Want to create your own retro phone system? Start here: ntck.co/3cxPhoneSystems I’m setting up a retro phone system throughout my house to solve a simple problem: my family never answers my calls. Using 3CX, I’ll connect vintage phones in every room, making communication a little more fun and a lot harder to ignore. Plus, I’m integrating an AI voice assistant that we can interact with through the system. In this video, I’ll walk you through the entire process and explore how practical (and cool) this setup can be. 📃📃📃Link/Guide/Documentation: blog.networkchuck.com/posts/i-built-a-phone-system-because-no-one-answers-me/ 🖥 Raspberry Pi options: Raspberry Pi 4: geni.us/mzJF55 Raspberry Pi 5: geni.us/z0BVIc Here are the phones that I purchased and can verify work pretty well: 📱New phones: Snom D735: geni.us/IZmO ($85) - A very solid option. Fanvil X3SG: geni.us/oA1i ($69) - Very solid as well. Yealink T54W: geni.us/GhUAAy ($150) - More expensive because it’s pretty and is a router phone. Fanvil H2U: geni.us/WBGTg ($63) - compact and weird. Hotel-like, if you wanna go for that aesthetic. ☎Old phones (requiring an ATA): Sangyn Vintage Phone: geni.us/AxmFI4 ($35) - gorgeous. Probably my favorite. Feels solid. TelPal Corded Wall Phone: geni.us/JZazPcI ($32) - INCREDIBLE. Put this sucker on a wall and you are in the 1970s. Feels very solid. My second favorite, comes in a variety of colors. 🔧 You’ll need an ATA (analog telephone adapter) for these old phones. I recommend this one: Grandstream HT801: geni.us/TaZ7p 📜 Also, here is the official list of supported phones that work with 3CX: www.3cx.com/sip-phones/ 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by 3CX
The way your girls just suddenly turned on acting mode was hilarious. Also your vid's a really good intro to this kind of thing. I was thinking you could probably have your AI dial another phone within your network if they can't remember the extension.
Been a long time fan and this video was awesome! One thing I've wanted for a few years now is a way to send people to an attendant where they would have to press a number, or series of numbers to then get forwarded to me. IE: Mom calls and she can press 887 then it forwards to me. When a scammer or robocall tries they wont be able to.
Due to the pandemic my software engineer job had to be cut and I got moved to a telephone system engineer role. Due to it being a chaotic mix between analogue, digital and VoIP I actually hated it for quite a long while. It seemed like an area everyone is moving away from while I have to maintain it. Just this year I started to really see what you can do with such a system and now seeing your enthusiasm for it all actually makes me kind of proud to be able to work in such a specialized field. Thanks!
@@TRS-80Fanclub Sure is! Sadly we can't introduce AI features due to unclear regulations for a company atm. SIP is great though! Just at the same time also really, really confusing when setting up an SBC with less clear instructions than 3CX did in this video. There are a lot of "old phone features and concepts" within those settings which makes the learning curve quite steep. But in the end it's really rewarding! Especially when watching such a video as this and understand 95% of what Chuck is doing! I never realized that I did learn that much over the years.
I'm still trying to get an ancient 1920s phone hooked up to 3CX. I myself am managing one 3CX instance and a Unify OpenScape Business PBX (which is a piece of shit honestly). The Unify ones licensing is expensive and complicated (per extension, per phone, per feature licensing type).
@second2falcon153 Are you still trying to get the phone running? I am a Telephone System technician from Germany and i manly work with Unify Products (OpenScape Bussines and manly OpenScape 4000). By the age of the phone i guess you need a PBX with analog ports that support pulse dialing process or something like an ip to analog converter. At work we use converters from a brand called Grandstream and most of them support this old dialing method and they are affordable too. They are registered as a SIP User and have a web userinterface with many configuration possibilities to get nearly every analog telephone running. Edit: I later saw that he is also using Grandstream in his video.
@@TRS-80Fanclub I’d be careful to say that. If it’s completely open SIP it’s basically landline phone with a SIP stack. If it has office features… it’s going to cut short
It's crazy how timely this is. My wife came up with some of those red touch-tone phones recently and I was going to figure out how to create an in-home system to use them as a rediculous intercom.
That sounds like God's intervention roght there. I'm thinking of buying a really odd old style pots phone now nobody wants them, and set it up on the network I just built. Cool old retro phones, maybe the old gadget shop one with neon lights in..... soo cool.
BRO LEGIT SAME READ MY MIND! I recently got an old telephone from a friend and thought "yo i should do andun intercom project and use phone numbers all locally in my home" since by today's standards it seems like it'd be simple, fun, and cool, and actually useful too!
