James, Thank you for the reply. I do not have phone service in my home. I've been 100% cell since 2003. I do have an old analog phone - big heavy thing... If I connect it to the wall outlet there is nothing. I've tried every outlet in the house. I didnt expect to find a tone as we've never connected phone service here.
My assumption, however stupid it might be, is that I could set this up to make calls but as I began to read more and more I started reading about gateways and other costly services that I was hoping to avoid -- for now at least. This all began when my wife went food shopping around the holiddays and wanted to know if we had something or not already, and I wasnt home to confirm or not. So I got to thinking, if she could call the VoIP box and get one of those "press 1 for spices... press 2 for dry foods, press 3 for canned goods, press 4 for snacks, press 5 for drinks............." and it would access a database that I already have set up with our groceries already in there. Yea - geeky, I know. :-) So that was the plan but first I needed to be able to get this thing set up. I THINK you're saying I need to purchase another service to get myself to make calls. I dont know anyone with a SIP server.. I'd rather keep it all inside our home if possible. I've got a lot of old hardware laying around and I do have MODEMs - internal and external 56k types. Thanks for the hints. I'll check into Magic Jack type stuff and see how it can help. -M On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:19 PM, James A. Shigley <[email protected]> wrote: > I can't help you two much with configuration of linux, but as to the call > question. You will need some route for the server to be capable of > sending/receiving calls. There is a couple of ways to do this cheaply. > > Buy a standard telephone modem (usb, pci, or serial). And plug into wall a > jack. This will only allow you one call at a time. But if this is just a > proof of concept that sounds like it will be plenty. Your number would be > whatever the phone jack corresponds to. > > Integrate it with something like skype. > > Buy one of the products similar to a magic jack which will work with linux. > > Or if you know someone who has a sip server already running. And is amiable > to letting you piggy back off of it. Your phone number would point to that > person's Server (be it one of the friends that the person is lending you, or > a number that you have forwarded/ported at/to them) with it set to forward to > your asterisk server. from there you could use your dialplan to do whatever > you wanted it to. And for outbound you would send the calls out thru the > friends server via sip or iax. > > James Shigley > Monroe Telephone Answering Service > 409-981-9213 > Infinity 5.51,UC 4.02.3803, Blink 3.0.104 > Ecreator:2.21, eResponse 1.1.7 > Webportal,WebApps, > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, contains > information which may be confidential or privileged. The information =is > intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you > are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, > distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you > have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by > "reply to sender only" message and destroy all electronic and hard copies of > the communication, including attachments. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of UIT DEVELOPMENT > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:54 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [asterisk-users] Really Silly Question From Total Newbie > > ......................... > > My main question is: CAN I make call from that box to my cell phone > using a soft-phone? If so, how can I do that? Also, can I use my > cell phone to call into that box? I dont know if I have to get a > phone number, or do I NEED a phone number? At the moment, I do not > have any dollars to throw at this project. Its purely for learning, > proof of concept sort of thing for myself on my spare time in the > evenings. I would simply like to be able to call out and be able to > call into that box. Later on down the road maybe I will get into > setting up an IVR using a database so I can call into that system from > wherever and get information read back to me. But, first things > first.... I'd like to know if I am heading down the wrong path here. > ........................... > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
