[Cialug] Cell phone hooked to asterix (was: OT: Any good reason not to kill land phone line?)

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On 11/16/07, jrnosee at gmail.com <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bluetooth.
>
> If you get the bleeding edge asterisk and asterisk-addons from the
> trunk, there's an addon called chan_mobile.  I've been able to make
> outgoing calls on a cell and take inbound calls from a cell on my
> soft/sip phone on my pc.  I'm looking to tweak the system next, then
> buy a sipura device to plug in my home wiring.  I'm trying to work out
> 2 lines and 2 line phones as well since I want both my cell and my
> wife's to work with the system.

Ah, I didn't know about chan_mobile.  I'll have to try and see if I
can get it to run with Asterisk 1.4.

> Also: (plug for november CIALUG meeting)
> When I'm all said and done I eventually want to try and make this run
> on an embedded system so I can make the "bridge" device smaller.
> Unfortunately I've only got one embedded device at the moment, and I'm
> *trying* to get it to do something else.

I know that there are a number of people working on building Asterisk
on OpenWRT:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2007-November/030531.html

Although, getting something like a Mac Mini and putting a Linux distro
on it should work well too.

Jeff