Hi all

our LAN is also our VOIP network. My PC has one IP address, my phone 
(grandstream) another. Can I connect the two in software somehow so my PC 
Skpe can drive/use the phone. That way I can avoid the need for a separate 
headset for the PC

I have total access to router and PC.

regards

In article ,
Jethro  wrote:
>Hi all
>
>our LAN is also our VOIP network. My PC has one IP address, my phone 
>(grandstream) another. Can I connect the two in software somehow so my PC 
>Skpe can drive/use the phone. That way I can avoid the need for a separate 
>headset for the PC

Not easilly.

Your Grandstream phone uses an industry standard, open and published
protocol called SIP. Skype uses it's own proprietary and closed
protocol. The two don't mix[1].

Gordon

[1] Actually, there is a Skype module for Astersk that could in-theroy
allow you to call a Skype number from your Grandstream phone, via a
local asterisk server, but I suspect it's more than you want to do to
make this work.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:07:36 +0000 (UTC), Gordon Henderson
<gordon+usenet@drogon.net> wrote:

>In article ,
>Jethro  wrote:
>>Hi all
>>
>>our LAN is also our VOIP network. My PC has one IP address, my phone 
>>(grandstream) another. Can I connect the two in software somehow so my PC 
>>Skpe can drive/use the phone. That way I can avoid the need for a separate 
>>headset for the PC
>
>Not easilly.
>
>Your Grandstream phone uses an industry standard, open and published
>protocol called SIP. Skype uses it's own proprietary and closed
>protocol. The two don't mix[1].
>
>Gordon
>
>[1] Actually, there is a Skype module for Astersk that could in-theroy
>allow you to call a Skype number from your Grandstream phone, via a
>local asterisk server, but I suspect it's more than you want to do to
>make this work.
I'll give you 3 options:-

As Gordon says, 'not easily'. However, if you are reasonably
technically apt, you could take a look at a piece of software called
'Sippy Skype'. It is Java based so it is cross-platform.

I am not familiar with the various Grandstream phones but, if yours
has a standard PSTN connection as well, there is a hardware device,
sold by Maplin, for about £15, that can interface a computer, running
Skype, to a standard analogue phone. It could act as a PSTN landline
connection.

Perhaps you could look at why you need Skype. Is this to facilitate
calls from people who are abroad for example? If you could enlarge on
that and, from that, we might be able to make suggestions of how you
might proceed, without Skype, as there are lots of SIP solutions that
might be drawn on.



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