Breathe New Life Into Payphones With Asterisk




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21 thoughts on “Breathe New Life Into Payphones With Asterisk

  1. if you dont want your payphone to be redboxed you could tap directly to the totalizer to the switch that sent the signal to the tone generator (witch is a small board with 2 large tuning coils (like in some older phones) and some other parts) and read the timing from the switch.

    1. You can find payphones online, usually modified for home use but hey, it shouldn’t be that hard to get it back to payphone spec. As for red boxing, hey if I had one (outside of course) and caught someone red boxing it I’ed yell at him “I salute you, you magnificent bastard!”

      1. The payphones show there are incompatible with this project. They are internally computer controlled. As a matter of fact, if you hooked up one of those phones to this project, it would probably blow up from the high voltage.

  2. This is interesting. I have an active payphone and use a small SIP adapter that connects to my network. I make a huge profit per call but not very many people need a payphone anymore. It has been awhile but I remember I had to program the phone to dial differently and it doesn’t have 911 access.

  3. I had good times with COCOTS even 15 years ago. Currently I have a PBX setup for Choose Your Own Adventure action with two storylines to choose from. They are for the youngsters in the family, but I already have requests for more adventures by summer roadtrip time from the family. The youngstas like being able to use the phone (like an adult) and the adults like being able to think silently for 10 second bursts lol. It has been done many times over the years, but I daresay my inspiration came from a blurb a couple of years ago on The longest part is coming up with the story arc and interweaving in a meaningful way.

  4. If I had been sneaker with my apparently illegal salvage, I could have made off with a free payphone at the dump. I guess the city can own garbage, and that it’s not considered salvage but theft. :(

  5. I had a payphone hooked up in my front yard that was programmed to take coins but return them when the call was finished. Had issues with code enforcement but finally got the to leave me alone. Believe it or not one person used it to call for road service because he broke down and had a dead cell phone. The phone was hooked up to my channel bank and went through Asterisk, Unfortunately a drunk driver crashed into it before destroying my fence and hitting the tree. The phone and pedestal is destroyed and I am looking around for another, but keep losing pay phones to those trashing them out. Hope to get one soon and re-install, this time behind the tree,

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