[Asterisk-Users] Hard Phone Screens - newbie question

[Bill Wesson]

Would anyone care to boast about how they use their hard phone screens?

For instance, could a person place a variable on the screen that indicates
how many waiting calls there are in a certain queue? Could you program the
screen to display any data? Current wait time in a certain queue? 

Or am I missing the point -- you just use the screen as prompts for speed
dial keys?

And yes, I'll go look at some of these phone's admin manuals now.

Thanks,
Bill Wesson

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Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hard Phone Screens - newbie question


On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Bill Wesson wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Is there an advantage to purchasing a VOIP hard phone with a display 
> for use with Asterisk versus a hard phone without a display? Are there 
> some creative uses of the screen or is it pretty generic?
>
> Would anyone have a URL reference for the basics of how the screen 
> works? Is it a web page and the buttons are independently programmed 
> to match the screen presentation, or what? I know the question is 
> incredibly basic, but in my reading of VOIP-INFO.com and other sites, 
> I have not seen much info about this topic.
>
> Thanks,
> --Bill

Depends on your definitions and goals.

Yes screens offer flexible soft keys. Yes you may program creative
applications to use them.
Obviously each manufacturers screens are configured differently and have
different capabilities. Checkout each vendors support pages for admin
guides. As a guidline screens add expense to phones so they are generally on
the better models with additional capabilities. All screens are not equal.
As an example the Polycom IP600 has a great display. The Polycom IP300
running the same software is almost unreadable - in my opinion.


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