mgetty ringing, and also vgetty...

Stephane Doyon (doyons@jsp.umontreal.ca)
Mon, 18 Dec 1995 17:46:14 +0100


On Dec 18,  9:49am, Gert Doering wrote:
} Subject: Re: mgetty ringing, and also vgetty...
> The USR will be supported some day in the future, but right now, I haven't
> found anyone with enough time to do the programming.

Well I'd like to help if I can!

> Work has progressed, but nothing has been released yet.

In that case I'd be willing to test anything, if it would be usefull...

> > - zplay, if called with -D, must stop the playback as soon as a dtmf tone is
> > detected, which it does not do. This may be caused by a different modem
> > behavior...
> 
> No, it is not meant that way. It will stop playback after *all* DTMF tones
> are required. I think you're confusing this with zplay -C.

No I mean -D! From the man page:
       -D     print DTMF return code on stdout (for use in  shell
              scripts). zplay will quit as soon as a single DTMF
              tone (0-9,#,*) or a hangup is detected.

I believe it works properly while recording (-r) but not when playing  a file.

> No. USR uses a GSM modulation technique (similar to cellular phones). I
> have the necessary information, but no conversion tool has been written
> yet.

Would you be willing to share that information?

I've noticed that binary 0s aren't interpreted as silence by the modem...
When plaing a sound file while waiting for DTMF commands (-C), vgetty/zplay
has to fill the time between the end of the file and the receipt of the #
tone with silence. All 0s doesn't do it: it produces the strangest sound!

Asside from that, the conversion problem and the zplay -D problem, the modem
seems to work OK (after a few hacks...) I'm probably missing a few things,
but how much is there still to be done?

-- 

Stephane Doyon
  Bacc. specialise en informatique                    doyons@IRO.umontreal.ca
  Universite de Montreal                              doyons@JSP.umontreal.ca

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