search for 'do no disturb, if not urgent' app!

[MarcRB]

Hi,

I have a self employed company. Sometimes I am in meeting and I set my phone muted.
At that moment i'm not available for any call. If someone has major troubles I can't help them.

So I think a second number (red phone) is needed. I can tell my customers they can call me on that second number only in case it is very important. But than i have to carry two phones or buy a new one with dual sim. And also i have take a sim-only and communicate the second number to my customers.

Is there no app that will mute all incomming calls, answer them automaticly with some voice message 'do not disturb' and asks to press a # or something if it is urgent.
If the caller pressed the key, the phone rings with a special 'red phone' ringtone. At that moment i hear that sound , and i know this is an important call and i have to excuses my meetingpartner because i have to answer this emergency-call.

Is this a new idea or do you know a app that works like this?

Best regards,
Marc

 

[NJDude]

You could get a Google number, and send all calls to voicemail when needed, you will receive an email when someone calls you and your phone won't ring.

 

[MarcRB]

I know, At this moment I have a voicemail service form my cellphone provider.
After each call i recdeive a textmessage of that missing call and a audio file with the spoken message after the beep.
But it would be great to only let the phone ring in urgent cases. If my customer decides 'this is urgent' he can do something to let my phone ring, other wise the normal voicemail takes control.

You brought me on an idea. I don't know google phonenumber service but maybe this service is a 3G / 4g service. In that case i can tell my customers that they can call me on my google number in urgent cases and my normal phone-number for less urgent cases. In a meeting a shutdown my 2G but will be available for phone rings via google.
Am I right?

 

[NJDude]

But it would be great to only let the phone ring in urgent cases. If my customer decides 'this is urgent' he can do something to let my phone ring, other wise the normal voicemail takes control.

Using Google Voice (which is a forwarding service) you will receive an email when someone calls you, that's all, to do something like you want is up to you, you will have to somehow read the email and search for keywords such as "urgent", "emergency" etc and make the phone ring, you will have to call back of course, is not like you can route certain calls.

 

[nwhitfield]

Some phones - like the Motorola X - have an option where if someone rings a second time within a set period, then the call is allowed through. So, it would be possible to do the same sort of thing by monitoring Phone Events. Record the number of incoming calls, if the time period is appropriate, then set the ringer mode

Alternatively, don't give clients your mobile number. I find it only encourages them. I use CallWeaver to ensure the phone only rings for certain people. Clients are told to call my office number. My old Panasonic answering machine had two mailboxes; if callers pressed #1 then it went to the urgent one, and the machine called my mobile after the message was left. You could do similar with an IVR these days, possibly even connecting the call to your mobile after the message "Press 1 to reach my mobile. If it's not actually urgent, I'll charge you $200"

 

[MarcRB]

Thank You,
Good idea.

 

[MarcRB]

Thanks to the reply of N Whitfield I found an app like the Motorola X option.

Some phones - like the Motorola X - have an option where if someone rings a second time within a set period, then the call is allowed through.

Sure creating this app yourself/myself is much more fun, but for this moment I found something similar in the play-store.
The app "Call must be important" from "Andreas Nüsslein"
This is the link; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.noova.callmustbeimportant