On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:54 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:50:15 -0430, > Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:15 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > [...] > > > So SIP Witch is a SIP server, meaning that I could get a SIP capable > > > phone, set up SIP Witch with a POTS connection and connect my phone > > > through SIP Witch to the phone system ? > > > > I've no idea what SIP Witch is. RTFM. But consider this: if it's a > > server it has to be connected to the net. Connecting to a simple POTS > > line with no network on top of it isn't going to get you anything. > > I wouldn't go that far. You can do fun stuff within your house independent > of whether or not you are connected to POTS and/or the internet. > > You can get hardware that will either talk to phones or the telco for > prices that are not cheap, but not out of line for a hobbiest. Unfortunately > the people that produce the most popular driver for such hardware refuse > to upstream their GPL code so that they can dual license it. So the code > isn't available in Fedora and using it from ATRPMS is dicey if you like to > track recent kernels or rawhide. Tell me more about this, please. > I have a play setup at home, but currently am just using it as an intercom > system between upstairs and downstairs. I don't have a POTS connection > currently and was having some issues with some things I was doing to connect > the phones to a SIP/IAX server (asterisk) and haven't made time to play with > it recently. I never thought of that... get a bunch of VOIP phones, preferably wireless and one could implement a pretty neat home phone system. That is one of our problems... all our phone messages end up in one voice mail box and its always full. Does SIPWitch handle voicemail ? Will SIPWitch send an email to a user when it receives a voicemail ? As you can tell, telecommunications is a bit of a problem around our house. I'd love to solve that problem with Linux. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines