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What about implementing a CAPI server?

Hi,
when thinking about connecting my phone to asterisk (consider being home and you want to use one hand set for all calls - your DECT device), it came to my mind, that a PPC CAPI server would be neat.
Having that, I could connect my phone via WLAN, Bluetooth, USB etc. to my asterisk box which routes all other landline calls yet. The PPC would act as a GSM gateway.
What are your opinions?

Depends on which direction you want to arhieve.
If you just want to route call from your land line to your mobile via asterisk, that should be easy. You only need a standard SIP client.
But the other way round is somewhat difficult if not entirely impossible. Almost all WM devices doesn't allow any user programs to access the GSM voice channels during call. (That's why there's no proper software for builtin answering machine or even phone recording software available.) Not to mention your would be PPC CAPI server.

I'd almost believe if it were not for GSM beam: transfer data over voice calls thus accessing both voice streams.

It seems that you have some confusions over GSM Voice and GSM Data.
What you have shown is GSM Data <-> GSM Data via GSM modem. It's doable. There's a commercial program available called SecureGSM.
What I said in my last response is that when GSM Voice is active, you can do absolutely nothing at the voice channels - at least for all those HTC devices.
If I understand your problem correctly, when there's a ring at your mobile, your program would supposedly pick it up and route all in/out bound voice to/from asterisk. Remember that the incoming phone would be in GSM Voice call, not a data called at the other end.
That means once your OS takes over the "ring", (more specifically the cprog.exe) it takes over the voice channels and you just can't sniff the mic or loudspeaker, etc., and hence you won't be able to bridge those voice to your asterisk.
Hope this makes things clear.

Hi all,
do I understand it wrong, or is what Chatty is trying to achieve something close to:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Bluetooth+channels
It allows to use any cellphone with bluetooth as an FXO, and it uses the standard bluetooth devices, henche no WM* needed. Just an old spare GSM phone you have lying around
Regards,
DAniele

Yes, sorry I did not clarify that in the pm. GSMbeam is purely data that gets transfered over the csd line.
SecureGSM was mentioned above, but don't forget that www.scrambit.com also dose securely encrypted calls over csd lines.
also, from my experience moving audio data around, these devices have a hard time keeping up with the processing demands of a real time two way conversation. I have spent many hours agonizing over cutting code down to be faster. Add the processing cost of maintaining a connection to another device (bt etc) and its a recipe for failure.

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Errrggg.... Sorry - I can't read Italiano

gdaniele said:
Hi all,
do I understand it wrong, or is what Chatty is trying to achieve something close to:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Bluetooth+channels
It allows to use any cellphone with bluetooth as an FXO, and it uses the standard bluetooth devices, henche no WM* needed. Just an old spare GSM phone you have lying around
Regards,
DAniele
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This should work on ordinary non-WM phones with BT with normal AT command set. But I think it's quite tricky to get it working on WM since cprog.exe could be trapping the modem interface via TAPI when it started. Probably it needs to be killed.
This is a possible way to achieve what Chatty mentioned. Love to hear if it really works.

I cannot read italian either.
The reason tapi exists is to allow multiple apps equal access to the modem. cprog.exe running does not stop any other programs from doing what it needs to. It does prevent the other programs using the ui while the phone is ringing but that's it.

*zapped-out*

ww2250 said:
Love to hear if it really works.
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This Wiki page deals with different (successful) ways of BT streaming to asterisk. Only project still in active development is chan_mobile I think.
How do you know that the GSM voice lines cannot be accessed? The non-existance of a call recorder is not sufficient, is it? It'd be interesting to chat with some linux guys coz with supported devices they usually got full hw access unlike Win Mobile users.

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[Q] Could any of you clever Devs look into Phone

I was wondering if you clever devs could look into adding phone functionality to the adam 3g model ?
it should be capable and would be handy for the odd occasions with a bluetooth headset.
The early tablets and recently at ces the tablet had phone icons on the desktop so im sure its at least a possibility !!
many thanks in advance

On the Battery Use, I have seen a "Phone" process.
Maybe it is already activated, but not used

You can get to the phone section via "contacts" but when you try to make a call it says "call ended" after you hit the call button. From the FCC docs, it says that the Ericcson F3307 3G card is "voice" capable so in theory it is possible! The only thing even close to phone functionality that does work is the sending/receiving SMS messages atm.

Just a shot in the dark, but does google voice's data calling use the same process?

yes and it sucks. it only stinks that the google voice works over data and not wifi. so i cant make a call over wifi if i dont have a valid sim card in.

telephony hardware

Does it exist on tis tab?
how about on
http://www.sierrawireless.com/Newsr...Wireless_4G_LTE_Mobile_Broadband_Network.aspx
which may be the card going in the xoom?
Lastly if the hardware exists on an lte device, should it be possible to make calls work by switching the sim card with a lte phone sim?

I think that if you would like to place phone calls with your Xoom using the cell radio its possible to find a way. Verizon might not be happy with it.
However, Its the hard way to place calls.
Sigh up with a VoIP provider, and use a SIP Client.
I like a provider named Vitelity. You can port your number to them if you would like. They are very inexpensive, and very reliable. (or use Skype, or anyone else.)
Then, use a SIP dialer and a Bluetooth headset on your Xoom. I am doing just that using Verizon 3g and it works great.

