[asterisk-users] 1950's UK rotary dial phone

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:05:52AM +0000, Mike wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:26:10PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:03:16PM +0000, Mike wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > > 
> > > I've got one of those GPO 1950's rotary dial phones that I'm trying to
> > > get working in the UK.  I've got pretty much everything working with my
> > > TDM400, the phone rings and I can receive calls but I cannot dial with
> > > the rotary dialer.  I have set pulsedial=true  
> > 
> > Should not be needed. This parameter means that your Asterisk system
> > dials with pulses rather than tones (prefixing 't' rather than 'p' to
> > the dial string sent to DAHDI). I suppose this is not really what you're
> > after.
> > 
> > > or whatever the exact
> > > setting is and I can dial from the phone by lifting the receiver and
> > > tapping out the number on the hook.  However, using the rotary dialer
> > > does not work (works fine plugged into my phone line).  I have read
> > > about the possibilty that the pulse settings may need adjusting in
> > > kernel.h in the dahdi driver but I have no idea what to set them to.  I
> > > have tried tweeking them to various extents but I've not been able to
> > > bring it to life yet.  Does anyone have any experience getting this to
> > > work?  Does anyone know the specs for UK pulse dial?  How long should
> > > the pulses be and what is the gap between them?
> > 
> > I wonder if anybody wants to follow up on 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/546329 (formly http://bugs.debian.org/399772 )
> >
> 
> Thanks Tzafrir, that was it.  I have changed the fxs.debounce and
> recompiled.  My rotary dialer lives again!

So what will it break if I apply this patch to wctdm.c ?

Any reason not to apply it?

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