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On 10/10/06, Eric ManxPower Wieling <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> What I don't understand is why people MUST use the 2.0.x firmware.

I believe it's because the limit of how many can be monitored at once,
someone correct me if I'm wrong.

>
> 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
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