As a 3cx advanced engineer, chuck skipped over a few things, like each analog phone needs an FXS port but you can buy ATA’s with more than 1 FXS port, The HT801 is a single port and the HT802 is a 2 port for only $10 more
Gen X represent! Gen X don't get enough credit. Millennials and Gen Z are associated with the internet and technology. Yet it's Gen X who bridge the analogue world to the digital. We were the first Generation to grow up with computers and video games at home. Nerd Boomers and Gen X kids grew using Bullitin Boards System and Usenet. Where the majority of internet slang orininated from. Like LOL for example. Gen X created social media. "Sixdegrees" in the late 90s. Then MySpace, friendster, RUclips in the early - mid 2000's. Gen X created IRC aka internet relay chat, Bittorrent, Napster, Limewire. Also we're still the only Generation who can program a VCR.
@@edstar83 I don't dispute the majority of this comment but as a geriatric millennial (85 baby) I can still to this day set up a VCR. Mother is a tech phobic elder boomer, dad was one of the youngest boomers, very mechanically minded but passed away when I was 5yo. I was the expected person to do anything even vaguely tech related from a really young age. We did get a dvd player until my last year or two before going to uni so around the millennium, when my 16+ years older gen x brother brought one over from Germany to the UK as a present for us (my younger sister and I) my brother stayed with his dad after my adulterous mother ran away to the UK so I didn't grow up with him. My mother still has a VCR, thankfully I have eventually managed to convince her to join the 21st century, she was pretty much forced to with the analogue switch off so had to get a smart box and I convinced her to get one that records... Still has the VCR as she has hundreds of VCR tapes of films and TV series. She used to have a Satellite set up to watch German TV but it stopped working so I got her an Amazon fire stick and set everything up for her so she can watch German TV again and occasionally she will even use prime TV but it's taken decades!
@@edstar83 The younger generations think the 'wild west' early internet culture was native to the net. In my world it came off the BBS boards and migrated to the net.
I love 3CX, have been using it for years. As a voip engineer in a previous life I'm sure you know the pitfall of using 9 to get an outside line.... a user dials 9, 1 (pauses to look up the phone number, forgets they dialed the 1 already), dials 1 again and before they can enter the area code they're on with an emergency services dispatcher.
Perfect timing! My sister-in-law inherited a wall phone with no dial capability (the kind you hold the earpiece to your ear, speak into the horn, and ask the operator to connect you). I want to hide a R Pi with touchscreen, and you've given me a HUGE jump on this project! Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you and family!
Hey Chuck, I setup a PBX like this over a decade ago at my last apartment. I had it connected to the front door buzzer. When the door called the PBX it would say “connecting call” but if I entered a secret code within the first few seconds it would send the 9 dial tone to unlock the door. No more getting locked out when I forgot my key. If no code was entered, it would forward the call to my cell phone. I was using Astrix back then, it was so cool 🤓
Got the nostalgia trip in this video. I used to setup/maintain/program 3CX systems back in the day. My wife actually made a lot of IVR prompts for me. :D
i have a really cool setup at home where i can dial in to my phone system from the outside, get into a secret menu, input a PIN and then i get connected to Home Assistant. I didn’t use a trunk but a custom Asterisk destination. Works great
I am so jealous right now!! I will definitely try this, I was looking for a solution to keep all the distance family at touch without having to give smartphones to our kids, man!! I love it!
I have wanted to do a project like this for so long, you freaking nailed it. I also used to be one of those weirdo phone system engineers, I worked on migrating a university to Cisco VoIP back in 2004-2005. I also have kids around the same age as yours (maybe a couple years younger) and could see them being really excited about retro tech. I still have my Western Electric 1500 rotary phone, so after this video I'm totally going to fire that thing up.
As a child of the 80's I remember our old rotary dial telephone well... I even still remember our home phone number, our close neighbours and friends house phone numbers.
Same here, we had an easy to memorize number but it got lost over the years as we don't use it anymore. Never used a rotary phone at home as we had a regular tone dial cord phone and later switched to DECT. Still love the old rotaries though, even though I've never used them, they bring something nostalgic, especially when the bells inside are ringing.
As someone who installs, configures and manages business/corporate PBX systems this would've been a great introductory video when I first started to explain what I was doing starting in VoIP support. Great video. 😅
He can call his house from an old telephone booth on a train station and talk to terry and ask when the building was build or what train he just sees xD That’s so cool!
This bought back memories of terms I haven’t used in years. The last couple of companies I worked at, us network admins also did some VoIP management and phone provisioning. Mostly Cisco and Zultys
I have an old fashioned phone. I've ALWAYS hated talking on the phone (I'm 36 and still remember landlines) but I've always been fascinated by the technology.
I've always been interested in your videos when they pop up on my feed, but watching this one, and THEN researching to find out I could use a Cisco phone (hopefully compatible with a 7940 / 7960) with the SBC so that i can finally configure a phone for my son "like the ones in the office" - sold, you've won my sub good sir :)
Brought back memories I even have an old active PBX Xeon server in my storage lol . I love the kids interaction especially with the old analog phones that we grew up with. Back in the day we used to use Google voice with free pbx services....fantastic work!
