/) as it can do the
following:
* It can record phone calls. Depending on the complexity the
standard voicemail system might be perfect as this is designed to
record messages and then email them to the specified email address.
* Allows creation of automated menu systems
* Detects caller-id and this can be recorded in database.
* Allows the user of variety of VoIP Services, so you can have a
local number for free (ie - sipgate.co.uk) or use a community
service like http://voipuser.co.uk.
* Its open source and works without problems on most unix/linux/bsd
based operating systems, so would work fine with gammu or gnokii
Of course it all depends on scale of the gaming event, as if there are
going to be large numbers of simultaneous phone calls you will need alot
of hardware and bandwidth.
If you send details of exactly what you need i might be able to help,
but i have never used Asterisk for anything larger then a 1 or 2 users
at the same time
Adam
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