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.
:)
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