[asterisk-users] OT - Chan-mobile -Bluetooth dongle on remote LAN workstation

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 01/02/13 09:43, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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> From: Olivier <oza_4h07 at yahoo.fr>
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] OT - Chan-mobile -Bluetooth dongle on remote
> LAN workstation
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:25:42 +0100
>
> Hello,
>
> On a LAN, is it possible to install a bluetooth dongle on one
> workstation (at this time, this workstation OS is not specified) and use
> it with chan_mobile ?
> I've read some USB over IP (or Ethernet) middleware exist but I'm not
> certain I'm looking at the right direction.
>
> Regards
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Hi Oliver,
>
> I've been trying to do this for a while.
> Been using latest blackberries and oldest nokia, and a laptop with
> build-in and also an external BT-dongle.
>
> What i noticed, is that the presence is highly unstable.
> Even without walking along (kept the phone 10 cm from the BT-dongle) it
> kept bouncing: found-gone-found-gone.... Unworkable.
>
> I wanted not only presence, but speech-patch also via BT.
> Idea was, that if co-workers are located at the other end of the world,
> they can still be reached on they handy, even when no GSM-roaming is
> acceptable (due to costs).
>
> hw
>
>
Hi Hans,

As mentioned in my previous post - I've had this working for a number of 
years for my personal use. When I would go abroad, I would leave my 
cellphone/mobile phone home connected to Asterisk over bluetooth. I 
would say that if you're having problems staying connected - it might be 
the bluetooth dongle. It seems that the ones with the Cambridge Silicon 
chipset work best. In my case, once the phone gets connected, it stays 
connected. However, there is a known bug whereby Nokia phones 
automatically disconnect from bluetooth at the end of a call. To bypass 
this, I reduced the number of seconds to 5 in chan_mobile.conf - so that 
Asterisk tries to scan for the phone quick enough after it disconnects. 
I've added a note at the bottom of this page a while ago regarding this 
issue:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/chan_mobile

At the time I also got hold of as many phones as possible and tested 
compatibility. I've added my results to the same page above.

Sebastian