The modem by itself may not be able to but with a small bit of work you
could build a current monitor and us it in conjunction with the modem
and get the total time the phone is in use and log all inbound calls as
to who they were. The phone draws little to no DC current until you
pickup (answer) the phone then it draws enough to measure easily.

Davidm

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 09:43, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Monday 10 June 2002 09:11 am, David A. Sinck wrote:
> > 0) get cid from your provider
> > 1) get a cid + linux compatible modem
> > 2a) get one of the many cid apps  (see sourceforge)
> > 2b) roll your own with Device::Serial or direct ioctl calls
> > 3) YMMV
> >
> > For instance, I've got my roll-your-own program sending jabber
> > messages to me currently.  :-)
> 
> On a related topic, does anybody know if any of the cid programs for Linux 
> support logging the call time?  I'm trying to figure out a way to count up 
> the total number of minutes that my phone is in use (incoming and outgoing; 
> local and long distance) and Qwest won't give me that info without a 
> subpoena.  Now I know that my modem can get the CID info without answering 
> the phone, but can it figure out how long the phone is active?
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