[Printing-architecture] OpenPrinting Summit 2009: Adding VoIP access
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 15:45:47 PDT 2009
Hal V. Engel wrote:
> On Friday 03 April 2009 01:54:39 pm Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Hal V. Engel wrote:
>>> Or how about using mumble or something similar like teamtalk? No need
>>> for people to sign up for anything and all they would need is a password
>>> for the mumble session along with info on how to connect to the server
>>> both of which could be made available here.
>> Can mumble connect to a usual phone? We have a phone conference hub for
>> calling with a ususal phone. We will dial into this hub with the Polycom
>> to connect the conference room. We planned to start a conference call on
>> Skype where one "participant" is the conference hub, so that the Skype
>> conference is bridged to the phone conference. Is it possible to do the
>> same thing with mumble?
>>
>> Till
>
>
> All mumble needs is an alsa input (which for a normal user would be connected
> to a mic) and an alsa output (for a normal user this would be connected to a
> speaker or a set of headphones). I have not looked at a newer polycom unit
> but I do remember them having both audio in (for more mics and other audio
> sources) and audio out jacks but this may also depend on the model. These
> could be attached to a computer near the polycom with a set of RCA cables.
> This would connect the polycom line out to computer line in (this is located
> on the interface module of most polycoms) and polycom mic/line in (this is
> probably labeled as AUX IN) to computer line out. Then mumble would be setup
> to use those alsa ports and it should work (IE this created a conference room
> to mumble bridge at the polycom). But I don't have a polycom sitting here so
> I can't test it myself. And I think that this is something that someone has
> to setup in advance and have everything sorted out and tested to make sure
> everything is OK.
>
> So if someone already knows how to setup Skype to act as a conference bridge
> then this would also be OK. Setting up a Skype account is free and setting up
> the software is simple. Making calls to another skype account is also free.
Angela, do our Polycoms have audio connectors? Do we have appropriate
audio cables to connect a laptop to them, so that when running a VoIP
program on the laptop that this provides a second access facility for
the conference?
Till
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