Has anybody tried chan_cellphone?
It is a channel driver to connect bluetooth phones as trunks of the asterisk box!
bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8919

Maybe somebody can help installing it...
Which bluetooth packages may be needed for Elastix?
I have done:
yum install bluez*
but when I do "make menuselect" I can't select chan_cellphone, because it seems I don't have the needed bluetooth packages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This package would be a good one to integrate with asterisk 0.9!!!<br><br>Post edited by: ramoncio, at: 2007/10/30 22:28

Would be great. How stable is this project?

I'm not sure about stability.
But I think it is worth to have a try. Here in Spain we pay a lot for pstn to GSM calls. And a gsm to pstn gateway is around 300 euros (around 400$).
It just installs a channel driver in order to use bt phones as trunks. If you don't use it, it shouldn't affect system stability, and if you do it is at your own risk.
They appear to be under hard development. Many versions in the last months.
Have a look here:
www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=As...k+Bluetooth+channels
It seems that if you get a fully compatible phone it is quite stable.
This would be a great addition to Elastix indeed!

And chan_mobile looks a very similar module too, and I think it is newer.
Have a look at this nice and clear explanation in spanish:

www.saghul.net/blog/2007/08/29/howto-rev...br><br>Post edited by: ramoncio, at: 2007/11/02 02:16

Or maybe you can integrate chan_celliax, from celliax.org.
It is a channel using a mobile phone connected with a usb cable.
This looks more stable than bluetooth channels.

The point is to easily be able to use mobile phones with Elastix.
This would be very interesting for Spanish users. Here we don't pay for pstn-to-pstn phonecalls (inside Spain), but mobile phonecalls are very expensive if you call from a pstn line or a mobile from a different company.

Thanks ramoncio,

We'll include one of these channels for sure. We're evaluating them to see what is the best of them at this moment.

Nice, thank you!!
By the way, chan_mobile is included in the Asterisk svn trunk.
As yesterday I got some time, and my zaptel channels were gone in 0.9beta , I compiled asterisk and asterisk-addons from svn and zaptel 1.4.6 in my 0.9beta test box.
But I forgot to do more tests, as you released 0.9beta2 and reinstalled it to see if the zap issue was gone.
I just did in asterisk core show channeltypes
and chan_mobile was there.
Thanks.
I'll keep trying version 0.9beta2<br><br>Post edited by: ramoncio, at: 2007/11/03 21:41

Thanks for the info ramoncio,

I'm going to download the asterisk svn version to see if we can merge this channel in the current 1.4.13.

I'll keep you posted.

Definitively great as chan_mobile ( trunk version ) works perfectly for me with 1.4.11.

Not a patch but

did the trick for me with 1.4.11.
Changes should be quite the same for 1.4.13

I want to give a try to elastix mainly because of the support of asterisk 1.4 and then want to add chan_mobile. If it's already done, I won't hesitate...
Thanks anyway for your work.
Fastm3.

What trick did you do with bluetooth?
I got an error when I tried to scan for mobiles, saying that the bt adapter is already in use.
Did you compile bluez from source or installed it from yum repos?