[asterisk-users] Polycom 601 Second Incoming Call

[James Andrewartha]

Walt Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:34:41PM +0200, Dovid B said:
>> I have a Polycom 601 that when the user is on the phone they only hear
>> one beep and the CID of the second incoming call is not shown. Is
>> there a way to have the CID show up for the second call ? And a way to
>> configure the phone to beep more often if there is another call coming
>> in. The problem is that if the receptionist is on the phone and
>> looking up something on the PC she some times dosent realize that a
>> new call is coming in. Thanks.
> 
> I can't offer any help here, but just a "ditto" to your question.
> Nothing seems obvious to me that would change this behavior in the XML.
> The problem is annoying enough that I was thinking of writing a little
> desktop applet that would popup with this info, but the phone should do
> this by default.

There is a CALLWAITINGLONG defined in sip.cfg, but I couldn't work out how
to make it the default. So I did a little hack and swapped the definitions
for CALLWAITING and CALLWAITINGLONG.

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James Andrewartha
Systems Administrator
Data Analysis Australia Pty Ltd