Loved this video, takes me back to when I ran a switchboard in the Army National Guard as a 31K wiredog. Up to 12 field phones lines were run the the command tent and an old SB22A, almost every time we did a weekend camp I was stuck running that switch board at night.
Gotta be honest... at the start of the video I was just watching for the entertainment and had zero plans to install a phone system in my house.... Now I'm seriously considering it!!!
One thing to mention is that not all ATA's will support rotary phones because they don't work using tone dialing but pulse dialing. It is possible to modify the pulse dialing mechanism to work with tone dialing but it requires a chip to be built in which receives the pulses and converts them to tones. Did this with my old phone that was used by field engineers of the state telephone company back in the 1950's. Receiving calls would be fine, just dialing out wouldn't work. Just something to take into account when buying an ATA.
My biggest question is, "How do you prevent your daughters from calling you every 5 minutes instead of leaving their room?" My 10 yo daughter will call me incessantly! She already figured out broadcasting on Google to ask garbled questions or to sing to the house. 😂 That's usually followed by my 7 yo son yelling, "I'm trying to listen to music."
Love love love this, my 8 year old has an obsession with phones as well. Will try to do as a Christmas gift. You’re amazing man. I’m working on the home ai at moment. Hopefully soon it will be up as well. Thank you
Your audacity to keep finding new projects ....is working :) I wanted to do a project like this llittle while back, but I love this! Great choice of project Chuck :)
I did that 10 years ago with Payphone booth next to my house in ILLINOIS, 2 weeks later it got stolen. It was connected it via google voice service and OBIHI adapter (no longer in business) after payphone was stolen I focused on security cameras. Now I can plan a phone booth again but they are so expensive and in bad shape. Loved the video!
It’s so nice that you included your family I still have a line with my provider it’s like 4 $$ I don’t no why lol I keep it this way is so funny & cool have a good one eveyone happy holidays to network chuck & family & staff that helps him out
Set one of these up a couple of weeks back using a fanvil x3g as my voip. Can chat to my brothers phones in the states (im in the uk) aswell as mobiles that have 3cx installed. Its an excellent project.
I use old-school ip-phone since 2017. they are awesome. Cheers! BTH I like the sound of your keyboard. But with the AI voice assistant it is incredible!
Happy new year my tech brother I just enjoy your show and support you and all that your team is doing and even got us motivated as well. Learning from you as well as other lessons being able to be shared with others. I thank God for your team and for another year and seeing that you’re doing things now in the tech world, but also kingdom which is just another glimpse of the wonderful person you are that God has created. Many cheers and thanks my friend and this new platform the CSX we are going to partner with thembecause of what we do globally in our ministry as well as in our tent, making part of our organization again thank you so much for your insight and wisdom. God bless.
I love watching your videos. I even download some of them. But I always have to watch them on 75% speed and then I still usually say wtf at least six or seven times.....
Mr. Chuck! I haven't even watched the video and I already love it! I found a lot of old VoIP gear from Cisco for a great price! My only problem now is to be quick enough to buy them ... (I'm in Brazil and here those things are not easy to find so ... I really will love your video!)
Oh wow.. Old phone guy here too (Ok..network guy who did a lot of phone work!) from Nortel SL1, through various avaya stuff, call manager since before Cisco owned it, through about version 6.x, and then asterisk, but I had never done any 3CX.. This looks really cool. I may have to install this just because.. I already have an ATA connected to an old rotary phone "just because" but integrating w/ HA is going to be awesome, if not pointless in all the best ways!! One thing - It looks like when you were dialing, you were having to terminate the digits you were dialing to get the 3CX to actually dial. I assume if you spent more time on the dial plan it would be able to self-dial, and/or you were just avoiding the end of digits delay? I would definitely like to have a dial plan that understood 9-npa-nxx-xxxx or 9-1-npa-nxx-xxxx and dialed immediately, and then make the HA integration something like "8" and dial immediately. I assume that's doable?
I wanna make a variation of this that uses the home assistant. It'll have a real house phone number with the LLM as the answering machine, whilst also having voice activated room to room intercom system
Good video NetworkChuck! I have already used your previous tutorial and now have a dedicated local LLM (GTX1080) in my server rack connected to my Home Assistant. And it works!!! Currently adding ESP32s (ESPHome) with heaps of gpio for robotic projects is next. But... I also have a collection of vintage phones going back to a crank dynamo style. I would love to bring the old phones into my modern AI home automation robotic ecosystem. Super cool! If you keep making these kind of videos, I will try to follow along and implement everything you do.. Try.. I said. :)
Awesome video! I purchased a Uniden XDECT Cordless Phone system with 8 handsets that features ability to pair up to 4 cell phones as well as landline RJ12. It has a USB port on the base unit to charge a connected cell phone, which I am using with an old iPhone 7 with an unlimited calling line and no data. I have a Grandstand VoIP ATA also which I plan to get two Dial In Numbers for & use one for faxes. I use the built-in Intercom to call one or all handsets to reach who I need to!
