Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, John Millican wrote: > >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:27:16AM -0500, John Millican wrote: >>>> Hello All, >>>> This may be a little OT for the list but it seems to be to be the place >>>> to get the best answer. I have looked at the many Skype/Yahoo phones out >>>> there and none seem to be what I am looking for. >>>> I have a need for a USB handset that I can use with an Asterisk server. >>> A USB handset is basically a sound device (and not a great one, usually) >>> along with a small keyboard. Linux will usually easily identify the >>> sound device and you can use the phone as chan_{oss,alsa,console}. >>> >>> Using the keyboard in it may be trickier. >>> >>> Do any of the above support cancelling acustic echo? Is it actually >>> needed in this case? >>> >> >> Tzafrir, >> Thanks for the reply. Acusitic echo cancel may not be needed as this >> will not be used in a noisy work place, only in possibly quieter home >> environments. There will also be no need for speaker phone operation. >> Enabling the keypad is definitely the tricky part. I am trying to avoid >> loading a soft phone since I don't want to have to instruct the users on >> how to use one (mostly NON-technical types). If the set looks and feels >> like a phone they will be OK on their own. I guess I may have to go >> with a decent, hopefully inexpensive, basic IP desk phone. > > I had a little success with a cheap USB 'phone' (From Tesco in the UK) > which was a Yealink device. Linux has a driver for the keypad on it which > makes it work just like a regular keyboard (limited number of keys, > obviously!), but the issue is still that you'd need a program of some > sorts to take the keypad input and translate it to an asterisk console > command dial, if using it as a console phone. > > I did use it successfully some time back with idefisk, although idefisk > didn't have a keyboard equivalent of 'hang up' at the time (zoiper might > have now though). The down-side was that you needed to put the mouse over > the idefisk application so it had keyboard input focus )-: > > Oh for a command-line IAX client, but it's something I just don't have > time to put together myself. > > Gordon Thanks for the replies. I wonder if I could use the Yealink phone and write a connector to Asterisk with the IAX client on Sourceforge and make the handset look like an iaxphone? Or maybe there is some other easier solution? All I need is to have the ability to go off hook/on hook, pass DTMF, and voice obviously :-) JohnM
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