On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 14:52, marrandy wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2003 03:25 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote: > > > > Surely though, even something as simple as "visual message waiting > indicator" > > > has a different code to activate it on a phone, depending on the > > > manufacturer. > > > > You just about answered your own question here, different codes for each > > manufacturer is not equal to standard. Asterisk has support for analog > > phones, and digital trunking via E1/T1 circuits. This allows you to > > interconnect to phone systems that might use digital phones. You can > > also use it via a channel bank to link large amounts of lines to > > asterisk. > > -- > > Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello Steven. > > That's what I thought. But I don't know much about PBX/key phone systems, so > I thought I would ask. > > O.K.- then. > > Is there any support in the program to be able to specify a make/model of > phone system, and if that system has the codes available, translate the codes > for that system. > > e.g. if I found/obtained half a dozen business (digital) phones of one > manufacturer, one model, would they be usable ? (I suspect not, but > anything is possible with time and effort). > > Or is the proprietry PBX and phone systems, so totally alien to each other, > that is is impossible.
The problem isn't as much controlling the phone, but electrically interfacing with it. AFAIK, this is one of the ways the proprietary systems lock you into their phones. Currently there is no hardware to talk to those phones, let alone the programming to do it. If you find a card that supports those phones and plugs into a PCI bus, hopefully also already has linux drivers, then we can see about supporting those phones. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
