voip phone box

FF99

eilz wrote:

Do you have a live PSTN connection to test with the device?
If so, when you connected the PSTN line, you should be able to pick up your phone and press * to switchover from PSTN to USB on the Aria Box.

If you don't have a PSTN line connected (a working line) then you will not be able to press *. It may work pressing the software keys on the PC but it kinda defeats the purpose of using the aria box.

I have a live PSTN line connected. When I pick up my phone i get no dial tone and nothing I do seems to connect through to the VOIP either. The phone is simply dead. I have tried a variety of leads but will go back and investigate this further.

eilz

FF99 wrote:

I have a live PSTN line connected. When I pick up my phone i get no dial tone and nothing I do seems to connect through to the VOIP either. The phone is simply dead. I have tried a variety of leads but will go back and investigate this further.

I take it you have the leads in the right slots? I am not really too sure what else to sugguest apart from trying a standard phone, other than what you already tried. Disconnect the usb port from the PC and just plug in the telephone line on its own in one end and your handset in the other to see what happens.

FF99

eilz wrote:

I take it you have the leads in the right slots? I am not really too sure what else to sugguest apart from trying a standard phone, other than what you already tried. Disconnect the usb port from the PC and just plug in the telephone line on its own in one end and your handset in the other to see what happens.

Ok, it seems to be a cable problem. When I connect the RJ11 socket on the Telbox to my laptop modem, it recognises the line and dials OK. However, when I insert the RJ11 plug that went into the modem into any phone the phone does not work. I am assuming that I need an adapter to convert the RJ11 plug (which I assume has US wiring) to an RJ 11 with UK wiring. Does that sound right and if so what exactly is the gizmo I need ??

2 other things would be helpful to know :-

1. Should I have installed Skypemate. I assumed not as I read somewhere that it should not be installed if one is using a different voip provider.

2. When does one need to dial a * and # ?

eilz

FF99 wrote:

Ok, it seems to be a cable problem. When I connect the RJ11 socket on the Telbox to my laptop modem, it recognises the line and dials OK. However, when I insert the RJ11 plug that went into the modem into any phone the phone does not work. I am assuming that I need an adapter to convert the RJ11 plug (which I assume has US wiring) to an RJ 11 with UK wiring. Does that sound right and if so what exactly is the gizmo I need ??

2 other things would be helpful to know :-

1. Should I have installed Skypemate. I assumed not as I read somewhere that it should not be installed if one is using a different voip provider.

2. When does one need to dial a * and # ?

Yes you need a RJ11 to Uk adaptor, I was recommend one with a ring adaptor (not entirely sure what a ring is), something to do with some BT phones not working properly without it.


Answer to:

1. Dont Install Skypemate if your NOT using SKYPE

2. When you pick up the phone, your prefered voip providers application should maximise, then press * to flick between PSTN to USB and dial 0044??????? (for uk calls) and at the end press # to send the call down the wire..

dc

Thanks eilz you explain it so much better.

The US and the sane amongst the Tel operators use what is now the standard telephone connectors, the rj11. All phones have them, but BT in trying to keep the UK market to themselves, invented their own plug and system the (much larger BT plug and socket) BUT not only that, to make life difficult for MSEers, they mucked about with the electrics too. Most phones use the inner two wires of the 4 in rj11 sockets, in the Telbox you can see that, in fact there are only 2 contacts. BT and therefore most UK phones use the outer two contacts, hence the need for an adapter when you want to connect "foreign" equipment, remember the old green BT approved labels?.
Not only but also,
"foreign" phones have the bell signal recognition circuitry inside the phone, wheras the BT bell capacitor is in the BT mastersocket. Hence you have to run three wires between telphone sockets in the UK but only two in most of the rest of the world. Nepotism, disappearing as
BT loses its grip as to what you can and cannot connect.

Problems with 48v, so nothing def at mo, not insurmountable, yet.

Regards dc

FF99

Deleted - Now all working !!

dc

FF99 wrote:

Deleted - Now all working !!

So what was wrong? dont be shy.

No ptsn, so far,
eilz,
def works with 5x PP3 batteries connected together in a W shape using the battery clip terminals to join them together.
Photo hopefully when finished, went great at first, and circuit current was 3mA which was well within the PP3's capacity. However the dect phone was crackly in use. This was caused by a duff battery, and when replaced by a good un the current taken shot up to 33mA which is too high a drain for the PP3s to be left on all the time.
I found that the 48 line volts only needed to be there when switching the phone to Voip ( by pressing *), the USB led remained lit even if the batteries were removed, and the phone call was not affected.
So it should be just a matter of fitting a "push to dial" switch to the batteries.

Now found my phone does not, and possibly never did ring with incoming Voip calls, any ideas.

dc

eilz

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Now found my phone does not, and possibly never did ring with incoming Voip calls, any ideas.

dc[/QUOTE]

If your using voipbustermate make sure its this version to get incoming calls
http://www.xtel.cz/files/VoipBusterMate1.0.0.5.exe

If your using xtenmate then the one on the yealink site should work.


Let me know how you get on, a press to switch (switch) would be cool, a picture would help us all as well. Eilz

FF99

dc wrote:

So what was wrong? dont be shy.
dc

Main problem was the cable issue, solved with cheap BT/RJ11 adpater from Ebay. I had 2 further issues which I then also solved myself (the last deleted post) :-
1. Sound through computer rather than telephone. Solved that by going into voip software and changing sound settings to USB box.
2. Could not end call by hanging up. Solved by downloading version 05 of voipbustermate. Why have Yealink not put this on their website I wonder !


Now have a new Q. Voipstunt advertises free 1 min calls if not in credit. However, as mentioned elsewhere calls are actually currently free and unlimited even without credit.

Would like to max on this with the new Telbox but Yealink haven't yet brought out software that works with Voipstunt (the Voipbustermate does not).

Was thinking of getting round this with X-lite which I have successfully configured to use Voipstunt from the desktop.

How is the interface through the Telbox with X-Tenmate ? Any odd glitches (e.g. can't hang up or odd settings to note!) Does it work smoothly and is it the same * key to switch from Voip to PSTN as on the Voipbustermate ?

Also, is the version of X-Tenmate on the Yealink site actually the latest version ?

Thanks to the gurus as ever !

eilz

FF99 wrote:

Now have a new Q. Voipstunt advertises free 1 min calls if not in credit. However, as mentioned elsewhere calls are actually currently free and unlimited even without credit.

Would like to max on this with the new Telbox but Yealink haven't yet brought out software that works with Voipstunt (the Voipbustermate does not).

Was thinking of getting round this with X-lite which I have successfully configured to use Voipstunt from the desktop.

How is the interface through the Telbox with X-Tenmate ? Any odd glitches (e.g. can't hang up or odd settings to note!) Does it work smoothly and is it the same * key to switch from Voip to PSTN as on the Voipbustermate ?

Thanks to the gurus as ever !

Also, is the version of X-Tenmate on the Yealink site actually the latest version ?

I never new about the Voipstunt thing, will have to give it a try, so you saying you dont need to buy credit for unlimted calling?

X-Tenmate seems to work ok with X-Lite, and YES you should be able to setup VOIPStunt with it, but I will try.

I currently have Sipgate and VOIPBUSTER setup using X-Tenmate without problems. Incoming is used for Sipgate and when I make an outgoing call I dial 9 (set a prefix with the X-Lite configuration, so it switch to the VOIPBUSTER account or in your case the VPIPStunt account)

Or if you setup your DEFAULT sip entry to be VOIPSTUNT you don;t need to worry about prefix changes within X-Lite. Let me know how you get on.