ant-phone1

Usage

Overview

ant-phone is part of ANT (ANT is Not a Telephone). It let's you make and receive telephone calls and talk via sound devices. It uses CAPI 2.0 as ISDN interface.

Options

ant-phone accepts the following options:

-h, --help

Show summary of options

-v, --version

Print version information

-r, --cleanup

Remove stale socket file left by accident by a previous run of ANT. You only need this option if ANT says: "local bind: Address already in use"

-d, --debug[=debuglevel]

Print additional runtime debugging data to stdout, debuglevel = 1..4

-i, --soundin=device

ALSA device name for input (recording), default: "default"

-o, --soundout=device

ALSA device name for output (playback), default: "default"

-m, --msn=msn

identifying MSN (for outgoing calls), 0 for master MSN of this termination/port, default: 0

-l, --msns=msns

MSNs to listen on, semicolon-separated list or '*', default: *

-c, --call=number

Make a running instance of ANT make a call to the specified number, useful for calling from an external address book application

-s, --sleep

Shut down CAPI connection to prepare for removal of broken kernel modules, which don't survive suspend/restore.

-w, --wakeup

Restore CAPI connection after ISDN modules loaded again. The connection will be also restored by dialing a number, but before the connection is restored, you won't be able to accept calls.

Notes

If the used sound devices (arguments of --soundin and --soundout) are equal, a full duplex sound device is needed.

Files

~/.ant-phone/history

the last dialed numbers

~/.ant-phone/options

user specific options file

~/.ant-phone/callerid

saved history of incoming and outgoing calls

~/.ant-phone/recordings/*

recordings of recorded phone calls