asterisk users - Jan 2005 - Re: * compatible with Pulse dialing phones ?

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:49 -0600, asterisk-dev-request@lists.digium.com
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I am Arnaud F?vrier, I teach in a technical university in Marseille. 
> 
>  I'd like to know if is is possible to connect a very old phone to
> asterisk and dial pulses with it? 
> 
>  Are digium cards pulse dial compatible? 
> 
>  Is there any specific configuration to do so ?
> 
>  Is there a hint to a workaround?
> 
>  Thanks in advance
> 
> Arnaud F?vrier
> 
> 
> 
Arnaud--

I'm answering this via the users' mailing list instead of the
developer's. I know they'd appreciate that, and it's a better forum
for
these sorts of questions.

I'm using an old rotary dial phone connected to one of the 4 ports of
the 4-port FXS card; it works great. I can dial, check voicemail, etc by
spinning the dial and letting go. I was amazed, but pulse dialing works
fine with the FXS card. The only trouble might be with # and * key
functionality, I haven't investigated workarounds.

murf

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:01:30 -0700, Steve Murphy <murf@e-tools.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:49 -0600, asterisk-dev-request@lists.digium.com
> wrote:
> >  I'd like to know if is is possible to connect a very old phone to
> > asterisk and dial pulses with it?
> 
> Arnaud--
> 
> I'm answering this via the users' mailing list instead of the
> developer's. I know they'd appreciate that, and it's a better
forum for
> these sorts of questions.
> 
> I'm using an old rotary dial phone connected to one of the 4 ports of
> the 4-port FXS card; it works great. I can dial, check voicemail, etc by
> spinning the dial and letting go. I was amazed, but pulse dialing works
> fine with the FXS card. The only trouble might be with # and * key
> functionality, I haven't investigated workarounds.
Eleven pulses on a zaptel card will give you an asterisk, and twelve
will generate an octothorp.  Get your hookswitch-flashing finger
ready...

-- 
Strom Carlson
http://www.stromcarlson.com/