Hi Chuck, There is actually an easier way to trigger home assistant webhooks from a SNOM phone. When going in to the phone ui and navigating to Function Keys, you can setup the speeddial buttons to trigger an action URL, which is a GET request to the supplied link. You'd have to make sure you accept get requests in the home assistant webhook.
I was in a training in a factory last week where they had phones set up to be connected internally together, I thought about how this is made and said maybe you’d have a video about it and here we are 😂
Cool! Way cool! And to think, I'm paying for VOIP. I've never given up a landline and have had this same number since the 80s. When Home Depot, pizza delivery or any business needs a phone number, they get my home number. I don't like giving out my personal mobile number unless it's someone I know personally.
I actually have a PBX style switch in my house (OnQ). I have zero idea how to use it that way but I was informed by the guys installing it that I can set it up to be an intercom as well. Not really needed in my house, but my retirement home will have an external shop...a system may be nice to have. As for your girls wanting 'old' phones, you need to find a rotary phone for them. That would be some fun for sure for them! :)
The phone used in the Brady Bunch was a rotary phone, which uses pulse dialing, they were then replaced with the style of phone you decided to set up which uses DTMF. Also, at least here in Australia, Socket 610 was the most common connector for phones in the 80s and earlier, eventually being replaced by RJ11 in the '90s, for connecting phones to modern phone sockets, you should use RJ12 (6P/6C) as it allows an RJ11 to effectively plug into an RJ45 without damaging it.
Got the soft phones all working great, but had to get a VOIP phone. Found two Polycom vvx 500 on eBay for $15 bucks. I did the SBC as a VM on Proxmox. I had to set the phone up with the manual setup but works as it should. I also found a text to wave converter online for free for Pam’s greeting.
Want to create your own retro phone system? Start here: ntck.co/3cxPhoneSystems
I’m setting up a retro phone system throughout my house to solve a simple problem: my family never answers my calls. Using 3CX, I’ll connect vintage phones in every room, making communication a little more fun and a lot harder to ignore. Plus, I’m integrating an AI voice assistant that we can interact with through the system. In this video, I’ll walk you through the entire process and explore how practical (and cool) this setup can be.
📃📃📃Link/Guide/Documentation: blog.networkchuck.com/posts/i-built-a-phone-system-because-no-one-answers-me/
🖥 Raspberry Pi options:
Raspberry Pi 4: geni.us/mzJF55
Raspberry Pi 5: geni.us/z0BVIc
Here are the phones that I purchased and can verify work pretty well:
📱New phones:
Snom D735: geni.us/IZmO ($85) - A very solid option.
Fanvil X3SG: geni.us/oA1i ($69) - Very solid as well.
Yealink T54W: geni.us/GhUAAy ($150) - More expensive because it’s pretty and is a router phone.
Fanvil H2U: geni.us/WBGTg ($63) - compact and weird. Hotel-like, if you wanna go for that aesthetic.
☎Old phones (requiring an ATA):
Sangyn Vintage Phone: geni.us/AxmFI4 ($35) - gorgeous. Probably my favorite. Feels solid.
TelPal Corded Wall Phone: geni.us/JZazPcI ($32) - INCREDIBLE. Put this sucker on a wall and you are in the 1970s. Feels very solid. My second favorite, comes in a variety of colors.
🔧 You’ll need an ATA (analog telephone adapter) for these old phones. I recommend this one:
Grandstream HT801: geni.us/TaZ7p
📜 Also, here is the official list of supported phones that work with 3CX: www.3cx.com/sip-phones/
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this is cool bro
This is soo great.
I don’t want to use VoIP.Ms, I want to use a next provider but it’s not there . Can in input my provider manually ?
The way your girls just suddenly turned on acting mode was hilarious. Also your vid's a really good intro to this kind of thing. I was thinking you could probably have your AI dial another phone within your network if they can't remember the extension.
Been a long time fan and this video was awesome! One thing I've wanted for a few years now is a way to send people to an attendant where they would have to press a number, or series of numbers to then get forwarded to me. IE: Mom calls and she can press 887 then it forwards to me. When a scammer or robocall tries they wont be able to.
Due to the pandemic my software engineer job had to be cut and I got moved to a telephone system engineer role. Due to it being a chaotic mix between analogue, digital and VoIP I actually hated it for quite a long while. It seemed like an area everyone is moving away from while I have to maintain it. Just this year I started to really see what you can do with such a system and now seeing your enthusiasm for it all actually makes me kind of proud to be able to work in such a specialized field. Thanks!
ai and SIP is a huge breakthrough
@@TRS-80Fanclub Sure is!
Sadly we can't introduce AI features due to unclear regulations for a company atm.
