Huh? <br>
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I think the original poster might be talking about the opposite of what
you are talking about. I understood him to mean that he wants a device
that stays connected to an Asterisk extension and plays any audio
received over the connection through a loudspeaker. I don't see how a
cassette player comes into this at all. <br>
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Following along the lines of the previous suggestion, you could use an
ATA in Hotline mode with an analog speakerphone, but the phone would
have to be designed in such a manner that it if it were hung up upon or
disconnected from the ATA, it would go right back off-hook and directly
into speakerphone mode without intervention. I do not know of any
analog speakerphones that will do this, but someone else might.<br>
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Unfortunately, I also do not know of any SIP or IAX products that would
do this out of the box. However, it would be very easy to modify an
open-source SIP or IAX softphone to do what you want. However, that may
or may not be practical for your situation. If you really want this in
a small "appliance" form factor, you could probably design and build a
device that would run a softphone on an embedded CPU, but I suspect
that even Morgan Stanley's IT department might not want to get into
that scene :). <br>
<br>
-Rusty<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">C F</b> <<a href="mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com">shmaltz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For starters, an old fashioned cassette player that holds the button<br>in with auto reverse will do, since when the power is out it will<br>still play it. Connect that to an ATA (radio shack sells a plug that<br>will connect to a phone line and take the input of a regular headphone
<br>jack to the phone line). Take any ata and configure it as a hotline,<br>put the cassette player with a regulare analog phone on the port of<br>the ata, make sure the phone is off hook, so that the ata makes the<br>hot line call, and viola you are in asterisk. Of course other ways to
<br>do it is: to use an external pager (bogan makes one), that allows<br>external MOH, and that uses a FXO port that you make sure asterisk<br>always keeps off hook.<br><br>
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