[asterisk-users] RE: Welcome to the "asterisk-users" mailing list

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

What I don't understand is why people MUST use the 2.0.x firmware.

Jessee J Holmes wrote:
> A few of our technical support staff here at Atacomm are currently 
> working on this issue with Polycom, Digium and one of our customer's 
> (who posted in here earlier this week).
> 
> There are some major differences from the 1.x.x firmware and the 2.01 
> firmware. Obviously, many on here, voip-info.org, and all over the 
> Internet have reported troubles where their presence feature that stops 
> working after they upgrade their Polycom phones to firmware revision 
> 2.0.1 when the phones are configured with an Asterisk system. A couple 
> new things have been added to the .cfg files that MUST now be set in 
> order for presence to work again with an Asterisk system.
> 
> In the sip.cfg file:
> 
> feature feature.1.name="presence" feature.1.enabled="1"
> 
> In the phone[mac].cfg file:
> 
> <attendant attendant.uri="user_112 at password_112" attendant.reg=""/>
> 
> 
> However, there are still confirmed problems with this setup (i.e. LEDs 
> not working), which Polycom and ourselves are currently testing in our 
> labs trying to fix. The reasoning for this is Digium doesn't seem to 
> follow the "standards" for presence support and are currently working to 
> change this functionality within Asterisk. Polycom designed their 
> phones, and specifically their firmware, to work with the "standards" 
> (more specifically, the Microsoft LCS - Live Communications Server).
> 
> This issue has been reported on multiple instances to Polycom, Digium, 
> and ourselves; but, no real resolution is completed yet. We'll continue 
> working on this issue within our labs and post an official answer when 
> one is available.
> 
> Sorry for the bit of bad news, if anyone is willing to contribute 
> working / half working code, we'd be more than happy to look at it and 
> work with Polycom and Digium on getting this fixed for everyone AS