I'm interested in setting up a compact linux box, with the phone line and a phone both plugged in, with a view to personalised messages, maybe recording certain calls, but above all for the flexibility to be able to mute the thing at night or when I'm having a nap.
(To my knowledge, no commercially available answerphone in the UK has an easy to use mute button, whereby messages can be left without the phone ringing or the message being audible as it is spoken. I vaguely recall this is a hangover from the cold war, when it was anticipated the phones would be used to broadcast emergency messages. So BT will not approve any phone with a mute button.)
So I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a compact (hopefully book-sized) linux box, with provision for the phone sockets (maybe an add-on board), and relevant software, perhaps something like this guy was using back in 2004.
If anyone has actually done this, that would be brilliant. Perhaps you could post a "shopping list" of what I need.
TIA
(To my knowledge, no commercially available answerphone in the UK has an easy to use mute button, whereby messages can be left without the phone ringing or the message being audible as it is spoken. I vaguely recall this is a hangover from the cold war, when it was anticipated the phones would be used to broadcast emergency messages. So BT will not approve any phone with a mute button.)
So I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a compact (hopefully book-sized) linux box, with provision for the phone sockets (maybe an add-on board), and relevant software, perhaps something like this guy was using back in 2004.
If anyone has actually done this, that would be brilliant. Perhaps you could post a "shopping list" of what I need.
TIA
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