I want an open source IP hard phone. The furniture is moved. I'm back to working on Asterisk. The problem is the handsets, which seem to be designed to block information, to follow the script that the phone designer had in mind, rather than permit behavioral creativity.
A kind fellow loaned/gave me some Cisco 7940G phones. I've been pouring through the docs - how do you program them??? Not configure, not choosing among options, but instead, changing the responses and display and softkey behavior? For example, controlling the response to button presses. I'd like the option of the phone sending IP messages to Asterisk rather than making voice channel beeps, or navigating some preprogrammed response chain in the phone. How do I put what *I* want on the little screen? Basically, I want the configurability of a soft phone in a classic pushbutton hard phone case. With protected voice channel hardware, no dropped sound while the CPU updates the screen. I would expect the phone to come with default behavior, an API, and a built-in programming language or an external cross-compiler which I could use to evolve the behavior. Does anybody make such a thing? Otherwise, I may end up buying some multiline POTs phones to plug into analog FXS ports on the Asterisk server, simply to avoid complicated but unproductive handset behavior like the Cisco. Shudder. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
