Red Phone

This is a hack to reactivate an old telephone and use it as alert system. Its possible to play audio over the headset of the phone.

used hardware

• old rotary phone
• Raspberry Pi Zero
• 2 Solenoids (find on Ebay)

used software

• DietPi
• Python

Requirements

apt-get install python3.4 
apt-get install python3.4-dev
apt-get install alsa-utils
apt-get install python3-pip
apt-get install python3-pygame
apt-get install python3-rpi.gpio

Python

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.4 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

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