Brad Ideas - Bluetooth headsets as virtual headsets in a PBX - Comments

What would be really great

Anonymous — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:16 -0700

What would be really great is:

If you could have one bluetooth headset able to connect to say 3 devices AND then the ability to place each on hold as you cycle through them. With out disconnecting and reconnecting the headset as you go.

Waiting to receive calls on mobile phone by bluetooth

srwain — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:08 -0700

I just not understand why nobody is blaming the mobile phones companies, you can't receive the calls in your mobile phone via bluetooth only because the mobile phones has poor software.
Open Source resources should spend on using existing mobile phones hardware with a flexible software.
Like the http://www.rockbox.org/ project for mp3 players.

Bluetooth headsets as virtual headsets in a PBX

brad — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:24:45 -0700

It’s nice to have a headset on your desk telephone, for handsfree conversations. A number of phones have a headset jack, either of the submini plug used by cell phones, or using a phone handset jack. Many companies buy headset units that plug into the handset line to provide a headset, some of them are even wireless.

But bluetooth headsets today are cheap, standardized and have a competitive market. And they are of course wireless. Many people already have them for their cell phone. I have seen a very small number of desk phones support having a bluetooth headset, and that shouldn’t be al that expensive, but it’s rare and only on high-end phones.

Here’s the idea: Put bluetooth headset support into the PBX. Bluetooth headsets can’t dial, they can effectively only go on-hook and off-hook with a single button. You would associate (in the PBX) your bluetooth headset with your desk phone. A bluetooth master would be not too far from your desk, and tied into the PBX, or into a PC that talks to the PBX. When your BT headset was in range of this master, it would be tied to ith with Bluetooth. (You would have to do an actual bluetooth pairing in advance. In addition, many people have bluetooth headsets normally linked to their cell phone, and call attempts from the headset go to the cell phone. The system would have to switch that over to the PBX.)