Hi, Can anyone recommend a USB phone that can be used under Linux, either interfacing directly with Asterisk in some way, or using a soft phone program on Linux that doesn't need screen interaction (only using the phone's keypad)? The idea is to be able to plug it into the USB port of an Asterisk box in a rack, where screen, kbd and mouse may not be available. Thanks in advance! Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org
Tony Mountifield wrote:>Hi, > >Can anyone recommend a USB phone that can be used under Linux, either >interfacing directly with Asterisk in some way, or using a soft phone >program on Linux that doesn't need screen interaction (only using the >phone's keypad)? > >The idea is to be able to plug it into the USB port of an Asterisk >box in a rack, where screen, kbd and mouse may not be available. > >Thanks in advance! >Tony > >Find me a USB phone with sufficient hardware docs available and I will see what I can do. I could use the same type of thing. I have remote customer servers and would love to have them setup so my contractor tech can just plug in and become extension xxxx on my pbx here. What I would do is base the softphone on something like iaxclient. I would have it launched when the usb hotplug was seen. I suppose this could be initially done with 2 devices. One would be a good usb headset and the other would be a keypad with lcd display.