chan_mobile (used to be chan_cellphone) — Use Bluetooth cell / mobile phones as FXO devices
Asterisk Channel Driver to allow Bluetooth Cell/Mobile Phones to be used as FXO devices and Bluetooth Headsets as FXS devices
The official Homepage is http://www.chan-mobile.org.
Features :- (Oct 2007)
- Multiple cell phones can be connected (subject to some limitations - see Notes).
- Multiple bluetooth adapters can be supported.
- Asterisk automatically connects to each cell phone when it comes in range.
- Command to discover bluetooth devices. Useful for configuration. Requires an unused bluetooth adapter.
- Inbound calls to the cell phones are handled by Asterisk, just like inbound calls on a Zap channel.
- Caller ID passed through on inbound calls.
- Dial outbound on a cell phone using Dial(CELL/device/nnnnnnn) in the dialplan.
- Use a Bluetooth Headset as extension using Dial(CELL/device) in the dialplan.
- Application CellStatus can be used in the dialplan to see if a cell phone is connected.
- Application MobileSMS to send SMS via a connected mobile phone
- Supports devicestate for dialplan hinting.
chan_mobile was written by David Bowerman and is officially supported only for the Asterisk development trunk and is available as an add-on from http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk-addons/trunk/channels/chan_mobile.c?view=markup. Current documentation can be obtained from http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk-addons/trunk/doc/chan_mobile.txt
Unofficial and unsupported Asterisk 1.2 backport can be obtained from http://www.sigsegv.cx/sip-9.html.
A good installation guide for trixbox can be found under http://www.geek-pages.com/articles/asterisk/howto_build_and_configure_chan_mobile_on_trixbox.html.
Note: FC6 bluez yum packages with latest updates will not work, see comment below
Note: Some mobiles (Motorola V3 and K1) report themselves as a valid headset, but they do not work if you configure them as a headset in mobile.conf (not fully tested)
Note: Not all mobiles with bluetooth profiles have all the features necessary for this channel to work. For example - Nokia E65 is not usable.
Note: Each mobile "eats" one bluetooth adapter. Multiple mobiles cannot connect to the same adapter so if you want to connect multiple mobiles prepare to buy dongles by the basket.
Compatibility list
It is intended to share information about tested phones on this page.USB Bluetooth dongle, Hardware Compatibility List:
Please also mention unsupported dongles. It's annoying to spend hours testing.Note that several dongles based on broadcom chipsets require the option force_scofix=1 to btusb to fix missing audio issues. This can be added to /etc/modules
| Manufacturer | Chipset | Working | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acer BT600 | Unknown | Y | |
| Anycom CC3032 USB 200 Bluetooth 2.0 ED | Unknown | N | |
| Belkin F8T013DE110M BT.USB AD.CLASS II | Unknown | N | |
| Belkin F8T012DE110M BT.USB AD.CLASS I | Unknown | N | |
| Belkin F8T012UK1 BT.USB AD.CLASS I | Unknown | N | |
| Billionton CardBus Bluetooth Adapter (Cambridge Silicon Radio) | CSR | Y | Working, reliable |
| Cirago BTA-6060 | Unknown | Y | class 1, excellent range |
| Delock USB BT Adapter EDR | Unknown | Y | |
| Integrated System Solution Corp. KY-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter | Unknown | Y | (but flooding syslog) |
| Logitech Bluetooth 2.0 EDR C-UV35 | Unknown | N | |
| Trust 2.0 | Unknown | Y | |
| Trust BT-2250p (0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. A-Link BlueUsbA2 Bluetooth) | Unknown | N | No sound (tested with force_scofix) |
| Typhoon | Unknown | Y | |
| D-Link DBT-120 | Unknown | Y | |
| D-Link DBT-122 | Unknown | N | |
| Edimax EB-DGC1 | Unknown | Y | (but flooding syslog) |
| MSI BToes Bluetooth PC2PC ver.254 | Unknown | Y | (no voice, only send SMS) |
| MSI BToes 2.0 Bluetooth 3XFaster ver.476-CI | Unknown | Y | |
| Asus WL-BTD201M | Unknown | N | No sound (tested with force_scofix) |
| Dell Wireless 350 (413c:8103 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 350 Bluetooth) | CSR | Y | |
| Noname (Gemini ???) | Accel Semiconductor Ltd | N | |
| LogiLink BT0002 | CSR | ??? | |
| LogiLink BT0004 (1131:1004 Integrated System Solution Corp.) | Integrated System Solution Corp. | N | |
| MSI BToes 2.0 EDR Micro Dongle (ERP: BT2-USB-020R) (0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)) | CSR | Y | |
| STLab B-221 | Broadcom Corp | N | |
| Puhuixin Dongle PHX1124 | Unknown | N | |
| Canyon CN-BTU4 (0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)) | CSR | Y |
A useful bluetooth dongle chipset reference can be found at: http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/devices.html (link is dead - July 29, 2008)
To avoid flooding syslog read bug report http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6833#c2
Mobile phone, Hardware Compatibility List
According to chan_mobile docs and talks on digium bug trackerhttp://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8919, these phones should support at least some features.| Manufacturer | Firmware * | Hands free | Audio gateway | SMS send | SMS receive | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iPhone | 1.13 | ? | N | ? | ? | Audio coupling is delayed (5 sec) |
