[Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP501 with Asterisk - distinctive ring?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> Is there a way to get Asterisk to tell the IP501 to use a different ring, put 
> something up on the display, *something* on a dynamic basis?  The wiki 
> doesn't seem to have a lot of information about this kind of thing.

There are examples (IIRC) of making the phone auto-answer for specific
types of calls; those should get you started, since they demonstrate how
to have the phone choose a different 'alerting' configuration on a
call-by-call basis.