Is there a house phone with a programmable Do Not Disturb feature?

[3d]

Is there a house phone with a programmable Do Not Disturb feature?

I'm wondering if this feature is out there. Between the hours of 6pm to 6am I want the house phone to not ring and go directly into voicemail. I do not want to just unplug it. I want the voicemail feature to capture messages. More and more of my house phone calls received when I'm eating dinner or trying to relax after work is blocked numbers, telemarketers or unimportant calls. If it's an emergency, the caller can call my cell phone so that's not an issue.

Any ideas?

[M A V I C]

Are you not on VoIP? My VoIP provider offers this.

[rich in distress]

Panasonic wireless phones have a "night mode", which does what you describe.
They also have the capacity to block numbers, which works great for daytime telemarketers.
After using these features, I will never get a simpler phone.

[3d]

rich in distress wrote:
Panasonic wireless phones have a "night mode", which does what you describe.
They also have the capacity to block numbers, which works great for daytime telemarketers.
After using these features, I will never get a simpler phone.

Cool. Thanks! This might be what I'm looking for. It's been over 15 years since I've been shopping for a house phone.

The feature is programmable by time of day, right? It's not a button I have to push to turn on and off? On the iPhone the Do Not Disturb feature is something I have to manually toggle on and off.

[Robert M]

3D,

The ability to block phone numbers is useful if and only if the telemarketer uses the same phone number each time and/or uses a real number. Most don't. I've given up trying to block the calls. HEck, you can't even call them back to complain because the number magically becomes out of service immediately after you hang up on them.

Robert

[3d]

Robert M wrote:
3D,

The ability to block phone numbers is useful if and only if the telemarketer uses the same phone number each time and/or uses a real number. Most don't. I've given up trying to block the calls. HEck, you can't even call them back to complain because the number magically becomes out of service immediately after you hang up on them.

Robert

We must've gotten a recycled phone number because we've only given it out a handful of times and we're already getting telemarketing calls?! The house phone number is so new and so rarely given out, I don't even remember my own house phone number. I have to check my iPhone contacts for my house number

We currently are using an old hand-me-down phone to use in the meantime and getting telemarketing calls is so annoying I keep the phone unplugged almost all the time. Which kinda defeats the purpose of having a phone line.

[davemchine]

If you let your phone provider be your voicemail you can then unplug your phone and still hav calls go to voicemail. I plan to purchase a switch so I can easily disconnect and reconnect. Ideally I'd rather have something programmable as you describe but I haven't found something flexible enough yet. Better yet I'd like to disconnect but my wife doesn't want to disconnect yet.

[dan steinberg]

If you have voip with Vonage as your provider, they do offer this feature, you program the times on your account page.

[mrlynn]

Our Uniden home phone/answering machine has a Do Not Disturb button. You do have to push the button. It's really not very hard. The answering machine records any messages.

I prefer an answering machine to the phone carrier's voicemail, because it has a blinking light that tells me I have a message.

/Mr Lynn