If you don't have an objection to 24/7 then that is by far the best way, just get some fxs ports and each POTS phone can have it's own extension if you want.<br><br>Certainly the way to go if there is no reason stopping you.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Bill Lovett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@ilovett.com">bill@ilovett.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I get how everything is connected with your setup, but if you pick up<br>
the cordless phone to answer a call does the sip extension just keep<br>
ringing until it times out?<br>
<br>
I like the exclusion adapter idea because it sounds like it would let<br>
me keep my dialplan intact. But I do take John and Trevor's point<br>
about putting everything through asterisk and running it 24/7. It<br>
would make things a lot simpler.<br>
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On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Tom Browning wrote:<br>
<br>
><br>
> An exclusion adapter is overkill. My Asterisk line card is the $10<br>
> Win modem card that I got from ebay.<br>
><br>
> When you call my copper line, two devices see the inbound ringer:<br>
><br>
> 1. The Uniden 5.8Ghz cordless phone base station that answers 95%<br>
> of the calls<br>
> 2. Asterisk with a win modem line card that: a. runs a perl AGI<br>
> script to parse caller-id name and number b. rings a sip extension<br>
> or c. answers the call and plays funny messages and DTMF tones at<br>
> the telemarketers.<br>
><br>
> Just make sure that Asterisk only RINGS the sip extensions but never<br>
> sends the call to play a message or voicemail or any other Asterisk<br>
> feature that will issue an implicit Answer and take the call.<br>
><br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><br>