[asterisk-users] Push central phone book to phones

[Jonas Kellens]

On 12/02/2010 03:56 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jonas Kellens wrote:
>
>    
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have Snom, Cisco, Grandstream&  YeaLink phones.
>>
>> Is there a way to push a centralized phone book to these phones ??
>>      
> Grandstreams support an XML format phone book download - it would susprice
> me if the others didn't, but I've no 1st hand experience of them.
>
> So you'd need to get some central process to generate the phone books for
> each type of phone then arrange the phones to download ther own phonebook.
>
> Alternatively, use a programmable PBX such as Asterisk to maintain the
> phone book centrally for you - have it update the name field for incoming
> calls and allow it to take a short-code for outbound speed-dialling -
> which can be accessed via a web interface to the PBX in a click to dial
> sort of thing.
>
> Well, that's what I do anyway. It's better than mucking about downloading
> phone books to all the different types of phones.
>
> Gordon
>    

Gordon,

your idea is not that bad...

I will seriously take this into consideration...

This is the input I needed :-)... Now to implement it !


Kind regards,

Jonas.