[Asterisk-Users] Re: * compatible with Pulse dialing phones ?

[Strom Carlson]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:01:30 -0700, Steve Murphy <murf at e-tools.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:49 -0600, asterisk-dev-request at lists.digium.com
> wrote:
> >  I'd like to know if is is possible to connect a very old phone to
> > asterisk and dial pulses with it?
> 
> Arnaud--
> 
> I'm answering this via the users' mailing list instead of the
> developer's. I know they'd appreciate that, and it's a better forum for
> these sorts of questions.
> 
> I'm using an old rotary dial phone connected to one of the 4 ports of
> the 4-port FXS card; it works great. I can dial, check voicemail, etc by
> spinning the dial and letting go. I was amazed, but pulse dialing works
> fine with the FXS card. The only trouble might be with # and * key
> functionality, I haven't investigated workarounds.

Eleven pulses on a zaptel card will give you an asterisk, and twelve
will generate an octothorp.  Get your hookswitch-flashing finger
ready...

-- 
Strom Carlson
http://www.stromcarlson.com/