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  Setting up ESP-ADF framework

  Pain.
  This is all I felt by configuring and getting the board working with the framework.
  Unfortunately this board is a mess.
  The elettronic schemes found on the internet are wrong and in newer version they changed the audio codec to an es8388.
  

  The best way to get this working is to look at issues and pulls request to esp-adf, arduino-audiokit and the official repo of the board.

  After a while, I got the voip example from esp-adf working!
  I could listen to sound by connecting headphones to the output and pick up sound from the headphone speaker (yes the headphone speaker were acting as microphone and not the microphone per se) if connected to the line input.
  

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  Setting up a PBX server

  To configure a VOIP server on my raspberry I almost cried.
  Tried any docker PBX image, some worked but the networking was completely broke, some were so outdated and at some point I even installed FusionPBX that broke my entire raspberry configuration so I had to format and reinstall everything again (from now on I got backups). 

  But then I found miniSIPServer.

  if i was going to cry for the previous misadventures, this time I wanted to cry with joy at how easy it was to set up and start a VOIP PBX server with just 1 command.
  The only issue is that the software is not open source and you must pay a licence to use more than 5 clients. 

  but, who cares? 

  The final result is what matter the most!
  

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  Piping audio to the board

  This was pretty straightforward.
  After dissasembling the intercom I discovered that the handphone is connected with 3 wires.
  White is shared between speaker and microphone (ground), blue goes to speaker and red goes to microphone.
  

  The idea is very simple, to inject audio into the intercom I should connect the audio board output to the handset input (red wire) and handset speaker (blue wire ) to the audio board input. 

  The audio driver tries to keep the output quiet so it actively drives the microphone signal to ground. This prevented the handset microphone to work properly. To fix that I've used a 1K ohm resistor before connecting the board ouput to intercom handset microphone. (Big thanks to netl for the suggestion!)
  

  After properly soldering the wires to the two jacks I can now call the board with my phone and hear sound from the outsite!

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