Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Hi, As I am the developer of DIAX - Original Message - From: Robert Rozman [EMAIL PROTECTED] there is already iax softphone called diax (http://www.laser.com/dante/diax/diax.html) that can be controlled over bluetooth on some phones. The thing that is missing is to be able to use cellular as audio device for softphone (I'm doing this with paired bluetooth headset - but that is not proper solution). We already have Audio gateway bluetooth profile that allows redirection from cellular to PCs sound card, but we would need same in opposite direction - to use cellular as PCs soundcard on softphone application. I cannot do it with my SonyEricsson T68i. If anyone can do it, then I'll integrate this feature in DIAX too. What I want to do first, but I don't know how is to control DIAX using the BT headset internal switch to answer the call. I don;t know how to start BT connection from the headset side:-( Best regards, Dan ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
We've been using the CellSocket on asterisks in our lab and it works well. They only problem we found was DTMF performance from the local cell phone to asterisk has varied depending on carrier and phone model. /ed -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Suffill Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:54 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Interesting. I think either the phonelabs adapter or cellsocket might be an interesting idea. We are moving to a biz mobile package I use iax2 term to fwd to a nextel since it's free inbound but having a cell on the asterisk box is probably a better fit. Besides on a biz plan w/ tmobile and others you can add a line for $10 on the pooled mins plans. Very interesting idea ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
It's close -- it still requires an FXO port, and is probably not inexpensive itself. So between the FXO port and the device, you're probably in for it at $200 or so. I can get away cheaper with a cell-socket. I'd prefer a bluetooth dongle (1) because of cost, and (2) because of the sheer elegance of the solution: No reason to convert audio back and forth several times, no reason to generate ring voltage or detect DTMF. Cell-phone is digital, Asterisk is digital, let's cut out the analog. -Original Message- From: Mitchel Constantin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:22 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Our prayersanswered? (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 $100 to me to have this functionality. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster isk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
cell-socket. I'd prefer a bluetooth dongle (1) because of cost, and (2) Wouldn't it be cheaper a cell-socket + a 30 u$s phone? (how much does a bluetooth capable phone cost?) Saludos, HoraPe --- Horacio J. Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Hi :) I have do same test with Nokia 3650 (bluetooth) and Motorola A835 (bluetooth and USB) I have do a log of widcomm software and I can setup a coll (is not only a a ATDxx) Now the problem is the voice With bluetooth is possible to use voice-gateway function I'm not a good programmer :( But now I don't have the know how to write the channel :) Some idea? :) -thx- Igor - Original Message - From: Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:20 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness It's close -- it still requires an FXO port, and is probably not inexpensive itself. So between the FXO port and the device, you're probably in for it at $200 or so. I can get away cheaper with a cell-socket. I'd prefer a bluetooth dongle (1) because of cost, and (2) because of the sheer elegance of the solution: No reason to convert audio back and forth several times, no reason to generate ring voltage or detect DTMF. Cell-phone is digital, Asterisk is digital, let's cut out the analog. -Original Message- From: Mitchel Constantin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:22 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Our prayersanswered? (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/aster isk-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 ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Interesting. I think either the phonelabs adapter or cellsocket might be an interesting idea. We are moving to a biz mobile package I use iax2 term to fwd to a nextel since it's free inbound but having a cell on the asterisk box is probably a better fit. Besides on a biz plan w/ tmobile and others you can add a line for $10 on the pooled mins plans. Very interesting idea ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
As for how BT transmits Audio: www.bluetooth.org www.bluez.org How Linux utilizes Bluetooth: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8q=linux+bluetooth www.bluez.org For how to write a channel, I suppose a seasoned linux programmer would know by looking at the sources for existing channels. If I had time, I'd look, but the learning curve (coming from a PC environment) would be quite steep. -Original Message- From: Igor Battiston (BZSolutions) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:09 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Hi :) I have do same test with Nokia 3650 (bluetooth) and Motorola A835 (bluetooth and USB) I have do a log of widcomm software and I can setup a coll (is not only a a ATDxx) Now the problem is the voice With bluetooth is possible to use voice-gateway function I'm not a good programmer :( But now I don't have the know how to write the channel :) Some idea? :) -thx- Igor - Original Message - From: Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:20 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness It's close -- it still requires an FXO port, and is probably not inexpensive itself. So between the FXO port and the device, you're probably in for it at $200 or so. I can get away cheaper with a cell-socket. I'd prefer a bluetooth dongle (1) because of cost, and (2) because of the sheer elegance of the solution: No reason to convert audio back and forth several times, no reason to generate ring voltage or detect DTMF. Cell-phone is digital, Asterisk is digital, let's cut out the analog. -Original Message- From: Mitchel Constantin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:22 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Our prayersanswered? (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/aster isk-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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
