[Asterisk-Dev] Experienced Sysadmin/Programmer having major trouble with British Telecom Caller ID & Distinctive Ring

[steve at daviesfam.org]

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Cats Muvva wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I've just joined this list in the hope that one of you could help me. I'm
> secretary of a charity so we don't have much money to spend on support or
> equipment - anyway Asterisk appears to meet our requirements more than
> adequately.
> 
> I'm trying get both Caller ID and distinctive ring detection running on a BT
> line without any luck at all. For the time being, I've abandoned trying to
> detect distinctive ring and am concentrating on getting CID working, 'cos
> right now, it ain't.
> 
> I'm using the latest CVS head Zaptel and Asterisk with a Digium TDM400. I've
> got zaptel configured correctly - at least it doesn't throw out any error
> messages.

Hi,

Is your phone line actually from BT proper?

The cable companies mostly don't use the BT format.  I don't remember the 
details, by my old Cambridge Cable line used US format or something 
similar.

Steve