Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. Maybe analog phone lines aren't completely obsolete.
Back to the original question, then.... I only need to manipulate three phone lines. USB modems are cheap and widely available. I think I can do everything I want -- answer, play recordings, listen for key presses, hook flash, transfer calls, and so on, by interacting with the modems over the USB ports. LC might do all of this without too much difficulty. Meanwhile, for many roll-your-own projects, LC is the easiest way to do it, all the more if one already knows LC. Wondering again, has anyone attempted something like this in LC? Asterisk would be over my head. It looks like it can handle very large numbers of phone lines and phone calls simultaneously. More than I need. Cheers, Tim On Jan 15, 2013, at 6:37 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If asterisk will do what you want, but you don't have a spare machine to > run linux, using a vm with an asterisk implementation in it might work. > Virtual machines as services can work pretty well. (assuming you can get > the hardware to behave correctly) > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:37 AM, kee nethery <k...@kagi.com> wrote: > >> Asterisk is HUGE. >> >> There is no reason to port it to Mac. All the cards are what make it so >> useful and those are all for Linux. Odds are, if there is something that is >> telephony based that you want done, you can probably configure Asterisk to >> do it. >> >> You can get books on how to configure Asterisk and I'd suggest that as >> your first step towards researching how to get the telephony system you >> desire, assuming GoogleVoice and other services do not meet your needs. >> >> If you were going to do any kind of Livecode Asterisk project for >> yourself, I'd suggest building something that manipulates Asterisk via >> command line to do exactly what you want. >> >> Kee >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
