Essentially, I want to be able to call/take calls from my physical landline phone over VOIP for whatsapp and signal. I shouldn’t need to touch my phone other than to check if WiFi works and the chat client is alive.
If you know how I can get started with this, please let me know.
Thanks!
In case you have a fritz!box router, take a look at
fritz!app fonand see if that is what you want.In principle, sure. I’m not aware of an existing out-of-the-box solution that’d do what you want, but it also wouldn’t surprise me terribly if someone’s cobbled something together to do this before.
If I wanted to make something like this personally (and couldn’t find an existing solution), I’d start by doing some research into PBX software like Asterisk, what derivatives and extensions people have made for that, etc. – being mindful that I’d likely be digging into a deep rabbit hole…
If I’m using Bluetooth earbuds I can receive a call from Signal or WhatsApp. So it stands to reason it’s possible a Bluetooth device exists to act like earbuds but for a landline phone. I found a few (cell2jack and XLink BT HD) but could not verify if they’d work for anything other than normal phone calls.
As far as I know that’s not possible for WhatsApp.
Unless something has changed I’m under the impression that it’s not possible with Signal, either.
