Documentation
To make your own scripts, you can modify existing ones - or write new ones in AppleScript.
Here are a few good starting points for understanding how AppleScript works:
AppleScript Guidebook: Essential Sub-Routines
Making XML-RPC and SOAP Requests with AppleScript
Also check out the following book, an excellent guide to scripting:
AppleScript: The Definitive Guide.
Scripting Phlink
Writing your own scripts? Make sure you read the documentation about Phlink's scripting hooks!
There is an entire section in our forum devoted to scripting Phlink. There, you will be able to discuss scripting-related issues with other Phlink scripters.
Hints and tips
Worried about security when triggering critical scripts? To ensure that only you can trigger them, just set Phlink to only run them when you are calling from your own cell phone, for instance.
Or, you can place all such scripts into a subfolder whose title is a long sequence of numbers - a sort of a password. Access to the scripts contained in the folder will only be possible by first entering the same exact sequence of numbers.
You can provide default actions to use when the caller types a sequence of digits which does not match any item. To do this, place a file named "default" (with the appropriate file extension) in the Phlink Items folder or inside one of its subfolders, as appropriate.
Once you enter a folder, you can navigate back up the folder hierarchy by pressing the # key without first typing a sequence of numbers (note: the option "Terminate commands with the # sign" must be turned on for this to work).
If the "Terminate commands with the # sign" option is turned off, pressing the # key clears the typed sequence and you can start retyping it.
Sharing your scripts
Now that you've written your own script, which adds new functionality to Phlink, you want to share it with others so that they too can take advantage of your useful creation? It's simple! Submit your script by emailing it to us, and we will consider it for inclusion in this section of our web site.
Make your Phlink unique. Enhance it with the resources created by Ovolab, as well as the ones contributed by other Phlink users.
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Voicemail retrieval Tools that let you browse through your voicemail messages and retrieve them remotely. (3 items)
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Greeting scripts Scripts that change the way Phlink answers the phone. (5 items)
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Ringer scripts Scripts that make Phlink answer calls after a variable number of rings. (2 items)
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Call notification Tools that let Phlink notify you of incoming calls or new voicemail messages. (8 items)
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Dialing and contact management Tools for dialing phone numbers, through Phlink, from many different applications. (6 items)
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Group dialing Tools that automatically call groups of people for delivering prerecorded messages. (1 item)
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Call transfer Transfer incoming calls to other phone numbers or extensions using these scripts. (1 item)
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Online caller lookup Automatically perform online reverse lookups for caller ID. (2 items)
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Home automation, surveillance Tools for monitoring or controlling your house, your Mac, and other devices remotely. (3 items)
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Databases Examples of how Phlink can interact with databases. (2 items)
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Other Miscellaneous scripts (2 items)
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Scripter tools Information and snippets for Phlink scripters. (8 items)
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Voicemail retrieval Tools that let you browse through your voicemail messages and retrieve them remotely. |
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The Phlink Voice Mailbox Setup utility allows you to create multiple voice mailboxes and record greetings. Each voice mailbox can have its own greeting and PIN code for retrieving voicemail remotely over the phone. |
Version: 3.5 |
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Phlink Message Centre is a browser-based interface to your Phlink call log and voicemail messages. With additional setup, PMC supports multiple mailboxes. |
Version: 2.0 |
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Phlink Web Access is a companion application to Phlink. It provides a web-based interface for browsing your call log and play back voicemail messages remotely, by connecting to your Mac. |
Version: 2.5 |
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Greeting scripts Scripts that change the way Phlink answers the phone. |
Greeting based on Address Book group Greets callers with a personalized greeting depending on the Address Book group they belong to. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Uses a different greeting based on various characteristics of the caller's phone number - such as the area code, or whether the caller ID is known or masked/withheld. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Answers calls from telemarketers and plays a disconnect tone followed by a spoken message. The disconnect tone is meant to remove your phone number from the telemarketer's database. |
Version: 1.0 |
Greeting based on time of the day Uses different greetings at different times of the day or days of the week. |
Version: 1.1 |
Play random greeting Greets callers with a random greeting by picking it from a folder of greeting files. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Ringer scripts Scripts that make Phlink answer calls after a variable number of rings, depending on various criteria. |
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Answers calls after a different number of rings, depending on the caller's area code or whether the caller ID is known or masked/withheld. |
Version: 1.1 |
Ring count based on time of the day Answers calls after a different number of rings, depending on the time of the day or day of the week. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Call notification Tools that let Phlink notify you of incoming calls or new voicemail messages in many different ways. |
Announce callers by speaking their name Announces incoming calls by speaking the caller's name (or number, if the name is not known) through the Mac's speakers. |
Version: 1.1 |
Ask callers to announce themselves After answering calls, asks the callers to announce themselves and then plays the announcement over the Mac's speakers, while the caller is put on hold. |
