[Build] phone lines to payphones run this past Tuesday

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Fri Aug 8 05:42:13 UTC 2014


That's an awesome card. I think the minotaur soekris net6501 might
have space for a card.
I hope to stop by next Tuesday night and check out what's been going on lately.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's what I'm saying, i'm running POTS lines into the phones.  No idea
> about any ATA adapters.
>
> The payphones are going to get service from an asterisk server mounted in
> Susan The Rack.  Just received this little beauty a few days ago and am
> setting it up at home first:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/TDM410P-Supports-Asterisk-Elastix-Trixbox/dp/B00IJM672Q/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1407457781&sr=8-8&keywords=digium+tdm410
>
> Mine's actually got 2xFXO and 2xFXS
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are the ATA adapters still around? We used to run Ethernet to the phone
>> and colocate the ATA with the phone.
>>
>> Maybe it'd be better to just put the ATAs in a central spot and run POTS
>> to the phones?
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Using the *awesome* new ceiling wire runners Casey hooked us up with, I
>>> ran two honest-to-goodness phone lines -- one to the Red Phone and one
>>> optimistically to the Break Room to connect to the black payphone lying
>>> around there.
>>>
>>> They're still not actually connected yet (and the payphone in the break
>>> room isn't even mounted).  I'll get to that task when I can, but if anybody
>>> feels like finishing the job, here's what I was planning to do:
>>>
>>> Red Phone:
>>>
>>> * trim the line ending down to just the CAT-5 coming out of the Red Phone
>>> * fuse phone line and CAT-5
>>>
>>> Break Phone:
>>>
>>> * crimp phone line into a wall-mounted phone jack (3-4 ft off floor)
>>> * mount the black payphone
>>> * use wire staples to stick line to the pillar.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Naomi Theora Most
>>> naomi at nthmost.com
>>> +1-415-728-7490
>>>
>>> skype: nthmost
>>>
>>> http://twitter.com/nthmost
>
>
>
>
> --
> Naomi Theora Most
> naomi at nthmost.com
> +1-415-728-7490
>
> skype: nthmost
>
> http://twitter.com/nthmost



More information about the Build mailing list