[mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)

[Todd]

I have been running asterisk for over a year now...some things I have 
learned...

The X100P cards are WAY more trouble than they are worth if you are going to 
use to for more than CallerID.  You will never get the echo out.

If you want to answer the phone (via SIP or Myth) or you want to get into 
VoIP in general, get something with an FXO port.   I recommend the Sipura 
SPA-3000.  It runs $99 and has 2 FXS (to run a normal phones) and one FXO 
port.  The FXO port you can configure to "ring" the myth box directly with 
no Asterisk involved.  It will pass all the CallerID info.
http://www.sipura.com/products/spa3000.htm
...you configure the thing with a web browser...very nice.

Then if you really want to go nuts you can buy a 2 line phone (I like the 
Panasonic "expandable" wireless phones) plugging both lines into the FXS 
ports on the Sipura and setup a "dialing plan" to dial out at 2 or 3 cents a 
minute nearly world wide...or have an incoming 877 number at the same rate. 
All the info is in here somewhere:
http://www.voip-info.org/

Bottom line:  The easiest way to get started in my opinion is with something 
like Sipura box, just make sure it has an FXO port to "ring" the Myth Box 
up.

Good luck,
ToddD


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Guardiani" <jesse at wingnet.net>
To: "Brad Benson" <bbenso1 at gmail.com>; "Discussion about mythtv" 
<mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)


> Brad Benson wrote:
>> On 9/30/05, *Jesse Guardiani* <jesse at wingnet.net 
>> <mailto:jesse at wingnet.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you're
>>     looking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYS
>>     watching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion.
>>
>>
>> Look into YAC and xYAC.  If you search the archives for yac you should 
>> turn up a thread related to that.  At least I remember seeing one here a 
>> while back.  xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info using X 
>> and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, ogle, 
>> whatever.  I was looking into doing this myself, but I just haven't 
>> picked up a modem with callerid yet.
>
> If you want to learn asterisk, X100P cards go for $15 on ebay.
> That's what I use. Definitely has a learning curve, but you can
> do a heck of a lot more than callerid with asterisk.
>
> Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
>
> -- 
> Jesse Guardiani
> Programmer/Sys Admin
> jesse at wingnet.net
>
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