Re: Recording phone line

["Simon Coates" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

I got an email from Planet Numbers the other day regarding their call
recording service.  This might not be quite what you're after but it's an
interesting idea:

http://www.planet-numbers.co.uk/call_recording.jsp

a.. your customer dials your 0845 number
a.. On connection, the customer is played a recorded message, telling him
that the call may be recorded
a.. You pick up the call and carry on your phone conversation as usual
a.. The full call is recorded (no maximum length)
a.. An mp3 file of the call is automatically and instantly sent to your
computer's email inbox along with the time and date of the call

Regards

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Gordon
To: UKHA Group
Sent: 10 August 2007 10:06
Subject: [ukha_d] Recording phone line


Peeps.

One of the things I've long wanted to implement is automatic recording
of all telephone conversations into or out of our house. To this end, I
have most of the essential parts in place: - I have reliable hook
detection of our landline into the HA PC, and I have an audio interface
between the phone line & a line-in port on the HA PC, so all I think I
need now is a piece of code to tie these together. I'm hoping this part
will be quite simple...

As you will no doubt have gathered from the above, I want to use PC
based recording on my HA PC, rather than something like a dedicated
cassette-based telerecorder device. This is for ease of access to the
recordings, and so I have no maintenance to perform (changing a tape for
instance). I simply want to start recording whenever the phone is
off-hook, and stop recording as soon as it goes on-hook. I Want to
record audio into WAV files, with filenames indicating date & time of
the recording, - and that's about it.

I have Homeseer running on the HA PC, so I can use any of the facilities
therein to manage the process, - although I don't currently run HS
Phone, and I don't have 2-way audio between the PC & the phone line. I
also don't get caller-ID from my telco, so I don't need to do anything
fancy with that. Ideally, a nice simple script that could control an
instance of an audio recording tool on the PC would be great.

Anyone got any suggestions?

TIA

Paul G.

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