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Yay! Good going. :)<BR>
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Mitch.<BR>
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> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:24:45 -0800<BR>> From: jof@thejof.com<BR>> To: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Pulse-dialing payphone and Payphone T-key<BR>> <BR>> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com> wrote:<BR>> > There's a beautiful old pulse-dialing payphone here at 2169. Since it<BR>> > seems that none of the ATAs here support detecting pulse dialing as<BR>> > signalling I bought a pulse dialing-to-DTMF adaptor to make use of it.<BR>> ><BR>> > Sadly... it doesn't seem to ring (just like the red phone). I'd like<BR>> > to pop into it and check out the ringer to see that there's nothing<BR>> > broken, though admittedly I've never seen a phone like this out in the<BR>> > wild (or ringing at that), so maybe this is from an era when payphones<BR>> > didn't have ringers?<BR>> ><BR>> > A long time ago I brought in a T-key for opening payphone chassis, but<BR>> > I can't find it anymore (I haven't laid eyes on it since 83C). Does<BR>> > anyone know where it might be or have one that I could borrow?<BR>> <BR>> So, actually I got it all to work without a T-key. Mike Kan had a<BR>> great idea for using a tool hook as a level to actuate the T-key<BR>> mechanism in the phone. You can kinda jam it in like this:<BR>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173799312/in/photostream/<BR>> <BR>> So I got to the guts (<BR>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173194809/in/photostream/ ) and<BR>> found that the phone line was just screwed down to the wrong terminal<BR>> block. I moved it to the right one, and now the ringer works!<BR>> <BR>> So I set it up on the phone shelf (<BR>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejof/5173194085/in/photostream/ ) and<BR>> set it up in asterisk (extension 2999, "payphone1"). It's also in a<BR>> little hunt group now so that when you call noisebridge, it rings the<BR>> Cisco IP phone and then the payphone.<BR>> <BR>> Now if I can just get the RS-232 dongles for that acoustic coupler<BR>> sitting next to it and we'll be cooking with gas!<BR>> <BR>> Cheers,<BR>> jof<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<BR>> Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss<BR> </body>
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