*IF* I didn't already have the phone... CellSocket $100 FXO Port $80 Non-BT Phone $0 (after rebates for new service) $180 BT Dongle $10 BT-Phone $75 (after rebates for new service) $85 But aside from all that, many people already have BT capable phones (as do I), and the question was not WHETHER we could utilize a cell-phone for an FXO replacement, but HOW to do so. -Original Message- From: Horacio J. Peña [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:00 AM To: Jay Milk Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness cell-socket. I'd prefer a bluetooth dongle (1) because of cost, and (2) Wouldn't it be cheaper a cell-socket + a 30 u$s phone? (how much does a bluetooth capable phone cost?) Saludos, HoraPe --- Horacio J. Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster isk-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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
As for how BT transmits Audio: www.bluetooth.org www.bluez.org How Linux utilizes Bluetooth: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8q=linux+bluetooth www.bluez.org For how to write a channel, I suppose a seasoned linux programmer would know by looking at the sources for existing channels. If I had time, I'd look, but the learning curve (coming from a PC environment) would be quite steep. So basically what you want to do is write an Asterisk driver that uses the BT mobile phone as a device. The kde-bluetooth project has a kbthandset program, so that you can use your PC's sound card to talk via the mobile... what we want is remove the sound-card stuff, insert Asterisk interface... should't be too hard, but I'm no C programer... Could anyone point me to a Asterisk driver writitng manual? -- damjan | This is my jabber ID -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- not my mail address!!! ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
That's exactly it! The asterisk box acts as a handset for the phone and uses AT-commands for call-origination and progress. -Original Message- From: Damjan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness As for how BT transmits Audio: www.bluetooth.org www.bluez.org How Linux utilizes Bluetooth: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8q=linux+bluetooth www.bluez.org For how to write a channel, I suppose a seasoned linux programmer would know by looking at the sources for existing channels. If I had time, I'd look, but the learning curve (coming from a PC environment) would be quite steep. So basically what you want to do is write an Asterisk driver that uses the BT mobile phone as a device. The kde-bluetooth project has a kbthandset program, so that you can use your PC's sound card to talk via the mobile... what we want is remove the sound-card stuff, insert Asterisk interface... should't be too hard, but I'm no C programer... Could anyone point me to a Asterisk driver writitng manual? ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Jay Milk wrote: That's exactly it! The asterisk box acts as a handset for the phone and uses AT-commands for call-origination and progress. OFF: Although the reversed thing, having a console with a bluetooth headset would also sounds very ok. ON: Why would one prefer bluetooth over wires if one still needs a serial cable to send AT commands? For an incomming call, GSM to GSM-Asterisk it would make sense, but I never saw a bluetooth headset device with keypad. Probably not only a bluetooth API should be looked at moreover the to be used Cellphones API. Stefan de Konink ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
ON: Why would one prefer bluetooth over wires if one still needs a serial cable to send AT commands? You can send AT commands via BT too... while sending audio. BT is a great standard. For an incomming call, GSM to GSM-Asterisk it would make sense, but I never saw a bluetooth headset device with keypad. We are talking of using the GSM mobile to bring calls to your private home phone network... probably SIP based. GSM-mobile --bt-- Asterisk-with-BT-dongle --ethernet-- \ SIP-phones-inside-all-of-your-house -- damjan | This is my jabber ID -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- not my mail address!!! ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Yep, right on -- once it's a channel, you can run any extension you like -- including your IVR prompts and voicemail. Whether your extensions are SIP, H.323 or zaptel won't even matter. -Original Message- From: Damjan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and GSM-mobile --bt-- Asterisk-with-BT-dongle --ethernet-- \ SIP-phones-inside-all-of-your-house ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
You don't need a serial cable to send the AT commands. Bluetooth provides a virtual serial port which makes the modem commands available wirelessly. -Original Message- From: Stefan de Konink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:46 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Jay Milk wrote: That's exactly it! The asterisk box acts as a handset for the phone and uses AT-commands for call-origination and progress. OFF: Although the reversed thing, having a console with a bluetooth headset would also sounds very ok. ON: Why would one prefer bluetooth over wires if one still needs a serial cable to send AT commands? For an incomming call, GSM to GSM-Asterisk it would make sense, but I never saw a bluetooth headset device with keypad. Probably not only a bluetooth API should be looked at moreover the to be used Cellphones API. Stefan de Konink ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster isk-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
[Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Interesting We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone traffic at the office. I know these are more like full blown mobile phones that u plug directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool to have a home version to allow u to get similar functionality by just putting your bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-) ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - girlfriend calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no annoying ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with me and when I call her I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-) On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the nokia/sony PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the Videophone thing through asterisk - sure there is a very good technical reason why that wouldnt work!!! Sam Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11: 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 Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 Confidentiality This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be subject to legal professional privilege and are intended for the named recipient only. If you are not the named recipient, please return the message and enclosures immediately and delete them from your system. Caution Before advice received only by email (whether by attachment or otherwise) may be relied on, the authenticity of the communication must be verified by means independent of email. Regulation The firm is regulated by the Law Society. Partners A list of partners is available for inspection at each office of the firm and on the firm's website at www.winckworths.co.uk ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