SIP is great though! Just at the same time also really, really confusing when setting up an SBC with less clear instructions than 3CX did in this video. There are a lot of "old phone features and concepts" within those settings which makes the learning curve quite steep. But in the end it's really rewarding! Especially when watching such a video as this and understand 95% of what Chuck is doing! I never realized that I did learn that much over the years.
I'm still trying to get an ancient 1920s phone hooked up to 3CX. I myself am managing one 3CX instance and a Unify OpenScape Business PBX (which is a piece of shit honestly). The Unify ones licensing is expensive and complicated (per extension, per phone, per feature licensing type).
@second2falcon153 Are you still trying to get the phone running? I am a Telephone System technician from Germany and i manly work with Unify Products (OpenScape Bussines and manly OpenScape 4000). By the age of the phone i guess you need a PBX with analog ports that support pulse dialing process or something like an ip to analog converter. At work we use converters from a brand called Grandstream and most of them support this old dialing method and they are affordable too. They are registered as a SIP User and have a web userinterface with many configuration possibilities to get nearly every analog telephone running.
Edit: I later saw that he is also using Grandstream in his video.
@@TRS-80Fanclub I’d be careful to say that. If it’s completely open SIP it’s basically landline phone with a SIP stack. If it has office features… it’s going to cut short
It's crazy how timely this is. My wife came up with some of those red touch-tone phones recently and I was going to figure out how to create an in-home system to use them as a rediculous intercom.
wild, SAME
You probably should read up about 3CX in the VoIP community.
xd same wanted to re use some office phones
That sounds like God's intervention roght there. I'm thinking of buying a really odd old style pots phone now nobody wants them, and set it up on the network I just built. Cool old retro phones, maybe the old gadget shop one with neon lights in..... soo cool.
BRO LEGIT SAME READ MY MIND! I recently got an old telephone from a friend and thought "yo i should do andun intercom project and use phone numbers all locally in my home" since by today's standards it seems like it'd be simple, fun, and cool, and actually useful too!
We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing. It's great to watch and see you having fun, matrix architect.
Best name for him :)
Bro is making his entire home open source
he said he likes windows 💀
If you're ever clicking "agree" your not using open source.
XD
Not all heroes wear capes
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"ofc we are, we're BRITISH" i died a little 😂
And he needs analogue phone adapters for all of those.
As a 3cx advanced engineer, chuck skipped over a few things, like each analog phone needs an FXS port but you can buy ATA’s with more than 1 FXS port,
The HT801 is a single port and the HT802 is a 2 port for only $10 more
I like Chuck explaining how old school phones work, and the Gen X in me felt a pang of old person pain.
Gen X represent!
Gen X don't get enough credit. Millennials and Gen Z are associated with the internet and technology.
Yet it's Gen X who bridge the analogue world to the digital. We were the first Generation to grow up with computers and video games at home. Nerd Boomers and Gen X kids grew using Bullitin Boards System and Usenet. Where the majority of internet slang orininated from. Like LOL for example.
Gen X created social media. "Sixdegrees" in the late 90s. Then MySpace, friendster, RUclips in the early - mid 2000's.
Gen X created IRC aka internet relay chat, Bittorrent, Napster, Limewire.
Also we're still the only Generation who can program a VCR.
@@edstar83 I love this comment so much.
@@edstar83 I don't dispute the majority of this comment but as a geriatric millennial (85 baby) I can still to this day set up a VCR. Mother is a tech phobic elder boomer, dad was one of the youngest boomers, very mechanically minded but passed away when I was 5yo. I was the expected person to do anything even vaguely tech related from a really young age. We did get a dvd player until my last year or two before going to uni so around the millennium, when my 16+ years older gen x brother brought one over from Germany to the UK as a present for us (my younger sister and I) my brother stayed with his dad after my adulterous mother ran away to the UK so I didn't grow up with him.
My mother still has a VCR, thankfully I have eventually managed to convince her to join the 21st century, she was pretty much forced to with the analogue switch off so had to get a smart box and I convinced her to get one that records... Still has the VCR as she has hundreds of VCR tapes of films and TV series. She used to have a Satellite set up to watch German TV but it stopped working so I got her an Amazon fire stick and set everything up for her so she can watch German TV again and occasionally she will even use prime TV but it's taken decades!
@@edstar83 The younger generations think the 'wild west' early internet culture was native to the net. In my world it came off the BBS boards and migrated to the net.
I love 3CX, have been using it for years. As a voip engineer in a previous life I'm sure you know the pitfall of using 9 to get an outside line.... a user dials 9, 1 (pauses to look up the phone number, forgets they dialed the 1 already), dials 1 again and before they can enter the area code they're on with an emergency services dispatcher.
Mmhm. That's why I personally would choose 8 for an outside line.
Perfect timing! My sister-in-law inherited a wall phone with no dial capability (the kind you hold the earpiece to your ear, speak into the horn, and ask the operator to connect you). I want to hide a R Pi with touchscreen, and you've given me a HUGE jump on this project! Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you and family!
