Have you run this by Grandstream support? It's been a while since I opened a case with them, but I seem to remember they actually respond.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2025 9:55 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones Unfortunately the problem is that he has an 'Expensive' headset, so "IT'S NOT THE HEADSETS PROBLEM" It's an Shokz 'Openrun Pro2' which can link to multiple devices at the same time. Like a cellphone, and the Grandstream. When it's connected to his cellphone, and he walks in the office and it connects to the grandstream as the 2nd device, the first 30 seconds of any call are garbled, then it clears up, and all subsequent calls are fine. Doing any sort of workaround, like, calling someone else in the office as soon as you get there, are unacceptable. It's the pile of garbage noname grandstream's bluetooth that's the problem. I'm half tempted to get one of the $600 Cisco phones and see if it acts the exact same way. On 4/3/2025 9:35 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > Going back to Nate's original post, is the real problem the boss can't get > his Bluetooth headset to work with the Grandstream phone? That seems like it > should be a solvable problem. > > I seem to remember Grandstream was pretty good about publishing a list of > headsets that work with their phones. And if he's the kind of guy who wants > a Cisco phone, he probably has a big name headset like Plantronics or Jabra? > Or is he a techie with a gaming headset or something from a Kickstarter > project? Maybe he's one of these people who walks around all day with a > Bluetooth earpiece connected to his car, his cellphone, etc. > > Surely there's a way to get a Bluetooth headset to work with a Grandstream > phone. If not, can you buy him a new headset? > > BTW, because I'm old, I can't get used to the people who walk around in > stores and public places talking loudly to invisible people, and I have to > realize they're talking on their phone. It used to be those were the crazy > people saying repent, repent, the end is near. When I was going to night > school, I would always see them around the train station in Chicago. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2025 8:49 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones > > We use Yealink and Fanvil. > > The customers use what we support, or they're not customers. Now, we may > expand the scope of what we support, but there needs to be a very good reason > to expand that scope. > > > > > -- > Mike Hammett > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nate Burke" <n...@blastcomm.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12:41:14 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] Desk VoIP Phones > > We've been using grandstream phones for quite a while, cheap and easy to > provision. One of my new business customers is making a stink because 'he's > never heard of Grandstream, these phones just don't work with my bluetooth > headset, I NEED a Cisco phone because that's a real phone' I'm thinking that > it's mainly about ego, that his friends probably have Cisco phones on their > desks, and he doesn't, so he's making up issues. > > I haven't used Cisco phones in many years, Linksys SPA504G's were my last > dabble into non-grandstream phones. > > It looks like a Cisco phone with Bluetooth (A requirement) is about $550 for > an 8851. How do you provision those? Is there any sort of cloud > provisioning? Still done with TFTP? Put some sort of call manager on site? > I really like that I can provision the Grandstream phones while they are > behind the customers firewall without having to do any port forwarding etc. > Cisco always used to like Licensing, is that still the case to use them with > normal SIP, or are they all SIP now. > > Just wondering if it's worth trying to investigate Cisco phones for this one > customer, or if Cisco phones really want a Cisco Callmanager on the backend. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
