[Asterisk-Users] OT: Polycom IP501 and Speed Dials

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

if you reboot your phones from the asterisk server ie via cron or so, 
that reboot script could potentially delete the phone-specific directory 
xml before the sip message is sent


Noah Miller wrote:
> Hi Avi -
> 
>> I know this is off-topic for Asterisk, but I don't know where else to
>> ask: I've setup a central directory.xml file for my Polycom IP501 phones
>> with a list of all the internal extensions. None of them have <sd>1</sd>
>> as I don't want to enable any speed dials, just have a list in each phone.
>>
>> However, when a phone boots, it seems to pick a random entry and put it
>> on the second line key as a speed dial entry! Anyone have any idea why
>> and how to stop it?
>>
>> Also, could someone confirm that once a phone loads the default
>> directory, it then maintains its own copy? So if I want to change the
>> directory from the FTP server, I have to edit every single
>> phone-specific XML file, or will the phone overwrite that on reboot?
>> Essentially, I'm looking for a way to manage the directory from a
>> central location.
> 
> I think you may be stuck with the central directory storage.  If I
> remember right, my experience was like yours - you can create a single
> central directory, and then the phones will copy it to their own
> individual directory file (<mac address>-directory.xml).  I guess you
> could delete all the individual directories to force the phones to go
> back to the central file (I haven't tested, though, so I don't know if
> this would really work).  Kind of a pain, especially since you have to
> reboot all the phones for this to happen.
> 
> - Noah
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