On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 02:05 -0800, mikerob wrote: > Mark.Bennett Wrote: > > > > > > Beyond your current plans of caller ID support, you could turn this > > into an answering machine. Capture messages for unanswered calls > > to a file, display on the SB that messages are waiting, and play > > them back through any SB in the house. > > > > This sort of technology could also allow different greeting messages > > to the answer phone depending on who is calling! > > > > I think that this sort of technology would be a fantastic add-in to > > SlimServer. > > > > > > This functionality is covered by existing open source projects such as > http://www.asterisk.org/ and http://www.pingtel.com/ therefore it may > be easier to interface these applications with Slimserver rather than > reinvent the wheel within Slimserver code.
I agree, it was really the integration with Slimserver that I thought would be useful. When I get a suitable modem I'll play with asterix/pingtel and see how it works. I'm probably too much of a novice at perl to handle the plug-in myself though. -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
