Re: OT: telephone black box

Robert Baer wrote:
donald wrote:
Hi Jim,

Do you want a PC app or and embedded app ?

I ask because, how would you get the "addressbook" information into an embedded app.

A PC app has the entire PC for "database" storage.

Of course, "blanking" the line for all extensions maybe a problem.


Not a problem at all... insert box at telco entry point into house.


But the display portion needs to be available to the user. ( you )


donald

It must be a stand-alone especially for decent sales.
Most people will not tolerate a computer in his kitchen where the phone outlet is (space, looks, etc).
It would be nice, but not too cost effective and/or feasable to use the attached phone's keypad, so...one seems to be stuck with having a keypad on the black box.


Why not pass info back-and-forth via USB to a PC, location of your
choice, or even use a wireless router??

...Jim Thompson

This is the crux of the question.

Is this a PC app with all the resources available to a PC or
Is this a standalone app with limited resources.

I, as many here have developed CID devices in the past.
Not much analog involved, CID chips abound, add a microcontroller and software and its done.

I purchased a caller ID box from Target or somewhere a few years ago, disassembled it and found on 8051 single chip processor inside.

Removed the chip and replaced it with my own.

Was kind of fun for awhile, but it never got finished.

That is where my questions are coming from.

donald
Perhaps you have a running start to the stand-alone black box that i have in mind.
If so, need a loan of another pair of shoes?

LOL,

My interest at the time was to capture the CID and then dial out to a pager and send that number to the pager.

It did work, but the pager people changed the interface to their system.

Project died at that point.

The biggest challenge to a stand alone black box is entry of unwanted numbers, or wanted numbers for that matter.

Yes, the embedded app can interface to a PC via all sorts of communications media.

But, Jim what do you want to see.

donald
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