[Asterisk-Users] USB handset wanted

[Ondrej Valousek]

Ok,

Here is my more detailed vision:
The company has 20-30 engineers sitting behind thin clients powered by 
LTSP using one common login server via XDMCP.
USB handsets are connected to the thin clients.

Now I would like them to use phones so I have 2 options:
- use more advanced sound systems like ESD or maybe ALSA that is able to 
connect to the remote sound server (running on each thin client) and run 
softphone directly on the login server
- forget about ESD/ALSA, stick with OSS (most softphones are only OSS 
aware anyway) and launch softpone software locally on each thin client.

The better is option 1, I think because all apps use the same sound 
device and users can have 1 common headset for everything. No switches, 
no remote logons, no hassle. But it does not solve the ringing issue. So 
I have to forget it.

But these my thoughts assume the headset appear to the system as another 
USB soundcard. That's the bottom line.
Any other oppinions?

Ondrej

Joseph wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:29 +0200, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
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>>Matt,
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>>You have forgotten the ringer.
>>In fact, I don't care that much about LCD & buttons. I want to use it 
>>with something like X-lite.
>>Initially, I used machine builtin soundcard with X-Lite (worked well) 
>>but then I realized that if the phone is supposed to compete with the 
>>standard analog phone, it must have a working ringer.
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>> From what I see I suppose that every handset with builtin ringer must 
>>be recongized to the OS as 2 USB soundcards - one for speaker/mike, the 
>>second as a ringer.
>>But I could be wrong.
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>>Our company is completely linux based and If I manage, it will have a 
>>linux based PBX as well (nothing against Windows, though).
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>With initial testing, it seems like the USB-CS50 from Plantronics should
>work. Not sure how you would go about doing the ringer part, but if they
>have the headset on, they could here it.
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>Using the sound card of your system, radio shack sells a switch device
>to either send the sound to your headset or to your speakers. It makes
>it easy to change back and forth.
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