When the link goes down
A branch keeps calling desk to desk on its own, and emergency calls have a way out.
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 2025
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Hākuʻi carries its first calls
Branch phones register and call through the box, with audio compressed for the trip.
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Branch offices: introducing Kahevo Hākuʻi
A small box at a branch office joins its phones to the main office over one encrypted link.
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Key profiles
Make one key layout and apply it to a whole department, with a preview and an undo.
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A second brand of desk phone
Setup by link now covers two brands and more than forty models.
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A catalog of phone models
What each phone model is sent is now data you can see, override and copy.
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Every desk phone, on one page
An inventory of desk phones: model, address, who it belongs to, and whether it is connected.
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A new coat of paint
Kahevo's pages take on the colors of the sea: open ocean by night, the shoreline by day.
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Ring my desk first
Choose when your iPhone rings: at once, only after your desk phone, or not right now.
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The app rings when it is closed
Incoming calls now wake the iPhone app and show on the phone's own call screen.
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Kahevo in your pocket
Work begins on an iPhone app: your office extension on your own phone.
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One clock for everyone
A system time zone, so every page and every phone agrees on what time it is.
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Hold music, like a radio
Playlists for hold music, shuffled or in order, with everyone on hold hearing the same stream.
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Fax, because offices still fax
Send and receive faxes from a web page, with personal and group fax lines and cover pages.
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The whole system in one file
A backup that holds the database, recordings, sounds and settings in a single file.
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A new name: Kahevo
Pidgin Talk has outgrown its name. Meet Kahevo: kāhea, plus voice, with a hint of evolution.
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