On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:35 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Brian wrote: > > > At the risk of being flamed.... > > > Has anyone had any success get the 'El cheapo' Wildcard W100P clone's > > (£20 flavour) to work with UK Caller ID? > > Looks like there is a patch to Zaptel to make it work: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+and+UK+Caller+ID > > but who knows if it's in & working... I hear that it does with Zaptel - but Asterisk 1.6 - DAHDI ;-)
> > > I'm not sure what the status of Asterisk 1.6 is with respect to UK > > caller ID, being that we have an odd method of sending the FSK ahead of > > the ring, but I'm guessing I can't be the first to ask this? > > We do a line polarity reversal, then FSK the caller ID, then ring the > line... I didn't want to go into the specifics but yes, the LR is noted. > > > Keeping in mind that cost is the most important factor, my searches I've > > found a couple of suggestions - the most promising of which was reading > > the CID from a serial modem. However, I've tried a couple - on of which > > is a BT Enabler that no amount of AT commands can get to give up the CID > > - and concluded that the chances of finding a compatible modem are > > probably slimer than getting the clone to work. > > > Has anyone been able to get the cheap clone cards to offer CID in the > > UK? > > My definition of a cheap clone card is somewhat different from yours, but > for £55.50 + VAT, I use these: > > http://www.voipon.co.uk/openvox-a400p01-p-669.html Given the PSTN rings once a month if that - all the rest is SIP via ITSP, I can't justify the cost of 5 times a telephone for a card - but thanks for the heads up GK old chap. It's not a big issue - but an irritation if anything. I suspect a £2.50 callerID unit, a serial IC and a soldering iron may end up being the solution :-) -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
