asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Cell phone dock/switch as Asterisk FXO source

Is anyone familiar with cell phone switches that allow routing cell phone
calls through in-home wiring? One example of these devices is the Phone Labs
Dock-N-Talk. It says it keeps your cell charged when you are home and
connects your cell (for incoming and outgoing calls) to your home wiring or
cordless phones.

But it also has features such as allowing speed dialing and voice dialing
from extensions if your cell phone has those features. So I'm not sure if
the device offers a fully compatible FXO signalling.

I'm currently running Asterisk with 1 POTS and 1 VOIP (via Sipura 3000)
lines coming into Zaptel FXS modules, and then I have two FXO modules for
two extensions.

I'm thinking of doing away with the land line. Should something like the
Dock-N-Talk allow substituting a cell phone line for the POTS line?
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Cell Socket is another such product.
Current Cell Sockets work  with some of Motorola phones.
Different systems GSM, CDMA, work somewhat differently regarding 
callerID and speed dial
The original CellSocket worked with certain Nokia phones
In the GSM version dialing is similar to the PSTN, but the "send" 
function uses the "#" to  start the call.
Incoming calls produce a ring signal that  should be detected by the FXO 
card.
I use mine as a trunk into my house PBX ( not Asterisk ) but I see no 
reason why it shouldn't work as well.
See the list archives for more comments, and use Google to search on 
cellsocket

John Novack

Brian McEntire wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with cell phone switches that allow routing cell 
> phone calls through in-home wiring? One example of these devices is 
> the Phone Labs Dock-N-Talk. It says it keeps your cell charged when 
> you are home and connects your cell (for incoming and outgoing calls) 
> to your home wiring or cordless phones.
>
> But it also has features such as allowing speed dialing and voice 
> dialing from extensions if your cell phone has those features. So I'm 
> not sure if the device offers a fully compatible FXO signalling.
>
> I'm currently running Asterisk with 1 POTS and 1 VOIP (via Sipura 
> 3000) lines coming into Zaptel FXS modules, and then I have two FXO 
> modules for two extensions.
>
> I'm thinking of doing away with the land line. Should something like 
> the Dock-N-Talk allow substituting a cell phone line for the POTS line?
>
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I use a Dock-n-Talk in conjuction with a Sipura SPA3000 & Asterisk.

Because I'm using Asterisk, I cannot use voice dialling, however inbound
&
outbound calls work extremely well. I have Asterisk outbound routes set up
to make a calls to cell phones go through the Dock-n-Talk.


On 1/1/06, Brian McEntire <brian.mcentire@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Is anyone familiar with cell phone switches that allow routing cell phone
> calls through in-home wiring? One example of these devices is the Phone
Labs
> Dock-N-Talk. It says it keeps your cell charged when you are home and
> connects your cell (for incoming and outgoing calls) to your home wiring or
> cordless phones.
>
> But it also has features such as allowing speed dialing and voice dialing
> from extensions if your cell phone has those features. So I'm not sure
if
> the device offers a fully compatible FXO signalling.
>
> I'm currently running Asterisk with 1 POTS and 1 VOIP (via Sipura 3000)
> lines coming into Zaptel FXS modules, and then I have two FXO modules for
> two extensions.
>
> I'm thinking of doing away with the land line. Should something like
the
> Dock-N-Talk allow substituting a cell phone line for the POTS line?
>
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Morel Mosolff wrote:
> Dear friends and business associates,
> 
> I will be out of office until January the 12th, 2006.
> With kind regards,
> 
> Morel Mosolff
Hmmmm....1 more of these and I will start a loop on a spare high bandwidth
server :)

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Matt Riddell wrote:
> Morel Mosolff wrote:
> 
>>Dear friends and business associates,
>>
>>I will be out of office until January the 12th, 2006.
>>With kind regards,
>>
>>Morel Mosolff
> 
> 
> Hmmmm....1 more of these and I will start a loop on a spare high bandwidth
> server :)
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We use the Dock-N-Talk at our office.  We purchased a TDM with 4 FXOs, 
the first three go to PSTN and the fourth into the Dock-N-Talk. Right 
now I have the users choose to use the cell service by prefixing the 
outgoing string with a certain digit;  they can remember when it's 
better to use the cellphone as opposed to PSTN.  I just Dial out of a 
different Zap line, it's all seamless to asterisk.  All the special 
features the Dock-N-Talk provides are hard to access, IIRC, and just 
muddy the fact that it provides a dialtone and takes dtmf, leave it at 
that ;)

The only problem I discerned was a SLOTHLIKE dial speed.  Seems the 
dock-n-talk sends dtmf at a rate of about 1 tone every 800 or so 
milliseconds, which adds to the overall connect time staggeringly.

B)

Brian McEntire wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with cell phone switches that allow routing cell 
> phone calls through in-home wiring? One example of these devices is the 
> Phone Labs Dock-N-Talk. It says it keeps your cell charged when you are 
> home and connects your cell (for incoming and outgoing calls) to your 
> home wiring or cordless phones.
> 
> But it also has features such as allowing speed dialing and voice 
> dialing from extensions if your cell phone has those features. So I'm 
> not sure if the device offers a fully compatible FXO signalling.
> 
> I'm currently running Asterisk with 1 POTS and 1 VOIP (via Sipura 3000)
> lines coming into Zaptel FXS modules, and then I have two FXO modules 
> for two extensions.
> 
> I'm thinking of doing away with the land line. Should something like
the
> Dock-N-Talk allow substituting a cell phone line for the POTS line?
> 
> 
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Has anyone checked out the UNIDEN ELBT-595
(http://www.uniden.com/elbt/index.html)<http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2006-January/140837.html>

It supposedly is a handset that can provide the same services. I have not
seen any info about * compatibility though.
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