When I installed my first home-PBX three years ago, I was looking at "cellsockets" -- devices which will accept certain cellular phones and provide an RJ11 jack, generating the ring-voltage and recognizing DTMF, which in turn makes your cell-phone look like a CO line. Pretty cool stuff, in theory, but it just didn't seem to be worth the cost, especially since it locks you to a particular cell-phone.
Since then, I've moved to Asterisk. I looked at at cell-sockets again recently, but they haven't really gotten any cheaper... And on top of that, I'd now require a precious FXO interface for *. I looked at some developer documentation for my particular phone (S/E T610) while connecting it to my PC via Bluetooth. For those who are unaware, all GSM phones have a built-in set of AT modem commands. Not surprisingly, I was able to place calls as well as receive ring-indicators, caller-id information and call-progress information via the virtual serial port that the phone provides over bluetooth. But what's more, I was also able to utilize my PC as a handsfree speakerphone -- and all this over bluetooth. As I see it, all the pieces are available -- we got full phone control, some form of digital audio going back and forth, call-progress reporting. I know there's at least one bluetooth stack for linux, so *technically* we're "there", no? I foresee a chan_blue which allow Asterisk to utilize a bluetooth/GSM cellular phone as a CO line, connecting by nothing more than a $5 bluetooth dongle and 5ft of air. Who's up for the challenge? If there's enough interest in the community, I'll be the first to add a bounty on this -- it would be worth at least $100 to me to have this functionality. _______________________________________________ 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