| Apple iPhone 3g | 2.2.1 | Y | Y | N | N | Seems to require Kernel 2.6.27+, as well as asterisk 1.6+ |
| Benq Siemens EF81 | 058 | Y | Y | ? | ? | Working, reliable |
| LG CU500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| LG KG800 (chocolate) | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| LG TU500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Motorola V195 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Motorola L6 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Motorola L7 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Motorola V3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Motorola V3re (V3 edge?) | Y | Y | N | N | Working, blackberry=yes port=7 | |
| Nokia 5200 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6021 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6102i | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6111 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6230i | ? | Y | Y | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6233 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6234 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6310i | 5.10 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Outgoing calls ok, incoming intermittent |
| Nokia 6310i | 5.50 | ? | Y | Y | ? | Working |
| Nokia 6600 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 6830 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 7600 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia 7610 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia E51 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Nokia E61 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia E70 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Nokia N80 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Palm Treo 650 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Palm Centro (US GSM) | G.R01.12 | ? | ? | N | N | Working, though no caller ID, no SMS |
| RIM Blackberry 7250 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Samsung SGH-E630 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Samsung SGH-E720 | Y | Y | N | N | Working, Only voice, NOT SMS | |
| Samsung SGH-A707 (sync) | Y | Y | N | N | Working, Only voice, NOT SMS | |
| Samsung SGH-X820 | Y | Y | N | N | Unless you reboot phone after enabling bluetooth, outgoing calls won't work (phone ignores ATD command) | |
| Sony Ericsson K series K700i, K810i etc | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Sony Ericsson P series P800, P900 etc | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Sony Ericsson P990i | R9GA001, R5A01 | ? | Y | N | ? | Working |
| Sony Ericsson T series T68(i), T3x0, T6x0 etc | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Sony Ericsson V series v600i etc | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| Sony Ericsson W300i | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working | |
| VK 2020 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Working |
*) To find the firmware version enter *#0000# and press send (Nokia phones)
For SonyEricsson press >*<<*<*
"<=left move on joystick"
">=right joystick move...."
"then service info > SW information"
Phones which support all features
- Nokia 6021
- Nokia 6230i
- Nokia E51
By now are known to support all features.
Other phones may support voice but not support SMS, or support sending SMS, but not receiving (as Nokia 6131).
Phones with partial support
According to chan_mobile docs and talks on digium bug trackerhttp://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=8919, these phones should support at least some features.- Benq Siemens EF81 (sms untested)
- LG TU500 - Working
- LG CU500 - Working
- LG KG800 ( chocolate ) - Working
- Samsung SGH-E720 [x] Voice [ ] SMS
and many more ..
It is intended to test as much phones as possible, give them rating and post results here.
Checklist
Before you try to use this channel driver, please check the following requirements:- You need to use asterisk trunk from svn, otherwise you'll need to do some patching
- It is critical to use recent bluez-libs, either compiled from source http://www.bluez.org/, or you have to use recent distro. Ubuntu 7.10 is reported to work, others with bluez-libs >= 3.19 should work as well
- Check if your phone is supported in list above. In case your phone is supported, check if it has recent firmware. For Nokia phones, firmware revision is showed upon typing *#0000#. Table of current firmware revision could be found here: http://nokiamania.cz/content/view/197/2/
- Check if your bluetooth dongle has CSR chipset (lsusb -v), this is known to work. Some bluetooth dongles just sucks.
Known issues:
- Sometimes changing SIM card helps to solve a problem of routing bluetooth voice channel to Asterisk during incoming calls (voice goes to phone speaker).
See also:
how to connect to gsm with asterisk in Spanish & more - chan_mobile en Español by LinuxmallAsterisk Bluetooth channels for Asterisk version 1.2
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