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Date:      Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:39:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        rosenkranz@geocities.com
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I4B Answering Machine Problems
Message-ID:  <19991203093907.5DA2D38E8@hcswork.hcs.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.19991202203318.tobias-public@gmx.de> from David Wetzel at "Dec 2, 99 08:33:18 pm"

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> Yesterday I configured an answering machine for my NetBSD-server. The
> package works very well. But I have some problems I could not find an
> answer for - at least not in the web, the archives or Usenet. Is the
> I4B answering machine community that small that it's so hard to find 
> traces? 
> 
>  1. The answering machine records the whole call, not just the callers
>     message after the beep. That's annoying and does not make sense.
>     The incoming idle time is for the whole call as well.

I'd appreciate patches to fix that.

>  2. How can I process DTMF touchtones? The tool which is included in I4B
>     will give me the tones from a recorded a-law file. But I need to
>     process the touchtones *while recording*.

I know. I wanted to move the DTMF decoder into the tel-driver but i've
got short of spare time.

>  3. How can I use aliasing in answering scripts ?

Add support to isdnd to optionally emit them to the scripts.

> The few messages I found in the mailing list archives are quite old. I'm
> confused: Are there multiple projects for I4B answering machines or is
> all the development done for the software which is currently included in
> I4B? 

It seems David Wetzel started a high-end answering machine. I have no idea
what the state is.

Otherwise the only answering machine for i4b i know of is part of i4b.

hellmuth
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