[asterisk-users] asterisk for small home phone system

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Hixson
My wife and I have a home telephone/answering machine. We've decided that having voicemail stuck in the machine and waiting for us to return home is not working for us any longer. We'd like for calls coming into our home to be routed to our cell phones. It seems to me that Asterisk might be

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk for small home phone system

2012-10-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:09:01AM -0700, Matthew Hixson wrote: - Is the Linksys SPA3102 a good piece of hardware for this type of setup or is there something cheaper? Perhaps a card that can go right into the Linux box? I'm using an OpenVox A400 (with an FXO module), which Asterisk can

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk for small home phone system

2012-10-25 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:09:01AM -0700, Matthew Hixson wrote: - Is the Linksys SPA3102 a good piece of hardware for this type of setup or is there something cheaper? Perhaps a card that can go right into the Linux

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk for small home phone system

2012-10-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:33:06AM -0700, Matthew Hixson wrote: Is there any reason a regular old voicemodem wouldn't work? IME the voice quality and reliability are pretty grotty. If you find one that works, great! R -- _ --

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk for small home phone system

2012-10-25 Thread covici
Or you could use the followme feature to have asterisk just call your cell phones. Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:09:01AM -0700, Matthew Hixson wrote: - Is the Linksys SPA3102 a good piece of hardware for this type of setup or is there something