Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!netserv2!deven From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Dialing in to your computer Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 90 22:16:16 GMT References: <1990Jan9.181120.2598@aucs.uucp> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.uucp's message of 9 Jan 90 18:11:20 GMT On 9 Jan 90 18:11:20 GMT, 840445m@aucs.uucp (Alan McKay) said: Alan> This is a very easy technical question. That is, I will be Alan> happy with a confirmed yes or no. I want to write a program so Alan> that I can phone my computer from anywhere and enter key Alan> sequences on a touch-tone phone. Of course I want the computer Alan> to be able to recognize what keys are being pressed. I know Alan> that a modem will automajically answer the phone, but does it Alan> have the ability to recognize touch-tones after it answers? If Alan> the answer is yes then I am willing to take it from there, I Alan> just don't want to spend time trying to figure out how to do Alan> something that cannot be done. Most modems will not be capable of this. I think I have een ads before for modems that also do "voice mail" (tone recognition, speech synthesis, sampling) but that was on a PC and was a specialized product. Your average modem has no circuitry for tone recognition. Alan> thanks in advance. Oh, if you wish you *could* give me a few Alan> hints as to how to do it. You could conceivably build the hardware for it; a tone recognition circuit isn't hard to build. You can even get a chip from Radio Shack which will do most of the work for you. Of course, then you have the problem of interfacing with the computer, both hardware and software, and you need to detect the phone ring to answer. All in all, not a simple hardware project perhaps, but not unrealistic. If there is already such hardware available commercially, I wouldn't be surprised, but I can't say where to look, as I don't know. Perhaps someone else can fill in the blank. Deven #include -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.