RE: How do I tell whether the phone's ringing?

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Or you could just mail Li at Laser or Mike at Let's Automate and get a
Homevision Phone/Serial Port like I did ;-)

More details here:
http://www.letsautomate.com/10195.cfm?CFID=1734&CFTOKEN=4223352

HTH

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracey Gardner [mailto:tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 December 2001 18:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] How do I tell whether the phone's ringing?
>
>
> Hello Mark
>
> I did a quick search on google for "ringing current
detector" and
> came up with a number of solutions. Have a look at the following
> examples,
>
> http://www.homeautomator.com/rdetect.htm
>
> http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/telephone_ringer.html
>
> Tracey
>
>
>
>
> tracey.gardner@xxxxxxx
> Lincolnshire
> U.K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Date: 05 December 2001 12:53
> Subject: [ukha_d] How do I tell whether the phone's ringing?
>
>
> >Before I start, let me pre-empt any responsese along the line of
> >"listen", OK :-)
> >
> >Seriously, I'd like Homevision to "do stuff" when the
phone's
> ringing.
> >
> >The "stuff" would initially be along the lines of
> >
> >    If I'm watching a DVD, Laserdisk of Video, then pause it
> >    If I'm watching broadcast TV or playing MP3s on the DDAR
> then turn
> >the volume down a fair bit
> >
> >... but might turn into
> >
> >    [DVD, Laserdisk, VCR]...and then swtich the Telly to the
> >"Homevision" channel and display the incoming number
> >
> >Let's shelve the "how do I get the incoming number" bit
for the
> time
> >being, and concentrate on the "how do I tell the phone's
> ringing"?
> >
> >Any suggestions? I want a _device_ that either plugs into an
> input port
> >on HV or sends an X-10 command. I don't want either a bit of PC
> >software, nor a kit/circuit diagram ... unless it's also
> accompanied by
> >an offer to make it up for me - anyone who's ever seen me
> soldering will
> >understand why I feel this way :-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mark Harrison
> >Head of Systems, eKingfisher
> >
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