[Asterisk-Users] Use of Alert_Info with C7960?

[Matthew Marlowe]

Then what's the point of being able to upload custom ring tones?

(as shown in
http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/Cisco/79xx/current/RINGLIST.DAT ) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Christopher Lee
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 8:50 PM
> To: Asterisk Users
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Use of Alert_Info with C7960?
> 
> Unfortunately even though it would seem the phone should 
> support the ability to play custom ring tones, at present it 
> only supports the internal tones which are:-
> 
> Bellcore-BusyVerify
> Bellcore-Stutter
> Bellcore-MsgWaiting
> Bellcore-dr1
> Bellcore-dr2
> Bellcore-dr3
> Bellcore-dr4
> Bellcore-dr5
> 
> --- Extract from the SIP 6.0 Firmware Release Notes ---
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_ipphon
> /english/ipp79
> 60/addprot/sip/relnote/phnrn60s.htm
> 
> In RFC-3261, the Alert-Info header is specified as a URL. 
> When the Alert-Info header is received, the phone downloads 
> the file from the URL and plays it as the alternate ring 
> tone. This release does not support any external ringers. 
> Only the tones and ring patterns that are already internal to 
> the phone can be selected and played as an alternate ring tone.
> 
> In this release, the Alert-Info header consists of a name of 
> an internal tone or ringing pattern that can be played, as 
> shown in the following
> example:
> 
> Alert-Info: <Bellcore-Busy> 
> 
> There is no need to add a file extension (.au, .wav) to these 
> names because the names are internal to the phone. When an 
> Alert-Info header is received, the software scans the list of 
> known tones and ringing patterns to find a match. If the 
> software finds a match, the phone plays that tone or ringing 
> pattern. If the software does not find a match, the phone 
> plays the alert ringing pattern as it does today.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- 
> > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rich Adamson
> > Sent: Sunday, 21 March 2004 9:28 AM
> > To: Asterisk-a-users-list
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Use of Alert_Info with C7960?
> > 
> > Using Asterisk CVS-03/20/04-11:54:56 with 7960 v6.2 and 
> playing around 
> > with distinctive ringing, trying to make it work. Extensions.conf 
> > looks
> > like:
> > 
> > exten => 3010,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=3) ; selects Ringer exten => 
> > 3010,2,Dial(SIP/3010,15) exten => 3010,3,Voicemail2(u3010) exten => 
> > 3010,102,Voicemail2(b3010) exten => 3010,103,Hangup
> > 
> > Calling that extension, the CLI indicates:
> >     -- Executing SetVar("SIP/3002-39d1", "ALERT_INFO=3") in 
> new stack
> >     -- Executing Dial("SIP/3002-39d1", "SIP/3010|15") in new stack
> >     -- Called 3010
> >     -- SIP/3010-f848 is ringing
> > 
> > On the phone, Settings/Ring Type indicates: Chirp 1, Chirp 2, Old 
> > Style and Synth Low. The first three choices produce 
> different ringing 
> > sounds when selected from the display.
> > 
> > I expected Alert_Info=3 to cause the C7960 to ring with the 
> Old Style 
> > ringer, but it doesn't and setting it to 2 or 3 doesn't make any 
> > difference.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Rich
> > 
> > 
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