Our prayers....answered? (http://www.phonelabs.com/prd_blue01.asp)
mitchel On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:10:11 -0500, Jay Milk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
