On 3/29/2011 4:02 PM, ken wrote:
>
>>>> Exactly correct. It also works the other way; pick up the phone and
>>>> dial a number and asterisk routes it via google chat so you get your
>>>> free US calls and cheap international calls.
>>> Do you know if asterisk (freeswitch, 2600hz, etc.) can do this over
>>> bluetooth? I've seen some base stations with wireless extensions that
>>> can connect to a landline and/or pair with a bluetooth phone that would
>>> ordinarily be your cell, but it would be kind of neat if it could be
>>> asterisk without the ATA intermediate or even a direct hardware connection.
>>
>> In my mind, it'd be very unlikely that Asterisk would talk bluetooth
>> directly; that's not the Linux way. Instead you'd probably want to
>> make your BlueTooth phone pair to the Linux server, and create an IP
>> connection between the two, and then use any SIP client on the phone.
>>
>> But I could be wrong :-) I'm an asterisk newbie.
>
> Les,
>
> This was one feature I was interested in with the "answering machine" I
> spoke of before: I'd want to be able to pick up an incoming call with a
> bluetooth phone so I could walk around and not be tethered by a phone
> line. A friend of mine got a bluetooth/skype phone which works on PCs
> and Macs, a Qpe. I'd think if that phone would connect with skype, why
> not with something else like asterisk? Well, the answer depends on the
> state of development of the bluetooth drivers. Somebody on
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/bluetooth-headset-and-skype-330929/
> said he got his bluetooth headset working with skype using the
> bluetooth-alsa driver from http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/. That
> site says:
>
> "What we have working now is a scheme with two independent alsa-lib
> plugins and two independent daemons to run things. When you switch to
> the alsa-lib device that provides SCO (headset in the example
> configuration), you can do voice calls and two-way audio. When you
> switch to the device for a2dp (a2dpd in the example), you get one-way
> stereo to the headset."
I haven't kept up with asterisk, partly because they kept changing the
apis all the time so it was hard to use it for anything, but I thought
that even a long time ago someone had it connecting the 'other' way
through a cell phone - that is to use the cell connection as one of its
lines. I'm not sure about about using the dialer and audio side, though.
> What tames my enthusiasm about bluetooth though is its maximum range is
> said to be 20'. Gimme a wifi phone.
That was the point of the base station with wireless handsets. I've
seen those with 3 or 4 handsets for well under $100. They are intended
to be used as house extensions while your cell phone is charging near
the base. And at least some take a landline too.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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