---
name: "ant-phone"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ant-phone"
version: "0.2.1-2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ant-phone"
---

# ant-phone(1)

an interactive ISDN telephone application

## NAME

ant-phone - an interactive ISDN telephone application

## SYNOPSIS

**ant-phone** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

ant-phone is part of ANT (ANT is Not a Telephone). It let's you make and receive telephone calls and talk via sound devices. It uses CAPI 2.0 as ISDN interface.

## OPTIONS

ant-phone accepts the following options:

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options

- **-v, --version**

  Print version information

- **-r, --cleanup**

  Remove stale socket file left by accident by a previous run of ANT. You only need this option if ANT says: "local bind: Address already in use"

- **-d, --debug***\[***=***debuglevel\]*

  Print additional runtime debugging data to stdout, debuglevel = 1..4

- **-i, --soundin=***device*

  ALSA device name for input (recording), default: "default"

- **-o, --soundout=***device*

  ALSA device name for output (playback), default: "default"

- **-m, --msn=***msn*

  identifying MSN (for outgoing calls), 0 for master MSN of this termination/port, default: 0

- **-l, --msns=***msns*

  MSNs to listen on, semicolon-separated list or '\*', default: \*

- **-c, --call=***number*

  Make a running instance of ANT make a call to the specified number, useful for calling from an external address book application

- **-s, --sleep**

  Shut down CAPI connection to prepare for removal of broken kernel modules, which don't survive suspend/restore.

- **-w, --wakeup**

  Restore CAPI connection after ISDN modules loaded again. The connection will be also restored by dialing a number, but before the connection is restored, you won't be able to accept calls.

## NOTES

If the used sound devices (arguments of --soundin and --soundout) are equal, a full duplex sound device is needed.

## FILES

- *~/.ant-phone/history*

  the last dialed numbers

- *~/.ant-phone/options*

  user specific options file

- *~/.ant-phone/callerid*

  saved history of incoming and outgoing calls

- *~/.ant-phone/recordings/\**

  recordings of recorded phone calls

## BUGS

Caller ID stores hangup reason localized. This will break, if someone uses letters outside of English alphabet for translation of hangup reasons.

## AUTHORS

ANT was developed by Roland Stigge \<stigge@antcom.de\>, based on ideas from IVCALL, Copyright 2002 Lennart Poettering. G.711 handling by Sun Microsystems. Contributions by Joerg Mayer \<jmayer@loplof.de\>, Lars Volkhardt \<Lars.Volkhardt@uni-konstanz.de\>, Ivan Schreter \<schreter@gmx.net\>.