Wouldn't an AI operator more classy? One that you have to tell whom you want to talk to?
Hey Chuck, I setup a PBX like this over a decade ago at my last apartment. I had it connected to the front door buzzer. When the door called the PBX it would say “connecting call” but if I entered a secret code within the first few seconds it would send the 9 dial tone to unlock the door. No more getting locked out when I forgot my key. If no code was entered, it would forward the call to my cell phone. I was using Astrix back then, it was so cool 🤓
Got the nostalgia trip in this video. I used to setup/maintain/program 3CX systems back in the day.
My wife actually made a lot of IVR prompts for me. :D
Seeing your family makes these videos soo much better (which I didn't think was possible). Still loving your videos!
C’mon Chuck - go advanced class with a self-hosted asterisk server! *️⃣☎️
Tell him
Yeah, go advanced.
This is what I came to comment also. Let's see you make an asterisk box!!
Free PBX and PBX in a box come to mind I'm not sure if the PBX in a box is still around It was created by this guy called Lord 🤗
Wasnt there a pi asterisk image?
i have a really cool setup at home where i can dial in to my phone system from the outside, get into a secret menu, input a PIN and then i get connected to Home Assistant.
I didn’t use a trunk but a custom Asterisk destination.
Works great
Used to be a phone system engineer for a smaller VoIP provider but have recently pivoted to cybersecurity. This video is bringing back good memories!
A cool idea is to ask Terry to call someone for you if you don't remember the dialing codes. It will make as an cool calling agent.
I am so jealous right now!! I will definitely try this, I was looking for a solution to keep all the distance family at touch without having to give smartphones to our kids, man!! I love it!
I have wanted to do a project like this for so long, you freaking nailed it. I also used to be one of those weirdo phone system engineers, I worked on migrating a university to Cisco VoIP back in 2004-2005. I also have kids around the same age as yours (maybe a couple years younger) and could see them being really excited about retro tech. I still have my Western Electric 1500 rotary phone, so after this video I'm totally going to fire that thing up.
FYI - The grandstream ATAs handle rotary dialing right out of the box.. Not all ATAs do..
@ Thanks for the heads up!
Going through the 3CX certification this couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you! Great video as always.
Used to be voice engineer for a decade before becoming a boring network security guy. Oh man I loved working with phones. Thanks for reminding me.
Ive wanted to do this since I moved into my house and now you did the hard part for me
Chuck's daughters out here no selling chaos like their dad isn't a big ol' RUclipsr.
Their great grand grandmother was Queen Elizabeth the Queen Elizabeth. They know how to behave
i always love watching all the interesting projects that you have. Please keep making content as good as this
Stuff like this is why I love technology the fact you can bridge between old phones and new is sooooo amazing to me
As a child of the 80's I remember our old rotary dial telephone well... I even still remember our home phone number, our close neighbours and friends house phone numbers.
Same here, we had an easy to memorize number but it got lost over the years as we don't use it anymore. Never used a rotary phone at home as we had a regular tone dial cord phone and later switched to DECT. Still love the old rotaries though, even though I've never used them, they bring something nostalgic, especially when the bells inside are ringing.
As a fellow nerd I do have to say I wait anxiously for your videos. Educational and entertaining… the perfect combo!
Dude your energy is so much fun and so extra. Its wonderful.
Dude, this stuff actually makes me happy. Freakin' cool as usual! :D
As someone who installs, configures and manages business/corporate PBX systems this would've been a great introductory video when I first started to explain what I was doing starting in VoIP support. Great video. 😅
He can call his house from an old telephone booth on a train station and talk to terry and ask when the building was build or what train he just sees xD That’s so cool!
if he can find a phone booth lol, fortunately i’ve seen a few out there rarely
Ironically I have a working phone booth from a local train station
Chuck, I hope your excitement for tech never fades... it's a sad existence when it happens. Don't let this happen to you!
Real! My friend never answers his phone this was a great video
This bought back memories of terms I haven’t used in years. The last couple of companies I worked at, us network admins also did some VoIP management and phone provisioning. Mostly Cisco and Zultys
I have an old fashioned phone. I've ALWAYS hated talking on the phone (I'm 36 and still remember landlines) but I've always been fascinated by the technology.
I've always been interested in your videos when they pop up on my feed, but watching this one, and THEN researching to find out I could use a Cisco phone (hopefully compatible with a 7940 / 7960) with the SBC so that i can finally configure a phone for my son "like the ones in the office" - sold, you've won my sub good sir :)
Brought back memories I even have an old active PBX Xeon server in my storage lol .
I love the kids interaction especially with the old analog phones that we
grew up with. Back in the day we used to use Google voice with free pbx services....fantastic work!
Imagine having Network Chuck as your dad, the girls are super lucky!
