Ok, I've googled for 15+ minutes, and have yet to find a usable answer, so I'm going to annoy everyone and ask here. I have, in my posession, a creative VoIP blaster. I have installed the fobbit LKM and I can see the device. Can I use it with asterisk in any meaningful way, shape, or form? I'd love to be able to buy an IP phone, ATA, or FXO card, but lack the funds at the moment (won't get into why a grandstream phone at $65 is out of my budget, just take my word for it). Can I turn this hardware that's laying around into anything useful? Thanks, Pat
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:07:46AM -0500, Patrick Cantwell wrote:> Ok, > I've googled for 15+ minutes, and have yet to find a usable answer, so I'm > going to annoy everyone and ask here. > > I have, in my posession, a creative VoIP blaster. I have installed the > fobbit LKM and I can see the device. Can I use it with asterisk in any > meaningful way, shape, or form? I'd love to be able to buy an IP phone, > ATA, or FXO card, but lack the funds at the moment (won't get into why a > grandstream phone at $65 is out of my budget, just take my word for it). > > Can I turn this hardware that's laying around into anything useful?I saw on an Asterisk FAQ somewhere (I too can't find it in Google) but it's here: http://www.asstricks.org/faq.html -> 4. I bought a Creative Labs VOIP-Blaster. How can I hook it up to use with Asterisk? You may hook up the VOIP-Blaster to Asterisk, but you can only use it to talk to other VOIP-Blasters. Due to the patent on the codec used by the VOIP-Blaster, it isn't likely that Asterisk will allow the VOIP-Blaster as a simple handset (other than with other VOIP-Blasters) anytime soon. -> Anyway, maybe you can find another blaster user, or ask Creative what if you can implement the codec :-) cheers, Woody
Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Cantwell" <pat@insomnia.org> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] creative VoIP blaster & *> Ok, > I've googled for 15+ minutes, and have yet to find a usable answer, so I'm > going to annoy everyone and ask here. > > I have, in my posession, a creative VoIP blaster. I have installed the > fobbit LKM and I can see the device. Can I use it with asterisk in any > meaningful way, shape, or form? I'd love to be able to buy an IP phone, > ATA, or FXO card, but lack the funds at the moment (won't get into why a > grandstream phone at $65 is out of my budget, just take my word for it). > > Can I turn this hardware that's laying around into anything useful?If you have windows drivers, then try it with DIAX software phone. You can select it as audio in/out device and PC speaker as ring device. Unfortunatelly you cannot use the full functionality of the analog phone, but this can be a start. If you have some API documentation for it, I can fully integrate it with DIAX BR, Dan P.S. I use it in this way with a similar device: Actiontec's Internet Phone Wizard.