Two programs are better than one
The part that carries calls is now separate from the web pages, so updating the pages drops no calls.
What we built, and when.
Status updates from the people building Kahevo, from its first days as a small project called Pidgin Talk to this week. The wins, and the faceplants too.
Updates from 2022
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Transfers, both kinds
Blind and attended transfer now work from a desk phone.
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Please hold
Hold works, with music for whoever is waiting.
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A call log, because someone always asks
Every finished call is now recorded with who called whom, when, and how it ended.
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A web page to run it from
Pidgin Talk gets its first admin pages and a sign-in.
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The case of the calls that never arrived
Incoming calls stopped quietly behind an office router. Here is what it was and how we fixed it.
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The phones ring from outside
Incoming calls arrive from the provider and are routed by the number that was dialed.
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Calling the outside world
Calls now go out through the provider, steered by dialing rules kept as data.
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Extension 101 calls extension 102
The first call between two phones on Pidgin Talk, with audio in both directions.
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The first desk phone signs in
Desk phones can now register to Pidgin Talk, and it answers them like a proper registrar.
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Hello, provider
Pidgin Talk registers to a SIP provider for the first time and stays registered.
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Why we are writing our own phone system
We start a small project called Pidgin Talk: a phone system for offices that just need their phones to ring.
Want the next update to be about you?
Tell us what you need a phone system to do. What our customers and partners ask for is what gets built next.