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Raspberry Pi Project Ideas: How I Built Call Mom Button
- kumarski 13y agothe next step is probably adding an automated call mom button where it automatically connects to individuals. I think this would be awesome for conference calls etc... Is this possible with Plivo/SMS' apis?
- dhfromkorea 13y agoHi Kumarski, as Andy (author of the post) mentioned earlier, you can connect two (or normally a lot more people) using our conference API and XML and you could use something like cron to schedule the conference call. (if you'd use Python?)
- dhfromkorea 13y agoHi, it's DH from Plivo. Happy to answer any questions regarding Plivo. :D
- kumarski 13y agoIs the thing I'm asking for possible. Will I ever be able to connect 2 individuals by creating an automated call with Plivo. Problem: I hate having to call in some number to do a conference call with a pin code etc.... Is there any way I could get something to automatically connect two people at the same time using Plivo?
- kumarski 13y agoor a scheduled call
- Andriod 13y agoThis is exactly what the Call Mom button does. Call one person and tell Plivo when the call connects to respond by making another call. The limit for that is two people however, more requires their conference call API.
- kumarski 13y agoI must have misread it. thanks for documenting everything.
- Andriod 13y agoI'm Andy, the author of the post and creator of the project. I'll watch for questions here or on the post. It could setup a conference call, but that's a trickier API so I didn't use it. - Andy Fundinger
- nutanc 13y agoYou can use something like easy cron to schedule a call. Scheduling a call with a single http request example at http://blog.kookoo.in/2013/09/scheduling-audio-conference-with-single.html?m=1 http://blog.kookoo.in/2013/09/scheduling-audio-conference-wi...
- Andriod 13y agoYeah, that would work with a ping to Plivo and a dummy callback response too. Same trick as I used here.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoI guess I was a little confused about what this actually does. This does not do any calling, right? It just issues a command to Plivo to call Mom's number and then, when she answers, call a second number (assuming this to be the house where this device is located). At that point the RasPi is totally out of picture as the conversation happens phone-to-phone (possibly getting Plivo out of the picture too?). So you've created an external one-touch speed dial. Is that accurate? Side note: Is there something that prevents me from building this and putting in two numbers I am not associated with? Push button. Two random strangers get calls from each other. Hilarity ensues. That type of thing is kind of scary.
- cbhl 13y agoI haven't used Plivo, but IIRC, with Twilio, you had to verify you owned the number you used in the Caller ID field, either by buying a DID from them or by entering a confirmation code sent to that number via a call and/or SMS.
- dhfromkorea 13y agoHi chhl. With Plivo, you also need to get legitimate numbers to send SMS messages. (numbers purchased on Plivo or numbers ported to Plivo) As you know, this is a preventive measure against spoofing; however there are some edge cases where allowing custom caller IDs might make sense. (e.g. when you want to have people you called get back to a certain number—custom phone line numbers at a large organization.)
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoThat all makes sense. I assumed there would be some safe guards for that very reason.
- dhfromkorea 13y agoTrue, I think that's fair concern.
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