I have been playing with an MV100 from mvox (www.mvox.com) and a Phoenix Audio Duet (www.phnxaudio.com). Both are USB Audio Devices. With X-Lite, I use them like a speakerphone. I had X-Lite play the ring to the audio device. I also used X-Lite's interface for all interaction with it.
I like the MV100 for my personal use best. It is small and cheap ($40 at Radio Shack), it also had better echo cancellation. -----Original Message----- From: Ondrej Valousek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:30 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted Matt, You have forgotten the ringer. In fact, I don't care that much about LCD & buttons. I want to use it with something like X-lite. Initially, I used machine builtin soundcard with X-Lite (worked well) but then I realized that if the phone is supposed to compete with the standard analog phone, it must have a working ringer. From what I see I suppose that every handset with builtin ringer must be recongized to the OS as 2 USB soundcards - one for speaker/mike, the second as a ringer. But I could be wrong. Our company is completely linux based and If I manage, it will have a linux based PBX as well (nothing against Windows, though). Thanks, Ondrej Matt Riddell wrote: > Ondrej Valousek wrote: > >> Hello all asterisk users! >> >> Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would >> understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux? > > > USB Phones don't understand anything. They are effectively four > components: > > a) Microphone > b) Speaker > c) LCD Display > d) Buttons > > You have to design everything on the client side. If you don't > understand USB extensively this would be rater a difficult task. > >> I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in >> Windows environment. > > > Because people have written drivers for them (often the manufacturer) > >> I would like to set up new phone system in our company that would be >> based on asterisk acting as PBX and SIP. > > > With the clients or the server running Linux? > >> If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be much > > > Well, it's definitely doable, I have written 2 stacks for usb phones, > although writing it raw (just via usb access) in Linux would be a > considerable undertaking. > > I would recommend that you: > > 1) Find a phone where the usb audio device is recognised in Linux, and > then move towards controlling the LCD and buttons. If you're lucky, > the LCD will have something like an HD44870 chip controlling it, but > bear in mind you're obviously going to need to open it up to check the > chip. > > 2) Run a usb sniffer and see what you can get out of the keypad. > > 3) Write an IAXClient based softphone and include hardware control > with it. > > 4) Rinse, Repeat. > > :) > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
