Hi Peter: I have a raspberry Pi2 runing as a PBX at home. I am using a pre-built image from http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/. My single POTS line is connected to a Cisco ( https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/spa112-2-port-phone-adapter/index.html) which you can find for under $CDN50. This system works really really well. It also hosts up to 4 soft phones (cellphones running Zoiper) which each have their own extensions. Calls coming in ring to he the POTs and then to the cellphones while they are on the home WIFI network. An alternative if you don't need "business" extensions on the phone system (call transfer/ring groups) is to directly connect the Cisco/ATA box to a service such as sipStation or Voip.ms. All the call management is handled remotely and is quite configurable. regards, Peter -=-=-=-=-=-= <snip> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Peter Sjöberg" <peters-oclug [ at ] techwiz [ dot ] ca> > To: Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:03:55 -0400 > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] asterix + pots + raspberry pi = good ? > I guess it should work but never been playing with asterisk,voip or so > I'm asking for an over all opinion. > > Customer has 3 POTS to an old Talkswitch ct.ts001 pbx and from that it > then goes over intranet to a pile of voip phones (talkswitch TS-350i). > The system has started to act up a bit (it cut out incoming sound for > all phones) and I'm looking at options. > > Assuming I can't figure out what's wrong with the current one I'm > thinking it might be time to replace it and then the obvious choice (to > me - not to fortinet) is asterisk on a rpi. > 30 sec google and it should be possible. The option of dropping the pots > and going 100% voip is not available - long term contract with Bell so > another 30 sec search and I found that linksys PAP2 could be used to > make the pots available to rpi/asterisk. > > Q: Is this a path that sounds good ? > I hope that asterisk can talk to the talkswitch phones or could that be > some issue ? > Is PAP2 the way to go or is it some other one better ? > Anything to watch out for ? > > I already have a rpi there but instead of adding asterisk to it I would > add another rpi to not mix functions to much, or is that overkill ? > > > > <snip>