How to connect an old rotary phone through your smartphone
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Eric Chilton managed to get an old rotary phone to work through his smartphone. He shares a tutorial on how he did it.
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Quick to the point without ant B.S. Very simple and easy setup. Thank you for sharing
So fast, so efficient, and I just noticed you uploaded this on my birthday. This is hands down the best tutorial ever.
No 1 has this no more then a 8 track cassette
Happy Birthday fran I hope you've had a great day ringin up all yer pals on yon phone there. Keep dialling for us all sister!
This is FANTASTIC! I had no idea. It would be nice to actually have my "prop phones" be able to ring and receive a call when shooting a film. Otherwise, we have to put in the phone sound effect in editing. But if the phone in the shot can actually ring, it will have the exact correct sound to match the room. I had no idea there was such a device. Thank you.
I’ve had a gadget couple decades called Tele Q,5 x 3 x 2” box uses couple 9 V batteries got a modular jack; plug in your in your phone into it, you press the red button on the gadget Tele Q and it’ll make the phone ring
@@alectricfoxx - Hey, thank you. I will look into that as well.
You’re welcome.
Too bad it’s expensive. I pains around $180 for it , then!
I see there are more modern cheaper ones.
I actually did just buy the CELL 2 JACK so I may actually use my old ITT circa 1982 Rotary, instead of it merely Ringing!
🦊☎️📞
Those 4 prong phone connectors were used in the US as well, to allow you to move your phone from room to room. I have one with the Bell System logo on it.
That is true, I grew up in an old house in the 1950s and 60's in New Jersey which had the four prong plugs.
I hooked one up to two of my rotary phones and now I don't know how I lived without it. I practical use is I keep my cell on silent all day when I'm working and I forget often to turn my ringer back on. Now I hear the bells from my rotary so I never have to worry about missing important calls again.
"" I hooked one up to two of my rotary phones and now I don't know how I lived without it "" well if you want to do this using a old school desk telephone and NOT have all those wires, give this a look... search ' western electric bluetooth ' over on ebay.
I've been wanting a way to use my collection of old rotary phones for so long. I have 3 princess phones and one black desk phone with a metal dial. It will be great to put them back into operation.
The connector you got with the 4 holes is for an 'overseas' phone. My husband's family had a business in Rio & had a bunch of the old green phones with the four prong connectors. I LOVE THIS. I have an old orange rotary and a turquoise princess phone from when i was little - both work. I KNEW I was keeping them for some reason! Ordering today!
My grandparents house in the states had the same exact circle adapter for their phones.🤔
Actually, four prong connectors were very standard across the US from the 60s till the 80s when modular phone cords became easier and more available. Lineman across the Bell System converted many hardwired sets with four prong connectors to the standard line cords we see today. An “M” would be stamped into the dial card noting that the set was modulated.
@@matthewtravisii785 Probably from the 1940's until the modular jack became popular. We were on the GTE system in Florida in those days. We had for four prong phone until we moved to another their home in 1974 which had modular jacks. Either way, both are reliable ways to connect a phone.
Our house, built in 1967, has one of these in several rooms, including the basement and one outside on the porch!
U just made my life so easy my dude holycow
My father in law gave me a very old rotary phone with that type of outlet plug that I'd NEVER seen. I grew up using a rotary phone but had never seen that type of outlet. I use it when my students learn about old technology.
OMG... Yes!! I actually miss the landline phone but I have no outlets for an old school phone. I've always wanted a rotary phone and now I can have one!!
Cool! I would've loved to also have seen the rotary phone receiving calls as well...as in hearing it ring.
One issue is, since it works on the cell phone's signal, BOTH the old phone and the cell phone will ring together
@@HobbyOrganist Wouldn't you be able to only hear the rotary phone ring if you put your cell phone on vibrate or mute??
I have a pre-dial crank phone, I would love to get that actually working. A fake operator to say "Number Please" when I pick up the receiver, use the crank/generator to charge up a capacitor and run the electronics and voice recognition to understand the spoken number just like an old time operator would.
One ringy-dingy....;-)
Is that like the ww2 field phones that had to be cranked to be operational?
Hey! Can you provide the link for the xlink bluetooth gateway for those prices? Thanks!
OhDude you don’t know what a life saver you are here if I can actually do this. 🤗
wow, this is amazing. I should hurry up and go over to my grandparent's house and dig up those treasures to have it work with. Thanks so much~~~~~~~!!!
