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0 pointsdjhworld6y ago0 comments

I have 3 running right now

1x Raspberry Pi model B (from 2012!) - runs a reverse proxy to things in my local network, and runs a dynamic DNS service. It's showing its age as its ARMv6 and I guess at some point updates won't be as frequent so will eventually have to retire it, but it works fine for now.

1x Pi model 3 - runs various services, inc. GOGS a private git server, ZNC, a service to control my TV, a service to control my 'smart plug' lamp through a private API, a private docker registry, a voicemail system connected to Twilio

1x Pi model 3 - running Pi-Hole and wireguard

I love all of them very dearly and looking forward to reading this thread!

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smkelly6y ago

Do you have any more information or a write up on what you're doing with Twilio and voicemail? That sounds sort of interesting.

chrismeller6y ago

You can actually do voicemail within Twilio for free using their TwiML Bins and Functions, you don’t need any extra hardware to maintain.

Just did this for a couple of numbers I set up with SIP. The docs were... confusing and inaccurate but I finally got it to work.

djhworldOP6y ago

No write up unfortunately, I actually made it a few years ago as I was getting a lot of recruiter spam calls, but ever since the GDPR came in that has stopped. I don't receive that many calls these days.

I have my (cell) phones voicemail set to my Twilio number. When a voicemail request hits Twilio, it calls an endpoint hosted on my Pi, which then just calls the Twilio APIs to

1. tell the caller to leave a message after the beep

2. record the message

3. use the speech-to-text API to transcribe the message

4. send me an SMS message with the transcription

It's really just an ersatz visual/text voicemail service that I think iPhone users get. Also the Twilio speech-to-text transcriptions are hilariously bad, I don't think it copes well with UK accents :)

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