If you are in a country where local calls are "free" for any duration then simply call a number that is answered but they don't care if you tie up their phone line all night. (They might listen to how you make babies).I seem to remember in the old days we would dial our own phone number. This would give a busy signal, but you could leave the phone off the hook for a long time that way. I can't say if this still works or not.
You must have a carrier other than ATT. This is directly from their web site......That was an option setting on mine.
I cant remember the exact codes, but it was something like:
*88,414-445-6565 (Forward to 414-445-6565, one ring notice)
*89,414-445-6565 (Forward to 414-445-6565, no ring notice)
What good would a BBS do for the op's problem? The BBS system will not stop all the phones in the house from ringing......Set up a modem and a small BBS. Tell the dialupers to stop using dial-up join the 21st century and get DSL or Cable.
A BBS
Hi BMorse,
Thanks for your efforts. I am sure you will come up withg something interesting. Pls. keep me up to date with the latest.
Thanks
Bluebird
Hi BMorse,
I am going on vacation for the next couple of weeks. I am sure you will have come up with something Gooood by then.
See you later.
Bluebird
Here in Canada, travel companies are making a good business booking vacationers on cruise ships to Alaska to see the galciers, seals, whales and to experience the fun of freezing to death.Hope you're going somewhere warm
Actually, it's their warm season right now. You should go.Here in Canada, travel companies are making a good business booking vacationers on cruise ships to Alaska to see the galciers, seals, whales and to experience the fun of freezing to death.
Aparently those MT8870 IC's are hard to find and very expensive.... as an alternative I found this one (HT9172D) from Holtek, seems pretty easy to use so I am ordering some samples, and also this Call progress tone detector (HT9020B), these ought to make a pretty cool phone line device....
Since you posted this question my mind has not stopped coming up with posibilities and options for this device... wouldn't it be cool to just pick up a phone in the house, pressing a few keys on the keypad and be able to close or open a garage door? Or turn on the coffee maker without getting out of bed? Possibilities are endless .... with a VoiceCoder IC you should be able to play back stored messages for certain people that call when the phone "ringing" is inhibited (possibly to let them know to call back at a certain time, etc....) .... or even call your house from anywhere and get a "status" report from various sensors, etc... possibilities are almost endless....
B. Morse