Hello all asterisk users! Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux? I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in Windows environment. I would like to set up new phone system in our company that would be based on asterisk acting as PBX and SIP. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Ondrej
Ondrej Valousek wrote:> Hello all asterisk users! > > Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would > understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux?USB Phones don't understand anything. They are effectively four components: a) Microphone b) Speaker c) LCD Display d) Buttons You have to design everything on the client side. If you don't understand USB extensively this would be rater a difficult task.> I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in Windows > environment.Because people have written drivers for them (often the manufacturer)> I would like to set up new phone system in our company that would be > based on asterisk acting as PBX and SIP.With the clients or the server running Linux?> If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be muchWell, it's definitely doable, I have written 2 stacks for usb phones, although writing it raw (just via usb access) in Linux would be a considerable undertaking. I would recommend that you: 1) Find a phone where the usb audio device is recognised in Linux, and then move towards controlling the LCD and buttons. If you're lucky, the LCD will have something like an HD44870 chip controlling it, but bear in mind you're obviously going to need to open it up to check the chip. 2) Run a usb sniffer and see what you can get out of the keypad. 3) Write an IAXClient based softphone and include hardware control with it. 4) Rinse, Repeat. :) -- Cheers, Matt Riddell _______________________________________________ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss)
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 04:39 am, Ondrej Valousek wrote:> Hello all asterisk users! > > Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would > understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux? > I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in Windows > environment.I use an Eutetcics IPP200 USB handset with linux usb audio drivers and kiax for software. http://www.eutecticsinc.com/news/news.html It works ok but it depends on the audio drivers. I thought any USB handset would work with linux sub audio drivers but that was just an assumption. <snip> David
I have been playing with an MV100 from mvox (www.mvox.com) and a Phoenix Audio Duet (www.phnxaudio.com). Both are USB Audio Devices. With X-Lite, I use them like a speakerphone. I had X-Lite play the ring to the audio device. I also used X-Lite's interface for all interaction with it. I like the MV100 for my personal use best. It is small and cheap ($40 at Radio Shack), it also had better echo cancellation. -----Original Message----- From: Ondrej Valousek [mailto:webserv@s3group.cz] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:30 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted Matt, You have forgotten the ringer. In fact, I don't care that much about LCD & buttons. I want to use it with something like X-lite. Initially, I used machine builtin soundcard with X-Lite (worked well) but then I realized that if the phone is supposed to compete with the standard analog phone, it must have a working ringer. From what I see I suppose that every handset with builtin ringer must be recongized to the OS as 2 USB soundcards - one for speaker/mike, the second as a ringer. But I could be wrong. Our company is completely linux based and If I manage, it will have a linux based PBX as well (nothing against Windows, though). Thanks, Ondrej Matt Riddell wrote:> Ondrej Valousek wrote: > >> Hello all asterisk users! >> >> Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would >> understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux? > > > USB Phones don't understand anything. They are effectively four > components: > > a) Microphone > b) Speaker > c) LCD Display > d) Buttons > > You have to design everything on the client side. If you don't > understand USB extensively this would be rater a difficult task. > >> I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in >> Windows environment. > > > Because people have written drivers for them (often the manufacturer) > >> I would like to set up new phone system in our company that would be >> based on asterisk acting as PBX and SIP. > > > With the clients or the server running Linux? > >> If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be much > > > Well, it's definitely doable, I have written 2 stacks for usb phones, > although writing it raw (just via usb access) in Linux would be a > considerable undertaking. > > I would recommend that you: > > 1) Find a phone where the usb audio device is recognised in Linux, and > then move towards controlling the LCD and buttons. If you're lucky, > the LCD will have something like an HD44870 chip controlling it, but > bear in mind you're obviously going to need to open it up to check the > chip. > > 2) Run a usb sniffer and see what you can get out of the keypad. > > 3) Write an IAXClient based softphone and include hardware control > with it. > > 4) Rinse, Repeat. > > :) >_______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.G. Edwards & Sons' outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was using in on Windows XP, so it was a single device for both microphone and speaker. Have not tried it on Linux. -----Original Message----- From: Ondrej Valousek [mailto:webserv@s3group.cz] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:34 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted Question: Did they behave like 1 audio device (for the speaker and mike) or 2 audiodevices (creating /dev/dsp1, /dev/dsp2) with the second one for the ringer? That's what I am unable to find out... Thanks a lot for the tips.... Ondrej Bates, Curtis wrote:>I have been playing with an MV100 from mvox (www.mvox.com) and a Phoenix Audio Duet (www.phnxaudio.com). Both are USB Audio Devices. With X-Lite, I use them like a speakerphone. I had X-Lite play the ring to the audio device. I also used X-Lite's interface for all interaction with it. > >I like the MV100 for my personal use best. It is small and cheap ($40 at Radio Shack), it also had better echo cancellation. