John Novack wrote: >>though I'm also guessing that a lack of dialtone detection is causing my >>troubles. >> > And there seems to be no willingness to either fix or even consider it > a bug.
>> I'm not sure how I'm going to listen in, either. The only thing I can >> think of is making myself a "lineman's handset" out of an old phone and >> plugging into the phone box outside. >> > Not sure why you need to "go outside" to listen in. a simple 268 style > "t" adapter for modular plugs would do. I assume you are in the US . Oh, hello. Yeah, that would work. >> I'm worried that plugging the FXO jack into the >>ComDial system would fry something, >> > Can't imagine what. The FXO card in it's simplest form, the X100P is a > recycled modem card using a specific chip set. > How would you use a Comdial system to monitor anyway? I'm presuming that some of the pairs in the phone line are powered, since the comdial phones do a lot of tricks and aren't plugged into the electrical outlet. I'm concerned that this might fry something. How to monitor? The old phones are still hooked up until I work out all the bugs in the new system, so I'd pick up line 1 with the phone and then dial with asterisk. Or dial first and then pick up. *shrug* >>and that's the only other way I can >>think of to listen in, aside from maybe running the line through a fax >>machine. >> >> > You will want to be able to listen without starting dialtone. > > Any old telephone butt set or even a cheap battery powered transistor > amplifier would do as well. Yeah, I've got a handset that will work, just no T connector. I'll have to run by Radio Shack. >>Unless there's some software that does it. >> >>On the dialtone detection end of things, >>http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=NVLineDetect >>does seem to be available, but that would require me modifying emailing the >>guy and either going with cvs or modifying the gentoo ebuild I'm using (bleh). >> >> > If that will give you dialtone detection, that's probably what you > will have to do then! Yep. blah. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Barry _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- 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