The analog gateway made me think back to 2010 when I still having to set up the old Cisco VG-224's for POTS and VOIP compatibility.
Loved this video, takes me back to when I ran a switchboard in the Army National Guard as a 31K wiredog. Up to 12 field phones lines were run the the command tent and an old SB22A, almost every time we did a weekend camp I was stuck running that switch board at night.
Gotta be honest... at the start of the video I was just watching for the entertainment and had zero plans to install a phone system in my house.... Now I'm seriously considering it!!!
One thing to mention is that not all ATA's will support rotary phones because they don't work using tone dialing but pulse dialing. It is possible to modify the pulse dialing mechanism to work with tone dialing but it requires a chip to be built in which receives the pulses and converts them to tones. Did this with my old phone that was used by field engineers of the state telephone company back in the 1950's. Receiving calls would be fine, just dialing out wouldn't work.
Just something to take into account when buying an ATA.
The HT801 & 2 have a pulse to tone dial converter integrated. Other ATA might have too
@@OloDeepdelver yeah, Grandstream is great about this. But somebody might not go with a Grandstream so I thought it would be nice to mention it :)
I love your kids they have a great sense of humor 😂
My biggest question is, "How do you prevent your daughters from calling you every 5 minutes instead of leaving their room?" My 10 yo daughter will call me incessantly! She already figured out broadcasting on Google to ask garbled questions or to sing to the house. 😂 That's usually followed by my 7 yo son yelling, "I'm trying to listen to music."
Love love love this, my 8 year old has an obsession with phones as well. Will try to do as a Christmas gift. You’re amazing man. I’m working on the home ai at moment. Hopefully soon it will be up as well. Thank you
Your audacity to keep finding new projects ....is working :) I wanted to do a project like this llittle while back, but I love this! Great choice of project Chuck :)
I did that 10 years ago with Payphone booth next to my house in ILLINOIS, 2 weeks later it got stolen. It was connected it via google voice service and OBIHI adapter (no longer in business) after payphone was stolen I focused on security cameras. Now I can plan a phone booth again but they are so expensive and in bad shape. Loved the video!
this has to be the coolest and most nerdy thing I have ever seen and a LOVE it
It’s so nice that you included your family I still have a line with my provider it’s like 4 $$ I don’t no why lol I keep it this way is so funny & cool have a good one eveyone happy holidays to network chuck & family & staff that helps him out
I actually setup here for fun same providers for fun simple & easy & endless fun
One of my favorite videos you've made. Thank you!
I used free PBX for a while and got some hands-on experience with 3CX. You made my day! Thanks for that content!
Set one of these up a couple of weeks back using a fanvil x3g as my voip. Can chat to my brothers phones in the states (im in the uk) aswell as mobiles that have 3cx installed. Its an excellent project.
I use old-school ip-phone since 2017. they are awesome. Cheers! BTH I like the sound of your keyboard. But with the AI voice assistant it is incredible!
First time watching this channel, this guy could be a teacher, he's explaining very well.
I never would have thought to do this. It's so nerdy I WANT to set this up at home!
I appreciate you good sir. I've been watching you for the last 5 years I think. 👀 I'll start tuning in. ❤
Your baby girl is so cute, she reminds me of my little boy. Such character and personality. 🥰
Bedankt
This was my job for a while, but in the business space. There is something fun about an old school phone.
I love this, i watched it fully, without skipping any second 😁
I was trying to figure this out a few months back, Sweet tutorial.
Wow this is a blast from the past - when I was working at SIP company - this is crazy neat. Nice break down on this =D
lets have so much fun see N. chuck geek out on a system!fun
Happy new year my tech brother I just enjoy your show and support you and all that your team is doing and even got us motivated as well. Learning from you as well as other lessons being able to be shared with others. I thank God for your team and for another year and seeing that you’re doing things now in the tech world, but also kingdom which is just another glimpse of the wonderful person you are that God has created. Many cheers and thanks my friend and this new platform the CSX we are going to partner with thembecause of what we do globally in our ministry as well as in our tent, making part of our organization again thank you so much for your insight and wisdom. God bless.
This is extremely cool. First thought that came to my head is escape rooms for more immersion and puzzles.
OMG HOW'D YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN PLAYING AROUND WITH ASTERISK IN VM'S lol, love your videos and timing!
I love watching your videos. I even download some of them. But I always have to watch them on 75% speed and then I still usually say wtf at least six or seven times.....
Chuck you have vakued up my life as network engineer!
Mr. Chuck! I haven't even watched the video and I already love it! I found a lot of old VoIP gear from Cisco for a great price! My only problem now is to be quick enough to buy them ...
(I'm in Brazil and here those things are not easy to find so ... I really will love your video!)
Bro!! This is wicked!! Gonna try this for home and integrate it into my HA. Hopefully the wife won't go nuts over it. 🤣
The full nerd out when talking to terry was awesome.
