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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. Re:Asterisk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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 ;)