program to dial land phone, enter password and record?

Question

is there a program for Windows (or linux command line) platform that would do below from a command line?

• call a land phone number (using my SIP account)
• enter password
• record the call
• finishes after a period of time or after the other part hangs up?

Answer 1

Linux command line:

linphone includes a scriptable linphonec command-line version. Starting linphonec with the --pipe option will create a socket in /tmp that one can write to and read from.

It fulfills all your requirements and I've tested (for my own uses) all of them successfully:

• Calling via SIP,
• transmitting DTMF sequences,
• recording a call to file, and
• via parsing its output, you can see when the call finishes and quit the program.

You'd do a loop like this:

#!/bin/bash
socket=/tmp/linphonec-$(id -u)
filename=$HOME/record
number=123456789
passfile=$HOME/1234.wav

linphonec --pipe 2>&1 |
while read -r line
do
    echo $line
    case $line in
        *Ready )
            sleep 1
            echo ">>> initializing"
            for command in "soundcard use files" "record $filename" "call $number"
            do
                echo -n $command | nc -q 5 -U $socket
            done
            ;;
        *Call\ *\ with\ *\ connected. )
            sleep 1
            echo ">>> sending pass"
            echo -n "play $passfile" | nc -q 5 -U $socket
            ;;
        *Call\ *\ ended. )
            sleep 1
            echo ">>> quitting"
            while echo -n quit | nc -q 5 -U $socket 2&>-
            do
                i=$(expr $i + 1)
                if test $i -ge 5
                then
                    echo $(basename $0): could not shut down linphonec &>2
                    exit 1
                fi
                sleep 2
            done
            echo ">>> END"
            exit
            ;;
    esac
done

This is not yet on optimal solution. Note that under >>> sending pass, I'm playing a wav file instead of sending a DTMF sequence. linphone is capable of the latter, but during my cursory fiddling I haven't yet found the right way to do so while sound in- and output is on file basis to allow recording.

Sadly, linphone documentation is sparse. I've had best results just starting linphonec interactively and using the builtin help.