Questions, not really issues but...

[whitedavidp]

I just discovered this and am really interested as nothing else has worked and I have a server box running already. But I am unclear on a few items:

• You say "If your phone is wired you'll need a modem with two ports." My phone service comes out of a fiber modem using typical RJ-11 and then is routed to a patch panel in my home from whence all the extensions in my house are connected via RJ-11. I want all extensions to ring if a call is NOT BLOCKED. Is this possible? Would I need 1 port or 2?

• If a 2-port modem is used, does the server/software act as an in-line filter that I would put between the fiber modem (as input on one port) and the route to the patch panel (which would use the second port)? Maybe I don't understand adequately. But I assume that the software grabs the incoming call from a port on the modem, checks the caller id info against the configured criteria, and then rings the actual phone extension(s) via the second port. Is this at all correct?

• The server runs Windows AND both Android and Linux in virtual boxes. For performance reasons (and do to the difficulty one can have getting USB devices to work properly in virtual boxes), I would prefer to run this under Windows. Is that possible? Any modifications required?

• If a call is NOT BLOCKED, is caller id information passed along to the connected extensions as they ring?

Thanks for all of this!

[AT0myks]

• I believe 1 port should be enough. In your case the modem will be like an additional extension, and yes they should all ring when a call is not blocked (they might also ring a few times when a call is blocked, and unfortunately I don't think we can do much about that). 2 ports is for when the modem is added to an existing phone, the cable previously connected to the phone goes in and a new cable goes out to the phone.

• The first part sounds correct, but for the second part as far as I know that's incorrect. This goes back to the first point, from what I've seen the modem will always act like an additional phone, whether it's used standalone at the end of a cable or added between an existing phone. In a 2-port modem both ports appear to be directly connected (I haven't checked) and I'm fairly certain it cannot intercept the data on the line. I don't know if such a device exists but it would be great to stop the first few rings mentioned above.

• pyserial-asyncio is the library used in this project. Its doc says "Support for Windows is included, though with a different implementation based on polling which may be slower than on other platforms." It's an extension to pyserial which does also support Windows, so in theory it should work. I don't know if some changes would have to be made because I've never tested it myself, but if you do test it on Windows, please tell me the results, and if you encounter an error we can try to come up with a fix.

• Blocked or not, the answer is yes.

Sorry for taking a whole year to respond.