Awesome video, very informative, entertaining and you took the time to warn about a potential safety issue for viewers who might be considering using the Mini PABX in a real world scenario. Keep it up, this was great!
If you have the PABX set to hotline, and jumper the operator to the co line 1, and have the PABX set to ring CO 1 to all lines, does the hotline ring all phones when any phone is picked up, or does it just go to fast busy when any phone is picked up?
Woo, someone finally did a video on these! I quite liked the pricing on AliExpress to the UK (about £50) and they seem pretty decent based on the video. Do you happen to know what processor lives inside? Maybe a teardown at some point or internal pics?
I'll open it up soon and take a look at the inside. I do think the only serious problem with it, that I've found so far at least, is the tone it uses for everything. It's pretty grating compared to a proper dial tone. There were a lot of key systems out there that did similar on their intercom lines, though, so I don't object to it too much.
But you didn't actually test it with a pair of dial-up modems to confirm that it's got a clean audio signal and will provide decent speeds. I expect many (most?) folks buying line simulators are getting it for retro dial-up networking equipment...
Im looking at getting one of these, and i'm wondering if it recognizes pulse dialling. Obviously programming and such would have to be done with a DTMF phobe to have * and #, but id like to use my rotary sets for calling.
I don't know about phones and haven't really cared about phones before your videos, but I enjoy all your uploads! Thank you for posting (and writing)!
Awesome video, very informative, entertaining and you took the time to warn about a potential safety issue for viewers who might be considering using the Mini PABX in a real world scenario. Keep it up, this was great!
I wonder what friend wanted you to look into this! They must be cool.
If you have the PABX set to hotline, and jumper the operator to the co line 1, and have the PABX set to ring CO 1 to all lines, does the hotline ring all phones when any phone is picked up, or does it just go to fast busy when any phone is picked up?
Woo, someone finally did a video on these! I quite liked the pricing on AliExpress to the UK (about £50) and they seem pretty decent based on the video. Do you happen to know what processor lives inside? Maybe a teardown at some point or internal pics?
I'll open it up soon and take a look at the inside. I do think the only serious problem with it, that I've found so far at least, is the tone it uses for everything. It's pretty grating compared to a proper dial tone. There were a lot of key systems out there that did similar on their intercom lines, though, so I don't object to it too much.
@@computersarebad If it is generic enough inside it might be possible to fiddle with it and make it sound different
But you didn't actually test it with a pair of dial-up modems to confirm that it's got a clean audio signal and will provide decent speeds. I expect many (most?) folks buying line simulators are getting it for retro dial-up networking equipment...
Im looking at getting one of these, and i'm wondering if it recognizes pulse dialling. Obviously programming and such would have to be done with a DTMF phobe to have * and #, but id like to use my rotary sets for calling.
It does not handle pulse dialing it seems.
kitty with dtmf support ...