Or you could just plug them into the wall jack using this if needed. www.oldphoneshop.com/products/4-prong-plug-rj-11-adapter.html
@@jeroldkaminsky2963 much better? lol thanks for great info
you can find a wireless one with bluetooth inside ... search ' western electric bluetooth ' found on ebay
Do you have to have an active home phone line to work?
Cool and easy but a more complete demo would have been better like calling the vintage phone and have it ring and some audio snippets
I have Spectrum internet and phone service in Tampa Floridia. I plugged my old rotary dial phone into their connection device and it works like new..... or like OLD just like when it was new... 30Hz ringer as well as the rotary dial.
My only beef with this is if you have Bluetooth speakers in your house anywhere, as long as you're using any of them, you can't be connected to your phone anymore. I'd love for someone to create something like this that runs on Wifi instead. You get a device like this, you just have to put an app onto your phone, and it's always communicating.
I’m sure you already probably thought of this but one possible alternate solution could be to buy/use a tablet to connect to play your music simultaneously while using this. I recently bought an iPad for around $300 and its not the cheapest but it’s been super useful
If you want to do it without your cell phone. Most internet providers will give you a home phone line but it's over internet. You can buy a small $39 box to plug in so that your old rotary phone works on your telephone lines that you use nowadays bada boom bada bing it's done
And it'll be its own phone line, not your cell phone. You will once again have a rotary home telephone line
And honestly most internet companies give you that telephone line for free when you pay for internet. I don't pay for a home phone but I've got one so ....I plugged the phone in
@@Bozemanjustin The good news is I don't necessarily want a rotary phone, I want touch tone phones. Mostly because dialing a 10 digit number on a rotary phone will get super old really fast, and you can get some cool vintage touch tone phones, which typically have a conventional phone jack.
The bad news is I have checked with my provider and sadly that isn't an option for me. I'd have to activate my phone line and that's just not worth the money anymore these days.
I'm no expert in this, but on my Samsung Galaxy S20+ I can have my phone connected to multiple things at the same time through Bluetooth.
My thing is using an old cell for this.
Like can I use an old cell phone that hooks up to my WiFi? I beg make phone calls through my WiFi on old cell phones.
Whoa! I can use my Batphone?!?! How cool is THAT? SOLD!!
DId it actually ring for you though when people called your cell phone? A big issue I had was the rotary phone not being programmed to receive that specific frequency and therefore the phone would work (like when you knew to pick up the receiver it would connect to the incoming call) but it wouldn't activate the ringer at all.
Please contact me. Dementia patients could greatly benefit from this. Please help me do this at my facility. I normally wouldn't beg bit Please this would help so many people
a good way to go might be this, search " western electric bluetooth " over on ebay. you would find a desk telephone from the 1950's that does every thing that the xLink does
What type of facility do you work at.
I'm in a disagreement with my girlfriend over this.
Her mother is 82 and has Alzheimer's, she claims it would not help and she would hate it.
She keeps saying they don't like change.
I know this, but I also know the joy in an old person's face when they can connect to things from their past.
It is all a small price to pay to bring joy to a miserable existence.
@@arkman8109 Have your girlfriend do some research on reminiscence therapy. There's a reason it's a thing, and a very successful thing.
Where did you order the two piece 4 prong adapter?
Great! but I have a question.. Does the rotary phone rings its classical ring tone once connected too?
yes
Great video! Does this method work for older rotaries? And which model is your xlink Bluetooth?
Yes, my 1950s 302 phone with a rotary dial works on the Xlink BT
Omg I Miss so much old phones, I need to have this…😂
What is the 4 pin adapter called that goes to a standard phone connector? Would Amazon have it?
Can you hook it up to your houses old phone lines to hook up multiple rotary phones?
i’m wondering the same thing because i have a power box in my wall but it doesn’t work
At one hand it is a briliant idea ....but
then I expected a full demonstration ...=
Real telephon call....
recorded.... Feel a bit disapointed now.
We all LEARNING Along the path.
All the best !
Why can we just re-establish land lines?
Mine wont allow me to make a call. I have to dial through my iphone to use my rotary.
Q: do you need to touch your smartphone when you want to answer calls that ring thru to the old phone? Or can you just pick up the old receiver to answer the cal?
That is so simple! My senior relatives have so much trouble using their cell phones. I thought that the best solution would be to make an adapter to connect a classic phone to the cell phone, either by wire or Bluetooth. I'm glad I found this video before I charged ahead with the project on my own.
