Showing posts with label Xlink. Show all posts
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March 6, 2009

Use your Cell Phone with your Home Wiring

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Jeff (The Brown-Eyed Albino)




Ever find yourself busy in the other room, and your cell phone starts ringing? With this easy trick, you'll be able to answer your cell straight from your landline handset. Any bluetooth capable cell phone will work, and there's no need to modify the phones themselves. Just simple wiring, and a bluetooth gateway (explained in the post), and you're good to go! Works with any landline phone, and caller ID works like a charm!

Here's what you'll need.

  1. Bluetooth capable Cell Phone

  2. Xlink Bluetooth Cellular Gateway

  3. The existing wiring in your home


The author suggests using a UPS, so that even when the power is off, your phones will still be working.