[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk and 7960s

[Brent Torrenga]

>Thanks for letting me know regarding the "@ip-address" problem. I take
>it you have experienced something similar with this firmware?

Yup. Due to this I only run 8.2 on my phone, and use 7.4 on any other. You
can roll back to 7.4 and be ok, don't use 7.5 as it has a bug relating to
the phone registering to *.


>The external directory is part of the cisco phones, nothing to do with
>* really. The internal extensions I have set up all work fine with the
>name using the callerid="Joe Blow" <1234> method you suggest. The plan
>was to add customers phone numbers to the directory.xml file so it
>comes up with their names when they call. At the moment it still jeust
>says their phone number whether they are in directory.xml or not.

Oh, ok, I guess I didn't understand you. The directory.xml file does not
affect the caller ID that * sends to the phone, nor, AFAIK does the phone
try to match any number in the directory.xml file when it receives an
incoming call. So, actually, I think my first suggestion applies. You would
need to tie the data in the directory.xml into data available to your *'s
dialplan. This would be done via a database which would generate the
directory.xml file, and also be available to do some sort of caller ID
lookup from your extensions.conf, possibly with an AGI script. I don't know
if this would help, but take a look at open79xxdir - it is a sourceforge
project. Perhaps you could use something in that to do this.

I don't know how easy it will be to do, either. I don't know much about the
details of what I just explained, I may even be way off base. But I do know
enough that I think it is beyond my abilities. Good luck.

Or, a much easier way: statically write your directory.xml file. Also,
whenever you add an entry to directory.xml, also add an entry into the
asterisk DB, and lookup the CID using that.


Sincerely,

Brent A. Torrenga
brent.torrenga at torrenga.com

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