[Asterisk-Users] BT Easicom - Andy Powell

[Andy Powell]

On 02/09/2004 at 10:08 Andrew Newton wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have been looking for info on * and the BT Easicom 1000 without much 
>luck when i found a post to this list from Andy Powell saying that he 
>had the phone working quite well. Before i go buy a shedload of these 
>things I would like to know what problems/sucesses people have had with 
>these phones and * in the UK.  What they can/cant do with *
>
>Also does anyone know of any good ADSI Scripting resources/tutorials?
>
>Many thanks
>Andrew Newton


Hi Andrew,

A couple of things for you to be aware of with the BT Easicom 1000....

1. It's designed to be plugged into the Master socket, so if you are going to 
use it with * and a tdm card then you're going to need an adaptor with a
ring capacitor in it - without this the phone wont actually ring it's 'bell' on an
incoming call (although it will be ringing, if you pick up it will answer)

2. ADSI sucks, or at least the implementation on the BT easicom does. For example
while in voicemail you'll get nasty screeching as the commands are sent to udate the display.
What I ended up doing was turning ADSI on on the fxs port it was connected to, programming
my menus, then turning it off again.

I haven't got the extended features working as yet (too much to do too little time)


HTH

Andy