[asterisk-users] No CallerID Transfer Problem

[Eric Wieling]

Try removing the quotes from the Caller*ID info.

Steve Davies wrote:
> 2008/4/24 Ken Williams <ken at intermountainelectronics.com>:
>> Came upon a problem today that I thought I'd see if it's by design, if I'm
>> missing an option somewhere, or if my fix is the way to fix it.
>>
>> We setup a remote location with a server, same as we've done with others,
>> but for some reason when they would transfer an outside call anywhere it
>> would pause for a few seconds and hang up the line.
>>
>> Well, after spending most of the day on it, it turns out it's because they
>> don't have callerID on the PSTN lines coming in through zaptel.  My first
>> thought was, set "usecallerid=no" and all would be well, but this didn't do
>> any good.  After playing a bit longer I just set the following:
>>
>>         exten => 900,2,set(CALLERID(num)="606-555-1212")
>>         exten => 900,3,set(CALLERID(name)="Outside Call")
>>         exten => 900,4,Dial(${DIALEXTENSIONS},${RINGTIMER},${DIAL_OPTIONS})
>>
>> Now all works well.
>>
>> So is there another option somewhere to keep asterisk from killing a
>> transfer without callerid?  This happened on both 1.4.17 & 1.4.18.1.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken
> 
> Can I guess that they are using snom phones with firmware 7.1.30? I
> encountered exactly that bug here, but only if I enabled "sendrpid" in
> the sip.conf of the asterisk system. Downgrading to a more-stable
> 6.5.x snom firmware, or disabling "sendrpid" for all of the snom
> devices fixed this in our case. (Roll on the next snom firmware
> release!)
> 
> If not, then can I suggest that you provide more detail of equipment
> involved - PCI cards, handsets etc etc?
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Steve
> 
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