alexd wrote:
Can anyone think of a way I can get calls to my mobile number delivered
to me over a SIP trunk, without paying for a divert? Sipgate's response
to the question is a terse negative.

Orange used to (still do?) allow free call diverts to geographic
numbers. The catch was that you had to do it with a short code rather
than from the phone itself.

Chris

on 12/08/2008, Chris Davies supposed :
alexd wrote:
Can anyone think of a way I can get calls to my mobile number delivered
to me over a SIP trunk, without paying for a divert? Sipgate's response
to the question is a terse negative.

Orange used to (still do?) allow free call diverts to geographic
numbers. The catch was that you had to do it with a short code rather
than from the phone itself.

Chris

The only service that I'm familiar with that Orange provide which gives
free diversion to geographic numbers is called Everyphone.

Is Everyphone the service you're remembering?

Hi Guys,

I'm afraid us folks at aql can only grab a mobile number and intercept
the SMS part. The best way to get your mobile on a SIP trunk without
paying for the divert is to

1) find a tariff for that number that has free calls to landlines or
to a particular landline number
2) buy a sip trunk with a geographic (landline) number

and you're up and running...

hope this helps

very best,

Adam

Chris Davies wrote:

Orange used to (still do?) allow free call diverts to geographic
numbers. The catch was that you had to do it with a short code rather
than from the phone itself.

Yes, they still do it for business customers. But the snag is that you
can only set it up from the phone itself (or a phone) and not with a
short code.

It's set up on a couple of our phones, but not used it for a while.
[pause to check] Yes, it is still there. Dial 330 to change settings, or
07973100330 from any phone.

Excellent feature, which I appreciate having even though I hardly ever
switch it on.

Jono wrote:
The only service that I'm familiar with that Orange provide which gives
free diversion to geographic numbers is called Everyphone.

Is Everyphone the service you're remembering?

Can't remember :-P I think I used it once or twice several years ago,
but the brand name and short code has long since slipped my mind

Chris

Chris Davies explained :
Jono wrote:
The only service that I'm familiar with that Orange provide which gives
free diversion to geographic numbers is called Everyphone.

Is Everyphone the service you're remembering?

Can't remember :-P I think I used it once or twice several years ago,
but the brand name and short code has long since slipped my mind

Chris

Everyphone - 330 - 07973100330

It was removed from their product range, then rose from the flames a
shadow of its former self.

You used to be able to log in to orange.net and set diverts up online,
for instance.

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:31 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:

Now, there there something you can add into Asterisk called
chan_bluetooth (or chan_mobile, I've forgotten, and it's late) that's
supposed to let you use a mobile phone via a bluetooth adapter from your
own Asterisk box, so that might be a way forward, but it's not anything
I've looked at.

The Asterisk box has a dongle in it and I have a spare 6310i, so I think
I'll give it a go.

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alexd explained on 15/08/2008 :
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:42:31 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:

Now, there there something you can add into Asterisk called
chan_bluetooth (or chan_mobile, I've forgotten, and it's late) that's
supposed to let you use a mobile phone via a bluetooth adapter from your
own Asterisk box, so that might be a way forward, but it's not anything
I've looked at.

The Asterisk box has a dongle in it and I have a spare 6310i, so I think
I'll give it a go.

Let us know how you get on....

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:41:16 +0100, Jono wrote:

Let us know how you get on....

It would be nice if chan-mobile.org mentioned this bug in the "Installing
chan-mobile" section:

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12015

Right now, stupidly enough, I'm trying to figure out what PIN Asterisk
[or is it the underlying Bluetooth subsystem?] is asking for when
Asterisk starts.

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:28 +0000, alexd wrote:

Right now, stupidly enough, I'm trying to figure out what PIN Asterisk
[or is it the underlying Bluetooth subsystem?] is asking for when
Asterisk starts.

Got there in the end. Basically, if you're not running X on your phone
system, you'll need to compile a bluetooth passkey-agent. Helpfully
enough, there won't be any entry about this in the logs unless you turn
on debugging. There won't be any logging about the obsolete options
you've put in the config file, either.

The mechanism for manually specifying PINs has been removed ["The old
infrastructure /etc/bluetooth/passkey has been removed since the agent is
supposed to be started by a user session. It is not meant to be system-
wide."] This page explains how to do it:

http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/deb..._Messages.html

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