Hacker News: rotaryfan2024https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rotaryfan2024Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:48:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by rotaryfan2024 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"]]>I've built two of these, with the two phone numbers I average about $5-7 a month on a Twilio pay-as-you-go plan. I had a long standing issue with incoming calls that I fixed in January, and usage has definitely increased from about $3 a month before that.

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:03:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496325rotaryfan2024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496325https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496325<![CDATA[New comment by rotaryfan2024 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"]]>I built a DIY system like this using Asterisk, Raspberry Pi, and a Grandstream ATA: https://github.com/cancio/rotary

I based it on the instructions provided by this Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39801991

]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:17:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491554rotaryfan2024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491554https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491554<![CDATA[New comment by rotaryfan2024 in "Using a 1965 Dutch rotary phone via VoIP"]]>My experience in trying to reproduce one of these rotary VoIP write-ups that make the front page is that the authors tend to leave out some critical piece of their network/general setup that would allow others to reproduce. So in the end, good, interesting write ups but your mileage may vary in trying to reproduce.

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