[Asterisk-Users] SIP Phones-Receptionist Setup

[Tracy R Reed]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:05:27AM -0500, Gregory Junker spake thusly:
> What is the size of the current line panel on her desk? I am thinking it 
> might be worthwhile to produce an addon to Asterisk that drives a flat 
> touchpanel that does the same thing as the current solution. Baby steps. 

I have indeed considered this. They have around 15 extensions. I just
don't have the time to develop this device at the moment and if I did I'm
not sure how professionally I could package it or how cheap I could make
it. Small touch screen displays seem pretty expensive and I haven't looked
into whether X supports touchscreens. A small and cheap Via Epia board
connected to the network with one of these displays sitting right on top
of it would be an awesome device though. In fact I would love to turn
something like this into a general phone solution by adding a
handset/speakerphone, and putting a soft phone on it (thus making it a
hard phone since it is a dedicated hardware device since all voip phones
are just software running on a hardware platform anyhow) and sell it as
the ultimate flexible voip phone. The only problem is that it would cost
way too much unless one built it in volume which isn't likely. Might look
kinda hokey too if you just put a touch screen on top of a box and attach
a handset and speakers to it. I don't know how people would react if it
weren't a curvy looking slick pastic thing. I would really like to see a
general purpose phone platform running Linux with a nice touchscreen where
I could customize the interface and everything though.

Their phone system is still not complete because of this issue. Turned out
the Cisco 7914 I originally ordered to do this does not work with the SIP
image so I had to send it back and get a Snom 220 which I will use with
the hint extenstion etc as described here:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+phone+SNOM
http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-users@lists.digium.com/msg49781.html

and hope it works like I expect it to. 

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