There are quite a number of positive (for end users) implications of doing this too... just think about all those cell providers that offer unlimited mobile to mobile calls, and then all those unlimited LD packages from landline and voip providers. This has huge potential for people who use their cell phones alot... 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 -- Joe Antkowiak antkojm1 (at) gmail.com ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Even better... Come home, leave the phone in the car knowing your bluetooth gateway is only a few feet away dangling down from the garage ceiling :) I already have bluetooth handsfree in the car, and it's sweet -- no more missed calls due leaving the phone on vibrate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:33 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Interesting We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone traffic at the office. I know these are more like full blown mobile phones that u plug directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool to have a home version to allow u to get similar functionality by just putting your bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-) ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - girlfriend calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no annoying ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with me and when I call her I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-) On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the nokia/sony PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the Videophone thing through asterisk - sure there is a very good technical reason why that wouldnt work!!! Sam Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11: 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 Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 Confidentiality This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be subject to legal professional privilege and are intended for the named recipient only. If you are not the named recipient, please return the message and enclosures immediately and delete them from your system. Caution Before advice received only by email (whether by attachment or otherwise) may be relied on, the authenticity of the communication must be verified by means independent of email. Regulation The firm is regulated by the Law Society. Partners A list of partners is available for inspection at each office of the firm and on the firm's website at www.winckworths.co.uk ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call... On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:43:41 -0500, Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even better... Come home, leave the phone in the car knowing your bluetooth gateway is only a few feet away dangling down from the garage ceiling :) I already have bluetooth handsfree in the car, and it's sweet -- no more missed calls due leaving the phone on vibrate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:33 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Interesting We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone traffic at the office. I know these are more like full blown mobile phones that u plug directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool to have a home version to allow u to get similar functionality by just putting your bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-) ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - girlfriend calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no annoying ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with me and when I call her I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-) On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the nokia/sony PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the Videophone thing through asterisk - sure there is a very good technical reason why that wouldnt work!!! Sam Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11: 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 Winckworth Sherwood Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents DX 148400 WESTMINSTER 5 : 35 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LR Telephone 020 7593 5000 Fax 020 7593 5099 Confidentiality This email message and any attachments are confidential; they may be subject to legal professional privilege and are intended for the named recipient only. If you are not the named recipient, please return the message and enclosures immediately and delete them from your system. Caution Before advice received only by email (whether by attachment or otherwise) may be relied on, the authenticity of the communication must be verified by means independent of email. Regulation The firm is regulated by the Law Society. Partners A list of partners is available for inspection at each office of the firm and on the firm's website at www.winckworths.co.uk ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
On 23/09/2004 at 13:36 Joe Antkowiak wrote: There are quite a number of positive (for end users) implications of doing this too... just think about all those cell providers that offer unlimited mobile to mobile calls, and then all those unlimited LD packages from landline and voip providers. This has huge potential for people who use their cell phones alot... Not to mention the fact that you wont be microwaving your brain... :D Andy ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
This is a great idea, I've got that phone and it really would be an amazing feature, I have a really nice asterisk system set up in my house and a $10/month broadvoice line, but linking everything together would definately be a really nice touch. I've got $15 towards a bounty ;). mitchel On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:54:53 +0200, Andy Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/09/2004 at 13:36 Joe Antkowiak wrote: There are quite a number of positive (for end users) implications of doing this too... just think about all those cell providers that offer unlimited mobile to mobile calls, and then all those unlimited LD packages from landline and voip providers. This has huge potential for people who use their cell phones alot... Not to mention the fact that you wont be microwaving your brain... :D Andy ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Joe Antkowiak wrote: There are quite a number of positive (for end users) implications of doing this too... just think about all those cell providers that offer unlimited mobile to mobile calls, and then all those unlimited LD packages from landline and voip providers. This has huge potential for people who use their cell phones alot... Then make sure the channel allows you to: pool devices, set free minutes on each device,and have preference for devices with remaining free minutes, thus sharing the calls between my phone and that of my wife. An IAX/(sip if it must) softphone with appropriate extensions to work with bluetooth devices could provide a solution without having a Bluetooth dongle in the PABX. Chris. ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
