On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:01:30 -0700, Steve Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:49 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I'd like to know if is is possible to connect a very old phone to > > asterisk and dial pulses with it? > > Arnaud-- > > I'm answering this via the users' mailing list instead of the > developer's. I know they'd appreciate that, and it's a better forum for > these sorts of questions. > > I'm using an old rotary dial phone connected to one of the 4 ports of > the 4-port FXS card; it works great. I can dial, check voicemail, etc by > spinning the dial and letting go. I was amazed, but pulse dialing works > fine with the FXS card. The only trouble might be with # and * key > functionality, I haven't investigated workarounds.
Eleven pulses on a zaptel card will give you an asterisk, and twelve will generate an octothorp. Get your hookswitch-flashing finger ready... -- Strom Carlson http://www.stromcarlson.com/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
