[Asterisk-Users] CISCO 7940 and directory/services problem

[Michael Welter]

Services do work. With your browser go to 
www.introspect.com/cgi-bin/rss2cisco.pl
This displays the XML that the phone expects.

Now, in SIPDefault.cnf, modify services_url to 
http://www.introspect.com/cgi-bin/rss2cisco.pl and reboot your phone.
Pressing the services button should display the "Slashdot" and "Wired" 
entries.  Selecting either of these will take you to their website.

Mike

Rich Adamson wrote:
>>I have been setting up a * system for my new office I plan to setup soon.
>>I have some CISCO 7940 phones.  All appears to be going well in regard to
>>phone calls etc.  Still getting my head around extensions voice mail etc.
>>getting it to work with X100P cards etc.
>>
>>I have been trying to implement the DIRECTORIES button, and play with the
>>services buttons.
>>
>>Reading from the voip-info site, I have the info from that, however, its not
>>working.
>>I am running firmware 6.3 on the phone.  Is there a possible change of
>>implementation? But usually backward compatibility would be covered.
>>
>>I also tried pointing the Phone to the ones as listed on the voip-info site.
>>This kinda worked, but most pages don't and the phone just tries and tries
>>to get the page.
>>If listing a directories page, it comes back with an error "CMXML Error"
>>
>>Any suggestions would help?
> 
> 
> On your tftp server (that the Cisco phones boot from), you should have a file
> called SIPDefault.cnf that inclues entries like:
> 
> directory_url: "http://www.myserver.com/asterisk/directory.html"     ; URL fo
> r external Directory location
> logo_url: "http://www.myserver.com/asterisk/mylogo.bmp" ; URL for branding logo 
> to be used on phone display
> 
> and a file like SIP<MyPhonesMAC>.cnf with an entry like:
> messages_uri: "3123" 
> 
> The directory_url must point to a valid web page containing xml statements like:
> <CiscoIPPhoneDirectory>
> <Title>IP Telephony Directory</Title>
> <Prompt>People reachable via VoIP</Prompt>
> <DirectoryEntry>
> <Name>Wife</Name>
> <Telephone>3005</Telephone>
> </DirectoryEntry>
> <DirectoryEntry>
> <Name>GirlFriend</Name>
> <Telephone>3006</Telephone>
> </DirectoryEntry>
> </CiscoIPPhoneDirectory> 
> 
> Each time you press the C7940's "Directory" button and select "External
> Directory", the C7960 will read the above XML file and display the entries.
> 
> If you program the "messages_url:" entry as shown above, each time you
> press the "Messages" button on the phone, it will auto-dial x3123. 
> Obviously, you need an entry in extensions.conf like:
>  exten => 3123,1,VoicemailMain2(${CALLERIDNUM}) 
> to instruct asterisk what to do when a phone dials x3123.
> 
> The "services" button on the Cisco "sip" phones cannot be programmed as
> far as I know. Not heard of anyone that has made it work unless the phone
> is running Cisco's proprietary firmware (not sip).
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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Michael Welter
Introspect Consulting, Inc.
Denver, Colorado
+1 303 674 2575
mike at introspect.com
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