The implications are great, aren't they? We have three T-Mo phones on a family plan, so that could come in handy, although my main motivation is just the convenience factor. In addition, our phones are all set up for CCF to one of our VOIP lines, which is nearly free on T-Mo. You basically receive a bucket of 500 CCF minutes which each line. With the proper setup, the channel could be advised to dispose of incoming calls by declaring the phone busy, thus forcing it to CCF to a homeline, and not using up cell minutes for those calls. During free nights/weekends, the cellular phone could be the preferred long-distnace carrier... It's endless. -Original Message- From: Joe Antkowiak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:52 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call... On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:43:41 -0500, Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even better... Come home, leave the phone in the car knowing your bluetooth gateway is only a few feet away dangling down from the garage ceiling :) I already have bluetooth handsfree in the car, and it's sweet -- no more missed calls due leaving the phone on vibrate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:33 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Interesting We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone traffic at the office. I know these are more like full blown mobile phones that u plug directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool to have a home version to allow u to get similar functionality by just putting your bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-) ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - girlfriend calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no annoying ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with me and when I call her I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-) On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the nokia/sony PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the Videophone thing through asterisk - sure there is a very good technical reason why that wouldnt work!!! Sam Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11: 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
This has been discussed numerous times an gone no where. I agree though, having my cell line ring my Asterisk extension would be ideal. That way I only have to lug one phone when I'm home. Question though, would chan_btp interfere with such a contraption? On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:24:18 -0500, Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The implications are great, aren't they? We have three T-Mo phones on a family plan, so that could come in handy, although my main motivation is just the convenience factor. In addition, our phones are all set up for CCF to one of our VOIP lines, which is nearly free on T-Mo. You basically receive a bucket of 500 CCF minutes which each line. With the proper setup, the channel could be advised to dispose of incoming calls by declaring the phone busy, thus forcing it to CCF to a homeline, and not using up cell minutes for those calls. During free nights/weekends, the cellular phone could be the preferred long-distnace carrier... It's endless. ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Joe Antkowiak wrote: if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call... Just be careful, my VZW contract states that mobile-to-mobile doesn't apply when one of the lines is fixed or makes a majority of it's call from a single cell site. Take the phone out and use it somewhere else a couple of times a month. -- Andrew Thompson http://aktzero.com/ ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Wait... So VZW offers this free nationwide plan but you can't use it? I think they'd have a difficult time slapping you with a fine just because you happened to only make/receive calls at home/work for a while. That's another good reason to move away from Verizon. -Original Message- From: Andrew Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:57 PM To: Joe Antkowiak; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Joe Antkowiak wrote: if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call... Just be careful, my VZW contract states that mobile-to-mobile doesn't apply when one of the lines is fixed or makes a majority of it's call from a single cell site. Take the phone out and use it somewhere else a couple of times a month. ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Hi, there is already iax softphone called diax (http://www.laser.com/dante/diax/diax.html) that can be controlled over bluetooth on some phones. The thing that is missing is to be able to use cellular as audio device for softphone (I'm doing this with paired bluetooth headset - but that is not proper solution). We already have Audio gateway bluetooth profile that allows redirection from cellular to PCs sound card, but we would need same in opposite direction - to use cellular as PCs soundcard on softphone application. I just wish that bluetooth (headset) support under Linux is better... Regards, Robert. - Original Message - From: Jay Milk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:40 AM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Wait... So VZW offers this free nationwide plan but you can't use it? I think they'd have a difficult time slapping you with a fine just because you happened to only make/receive calls at home/work for a while. That's another good reason to move away from Verizon. -Original Message- From: Andrew Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:57 PM To: Joe Antkowiak; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness Joe Antkowiak wrote: if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap unlimited mobile calling... this was the point I was trying to make... Yes, it would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call... Just be careful, my VZW contract states that mobile-to-mobile doesn't apply when one of the lines is fixed or makes a majority of it's call from a single cell site. Take the phone out and use it somewhere else a couple of times a month. ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness
Our prayersanswered? (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
