Skype for Asterisk

[williammanda]

Is there any plans for adding Skype for Asterisk?

[merkur2k]

sure, you wanna tell us how?
skype really doesnt want that to work, so they take steps to make it difficult if not impossible.

[williammanda]

So SFA isn't better in handling Skype for pstn / calls over voip? What I have read it is.

[merkur2k]

I had not realized that this was an actual product. It looks like it is aimed at business class telephony systems though, and as such is pretty pricey compared to all the bring your own device sip trunking providers out there.

[williammanda]

Yes I agree the cost is a deturant at $66 per channel. I talked to someone that had it, basically you use this product to make use of the voip (Skypeout and in) but you can add the Skype friends to your softphone and communicate with them just as in the Skype gui.

[gonesurfing]

hi
I am not sure if this will help,I use a skype phone that i had before i found lmce (dualphone model no rtx 3088.3 ) its plugged into my network and is showing up as a phone line on the freepbx admin page,i have not got around to setting up the asterisk side of lmce yet and i have no experience with asterix/freepbx  so it might be some time before i can test if it will work
steve
 

[lemming86_au]

I've used a Gizmo5 trunk  for Skype calls previously, seemed to work ok & was reasonably priced.
If you want to try it first, the free account allows you to make 1-3 minute Skype calls for testing.

Regards,
Josh