On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:35 -0000 (UTC)
Gordon Henderson  wrote:

> In article ,
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot   wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:57:46 -0000 (UTC)
> >Gordon Henderson  wrote:
> >
> >> I use a separate (Grandstream) ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) that
> >> plugs into the incoming phone line (and lets me plug in an old rotary
> >> dial phone - internal house phones are SIP/DECT - Gigastream models)
> >
> > Does that ATA pass the external line through to asterisk so that
> >the caller ID on the external line can be seen by asterisk ?
>
> Yes. It looks like a SIP device to Asterisk. (well 2 SIP devices) It's
> the HT-503 model.
>
> Downside is that it's a stand-alone device and not USB, so needs Ethernet
> and PSU plumbing. Actually, that's not really a downside in the grand
> scheme of things, however...

 I need to remember this one - for the next time I have a POTS line
to deal with, it's almost as cheap as the nasty ones where the FXO is just
a relay away from direct connection to the FXS and doesn't present as a
SIP device at all (all too common - if buying one watch out for this) and a
*lot* more useful.

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