ant-phone(1)
an interactive ISDN telephone application
SYNOPSIS
ant-phone
[options]
DESCRIPTION
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
BUGS
Caller ID stores hangup reason localized. This will break, if someone uses
letters outside of English alphabet for translation of hangup reasons.
