Folks, I've got one of those GPO 1950's rotary dial phones that I'm trying to get working in the UK. I've got pretty much everything working with my TDM400, the phone rings and I can receive calls but I cannot dial with the rotary dialer. I have set pulsedial=true or whatever the exact setting is and I can dial from the phone by lifting the receiver and tapping out the number on the hook. However, using the rotary dialer does not work (works fine plugged into my phone line). I have read about the possibilty that the pulse settings may need adjusting in kernel.h in the dahdi driver but I have no idea what to set them to. I have tried tweeking them to various extents but I've not been able to bring it to life yet. Does anyone have any experience getting this to work? Does anyone know the specs for UK pulse dial? How long should the pulses be and what is the gap between them? Thanks, Mike. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20091124/2cd06aed/attachment.pgp
Have you tested the dialer mechanism to confirm that it actually works? Sounds like your dialer mechanism MAY not be opening/closing the loop properly. Have you tried using the phone on a Telco-provisioned loop? -K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <asterisk-users at norgie.net> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:03 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] 1950's UK rotary dial phone> _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:03:16PM +0000, Mike wrote:> Folks, > > I've got one of those GPO 1950's rotary dial phones that I'm trying to > get working in the UK. I've got pretty much everything working with my > TDM400, the phone rings and I can receive calls but I cannot dial with > the rotary dialer. I have set pulsedial=trueShould not be needed. This parameter means that your Asterisk system dials with pulses rather than tones (prefixing 't' rather than 'p' to the dial string sent to DAHDI). I suppose this is not really what you're after.> or whatever the exact > setting is and I can dial from the phone by lifting the receiver and > tapping out the number on the hook. However, using the rotary dialer > does not work (works fine plugged into my phone line). I have read > about the possibilty that the pulse settings may need adjusting in > kernel.h in the dahdi driver but I have no idea what to set them to. I > have tried tweeking them to various extents but I've not been able to > bring it to life yet. Does anyone have any experience getting this to > work? Does anyone know the specs for UK pulse dial? How long should > the pulses be and what is the gap between them?I wonder if anybody wants to follow up on http://bugs.debian.org/546329 (formly http://bugs.debian.org/399772 ) -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
Way back when, the wctdm driver needed a fix to make it more agreeable to pulse dials in the US. I suspect this is also the case in the UK. Speed and make break ratio are more critical , as pulse detection isn't nearly as smart as a PSTN exchange Search the wiki for more details. How that applies to the current set is unknown to me the suggested fix was never applied to the distributed code, and unfortunately there seems little interest in any support for pulse, or analog in general. John Novack Mike wrote:> Folks, > > I've got one of those GPO 1950's rotary dial phones that I'm trying to > get working in the UK. I've got pretty much everything working with my > TDM400, the phone rings and I can receive calls but I cannot dial with > the rotary dialer. I have set pulsedial=true or whatever the exact > setting is and I can dial from the phone by lifting the receiver and > tapping out the number on the hook. However, using the rotary dialer > does not work (works fine plugged into my phone line). I have read > about the possibilty that the pulse settings may need adjusting in > kernel.h in the dahdi driver but I have no idea what to set them to. I > have tried tweeking them to various extents but I've not been able to > bring it to life yet. Does anyone have any experience getting this to > work? Does anyone know the specs for UK pulse dial? How long should > the pulses be and what is the gap between them? > > Thanks, > Mike. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Dog is my co-pilot