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Copyright (c) 2010 Jonathan Rudenberg

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
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# Tropo Voicemail

This app is designed to replace your GSM phone's voicemail. Instead of a
phone-based voicemail inbox, messages are transcribed and emailed with a link
to the audio file.

Please note that I only spent a few hours writing this, so there may be bugs,
and it's just a starting point that could be developed a lot further.

## Requirements

* [Heroku](http://heroku.com) account
* [Tropo](http://www.tropo.com) account
* FTP server with HTTP access
* GSM phone with call forwarding

## Setup

### Heroku

git clone git@github.com:titanous/tropo-voicemail.git
cd tropo-voicemail
heroku create
heroku addons:add sendgrid:free
heroku config:add EMAIL=you@email.com
heroku config:add VOICEMAIL_URL=http://yourserver.com/voicemail/
git push heroku master

### Tropo

Create a new application on Tropo, and point it to a new Hosted File with the
contents of `tropo-voicemail.rb`. Make sure you change the constants at the top
of the file to be real values. The FTP URL may not match the HTTP URL given
above (you may need a `public_html`).

You now have two options. If you are in the US, then you can add a free USA
Domestic number. Note that you probably want a number in your local calling
area. If you aren't in the US or couldn't find a local number on Tropo, then you
should get a SIP DID from a company like [Voip.ms](http://voip.ms/) and forward
it to the Tropo SIP URI.

### Cell Phone

The last step is to use some GSM feature codes to setup conditional call
forwarding. Dial each of these numbers on your cell phone and press Send:

*67*TROPO_PHONE_NUMBER# (forward if busy)
*61*TROPO_PHONE_NUMBER# (forward if not answered)
*62*TROPO_PHONE_NUMBER# (forward if out of reach)

The phone should show a message after each that says something about the
conditional call foward being set. If for any reason you need to disable these
forwards, use these codes:

##67#
##61#
##62#

## Copyright

(c) 2010 Jonathan Rudenberg; Licensed under the MIT license, see `LICENSE`

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