[asterisk-users] Trixbox or FreePBX or Elastix or PBX In a Flash

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 07/10/2012 01:50 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com
> <mailto:kpfleming at digium.com>> wrote:
>
>     This can be done using Digium phones; they have built-in support for
>     selecting which 'user' they should be when they are reconfigured.
>     It's slightly more complicated than a simple login/logout because it
>     requires rebooting the phone, but it's there and it works. They even
>     support the case where a user has a phone at their house, but comes
>     into the office and 'steals' their extension away from the house
>     phone; the house phone will then go into an automatic
>     reconfiguration state and wait for someone tell it which extension
>     it should 'be'... when the user returns home, they can 'steal' the
>     extension back from the office.
>
>
> Unfortunately, telling them to dump 50-some Polycom phones that still
> work is a tough one.  Not impossible though.  So if I understand
> correctly, the user reboots the phone when he arrives, and goes into the
> configure mode?  Is it end user friendly, or complex?  I still don't
> have a server with the Digium phone module on it to test.

That's basically it, yes. I just did this on my D70:

* Press Menu, select Restart, press Yes.
* During the restart, while the progress bar is progressing, push a key. 
This results in 'Reconfiguration enabled' on the screen.
* When the server list appears, choose one (if there is only one server, 
this will be skipped).
* Choose a user from the user list and enter the PIN for it; 
alternatively, if a global PIN is required by the server, it will need 
to be entered before the user list will be displayed.
* Wait for the phone to configure itself.

This takes about 60 seconds.

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Kevin P. Fleming
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