RINGSTAT(1)

RINGSTAT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Voicetronix Telephony Tools manual set, and it's about making phones ring. yes. actual phones. we're doing telecom now. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ringstat — does a lil simple test of your FXS (station) port's ring and audio paths 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ringstat [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ringstat is the utility that runs a simple test of FXS port ring circuits. she's out here exercising the card base functions, which includes the audio path, the ring, and the hook detection. like she's doing a full vibe check on the hardware, no cap. 🔥

here's the little loop she does, and it's lowkey iconic:

1. the ports will ring while they're on hook 📞
2. if you take one off hook, it plays 10 seconds of dial tone 🎵
3. then it rings again when they go back on hook 🔔

and to end this whole test? just press any key on the keyboard. that's it. that's the escape hatch. keyboard said "we're done here." 💀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

here's everything you can pass her, bestie:

• --help, -? — shows you a summary of the options. the classic. she'll explain herself 🫶
• --card number — explicitly pick which card to test. the default is card 0. so if you don't say anything, she's testing card zero, periodt ✨
• --module number — explicitly pick which module of a card to test. by default she assumes 8 ports on the card you're testing. the valid values here are, presently, 0 or 1. she also assumes all modules have 4 ports. ngl this option may change in the future, so don't get too attached 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

vpbecho(1), measerl(1)

go read those too, iykyk 🌈

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ron Lee, Peter Wintulich, David Rowe, Voicetronix <support@voicetronix.com.au>

this manual page was written by Ron <ron@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout Ron, we love a documentation girlie 💖

okay that's the whole page!! this came out of the VPB driver package and it's dated Jan 4, 2007 — yes she's an elder but she still ate 💅🧚 go ring some phones bestie, mwah 🍓