[Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID questions and suggestions

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:52, Miguel Cruz wrote:
> 2.
> 
> When calls come in to an ATA-186 with a garden-variety caller-ID display
> attached, the date and time always show up as 01/01 12:00. I am not sure
> whether this is because nothing is getting sent, because a mis-formatted
> date is getting sent, or because the ATA-186 is incapable of sending the
> time/date to the display. In either case it's annoying for me since I use
> that as my desk clock! Any solutions would be very welcome.

Just a thought, but did you provide the ata186 with a ntp server?

> 3.
> 
> Caller-ID name information is sent with "double quotes" around it, at
> least when it's fetched from the database using LookupCIDName. This wastes
> precious display space.

Did you define them with double quotes? You may want to go looking into
the db and see if it has double quotes. If so you have your answer.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>