Re: Does the following landline phone exist?

[Steve Morgan <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never mind looking for something off-the-shelf, this is an ideal
candidate
for a UKHA project.

I ordered Truecall, but cancelled the order as soon as I realised I could
do it better another way. I've put together my version using a Raspberry
Pi, Asterisk PBX software (actually, Incredible PBX, which adds another
layer of functionality on top of Asterisk) and a Cisco SPA3102 providing a
PSTN-to-IP gateway.

No programming involved, unless you want to and you you can set it up to
access a variety of remote phone books. My specific logic is slightly
different, but yours is perfectly do-able using this setup.

For incoming calls with no caller ID or international numbers, the call is
silently routed to voicemail	with a rather terse message that we don't
accept calls from unknown or international callers; they can leave a
message and if their call is important to us, we'll get back to them.

Calls with caller ID that are on my blacklist are unceremoneously cut off
with the message "this number is not in service"

Otherwise, calls are routed through to the internal phones. If they're not
answered, they'll go to a separate voicemail box. If the call turns out to
be unwanted, I can directly add the number to the blacklist.

Any voicemail is sent out by Asterisk by e-mail, though you can dial in to
check voicemail or use the web interface. Full call logging is standard.

With this scheme, 95% of unsolicited calls are handled without me knowing.
The odd ones that get through, I take great pleasure in ensuring that they
won't get through again. I'm as pleased as punch with it.

Asterisk supports IVR menus, so implementing your PIN scheme is no problem.

Shout up if you want any more information.

Cheers,
Steve


On 14/04/2013 13:04, "Andy" <andywhitfield2002@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Does the following landline phone exist?
>
>I get 5+ cold calls per week day.  Plus now they are ringing me
Saturday
>and Sunday!
>I'm registered with the telephone preference service.  And have been
for
>years.  But doesn't stop the buggers!
>
>So I'm looking for a landline phone that can do the following.......
>
>For INCOMING calls....
>1) If the incoming call has a caller ID and it is in the phone's
'address
>book' then the phone rings as normal.  I can either pick up or let it
go
>to answer phone.
>
>2) If the caller ID isn't in the 'address book' or is blank (as with
most
>cold calling) then the phone SILENTLY answers the call and plays a
>pre-recorded message along the lines of "Your number has not been
>recognised.  Please enter your 4 digit PIN".
>    For friends and relatives who are ex directory, I would give them
>individual PINs (probably last 4 digits of their phone number).  The
PINs
>would be in the phone's 'address book'.  So when they enter their PIN,
>the phone would then ring as normal.
>
>3) Where the caller doesn't have a PIN then a message would play giving
>the caller an alternative method of contact.  E.G. a throw away email
>address.
>    Or perhaps ask the caller to enter a default PIN and go straight to
>answer phone.  Cold callers tend to hang straight up and not leave
>messages.
>
>The idea is cold callers get answered silently (no rings, beeps clicks,
>etc) and I don't get interrupted by them.  Only genuine callers will
get
>through.  And if a genuine caller doesn't have a PIN or isn't
programmed
>in the phone's address book' then they can either contact me by email
>(which I get within 5 minutes on my mobile phone) or perhaps enter a
>default PIN and leave a message on the answer phone (depending on how
>I've set up the phone).
>
>Ideally the phone should have a USB port so I can set up the 'address
>book' etc via my laptop.  Plus look at the logs of missed calls (which
>hopefully will be all cold callers!).
>
>I think BT do a phone that only rings if the caller ID is in the
phone's
>'address book' but it doesn't do the second bit of allowing ex
directory
>callers to enter a PIN.
>So I hope someone knows of a phone that can do all 3 points above?
>
>Regards
>Andy
>
>
>
>
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