Raspberry Pi Project Ideas: How I Built Call Mom Button
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I 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.
You 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 ↗
I'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
the 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?
Hi, it's DH from Plivo. Happy to answer any questions regarding Plivo. :D