A couple features I had in mind, though are: ➊ It should work with touch-tone phones (DTMF), not just rotary. (I suspect the Xlink gateway may support that.) ➋ It should let the user choose a number to dial from the contact list on the cell phone by pressing the buttons on the touch-tone phone.
can i get the audio conversation on a computer at the same time is the question. i want to use an old phone like that and answer it while live streaming. but i want my viewers to also hear the conversations
Would it be possible to connect this to some kind of media player instead of a cell phone? I'd like to make a prop that will play a recording through the handset (not necessary to have a two way conversation)
How can I access ChatGPT voice assistant (through the iphone) via the landline?
Is it possible to have a rotary phone that’s not connected to a landline? Like have a stand-alone rotary on a dedicated number that’s digital?
Yes. If you get real, local landline service over copper lines rotary phones will still work 100% as intended since the phone network has not been upgraded significantly since rotary phones were still in use.
If you have VoIP landline service (Comcast or any other provider’s cable, any fiber provider like Verizon FiOS) look up the Rotatone adapter, that will convert the pulse dial signals to DTMF tones like a touch tone phone
The old copper landline phone services are gone, you can still get a "landline" for the old phone but it comes as a device that the phone plugs into, powered by a wall wart, and it uses the local cell tower with a number for the old telephone separate from your smart phone and number, it does cost around $45/mo
@@fluffyty19
can you tell us about that adapter you bought, the $10 one, it seems like we need that too
this video changed my life
Do you have to have service in your home for the landline, prior to using it as a device, to connect to your cell phone? Or do you not have to have home phone service?... And then just use that phone as if it was a device to connect to your cell phone? Thanks
no, it runs off your cell phone connection.
This really helped, thanks for the information
Q: To make outgoing calls, what do you have to do with the smartphone to 'get ready to dial'? Do you have to open the phone app on the smart phone, and then just start dialing with the old phone buttons?
I don’t think it would matter either way as the rotary phone is in a constant state of being an open phone app.
But I don’t actually know 😅
You just use the old phone like a phone, pick up the handset and dial, the caviat is your cell phone needs to be near-ish, like in the same house and needs to be on
@@HobbyOrganistbut when calls are received, will the cell phone ring, or the rotary phone?
Thank You for showing this! I may attempt this myself once I find my old rotary phone that I received once upon a time. Perhaps the mother threw it away [sigh].
I noticed «OPERATOR» below the zero; what meaning did that serve? And I also saw that the Q and Z were gone on the dial pad. I am used to the T-9 keyboards looking like this:
1 °_° 2 ABC 3 DEF
4 GHI 5 JKL 6 MNO
7 PQRS 8 TUV 9 WXYZ
Ø
Back in the "olden days", you could dial "0" to directly call an operator at the phone company. This was a real human who could assist with dialing a number for you or calling police or fire department (later replaced with 911).
Can you use an old cell phone that's not hooked up?
For instance I have a Galaxy S8 that still hooks up to my WiFi.
So can I use an old celly that I could just have sitting there basically driving a rotary phone or do I need the service hooked up?
You'd need service to make phone calls, with or without the rotary phone.
Fantastic.
I’m wondering if I can use this as a audio pairing device ?
I basically want to talk to friends on discord and other live calling apps but use my 4A speaker phone
Ited be luxury
Q: can you play music from your smart phone when it’s connected and listen through the rotary phone when it’s pressed to your ear?
Can you list the name of the adapter and the Xlink please. Thanks
I found this Bluetooth telephone on ebay, no power wires in fact no wires at all! The dang thing rings makes calls and you hear dial tone TOO. I found it by searching ' western electric bluetooth '
X link Bluetooth gateway 4 prong adapter
Need the link to order xlink adapter
I was wondering about that 👍
Amazing!!!!!!!
Will the rotary phones ringer bells ring when a call comes in?
Very cool!!!
That's amazing!!!
i just had a land line phone co. turn on the old landline plug in my house so he gave me a land line phone number to connect my old rotary phone so now i get a phone bill for the land line rotary phone. was that the wrong way to do this.....your way is the same number and bill as your cell phone correct? sorry i sound so not tech.
This is the next job for my dad 😏
man fixed problems in 2 minutes
What if you leave the house and don’t have the Bluetooth connection? Can someone call your line and someone else at home will pick it up.
I like the way your mind works when it comes to technology. I am going to connect my rotary phone through my "smaho." Would the same principle apply to a push-button phone?
