On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:41:17 -0400, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tony Mountifield wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Can anyone recommend a USB phone that can be used under Linux, either >>interfacing directly with Asterisk in some way, or using a soft phone >>program on Linux that doesn't need screen interaction (only using the >>phone's keypad)? >> >>The idea is to be able to plug it into the USB port of an Asterisk >>box in a rack, where screen, kbd and mouse may not be available. >> >>Thanks in advance! >>Tony >> >> >Find me a USB phone with sufficient hardware docs available and I will >see what I can do. I could use the same type of thing. I have remote >customer servers and would love to have them setup so my contractor tech >can just plug in and become extension xxxx on my pbx here.
Tigerjet makes a USB handset that is based on the same chipset as the S100U. In fact, it looks like there's enough info in the wcfxsusb.[ch] files in zaptel to get the keypad running. I like the AU100 USB phone a lot better, but it looks like it will be windows only. (ironically the AU100 was a lot easier to get working with iaxComm than the Tigerjet phone) >What I would do is base the softphone on something like iaxclient. I >would have it launched when the usb hotplug was seen. > >I suppose this could be initially done with 2 devices. One would be a >good usb headset and the other would be a keypad with lcd display. > >_______________________________________________ >--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 _______________________________________________ --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
