If you like to automate everything the Squeezebox audible caller ID hack is for you. Never miss a call again because you have the tunes cranked and no more looking at the caller ID box to see who is calling!
“As described elsewhere, I’ve now got my music collection ripped onto a server PC. A new problem then became apparent: when the phone rang, I had to find (a) the remote for the Squeezebox to pause it, and then (b) the phone to read the incoming number and see who’s calling. When making a call, we needed to pause the Squeezebox first. In both cases, we needed to remember to unpause the music again afterwards. Surely technology could help here — what I wanted was a system which would do a few things:
* Pause the Squeezebox when making outgoing calls.
* Pause the Squeezebox when receiving incoming calls.
* Voice announcement of the person calling, between the rings of an incoming call.
* Start the music playing again when the call ended.
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* Let me unpause the Squeezebox manually, from the remote, during a call.
I’ve put a system together which sits between the phone line and the SlimServer and achieves the above. ”
Via: Hackaday