Hi wondering what the plug adapter is called mine has the same four prongs and i cant find that adapter
"Four Prong to Modern Modular Telephone Converter Adapter" or a "Pulse Tone Converter"
Will this work with an old push button phone as well or does it have to be rotary?
It should. It's the exact same phone just with a swapped interface.
I feel like this should work with any phone. I'm not seeing why not.
No links to the parts you need?
Is there a delay?
I'm confused. I never seen a strange phone like that. Plus how do you dial and hear Plus talk.. it weird looking and you have to Plug it in the wall . Wow weird
Technology has made things over complicated !!! Old phones you just plugged in , power outage ? No problem , not anymore
You still need power to keep the Bluetooth going. It has to be plugged in. Unless everything is charged for a little.
@@jetta.silence6356 you misunderstood Davina's comment. She was referring to the days before cell phones and how much more humanistic they were, and how they would still work even in the event of a power outage because the power came from the local telephone exchange.
@@patricecomedy ohhh ok my bad. Sorry. Yes before all that for sure yes i agree. Its funny that even now tho to get internet packages you still have to get home phone. They dont offer say tv,internet and cellphone in my country. You want all that you still need to get home phone. You dont have to use it of course .
I miss rotary phones and payphones everywhere.
Old phones were ONLY telephones, cell phones are pocket COMPUTERS/camcorders/cameras and storage devices
Is it possible to have the rotary phone ring instead of the boring ringtone on a cell phone?
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cool :)
Very cool...I am going to the store to get one as soon as I change my tires to caveman stone ones!
Don't get me wrong I like cellphones but miss using old phones like that
I want this because I’m tired of cell phones
It would be a lot better if you got rid of the back ground music & talked a lot slower & good diction ,older people have hearing problems need all the help we can get. If we.ask u questions how do you get back to us? Email or just on this channel? And that might be a month or so?
cool
The adapter doesn't seem necessary.
Sir it’s a no thank you but I know it’s useless to try because I all ready did not a zooming E-BAG 😊
It would be funny to use something like that inside of a car lol
Yeah but I need wireless so I can carry a rotary around
File this under “Cool, But Pointless.”
Ah yes, Peter Kennedy.
You called?
Come on, why isn't this video 18 minutes long with multiple paid sponsors and wasting as much of the viewer's time as possible? How dare you convey helpful information in less than 2 minutes!
Why? Maybe I’m missing something…
who on earth would design an indoor balcony corridor?? WTF
A person who has desires and an imagination and the ability to solve problems.
Is there a way to do this without using bluetooth?
No 💀.
Yes, there is a way to do this using wi-fi and it is a cheaper option.
Look up the obi-200 and link it to a Google voice account. It works great for me. If you need more info just comment below and I'll post more.
@@gpshaw I would love details on this.
@@Cjsk8mom ua-cam.com/video/dznFw4qdgBA/v-deo.html
This UA-camr gives a great tutorial on how to set that up. However, instead of plugging in a more modern home phone, you plug in your rotary. It's the same process though.
or just buy a cell2jack for 20 bucks instead
i want the old phone connected to a phone line..none of this fake digital new fangled trickery babaloo... I need me some real dial tone and call the operator and prank her or call the grocery store and ask if Prince Albert is in a can??? LOL you know what I am talkn about??
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So let me get this straight. You had an opportunity to call the rotary phone and let us hear the old fashioned ring to prove it's working, and you failed to do so.
We still have zero evidence that actually functions. You could have had somebody else call that cell phone.
That's why it was the Paramount of foolishness, when you had the opportunity to actually dial the rotary phone, so that we can hear the damn thing ring, and know this isn't just some internet fakery
SO? there's numerous other videos showing these phones working, the Xlink device just plain works, I have one, it makes my 302 rotary dial phone work in and out, BUT I'm hard of hearing and I need to figure out how to add the volumn boost device I have- between the handset and base for that to work.
But why?
Because its cool, allso elderly can still call with out the fancy modern bullshit that they dont understand
@@tanello2 The elderly know how to use a touch tone phone. Also, every elderly person I know can use a cellphone. It isn't that complicated. Also, this is used in a house, they can just use a regular phone if they really want to.
If you have to ask you wouldn’t understand.
wait for few more years, and you'll understand lol~~ I've been there, trust me
@@bennyloppo why would I want to connect an old rotary phone that I used to use as a kid through a smartphone? I can just plug it into the wall jack.
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