Hi!

I’m looking to replace my family’s landline phone with a VoIP based hardphone. From my research it seems that I’d need a SIP server and a SIP Trunk provider. But I also happened to find Jami that has a SIP account feature.

  1. Could I make and recieve calls with Jami over the hardphone similar to a landline phone (minus the ability to call and recieve calls from normal phone numbers) with this setup (SIP server + Jami + hardphone)?
  2. Does anyone have experience setting up a similar system?
  3. Am I overcomplicating things and a used smartphone turned into a softphone would be a better choice?

I’ve just recently begun my selfhosting journey so I’m not very well versed in networking, but I am willing to put in the time and effort to learn. So any (constructive) feedback/guidance is greatly appreciated!

EDIT: The solution for me it seems is to just buy a used Android smartphone and connect it to a bluetooth handset. Thanks everyone :)

  • tvcvt@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t notice anyone elaborate on what I think is the simplest way to handle this.

    You can port your existing number to a VOIP provider (I’ve had good experience with voip.ms and Flowroute). Then you get an ATA (analog telephone adapter), connect to the VOIP service and plug your existing landline phone into it. Secure hand ATAs are pretty reasonable priced. I like the Grandstream HT802.