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ondrej Valousek [mailto:webserv@s3group.cz] >Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:30 AM >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted > > >Matt, > >You have forgotten the ringer. >In fact, I don't care that much about LCD & buttons. I want to use it >with something like X-lite. >Initially, I used machine builtin soundcard with X-Lite (worked well) >but then I realized that if the phone is supposed to compete with the >standard analog phone, it must have a working ringer. > > From what I see I suppose that every handset with builtin ringer must >be recongized to the OS as 2 USB soundcards - one for speaker/mike, the >second as a ringer. >But I could be wrong. > >Our company is completely linux based and If I manage, it will have a >linux based PBX as well (nothing against Windows, though). >Thanks, > >Ondrej > >Matt Riddell wrote: > > > >>Ondrej Valousek wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello all asterisk users! >>> >>>Question: Does anybody know about any good USB handset that would >>>understand SIP and Asterisk and will run with Linux? >>> >>> >>USB Phones don't understand anything. They are effectively four >>components: >> >> a) Microphone >> b) Speaker >> c) LCD Display >> d) Buttons >> >>You have to design everything on the client side. If you don't >>understand USB extensively this would be rater a difficult task. >> >> >> >>>I have found tons of them, but they are mainly only supported in >>>Windows environment. >>> >>> >>Because people have written drivers for them (often the manufacturer) >> >> >> >>>I would like to set up new phone system in our company that would be >>>based on asterisk acting as PBX and SIP. >>> >>> >>With the clients or the server running Linux? >> >> >> >>>If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Any help would be much >>> >>> >>Well, it's definitely doable, I have written 2 stacks for usb phones, >>although writing it raw (just via usb access) in Linux would be a >>considerable undertaking. >> >>I would recommend that you: >> >>1) Find a phone where the usb audio device is recognised in Linux, and >>then move towards controlling the LCD and buttons. If you're lucky, >>the LCD will have something like an HD44870 chip controlling it, but >>bear in mind you're obviously going to need to open it up to check the >>chip. >> >>2) Run a usb sniffer and see what you can get out of the keypad. >> >>3) Write an IAXClient based softphone and include hardware control >>with it. >> >>4) Rinse, Repeat. >> >>:) >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Asterisk-Users mailing list >Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >A.G. 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This poll by the company which made amp might be useful to you. http://www.coalescentsystems.ca/index.php?option=com_poll&task=results&i d=4 Distribution for your Asterisk/AMP system(s)? Red Hat Enterprise, White Box, CentOS 48 41.4% Debian 19 16.4% Novell/SUSE 13 11.2% Fedora 12 10.3% Gentoo 8 6.9% Slackware 6 5.2% Other 3 2.6% Debian-based (Ubuntu, MEPIS, etc.) 2 1.7% Mandriva (Mandrake) 2 1.7% OS X 2 1.7% *BSD 1 0.9% Number of Voters : 116 First Vote : Friday, 22 July 2005 08:12 Last Vote : Friday, 29 July 2005 09:35 -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Bill McCready (PCPhoneline.com) Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 4:28 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted We are planning to develop versions of our USB based phone and gateway products for Linux. The plan is to make them will work like regular phones exactly like our Windows versions do including physically ringing loudly on incoming calls. Which versions of Linux are the most popular at the moment in the workplace so we can decide which one to focus our energies on first? Best regards, Bill McCready PCPhoneline.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Riddell" <matt.riddell@sineapps.com> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted> Ondrej Valousek wrote: >> Matt, >> >> You have forgotten the ringer. >> In fact, I don't care that much about LCD & buttons. I want to use it>> with something like X-lite. >> Initially, I used machine builtin soundcard with X-Lite (worked well)but>> then I realized that if the phone is supposed to compete with the >> standard analog phone, it must have a working ringer. > > Fair enough. > >> From what I see I suppose that every handset with builtin ringermust be>> recongized to the OS as 2 USB soundcards - one for speaker/mike, the >> second as a ringer. > > The ones I have worked with have a seperate ringer that just takes anint> to decide which ringtone to play. I.E. it is not shown as asoundcard.> > -- > Cheers, > > Matt Riddell > _______________________________________________ > > http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html) > http://www.sineapps.com/rssfeed.php (Daily Asterisk News - rss) > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > 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 Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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2006-Feb-27 10:35 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] automon not working for analogue phone
Try pressing FLASH, then *1 and then FLASH again. Michelle Dupuis Technical Support Specialist Oxford Consulting Group Ltd. Making IT work for your business... T: (519) 672-8238 E: support@ocg.ca W: www.ocg.ca -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ondrej Valousek Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:22 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] automon not working for analogue phone Hi all, I have just setup automon functionality on my asterisk box and when trying to activate the feature by pressing "*1" on my analogue phone within the conversation it does not work. That is strange because with SIP phone it works OK. Does anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks, Ondrej _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users