Re: [Ekiga-list] phone dialer

[Stuart Gathman <stuart gathman org>]

On 01/01/2011 11:06 AM, Aran Patinkin wrote:
> I would like to turn Ekiga to a phone dialer through a K56 voice modem
> that is connected to my home phone.
Assuming you mean you have a 56K analog voice modem, and you want to
send touchtones, Ekiga is entirely unrelated to what you want.

1) Consumer voice modems are typically "win modems" which do not
document how to use the "telco attached sound card" functionality - you
can only use it with the provided Windows only software.

2) If you happen to have a usable voice modem, then you want telephony
software, as simple as a software answering machine or as complex as
Asterix (which probably has drivers for voice modems).  Ekiga uses the
SIP or H323 protocols to talk to another SIP/H323 user or a telephony
server (like asterix).  It does no telephony itself.

3) If you only need to send touchtones, and the modem implements the
ancient and venerable AT command set, then you can send touchtones with
a simple script that sends commands like "ATDT12345678\r" to the modem. 
We have no idea what other features you envision (maybe a GUI that
displays an address book?)