Oh wow.. Old phone guy here too (Ok..network guy who did a lot of phone work!) from Nortel SL1, through various avaya stuff, call manager since before Cisco owned it, through about version 6.x, and then asterisk, but I had never done any 3CX.. This looks really cool. I may have to install this just because.. I already have an ATA connected to an old rotary phone "just because" but integrating w/ HA is going to be awesome, if not pointless in all the best ways!! One thing - It looks like when you were dialing, you were having to terminate the digits you were dialing to get the 3CX to actually dial. I assume if you spent more time on the dial plan it would be able to self-dial, and/or you were just avoiding the end of digits delay? I would definitely like to have a dial plan that understood 9-npa-nxx-xxxx or 9-1-npa-nxx-xxxx and dialed immediately, and then make the HA integration something like "8" and dial immediately. I assume that's doable?
I have one word for you, NC! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Big fan of your hacking Playlist ❤
Love from 🇮🇳 ❤❤
i love how i got something new after just that one video
I wanna make a variation of this that uses the home assistant. It'll have a real house phone number with the LLM as the answering machine, whilst also having voice activated room to room intercom system
This is something I have been thinking of doing for a long time (w/o AI stuff), maybe this is the spark to finally do it
Me diverti y aprendi mucho viendo tu video, mil gracias por regalarnos tus conocimientos
Good video NetworkChuck! I have already used your previous tutorial and now have a dedicated local LLM (GTX1080) in my server rack connected to my Home Assistant. And it works!!! Currently adding ESP32s (ESPHome) with heaps of gpio for robotic projects is next. But... I also have a collection of vintage phones going back to a crank dynamo style. I would love to bring the old phones into my modern AI home automation robotic ecosystem. Super cool! If you keep making these kind of videos, I will try to follow along and implement everything you do.. Try.. I said. :)
Awesome video! I purchased a Uniden XDECT Cordless Phone system with 8 handsets that features ability to pair up to 4 cell phones as well as landline RJ12. It has a USB port on the base unit to charge a connected cell phone, which I am using with an old iPhone 7 with an unlimited calling line and no data. I have a Grandstand VoIP ATA also which I plan to get two Dial In Numbers for & use one for faxes. I use the built-in Intercom to call one or all handsets to reach who I need to!
As a long time Home Assistant user, I am so happy that Chuck has started this journey!
Great video love the ability to talk to the AI
What a great topic and idea. I’ll have to do this.
Half mine (all VOIP) are rotatory antiques. Have the tiny pulse to DTMF adapters in them. Fun to me.
Hi Chuck,
There is actually an easier way to trigger home assistant webhooks from a SNOM phone. When going in to the phone ui and navigating to Function Keys, you can setup the speeddial buttons to trigger an action URL, which is a GET request to the supplied link. You'd have to make sure you accept get requests in the home assistant webhook.
Last few months i started a job working on and installing equipment for 911 dispatch. Its been a whole new world working with voip and sip.
"Daddy, i mean that's what i am putting for my kids. My Employees don't call me that." I fell of my chair because of that🤣🤣
This is very awesome and interesting! I love it. 👍😍🎉
I was in a training in a factory last week where they had phones set up to be connected internally together, I thought about how this is made and said maybe you’d have a video about it and here we are 😂
im adding this in my house one day for sure
Ngl this is a very cool video. I might try it. So many good videos especially the searxing one.
Cool! Way cool! And to think, I'm paying for VOIP. I've never given up a landline and have had this same number since the 80s. When Home Depot, pizza delivery or any business needs a phone number, they get my home number. I don't like giving out my personal mobile number unless it's someone I know personally.
I actually have a PBX style switch in my house (OnQ). I have zero idea how to use it that way but I was informed by the guys installing it that I can set it up to be an intercom as well. Not really needed in my house, but my retirement home will have an external shop...a system may be nice to have.
As for your girls wanting 'old' phones, you need to find a rotary phone for them. That would be some fun for sure for them! :)
The phone used in the Brady Bunch was a rotary phone, which uses pulse dialing, they were then replaced with the style of phone you decided to set up which uses DTMF. Also, at least here in Australia, Socket 610 was the most common connector for phones in the 80s and earlier, eventually being replaced by RJ11 in the '90s, for connecting phones to modern phone sockets, you should use RJ12 (6P/6C) as it allows an RJ11 to effectively plug into an RJ45 without damaging it.
3cx was nice on the raspbarry pi as standalone connect to Fritzbox.
Got the soft phones all working great, but had to get a VOIP phone. Found two Polycom vvx 500 on eBay for $15 bucks. I did the SBC as a VM on Proxmox. I had to set the phone up with the manual setup but works as it should. I also found a text to wave converter online for free for Pam’s greeting.
its so geeky i love it
Awesome you are doing the magic
I geeked out to a PBX system before. It was a fun project, but I had to use virtual local phones, and I never bought the physical phones.
Just loved it ❤