I have signed up for skype and have a number, but skype seems to have no interest in real BT support, neither does Google. If I could force Skype to use the mic on a BT< I could likely live with it, but AFAIK that is not possible.

This all be in another forum, however I am using CSIPSimple and it supports my plantronic BT voyager 510, (on Honeycomb)
http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/voyager-510&skuId=sku4610016
And, CSIPSimple opens the default Android Dialer (Which is in Honeycomb) to send and receive calls.

Would you mind testing it to be sure?
If so, place a call, leave your pad and walk like 15 feet and see if you are still heard.
Please don't be offended, I have just had WAY to many people say the same thing as you, only to find out A2DP let them hear, and they were using the tab mic without knowing it.

Hmmm.. I will check later tonight. That is a good question.

Thanks young... anyone else use csip too?

The hardware is capable, the problem is with the provisioning. Verizon adds feature codes to block voice and SMS on their tablet data plans.

what stops us from switching sims later to make our tablets look like a phone?

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what stops us from switching sims later to make our tablets look like a phone?
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There is no sim to switch.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

So then? Any tablet outside of the us ( or Verizon) is able
To standard phonecalls?
I'm in the uk and I was planning to buy the 3g version but if I still have to carry a phone to txt or call, i'll choose the WiFi one, save 200 bucks, and tether with my nexus when needed although I'm not very happy with the idea of carrying multiple devices...
Btw , 3g version has been priced in.....600 pounds! What are they playing at? If I finally choose wifionly I'll buy for sure in the US, screw carphone and pcworld..
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I think you are asking a question that no one can answer at the moment.
LTE does use a SIM card, but, NO devices are currently available on Verizon's LTE network yet, so no one knows what happens if you switch LTE SIM cards between devices.
I also think that LTE devices use a VoIP type of voice connection, something different then how voice is done on CDMA. This new type of connection allows data and Voice to operate at the same time. This functionality, this Software dialer stack would need to be included in Honeycomb, which is not a phone Android distribution.

Young dud you test the bluetooth mic with csip?

Yes. I I have found is that I do have two way audio, all on the Bluetooth headset using csip, I walked around my house, leaving the Xoom several rooms away.
While in WiFi, Bluetooth audio was sketchy at best. For most calls, I could not get the headset in engage for the call. While in the call I would press Bluetooth on the dialer, and nothing would happen, or the audio would cut in and out, before engaging, or a few times I would have to press 'Speaker", then Bluetooth, then Speaker again before it would engage. When it would engage in WiFi I did have two way audio.
While in 3G, with WiFi Off, the connection with Bluetooth was perfect every time. No issues. The call call quality overall was a bit less then with WiFi, however Bluetooth worked correctly.
UPDATE: I just had a bad Bluetooth connection issue on 3G. So, it is spotty. It might be because CSip uses the default Android dialer which might be incomplete in some way on Honeycomb.
I should try another SIP app. But Bluetooth does have two way audio when I can get it to connect.

Make phone calls with 4G dongle?

Hi there,
I'm a new owner of a Joying HU and figuring out how it all works.
Pretty happy with it so far.
So here's my question:
I ordered a 4G dongle to have a permanent data reception and was wondering, if it would be possible to do in- and outcoming calls with it directly so I could do withou a bluetooth paired phone at all.
Has anybody tried that or ist this just not possible?
Thanks
Thomas

I'm planning a similar setup, but it looks like there are no 4G dongles with voice support. If you need 4G, the only options right now seem to be some LTE routers which support VoLTE or CSFB and can act as a SIP server (e.g. Huawei E5186). However, all I've found are somewhat expensive and rather bulky.
The situation looks a lot better for 3G though. Asterisk's chan_dongle module supports voice calls with a bunch of Huawei 3G dongles. So my current plan is to use one of these, run asterisk as a local SIP server, and use an Android SIP client for calls. That way, I don't have to find or write a specialty dialer that supports 3G dongles.

if you are on T-Mobile they have the DIGITS app that will allow you to do that. Someone at one time got Tablet Talk to work, but I never could

I use Google Voice app. Makes all the calls through data as VOIP. as an added bonus, they give you a number so you don't need to use your personal phone for business

Sending / Receiving phone calls from a Wear OS device

Now that Verizon has discontinued integrated calling support for Wear24, I am not able to send/receive phone calls directly on my watch anymore. I used to be able to send/receive phone calls using my Phones number via their "integrated calling" platform. Was a pretty decent concept for people who didn't want an iPhone/Apple Watch combination.
I have a Wear24 with Wear 2.0, but I think that's besides the point. Generally speaking, are there any options out there that will allow you to send/receive phone calls from a WearOS device using your phones number? Is it simple, and I'm missing the big picture?
It would be nuts how Google hasn't done some type of integration themselves. Even a Pixel device with a WearOS combination seems like a mild effort.
Even if I don't hook up a WearOS smart watch to cellular. Even if I'm connected to Bluetooth or something, there's still no solution to make and receive phone calls on the watch?
With an iPhone / Apple Watch, everything seems to integrate so seamlessly making and receiving calls on a watch. and cellular's not even needed!
Thoughts? Ideas?