Version: 1.1 |
Call notification using Growl Uses Growl to broadcast caller ID information to other Macs or applications. |
Version: 1.1 |
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When a call comes in, pauses playback on the Squeezebox and displays the caller ID information on the Squeezebox's display. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Emails a message for every call that is received, without the recorded message as an attachment. Useful for sending simple, text-only, notifications to cell phones. |
Version: 1.1 |
Call notification by iChat When a call comes in, sends a message to a predefined buddy with caller ID information. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Notifies you of new voicemail messages by sending a text message to a cell phone number. |
Version: 1.1 |
Voicemail notification by calling owner Whenever a new voicemail message is recorded, this set of scripts calls you back on a predefined phone number and plays the message back. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Dialing and contact management Tools for dialing phone numbers, through Phlink, from many different applications; tools that integrate contact management applications with Phlink. |
Show Address Book notes When the phone rings, this script displays the notes associated to the caller (as entered in Mac OS X's Address Book) in Phlink's translucent ring window. |
Version: 1.1 |
Entourage lookup This script automatically looks up the caller in Entourage when the phone rings. |
Version: 1.1 |
Dial from Entourage This Entourage add-on script allows you to dial through Phlink directly from Entourage. |
Version: 1.2 |
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This Now Contact add-on script allows you to dial through Phlink directly from Now Contact. |
Version: 1.2 |
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This sample FileMaker databse shows how you can dial directly from a FileMaker database of contacts. |
Version: 1.1 |
iCal Alarm Dialer Use this script to be notified, with a phone call, when an iCal alarm goes off. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Group dialing Tools that automatically call groups of people for delivering prerecorded messages. |
Group dialer This tool automatically dials all phone numbers in a specific Address Book group, and plays a prerecorded message. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Call transfer Transfer incoming calls to other phone numbers or extensions using these scripts. |
Transfer calls to other number This set of scripts puts the caller on hold while the call is transferred to another phone number or extension. The phone line must support call transfer by hookflashing, in order for this to work. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Online caller lookup Instantly perform a reverse lookup on the Internet, for each incoming call, and retrieve the name of the caller. |
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Reverse lookup for US phone numbers. |
Version: 1.2 |
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Reverse lookup for italian phone numbers. |
Version: 1.2 |
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Home automation, surveillance Tools for monitoring or controlling your house, your Mac, and other devices remotely. |
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Add these scripts to your normal setup, so that you can call home and control your appliances through Indigo. You can also ask the status of various sensors and devices. |
Version: 1.1 |
EyeTV control Schedule recordings remotely over the phone, by simply calling home and entering a secret code. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Call home and enter a secret code, to have a snapshot taken from your camera using EvoCam. The snapshot can then be emailed to you or uploaded to a server as specified in EvoCam's settings. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Databases Examples of how Phlink can interact with databases: look up information and provide it to callers using speech synthesis, or collect information and store it in a database. |
Collect information and store in FileMaker When a call comes in, this set of scripts asks a predefined set of questions to the caller, who can answer by pressing keys on the telephone's keypad. Such answers are then stored in the FileMaker database. |
Version: 1.0 |
Look up callers and add call info to FileMaker This script automatically looks up the caller in a FileMaker database when the phone rings. |
Version: 1.0 |
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Other Miscellaneous scripts for various purposes, such as allowing callers to look up information on the Internet. |
Upload2Remote When a voicemail message is recorded, this script uploads the voicemail recording to a predefined FTP server. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Use these scripts to look up information on the Internet (such as stock quotes, weather forecasts, and more) and speak it to the caller using speech synthesis. |
Version: 1.1 |
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Scripter tools Information and snippets for Phlink scripters. |
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A document describing all the hooks available to Phlink scripters, with information on when they are executed. |
Version: 1.1 |
Multiline Scripts that detect on which phone line a call is, in a multiline setup. In this way, different greetings can be used on each phone line handled by Phlink. |
Version: 1.2 |
N-digit codes scripts Example of how Phlink can request that the remote party enter a code with a fixed number of digits, without having to terminate the code by pressing the pound sign. |
Version: 1.0 |
Composite scripts Use this script for triggering multiple scripts of the same kind at once (e.g. multiple ring scripts or multiple postprocess scripts). |
Version: 1.1 |
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An example of interaction with the caller: after entering a number of inches, this script converts it to centimeters and speaks the result back to the caller. |
Version: 1.0 |
Play voicemail as soon as it is recorded An example of handling voicemail recordings: as soon as a call is received and a message is recorded, it is played through the Mac's speakers. |
Version: 1.0 |
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An example of triggering command-line tools remotely, and providing information back using speech synthesis. |
Version: 1.0 |
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An example of handling call recordings while the call is still taking place. |
Version: 1.0 |