asterisk users - Apr 2010 - Follow-me to my answering machine :-(

Hello asterisk users!

I, like many people, have a cell phone.  I also have some SIP phone
devices (software and hardware).  I'd like to have one number that
rings all my phones and routes the call to wherever I pick up.

However, my cell phone has its own call forwarding voicemail.  I can't
just turn that off, because then direct-to-cell calls wouldn't ever get
to voicemail - that would be bad (TM).

app_followme sounds like a solution.  BUT, I also have a car.  And I
cannot use DTMF to respond to the app_followme prompts (which I WANT,
to avoid routing the forwarded call to voicemail when the cell phone is
off and its voicemail "picks up"), while driving.

I've tried using dial macros and AMD(), but this is complex,
very unreliable, and delays the connection of the call significantly.

Is there some way to make app_followme use voice recognition?  Or some
other solution so that I can get all my phones to ring with one number,
even when my cell phone is off or out of range?

Bryan Jacobs
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Hi,
currently I am writing a sound recognition software that will suit
here pretty well - it can recognize your cell phone's "our of radio
coverage" or similar operator message. It's GPL, link here:
http://github.com/Motiejus/SoundPatty

Now the program can say if 2 WAV files match (tested with out of radio
coverage status and GSM network - it works), and right now I am
working with it's support with asterisk (through JACK_HOOK). It
shouldn't take more than a week, I hope.

I will announce to this conference when it's ready :)

Regards
Motiejus

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Bryan Jacobs <no at landwarsin.asia>
wrote:
> Hello asterisk users!
>
> I, like many people, have a cell phone. ?I also have some SIP phone
> devices (software and hardware). ?I'd like to have one number that
> rings all my phones and routes the call to wherever I pick up.
>
> However, my cell phone has its own call forwarding voicemail. ?I can't
> just turn that off, because then direct-to-cell calls wouldn't ever get
> to voicemail - that would be bad (TM).
>
> app_followme sounds like a solution. ?BUT, I also have a car. ?And I
> cannot use DTMF to respond to the app_followme prompts (which I WANT,
> to avoid routing the forwarded call to voicemail when the cell phone is
> off and its voicemail "picks up"), while driving.
>
> I've tried using dial macros and AMD(), but this is complex,
> very unreliable, and delays the connection of the call significantly.
>
> Is there some way to make app_followme use voice recognition? ?Or some
> other solution so that I can get all my phones to ring with one number,
> even when my cell phone is off or out of range?
>
> Bryan Jacobs
>
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Check out the 'p' option for the Dial command.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+Dial

It enables call screening, so you have to press 1 to answer. This can also
prevent the voice mail from being left on your cell phone.
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