[asterisk-users] Cisco 7941 localized menus with SIP firmware

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 14:52 +0200, Olivier wrote:
> 
> 2007/6/27, Greg Oliver <greg.oliver at cistera.com>:
>         On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 21:45 +0200, Olivier wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > Has anyone met any success, installing localized (ie
>         non-english)
>         > menus within SIP firmware enabled Cisco 7941 ?
>         >
>         > Those phones seem to be trying to download localized menus
>         from Cisco 
>         > Call Manager but as they are managed by an Asterisk server,
>         I'm
>         > looking for a workaround.
>         > Any advice ?
>         >
>         > Regards
>         
>         Actually Cisco only sendx xml for "certain things".  It uses a
>         modified 
>         SIP stack and it's native SCCP stack to provision button
>         templates,
>         softkeys, etc..
>         
>         I did hours of packet captures to try and get the info, but it
>         is
>         embedded into the call control stack of their phones. 
>         
>         If you read the chan_sccp code a bit, it has a few different
>         button
>         layout options, that are encoded in the SCCP driver and not
>         xml files.
>         
>         I wish they would go to all config files, but I doubt they
>         will... 
>         
>         -Greg
>         
> So, if you ever use a Cisco SIP Phone with an Asterisk server, it's
> not possible to localize menus, soft keys, and so on ?
> Cheers
> _______________________________________________

Not unless someone wants to add support for it in the SIP channel, which
I doubt.  I would be more than willing to provide the SIP messages that
a CallManager sends to accomplish it though.

-Greg