FW: [Asterisk-Dev] Experienced Sysadmin/Programmer having majortrouble with British Telecom Caller ID & Distinctive Ring

[Cats Muvva]

Yes, Steve, it's the genuine original no-holds-barred love-'em or hate-'em
BT.

Nicole

-----Original Message-----
From: steve at daviesfam.org [mailto:steve at daviesfam.org]
Sent: 24 August 2005 12:46
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Experienced Sysadmin/Programmer having
majortrouble with British Telecom Caller ID & Distinctive Ring

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