Selfhosted

40183 readers

1056 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

self-hosted alternative for google voice / manage multiple phone lines and forward to one device (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I currently carry a dual-sim phone to have two numbers, private and work each. I am not entirely happy with this setup however:

Dual sim phones aren't common and cost more when I have to upgrade.
I need call recording for business, but android phones aren't very clear when it comes to call recording support. I had to try and return several new devices.
I would love to have additional temporary phone numbers for privacy (e.g. retails).

And here's my situation:

Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it's Google.
Prepaid SIM cards are cheap and easy to acquire where I live.
I have a bunch of old spare android phones.

I was thinking, could I leave the SIM cards for private and work at home, inserted to phones/devices that are managed by a call-forwarding server, which transparently forward the calls to a third device I am actually carrying?

Self hosted Google Voice is what I would love to have.

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Asterisk / FreeSWITCH. Not sure why you insist on having a SIM card, it's possible with both of these using cellular modems, but it's a lot easier to just get a DID from a VoIP provider.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking about preserving my phone numbers and all that. From what I'm reading, all it takes is a voip provider routing calls directly instead of my own equipment?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, you can also let the provider do all the work if you prefer.