chan_celliax
Celliax is a GPL channel driver for Asterisk, chan_celliax, development and download site http://www.celliax.org- runs on Windows and Linux
- manages GSM and CDMA cellular phones through an adapter, composed by a serial datacable (for commands) and an audiocable (for the voice) interfacing the computer soundcard
- Celliax is also capable of making and receiving Skype calls through the cellphone, and has an app like app_directory that let you choose which one of your Skype contacts you want to call.
- on Linux Celliax can also manage ALSA voicemodems (whithout Skype support)
- on Windows and Linux (and *BSD) manages virtually all kind of cellular phones, both old Nokia models (with proprietary Nokia FBUS2 commands) and cellphones supporting AT commands (also with Motorola extensions)
- with Celliax is distributed the Celliax LiveCD, with a working installation of Asterisk, chan_celliax, and configuration utilities, based on Knoppix. The Celliax LiveCD contains also all is needed to run Celliax on Windows: the cygwin installer and the tgz with the asterisk-celliax stuff to be untarred in a basic cygwin installation.
- Headless Celliax, cellphones, Asterisk and Skype (without X)! Booting the LiveCD in console mode you find a script (/usr/local/asterisk/usr/sbin/celliax_server) that automatically launch Xvfb (the fake X11 server), Skype and Celliax. Also via ssh! Isn't that cute?
Example: Siemens mobile phone
German forum: Build your own cable for chan_celliaxDetails
Some notes on connecting asterisk to the cellular network. Why?- Leverage free mobile to mobile calling to lower costs. (nice picture)
- SMS gateway (See note). An easy way to send SMS messages to mobiles from Asterisk is to use the FASTSMS command or the SMSx command.
- Mobile applications; geo-location tracking or theft prevention for example
- Remote monitoring
- Mobile Machine to Mobile Machine so called M2M
The cellular capable device you attach might be.
- A regular cell phone
- Via some home brew adaptor
- USB, Bluetooth, etc
- Analog patch cables to sound card
- Via some commercial cell to traditional phone adaptor
- Note that one of these has a serial line controller option
- Via some home brew adaptor
- A PCMIA cellular card
- More home brew to get the analog connection
- A "Fixed Cellular Terminal" - i.e. a device intended for this.
- A PCI wildcard with GSM modules, with proper software
Interesting notes in the asterisk mailing lists.