Jay Deal
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As I have been playing around with my E02 Pogoplug, a thought occurred to me.....why couldn't you use a Pogoplug and a GSM Voice modem to create a GSM Gateway like one of those Goip devices you see for $100 on eBay? You can pick up the PP V4 for as low as $13 and you can find used Huawei voice capable USB modems (like the E153) for as low as $15.00. So for $30 you have all the components you need. If someone could create a lightweight version of PIAF for Pogoplug that concentrated on providing a GSM trunk for say another PBX on the same network, you would have a really cheap device that would be real handy to have and for just $30.
I would try to do this myself but my Linux and Asterisk knowledge is just not good enough. But I bet someone out there could do it. Make that person be you and you will go down in the annals of PIAF history!
OP Note 12-5-14: Couple things now to say as nearly a month has passed by since I originally posted this.
1) Adding chan_dongle to Asterisk assumes you start out with a Pogoplug V4 or V4 Mobile running the Incredible PBX PP image and updated with all the latest NV, FreePBX and Ubuntu updates.
2) You need to purchase a Huawei dongle that is confirmed to have voice capability and that capability can be unlocked at a site like dc-unlocker if the capability isn't unlocked already. If you think going to the dc-unlocker site feels like going to the bar from Star Wars you are right but it's your only choice
3) You need to read the entire Pogoplug NV tutorial http://nerdvittles.com/?p=10560 AND the entire Pogoplug V4 IPBX thread here http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-pogoplug-4.15508/ on the forum so that you are at least exposed to them. Little tidbits of info you will glean from these pages may become very useful as you go through and learn from this process as I did.
4) The main resource available about chan_dongle here: http://wiki.e1550.mobi/doku.php has alot of information but it's older and some of it may no longer apply. If it seems confusing, it was to me, still is to me, but somehow I figured what I needed to out.
If you are new to this and think you will stumble your best bet is to start off with a fresh IPBX image, get the PBX udated and stable, add the dongle and get that going AND THEN invest your time setting up extensions, trunks and all the other NV goodies so that if something goes wrong in the middle of the process, well you won't have lost much of your work. And by all means backup often and incrementally both using the FreePBX function as well as the IncredibleBackup program storing the resultant files on another network connected machine as the output of the combo of both of these may help you avoid having to start over and help you overcome small misconfigurations you may make, well at least I did LOL.
Good luck.
I would try to do this myself but my Linux and Asterisk knowledge is just not good enough. But I bet someone out there could do it. Make that person be you and you will go down in the annals of PIAF history!
OP Note 12-5-14: Couple things now to say as nearly a month has passed by since I originally posted this.
1) Adding chan_dongle to Asterisk assumes you start out with a Pogoplug V4 or V4 Mobile running the Incredible PBX PP image and updated with all the latest NV, FreePBX and Ubuntu updates.
2) You need to purchase a Huawei dongle that is confirmed to have voice capability and that capability can be unlocked at a site like dc-unlocker if the capability isn't unlocked already. If you think going to the dc-unlocker site feels like going to the bar from Star Wars you are right but it's your only choice
3) You need to read the entire Pogoplug NV tutorial http://nerdvittles.com/?p=10560 AND the entire Pogoplug V4 IPBX thread here http://pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/incredible-pbx-for-pogoplug-4.15508/ on the forum so that you are at least exposed to them. Little tidbits of info you will glean from these pages may become very useful as you go through and learn from this process as I did.
4) The main resource available about chan_dongle here: http://wiki.e1550.mobi/doku.php has alot of information but it's older and some of it may no longer apply. If it seems confusing, it was to me, still is to me, but somehow I figured what I needed to out.
If you are new to this and think you will stumble your best bet is to start off with a fresh IPBX image, get the PBX udated and stable, add the dongle and get that going AND THEN invest your time setting up extensions, trunks and all the other NV goodies so that if something goes wrong in the middle of the process, well you won't have lost much of your work. And by all means backup often and incrementally both using the FreePBX function as well as the IncredibleBackup program storing the resultant files on another network connected machine as the output of the combo of both of these may help you avoid having to start over and help you overcome small misconfigurations you may make, well at least I did LOL.
Good luck.