[Asterisk-Users] USB handset options for softphones

[Steve Feinstein]

And the opposite is also true.  I've tried a few Skype Certified 
devices, and generally the audio works (though in some cases it's (IMO) 
unnecessarily turned off unless Skype is in a call, perhaps so you don't 
hear the beeps and squeaks a PC normally makes)  And almost universally, 
a Skype keypad can't be used by non Skype clients. 

We were thinking of writing a Skype emulation layer to enable all these 
devices, has anyone already started down this path?

-Steve Feinstein


Martin Joseph wrote:
>
> On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Michael Graves wrote:
>
>> With few exceptions a USB phone is just and audio device to the host 
>> PC. Most will work with any soft phone. The Phoenix Duet and MV900 
>> that I have used both worked equally well with
>> Asterisk, Sip Phone/Gizmo, FWD, Firefly and Skype.
>>
>> There are some "Skype Certified" hardware devices appearing. These 
>> usually have buttons that mimic the software buttons on the Skype 
>> client. In doing that they use the Skype API directly.
>> They may work as normal handsets with other soft phones, but I've 
>> never tried this.
>>
> The above is sort of misleading information in my opinion.
>
> It's true that any of the USB phones can function as audio devices, 
> but if you expect the KEYPAD on the device to work (notice the devices 
> he mentions have none), the softphone needs to support that specifically.
>
> Marty
>
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