[asterisk-users] usb-phones

[Hans Witvliet]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 23:15 +0000, Steve Howes wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2009, at 22:44, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> 
> > While reading the thread about recommending usb-phones...
> >
> > Once in a while, i'm in a data-centre, no normal phones, and too much
> > concrete shielding wireless phones.
> > So i was thinking to use one of those usb-phones, and plug it into one
> > of my servers there.
> >
> > But what i read from the thread, i seems that you need a graphical
> > environment, while all of the servers are strictly cli-only.
> >
> > Is there a cli-based phone (besides the asterisk-console), that can  
> > use
> > a usb-audio-device?
> > Afaicr,those usb-phones present themselves as an plain usb-audio  
> > device.
> 
> You must have a spare eth port somewhere. What is wrong with a cheap  
> VoIP phone?
> 

yes, there are spare rj-45, however:
- We don't have POE,
- mac-adresses have to be subscribed before for each outlet
- just lines of 19" cabinets, no place to leave a hw-phone
- they get borrowed ;-)

You can take a small usb-phone in your pocket whenever you go there. 
Have a cli-phone-app on your usb-stick (or pre-installed),and whenever
you need to phone: plug both in,open a shell and off you go.

(i presume a usb-bluetooth dongle and bluetooth-headset, normally used
for mobilephone, won't work..)

hw