Submitted 6 days ago by marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Essentially, I want to be able to call/take calls from my physical landline phone over VOIP for whatsapp and signal. I should need to touch my phone other than to check if WiFi works and the chat client is alive.
If you know how I can get started with this, please let me know.
Thanks!
In case you have a fritz!box router, take a look at fritz!app fon and see if that is what you want.
In principle, sure. I’m not aware of an existing out-of-the-box solution that’d do what you want, but it also wouldn’t surprise me terribly if someone’s cobbled something together to do this before.
If I wanted to make something like this personally, I’d start by doing some research into PBX software like Asterisk, what derivatives and extensions people have made for that, etc. – being mindful that I’d likely be digging into a deep rabbit hole…
As far as I know that’s not possible for WhatsApp.
Why wouldn’t it be possible?
The phone is providing the client app connection, you just need an interface from the client to the POTS system.
Years ago I had a cordless phone that connected to the Skype client on a pc - you could call a phone number, or a Skype contact with it.
This is no different - you just need to establish the interface between the hardware and software.
Is there a physical phone that’s just a USB device?
If so then you could connect a phone to a PC or tablet
There might be a paid way. At work we have our phone numbers tied into zoom which ties into calling other phone numbers. It is used as a backend switchboard. So you could have a zoom number as your signal number which routes to your landline. Maybe.
Zikeji@programming.dev 6 days ago
If I’m using Bluetooth earbuds I can receive a call from Signal or WhatsApp. So it stands to reason it’s possible a Bluetooth device exists to act like earbuds but for a landline phone. I found a few (cell2jack and XLink BT HD) but could not verify if they’d work for anything other than normal phone calls.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yeah I see no reasons why these two wouldn’t work. You could get an FXO to to go from that to VoIP, but obviously you’re losing encryption (I know, srtp and zrtp are thing but still) unbeknownst to your interlocutor which isn’t a very nice thing to do.