[VoIP] Asterisk and Payphones

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
I'd be interested in such a thing, except that I don't have any coin phones
now. I'd love to get one to play around with, though! How are you doing
this? Are you developing hardware to handle coin collect and coin return?
Thanks. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rudholm" <mark at rudholm.com>
To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: [VoIP] Asterisk and Payphones


> Greetings all,
> 
> I've been working on-and-off on a project to emulate a coin
> service line with Asterisk, as I have a collection of single-
> slot payphones and no switchgear that will provide coin service.
> 
> I'm curious if anyone else would be interested in such a setup.
> Is this something anyone else has an interest in?
> 
> I have two hardware designs done and will be prototyping at
> least one of them as soon as my Mouser order arrives.  I spoke
> to Mark Spencer about coin tone detection in Asterisk and while
> it hasn't been done, he gave me pointers about how to add it to
> the existing DTMF decode logic that I plan to experiment with
> once I have the hardware working the way I want.
> 
> -Mark
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