On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:16, you wrote: > Sounds fantastic! > > Have you had it up and running with Linux? > > I assume you can dial as well? As in, does the linux stuff have a dtmf > decoder software for the sound card (as I can see there's no dtmf > receiver built in to the hardware). > > What about incoming calls? Is there any ring generation at this point? > > Cheers Don
"Sounds fantastic" might be an inappropriate comment. It seem to suffer from echo at the other end, which may be inherent in the design. I have not had it running with Linux, but all it is is an equivalent of a microphone and speakers, so is OS neutral. I don't know if there is DTMF detection in software for Linux, I downloaded and installed the Windows chat-cord code. This does detect and decode DTMF, so you can drive Skype with the telephone keypad. Bit flaky though. There is no ring generation (that's a bit tricky...). In all, worth the $5 and 30mins I spent building it, but not quite there yet. In other news, I just discovered Gizmo. This is a similar thing to Skype, but uses SIPphone and standard VOIP. It may be preferable to Skype for two reasons. 1) Uses open, standard protocols 2) Does not use excessive resources on your PC (apparently Skype uses your PC as part of its own network for processing and call routing.) Andy
