ant-phone(1)
NAME
ant-phone - 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.
AUTHORS
- ANT was developed by Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>, based on ideas
from IVCALL, Copyright 2002 Lennart Poettering. G.711 handling by Sun
Microsystems. Contributions by Joerg Mayer <jmayer@loplof.de>, Lars
Volkhardt <Lars.Volkhardt@uni-konstanz.de>, Ivan Schreter
<schreter@gmx.net>.