On 2018-04-11, 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...
>
> Obviously you need a POTS phone provider that passes through the caller-id
> number.
>
> If I phone home from my mobile, I see:
>
>     -- Executing [1234@fromSIP-pstn:1] NoOp("SIP/pstn-000001f7", "Incoming
SIP call from ""  @ pstn calling 1234") in new stack
>
>
> Gordon

Excellent!  Thank you very much for the pointer to the device and
the recommendation for Asterisk.

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