MythPhone: Using VoIP with MythTV

Abstract

MythPhone is the MythTV plug-in that lets you make phone calls over the Internet with MythTV. It also supports making video calls with an attached webcam. It talks the standard SIP protocol, so calling other SIP clients or devices over the Internet won’t cost you a cent. Also, many companies offer accounts on their systems that let you call regular phone lines (usually at amuch lower rate than big telecommunications companies). You can also run the free and open source Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org) to have your own telephone exchange at home. (In addition, you can buy cards to plug into a computer running Asterisk into which you can plug regular phones or phone lines.)