[Asterisk-Users] re: Polycom IP501 with Asterisk - distinctive ring

[Bill Michaelson]

The answer is yes, I think, but I don't recall precisely how off the top of my head, and I'm walking out the door in a moment.  The phone will hold more than a dozen distinct ring tones which you can create for yourself, and you can have asterisk direct it to use a ring tone independently of line appearance. The most direct way would be with the SIP Alert-Info field, but the phone itself can associate ring tones with specific callers from its contact directory too. Hopefully, someone will chime in with more precise (and helpful) detail before I return to the office, but I hope my reassurance is helpful anyway...



Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:49:08 -0500
From: Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com>
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom IP501 with Asterisk - distinctive
	ring?
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The Polycom SoundPoint IP 501 phones have been fantastic so far.  I still have 
a lot to learn when it comes to them, but the manual seems pretty extensive 
and so far Asterisk has been playing well with them.

I have a need to be able to identify incoming calls based on some factor 
(could be time of day, caller ID, dialed number, it doesn't matter.) -- 
Assuming Asterisk can differentiate between the calls I want, how do I inform 
the IP501?  There are "only" three line appearances -- I can't simply just 
ring a different appearance since there aren't enough of them.

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.