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i figured while i have no leads on some things i'll bring up an idea i've wanted to try a while back .
i was wondering if theirs a way to send sound over the phone line from a computer , obviously its possible XD , but what would i need to be able to
note : i'm not looking to connect 2 computers . its more to make a program to be able to call a normal phone from my comp , w/o using a voip . sounds easy huh ( doubts it will be )
just use a voice/fax modem, a phone program and a microphone. this is how it was done long before voip came about. plug your phone line into the In port of the modem and you're done.
i was hoping for a software approach since i cant really get any hardware ( broke / in debt big time >.< )
There's Skype. I believe comp-comp communications are free. Also you can try Windows Messenger. It has a feature that'll allow you to communicate via the internet for free. Both programs require internet connection, the software, and some sort of microphone/webcam, and speakers (webcam's only needed if you want to have video connection too).
>.< thats almost word for word the same answer i got the first time i ever asked , and it was on a dif forum about a year ago XP
i dont want to be online at the time ( aka no voip )
and would really like to make it my self ( for exp and the fun of it )
There's such programs called "software modems". I don't know how they work, but I doubt you'd be able to do it in pure Java. You can "place" a phone call by sending different signals to the phone jack (technically, if you're good enough you can "place" a phone call by making noises into the recording mouth piece, I don't know if they changed that now, but it should still work because the design of phone jacks haven't really changed). This is completely dependent on your computer having a valid phone jack (NOT Ethernet jack), as well as you finding the correct signals to send (shouldn't be too hard, just need to record some beeps and boops from a real phone).
the signals are easy , if i'm right all i'd need is the sound api and to know the frequency of the tones ( witch can be looked up ).
the problem is how to send those signals to the phone jack ( yes my comp has a normal phone jack , w/o it i wouldn't be online right now ) know of any obscure api's that may have what i'm looking for ?
I used to work with sending FAX and voice messages from a server environment but we used proper hardware in our servers which could open up over 500 simultaneous connections. These cards were about £3000 each though.
You could always build your self a serial port to phone line cable and try and use the Java Communications API
Oh the joy! :)
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that just might work ,can u control what pin gets what data sent and read from with that?
I'm not sure to be honest. This might be hard to do without having some sort of native layer in between.
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actually i just found a solution already in windows.
location = C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\dialer.exe
and it works even =D , thanks for the help though