Kevin, others. You could use my Guardian sorta. By
plugging it in at night, and turning off the ringers
in other rooms, recording that 'night time message
with reminder for those who know the extension number
to use it', you could basically drop others off. It
uses no batteries and keeps the extension and message
forever? 

What it does is answers after 2 rings on the line and
immediately goes to the OutGoing Message. Then if the
extension/code is entered, it rings immediately to the
phone. After the whole ogm message is  sent, it then
shifts to my answering machine line, so yes, you can
leave a message, but by then all unwanted/unsolicited
dialers have hung up! Only a dr's office has left a
message and one other person who knew the code/ext and
I wasn't home has left a message. I am a 'low' phone
user person. But got tired of unwanted/solicitors that
either ignored the do not call registry or are exempt
such as political/etc.

I love it! Phone is silent most of the time, ringing
wise!

--- Kevin <plug-discuss@firstpacket.com> wrote:

> I know we have some Asterisk gurus on the list.  I'm
> wondering if it might
> fill a simple need (or maybe it's overkill).  I want
> to create a simple
> greeting on my home phone number during overnight
> hours that says "we're not
> taking calls right now, call back during the
> daytime" or something similar.
> I also need to have a whitelist of caller ID numbers
> that can always get
> through for emergencies (family, neighbors, etc.) 
> From what I have read, it
> seems like the dialplan features can do this.
> 
> I do something similar today with my Cox phone
> service.  I created a
> whitelist of numbers that can always ring-in, then
> at night I dial a *
> command to activate it.  The trouble is that I often
> forget to dial the
> (same) * command in the morning to turn it off.
> 
> I thought about using a modem in one of my linux
> boxes (maybe even my Tivo)
> with a bash script that sends AT commands in the
> evening and again in the
> morning.  Trouble is Cox uses the exact same *
> command to toggle on/off.  It
> would easily get messed up if one of the dial
> attempts missed.
> 
> Sooo... enter Asterisk.  Maybe.  Since I'm not
> interested in VOIP phones,
> would I need a digium board to connect analog
> phones?  Thoughts?
> 
> ...Kevin
> 
> 
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