| Gizmo Skype - it works I thought I would mention my tests with gizmo5 and its skype gateway.
First you need a free gizmo account.
Then set up a sip forwarding url. For example, you can do it via mysipswitch:
exten = 102,1,Switch(mygizmoid,mygizmopwd,echo123@opensky.gizmo5.com)
That will connect you to the echo123 skype testing service.
It was interesting to hear the girl with the cute English accent doing her spiel over the telephone. It passed along my test comment and played it back.
I set up a second mysipswitch dialplan to call my own skype userid and that worked also.
Another way to connect is via voxalot. Set up opensky.gizmo5.com as the server. Then set up a dial plan to call a specific skype userid, such as echo123.
You can also connect by setting up any kind of forward or call to a sip url.
If you buy an opensky account, Gizmo lets you set up a numeric alias that gets translated into a skype id.
It's $20 year for up to 10 skype userids that can be called. unlimited total time, 2-hours per call.
You can buy a gadget that plugs into your pc and you plug a phone into that, and use skype that way. But if you don't want to involve your pc in your voip telephoning, this might be useful.
I didn't see any way for skype users to call a voip phone. It would be nice, for example, if a skype user could call opensky_1777xxxxxxx@in.callcentric.com and ring the voip phone of a callcentric user. |
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| said by Pascagoula :
I didn't see any way for skype users to call a voip phone. It would be nice, for example, if a skype user could call opensky_1777xxxxxxx@in.callcentric.com and ring the voip phone of a callcentric user.
That's actually what the Skype for Asterisk product is going to allow.
The OpenSky Skype connection you mention with Gizmo is a nice product. But it suffers from a fundamental flaw. You must know ahead of time and program in the Skype IDs. This is not the case with Skype for Asterisk which can connect to any username on the Skype network. |
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 AndrewZPremium
join:2003-07-17
somewhere | reply to Pascagoula
I received an email (twice) from Gizmo5 saying "Now for the first time answer Skype calls on ANY SIP device!"
But in fact there is no explanation on how I can "answer Skype calls", actually all the information in this email and on the web site is focused on placing calls from ANY SIP device to Skype users and not about answering calls from them.
So for me the right title should sound like "answer SIP calls on any Skype client".
Am I missing something? |
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| I see on the opensky page where it keeps saying 'receive skype calls', but there is no place that says how to do it.
It does say that opensky is in 'demo' mode which sounds different than 'beta' mode, though they let you sign up, it look like, for the pay version. |
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