Re: Caller ID through 12 volt interrupt on whole house audio

[Art Todesco <actodesco@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are some phones (cordless
Panasonic) which have talking Caller ID.
If you could hack some of the signals
(LEDs) to provide the 12 interrupt,
something like this might work.

Greg wrote:
> I have a Russound CAV6.6 whole house audio system which supports 12
> volt interrupt input which will mute any existing audio source and play
> some sound over all speakers (for example, tehy have a doorbell module
> which mutes everything, regardless of which source you have on, and
> plays the doorbell sound).
>
> What I am looking for is a way to have caller id numbers or names
> spoken over the house speakers and have it done with the 12 volt
> interrupt (so that I can have any source on and the caller ID will
> still come on).
>
> I looked for a pre-made module to do this and don't see anything.  I
> have caller id software on a server that supports text-to-speech (which
> is also a source for the Russound system) but don't know how to make
> this go through the 12v interrupt (if I make the caller id a source on
> the Russound system, I would have to have that source chosen to hear
> it).
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>