While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones... Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much concrete shielding wireless phones. So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one of my servers there. But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only. Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can use a usb-audio-device? Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio device. hw
The Asterisk console is pretty good....but there was a text version of one of the softphones once (sjphone, if I remember correctly) PaulH Hans Witvliet wrote:> While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones... > > Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much > concrete shielding wireless phones. > So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one > of my servers there. > > But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical > environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only. > > Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can use > a usb-audio-device? > Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio device. > > > hw > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
On 23 Mar 2009, at 22:44, Hans Witvliet wrote:> While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones... > > Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much > concrete shielding wireless phones. > So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one > of my servers there. > > But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical > environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only. > > Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can > use > a usb-audio-device? > Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio > device.You must have a spare eth port somewhere. What is wrong with a cheap VoIP phone?
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Hans Witvliet wrote:> While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones... > > Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much > concrete shielding wireless phones. > So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one > of my servers there. > > But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical > environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only. > > Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can use > a usb-audio-device? > Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio device.I asked here a while back about a command-lime VoIP client. Got no-where interesting - other than people suggesting I run a full-blown asterisk, and alas I've not had time to do it myself. It *should* be relatively straightforward using the existing IAX libraries, I'd have thought, however... Gordon