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Dave Liquorice

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Mar 8, 2015, 3:58:06 PM3/8/15
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Does such a thing exist?

The POTS side only needs ringing to drive proper bells (Bell 50c).

I want the Bell 50c to ring when incoming VOIP calls arrive on the
VOIP/DECT base station.

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Toby

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Mar 8, 2015, 5:40:20 PM3/8/15
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On 08/03/2015 19:55, Dave Liquorice wrote:
> Does such a thing exist?
>
> The POTS side only needs ringing to drive proper bells (Bell 50c).
>
> I want the Bell 50c to ring when incoming VOIP calls arrive on the
> VOIP/DECT base station.
>
Would these work for you?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/RTX-WIRELESS-PHONEJACK-Phone-White/dp/B000NJQHL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425850760&sr=8-1&keywords=wireless+telephone+extension

http://tinyurl.com/pcugag9



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Toby

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Mar 8, 2015, 5:41:36 PM3/8/15
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Otherwise could you just use an ATA, registered to the same account, for it?

Graham.

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Mar 8, 2015, 6:25:13 PM3/8/15
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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:42:44 +0000, Toby <ne...@altyourpantsphuk.co.uk>
wrote:
He might have an issue with both devices behind the same NAT router

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Michael Chare

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Mar 8, 2015, 7:30:53 PM3/8/15
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I think it would depend on the VOIP provider. I suspect Sipgate and AA
would be OK, but not Voipfone.

If you have a Cisco ATA112 you could connect both the bell and the DECT
base station to one of the ports. I am testing a similar setup where I
connect both a corded phone and a DECT base station to one port of an
SPA112.


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Dave Liquorice

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Mar 8, 2015, 9:13:05 PM3/8/15
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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:41:27 +0000, Toby wrote:

>> The POTS side only needs ringing to drive proper bells (Bell 50c).
>
> Would these work for you?
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/RTX-WIRELESS-PHONEJACK-Phone-White/dp/
> B000NJQHL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425850760&sr=8-1&
> keywords=wireless+telephone+extension
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pcugag9

Well that's the sort of thing and it even uses DECT but I don't think
you can pair the slave with anything other than an RTX master. The
pairing process appears to involve joining master/slave with a cable.

The ATA idea popped into my head 2 ms after pressing send but that
seems a bit overkill and involves wires. I was sort of wanting
something small and battery powered, there is quite a bit of space
inside a Bell 50c...

Butcher an old dect handset, switched 25 Hz oscilator, into 15:1 step
up transformer(*) to drive the bell?

(*) Small mains jobbie with 15 V secondary?

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Dave Liquorice

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Mar 8, 2015, 9:28:06 PM3/8/15
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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:30:47 +0000, Michael Chare wrote:

>>> Otherwise could you just use an ATA, registered to the same
account,
>>> for it?
>>
>> He might have an issue with both devices behind the same NAT
router

Careful configuration of IP address's, ports and port forwarding
ought to solve that. But I agree VOIP and NAT are not happy bed
fellows.

> If you have a Cisco ATA112 you could connect both the bell and the DECT
> base station to one of the ports.

The DECT POTS/VOIP base is already connected to a POTS line, which is
used for incoming calls but also makes the DECT handsets ring. It's
getting a proper bell to ring when VOIP calls arrive that is the
problem. The DECT base doesn't have any FXS ports.

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Dennis@home

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Mar 9, 2015, 4:25:01 AM3/9/15
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On 09/03/2015 01:06, Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:41:27 +0000, Toby wrote:
>
>>> The POTS side only needs ringing to drive proper bells (Bell 50c).
>>
>> Would these work for you?
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/RTX-WIRELESS-PHONEJACK-Phone-White/dp/
>> B000NJQHL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425850760&sr=8-1&
>> keywords=wireless+telephone+extension
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/pcugag9
>
> Well that's the sort of thing and it even uses DECT but I don't think
> you can pair the slave with anything other than an RTX master. The
> pairing process appears to involve joining master/slave with a cable.
>
> The ATA idea popped into my head 2 ms after pressing send but that
> seems a bit overkill and involves wires. I was sort of wanting
> something small and battery powered, there is quite a bit of space
> inside a Bell 50c...

This any help?

http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/

Graham.

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Mar 9, 2015, 9:33:07 AM3/9/15
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Only if like mine, it has an attendant ATA or two.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/g3zvt/10499539866/

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