Re: Recording phone line

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul, this would be illegal, except under very specific circumstances.

You can record your own voice all day, but when you start recording
the voices of others you need to be very careful not to breach a half
dozen rather nasty illegal-intercept and data protection laws.

Dom
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@...> wrote:
>
> 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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