Early morning phone calls

[randomq]

Isn't that why the HPP siren went off a few days back? I figured you had integrated a slack bot...

If you also have a home phone you could easily script some SIP integration to ring you and read out alerts.

[kalakoa]

If you're turning your phone off while you're on-call, I can't help you with that.

What I'm suggesting is: configure the phone so that only Slack can make noise, then have people use Slack for emergency notifications, because the spammers can't send you Slack messages.

[TomK]

Thanks everyone. The original advice I was given is to turn off my phone. I said I can't do that because I have to support operations on the mountain. But I also need to have my phone available for other calls, e.g., from the UK or from the East Coast as well as California and Hawaii. Kalakoa tells me to use Slack but that means keeping my phone turned on which means it has to be in a state in which I can receive calls.

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone, but so far they haven't been too useful.

[Obie]

Verizon has an app that works pretty well. https://www.verizon.com/solutions-and-se...ll-filter/

My solution is I don't answer any calls that aren't on my contact list.

[kalakoa]

use Slack but that means keeping my phone turned on which means it has to be in a state in which I can receive calls

If the ringer is turned off and calls go to voicemail, were they "received"?

I recently upgraded my phone, the old one makes a lovely mini-tablet on wifi, runs Slack just fine, but can't receive calls because it has no SIM. It lives on my nightstand. I have another old phone with Zoom and a wired headset, basically emulating a "cordless phone", I can be on a call anywhere the wifi will reach. Sometimes I make coffee during a meeting. While muted, of course.

[TomK]

"If the ringer is turned off and calls go to voicemail, were they "received"?"

The calls I received went to voicemail which means whoever called me knows I'm real. I know people here think you should be a politician on the Big Island and I agree given your responses to various issues including this one. No matter what, you do your best to redefine the issue while blathering and smothering. You would make a perfect politician in my mind or more likely, a civil servant.

https://youtu.be/pGJH_-S_MGs

[kalakoa]

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment.

Really, I was just trying to understand the apparent disconnect between "turn the phone off" and "get on-call notifications". I had that problem for years, now solved with a second wifi-only phone running Slack.