[Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP501 and record on demand

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Matt Gibson wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> james.texter at cox.net wrote:
> 
>> I am doing some experimenting with Asterisk 1.0.9 and Polycom 
>> IP501's.  I have the extensions setup, and everything is working well 
>> up to this point.  Now, I want to setup my system so that a user at an 
>> extension can start a recording on demand.  I have tried various 
>> Google searches, but am coming up empty.  Could someone point me in 
>> the right direction, or have some sample Polycom/Asterisk 
>> configuration files I can look at?  Ideally, I would like this to just 
>> be programmed to a soft key on the IP501.
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> You could also take a look at features.conf, and use ** for blind 
> transfers, ## for attended transfers, *0 for recording, and *1 to hangup.
> 
> I haven't tried mapping them to polycom buttons, but there was recently 
> a discussion about that, just this week you can search the archives.

This does not work in 1.0.x, only in CVS-HEAD and 1.2Beta or later.