[Asterisk-Users] The Joys of ADSI

[asterisk at billheckel.com]

My current solution was to disable loading the ADSI code into the phone at the beginning of 
app_voicemail but leave the use ADSI flag on to allow the caller id info to work.

I never did get a woring voicemail app on the phones, the long download and buggy phone code made it 
unuseable.

Bill

Jayson Vantuyl wrote:
> Hey Everybody,
> 
> You may remember be as the one that was generally running in circles
> trying to get ADSI phones to work?
> 
> Well, five phones later, I've got a phone and a code that works to
> program it.
> 
> I have been discouraged from just posting it to an e-mail forum, but I
> have been encouraged to get it embedded in the program.  Is this
> possible?  How should it be done?
> 
> Next, after getting it working, I've been streamlining my programming
> process (I actually trigger * to call each phone, play a brief message,
> program the phone, play another message, and hangup--very friendly).  In
> doing so, I've been fighting with the program to some degree.
> 
> Specifically, I've been generally modifying the asterisk.adsi example
> from CVS with the CVS source.  In doing so, the phone does not seem to
> be getting the IDLE event, therefore I can't seem to set any text on the
> phone when it is on-hook and idle.  Am I doing this wrong?
> 
> Voicemail ADSI support needs to be revisited (I've done some basic
> patching myself).  Perhaps it has something to do with my phone, but
> there are a number of things that are troublesome or don't work.  These
> newer Aastra phones seem to *ALWAYS* ask before updating (so updating
> the voicemail scripts requires some cryptic actions by the user and
> happens every time you check voicemail!).  The programming step takes
> long enough that users complain.  The password prompt doesn't display
> the softkey for Enter or allow # through (although one-line tweak of the
> code makes that work).  Once in the voicemail, the softkeys won't
> display (the main menu displays iff you use # instead of the Enter
> softkey to confirm your password!).  Most annoying, the security code
> for the phone is currently hard-coded into the source (requiring an ugly
> source hack to even use this).  Is it possible to put an option in
> voicemail.conf to disable ADSI (for those who don't have time to deal
> with it)?  How about FDN and SECURITY options?  Is there any way to only
> upload the scripts when needed?
> 
> Finally, is this the right venue for this sort of problem?  Does this
> need to go to asterisk-dev?  If I code some of this do I have a
> reasonable chance of expecting integration (if the patches are clean)?
> Would it be helpful if I put some documentation in the ADSI code?  Also,
> who knows enough about ADSI to seriously help me understand some of the
> inner meanings of states, subs, events, and such?
> 
> Jayson Vantuyl
> Computing Edge, Inc.
> 
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