[Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general happiness

Jay Milk jay at skimmilk.net
Thu Sep 23 12:24:18 MST 2004 

The implications are great, aren't they?  We have three T-Mo phones on a
family plan, so that could come in handy, although my main motivation is
just the convenience factor.  In addition, our phones are all set up for
CCF to one of our VOIP lines, which is "nearly free" on T-Mo.  You
basically receive a bucket of 500 CCF minutes which each line.  With the
proper setup, the channel could be advised to dispose of incoming calls
by declaring the phone busy, thus forcing it to CCF to a homeline, and
not using up cell minutes for those calls.  During free nights/weekends,
the cellular phone could be the preferred long-distnace carrier... It's
endless.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Antkowiak [mailto:antkojm1 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:52 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and 
> general happiness
> 
> 
> if you bought a 2 phone no-minute plan with unlimited mobile 
> to mobile, and used * to connect one of your phones to your 
> unlimited ld at home, you could essentially get very cheap 
> unlimited mobile
> calling...   this was the point I was trying to make...   Yes, it
> would be a pain to dial twice, but with all these smartphones 
> and pda phones out there, it shouldn't be too hard to write 
> something that could easily talk to * via the mobile to mobile call...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:43:41 -0500, Jay Milk <jay at skimmilk.net> wrote:
> > Even better... Come home, leave the phone in the car knowing your 
> > bluetooth gateway is only a few feet away dangling down from the 
> > garage ceiling :)  I already have bluetooth handsfree in 
> the car, and 
> > it's sweet -- no more missed calls due leaving the phone on vibrate.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slwatts at winckworths.co.uk [mailto:slwatts at winckworths.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 12:33 PM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GSM phones, bluetooth and general 
> > happiness
> > 
> > Interesting....
> > 
> > We use primicell's (nokia 22's) to break out mobile phone 
> traffic at 
> > the office. I know these are more like full blown mobile 
> phones that u 
> > plug directly into the pbx but similar idea. Would be cool 
> to have a 
> > home version to allow u to get similar functionality by 
> just putting 
> > your bluetooth mobile near your asterisk server ;-)
> > 
> > ie. Come home, plonk phone down. walk off to another room - 
> girlfriend 
> > calls, asterisk picks it up and rings all phones in house... no 
> > annoying ear bashing about why I didnt take my mobile with 
> me and when 
> > I call her I can do so on my dirt cheap mobile-mobile rate :-)
> > 
> > On a similar note - has anyone got asterisk to work with the 
> > nokia/sony PCMCIA GSM (or even 3G?) cards? - 3G would open up the 
> > Videophone thing through asterisk - sure there is a very good 
> > technical reason why that wouldnt work!!!
> > 
> > Sam
> > 
> > Jay Milk <jay at skimmilk.net> wrote on 23/09/2004 18:10:11:
> > 
> > > When I installed my first home-PBX three years ago, I was 
> looking at 
> > > "cellsockets" -- devices which will accept certain 
> cellular phones 
> > > and
> > 
> > > provide an RJ11 jack, generating the ring-voltage and recognizing
> > DTMF,
> > > which in turn makes your cell-phone look like a CO line.  Pretty 
> > > cool stuff, in theory, but it just didn't seem to be 
> worth the cost, 
> > > especially since it locks you to a particular cell-phone.
> > >
> > > Since then, I've moved to Asterisk.  I looked at at cell-sockets 
> > > again
> > 
> > > recently, but they haven't really gotten any cheaper... 
> And on top 
> > > of that, I'd now require a precious FXO interface for *.
> > >
> > > I looked at some developer documentation for my particular phone 
> > > (S/E
> > > T610) while connecting it to my PC via Bluetooth.  For 
> those who are
> > > unaware, all GSM phones have a built-in set of AT modem 
> commands.  Not
> > 
> > > surprisingly, I was able to place calls as well as receive 
> > > ring-indicators, caller-id information and call-progress 
> information
> > via
> > > the virtual serial port that the phone provides over 
> bluetooth.  But 
> > > what's more, I was also able to utilize my PC as a handsfree 
> > > speakerphone -- and all this over bluetooth.
> > >
> > > As I see it, all the pieces are available -- we got full phone
> > control,
> > > some form of digital audio going back and forth, call-progress 
> > > reporting.  I know there's at least one bluetooth stack 
> for linux, 
> > > so
> > > *technically* we're "there", no?
> > >
> > > I foresee a chan_blue which allow Asterisk to utilize a 
> > > bluetooth/GSM cellular phone as a CO line, connecting by nothing 
> > > more than a $5 bluetooth dongle and 5ft of air.
> > >
> > > Who's up for the challenge?  If there's enough interest in the 
> > > community, I'll be the first to add a bounty on this -- 
> it would be 
> > > worth at least $100 to me to have this functionality.
> > >
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