[asterisk-users] Digium Phones: Heads Up

[A J Stiles]

Just a quick heads-up for anyone thinking of trying out the new Digium Phones:

If you are not using DPMA  (and we can't, because it is only made available in 
binary form and our software procurement policy forbids this.  I'll hold out 
for an Open alternative)  then you can still use these phones as normal SIP 
phones.

BUT

Even although I had correctly configured dhcpd.conf with

option tftp-server-name "192.168.XX.YY";

the phone seemed to be making no attempt to get its configuration file via TFTP  
(although it was correctly obtaining an IP address via DHCP).

It turned out that these phones use HTTP, not TFTP, to get the configuration 
file.  This information might save someone a morning of futile searching.


By the way, how do I change the default time display format to VCR-style?  
i.e. 16:24 as opposed to 4:24 pm.  It would also be nice to have the date 
shown as "23 Jul" aot "Jul 23".

-- 
AJS

Answers come *after* questions.