[asterisk-users] Nokia cell connected to Asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

Administrator TOOTAI wrote:
> Gordon Henderson a écrit :
>   
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Well chan_bluetooth is really amazing (especially if your phone does not
>>> support SIP).
>>>
>>> You connect your phone via bluetooth to your asterisk box and it becomes
>>> a channel type.  You can use it as an extension(FXS) or a phone line
>>> (FXO).  I believe you can send and receive SMS through the
>>> phone/Asterisk as well.
>>>
>>> Chan_bluetooth README is in the asterisk-addons trunk and gives you
>>> basic instruction on setting it up.
>>>
>>> You get several added pieces of functionality with this setup.  SMS send
>>> and receive through your phone using Asterisk?, FXO failover or LCR, FXS
>>> where your cell phone becomes an extension.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Does FSX really work? Can I really use my mobile as an extension? How do I 
>> make my mobile phone dial out over bluetooth rather than it's GSM 
>> connection?
>>
>> If this really is the case, does it then create the "holy grail" of one 
>> phone for everything?
>>
>> Does it support one to many?
>>
>> I'm imagining an office where I connect a bluetooth dongle on the end of a 
>> long USB cable up to the middle of the room, into the PBX which many 
>> mobile phones can then access and let the punters use their mobiles to 
>> make/take calls via the PBX when in the office and use them as normal 
>> mobile when out of the office... So in the office, mobile rings via bt, 
>> when no bt connection, then it rings out via the PSTN to the mobile. (or 
>> via another GSM gateway)
>>
>> But I'm really clueless on bluetooth use - other than sending cheeky 
>> messages to other peoples mobiles and connecting my borg implant to my mob 
>> when driving!
>>
>> I also know I can probably do this with mob's that have WiFi and SIP 
>> clients too, however ...
>>   
>>     
> Yes, and it's working great, particulary with Nokia's: you tell them to 
> try to call at first through Internet, if it fails, fallback to GSM.
>
> Once you're in the office with WIFI, device get automatically connected 
> to the net and you can pass/receive calls, if  outside office -better 
> say, not near a WIFI or HotSpot-, you pass calls through GSM and receive 
> the calls from your asterisk through a GSM gateway (other BT or WIFI gsm 
> phone, GSM gw device, ...) in your office
>
>   
I should correct myself, it was called chan_bluetooth but there was an 
abandoned project with the same name.  Just for clarity, the app you 
should be researching is chan_mobile.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro