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Chat Online with Cordless Phone

Posted by Zonk on from the who-doesn't-like-a-rainy-day-project? dept.

buckymatters writes "Christoffer Järnåker has converted an old home phone to be used with Skype, MSN voice chat or other similar software. Using the 'highly scientific method Trial and Error' he uncovered the input and output of the phone, wired it up and began talking 300 meters away from his computer on MSN."

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  1. Hold on by ramzak2k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isnt the article just about providing for a head phone and mic wire from an existing phone?

    It doesnt allow you to punch numbers and call to skype directly.

    Nice hack but the story title is misleading.

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  2. Re:Asterisk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Skype is a proprietary protocol and nobody has reverse engineered it yet.

    You use the API Skype provides.
    Since asterisk is a PBX exchanger the way to deal with skype is simple, you run skype calls though the handy dandy api, and then feed the audio data back into asterisk, where it can then handle the rest of the call routing etc etal.

    Feel lucky they don't have a -1 'wrong' moderation ;)

    You seem to have entirely misunderstood the post you are replying to. The fact that the proprietary Skype program happens to have an API for dealing with the Skype protocol does not mean that the protocol has been reverse-engineered so that any arbitrary program such as Asterisk can interoperate with it (without necessarily needing Skype itself installed). It is certainly true that you could just use the Skype APIs from Asterisk, but that would still require you to have Skype installed. Thus, the statement that "Skype is a proprietary protocol and nobody has reverse engineered it yet." is still correct.