[Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?

Wed Dec 31 09:01:36 MST 2003

Yes, there are 2 available slots. When I push services, I see:

      Services
> Asterisk PBX
   Asterisk PBX
     <available>
     <available>

As I mentioned, the only soft-key I seem to have is 'VMail', and when I
select that I still get:

    Comedial Mail
    download refused

    Services is full

And yet somehow there does seem to be some ADSI functionality later on, when
it falls back to a voice prompt after the download is refused and I'm
navigating the voice prompts, reading the messages.

It troubles me that Asterisk isn't very chatty about the ADSI stuff ... when
I access VMail all I see is:

   -- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/5-1'
    -- Executing VoiceMailMain("Zap/5-1", "") in new stack
    (here's where the ADSI stuff seems to happen on the phone, download
refused etc)
    -- Playing 'vm-login' (language 'en')
    [snip rest of log]

There's no indication that any ADSI transactions are going on here, but that
tell-tale tone can be heard and the little rotating animated cursor on the
phone means _something_ is definitely going on at the ADSI level. Am I
missing a debug option that could show me more about what may be going
wrong?

I'll get with Sayson tech support today to see if they can make any sense of
this.

-Darren

--
Darren Nickerson
Senior Sales & Support Engineer
iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
darren.nickerson at ifax.com
+1.215.438.4638 ext 8106 office
+1.215.243.8335 fax

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Thompson" <tthompson at amatechtel.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?

When you push your services button, are there any "<available>" slots.
If not, delete the 3rd or 4th ones....

Don't know if it matters, but I have:
Comedian Mail
Asterisk PBX
<available>
<Aastra SL>

The only "selectable" ones are the Comedian Mail and the Asterisk PBX.

You might try deleting them all and reloading.

And "#" is the Transfer button.  8-)

Tim Thompson
Commercial Sales Engineer
http://www.amatechtel.com
(806) 722-2227

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Nickerson [mailto:darren.nickerson at ifax.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:29 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?

Update #2

According to the helpful folks at Sayson, this phone actually has two
'slots', and the ADSI stuff needs to be downloaded to both (the second
one
kicks in when the phone is idle for more than 1s).  I had only
downloaded
asterisk.adsi to the first slot, which explains why I was seeing the
default
(PLEASE PROGRAM ME) triggered from slot 2. I downloaded to the second
slot
and all is well now ... at least the phone now identifies itself as I
asked
it to, and seems to be programmed ;-)

It seems to me that asterisk.adsi is pretty vanilla - not much
functionality. Has anyone built a better mousetrap that they'd care to
share?

My second problem remains ... when I connect to voicemail now I see:

    Comedian Mail
    download refused

    Services is full

but I don't see any errors in Asterisk's console. What's up with that???

I am now seeing some really cool functionality once I get past this
point.
As I'm checking voicemail by navigating the menus, I see stuff like:

    >Old Messages
    Message 1 of 5
    Unknown
    Tue Dec 23 07:46:02

Sweet!

-Darren

--
Darren Nickerson
Senior Sales & Support Engineer
iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
darren.nickerson at ifax.com
+1.215.438.4638 ext 8106 office
+1.215.243.8335 fax

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson at ifax.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?

> Thanks for the reply Tim - I was beginning to think nobody used this
stuff
> ;-)
>
> As you can tell, I'm a relative newcomer to ADSI - I'm really not sure
what
> to expect once the phone gets programmed, but I would not expect to
see
> (PLEASE PROGRAM ME) still, and I would have hoped it would not have
broken
> voicemail so readily.
>
> I'm not using a channel bank at all ... I have a very simple setup
using
two
> x100p FXO cards and one TDM400P FXS card.
>
> As I mentioned below it does appear that SOMETHING was loaded into the
> phone, and it does appear to at least TRY to use ADSI when accessing
> voicemail.
>
> It's odd ... it's like everything worked but I'm left saying ...
okayyyyy,
> now what? The phone isn't incredibly functional at this point - even
if I
do
> go into the services menu and select 'Asterisk PBX' this selection
only
> persists until I use the phone once. Also, there aren't soft keys for
> anything useful like transferring a call ... how WOULD one do that
with
this
> phone anyway?
>
> -Darren
>
> --
> Darren Nickerson
> Senior Sales & Support Engineer
> iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
> darren.nickerson at ifax.com
> +1.215.438.4638 ext 8106 office
> +1.215.243.8335 fax
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Thompson" <tthompson at amatechtel.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:48 PM
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?
>
>
> What kind of channelbank/FXS port are you connecting to?
>
>
> I've seen problems connecting to some of the older versions of the
> Adtran Total Access 750's.  I wouldn't doubt there would be problems
on
> other channelbanks with older firmwares.  Of course, no firmware on
CAC
> AB1's
>
>
> I have the AAstra 480, Adtran 750 Channelbank (updated firmware),
T100P
> card, and it worked fine on the first try with current CVS.
>
> Tim Thompson
> Commercial Sales Engineer
> http://www.amatechtel.com
> (806) 722-2227
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Nickerson [mailto:darren.nickerson at ifax.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:09 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?
>
> Update.
>
> As I mentioned in my first post (below), I had managed to get the
phone
> to
> accept a download from asterisk, but it still said PLEASE PROGRAM ME
> after
> the download was completed. After further investigation it does appear
I
> downloaded SOMETHING to the phone, because if I select the services
> button
> on the front of the phone, I get into a menu that says:
>
>       Services
> > Asterisk PBX
>    Asterisk slot 2
>      <available>
>      <available>
>
> If I select the first one in the list, the phone does change from
PLEASE
> PROGRAM ME to "** Asterisk PBX**" and there's a VMail softkey!!
However,
> if
> I pick up the handset and replace it, I'm back to "PLEASE PROGRAM ME"
> again.
> Is this normal?
>
> My second problem is that when I dial voicemail from this handset now,
> which
> is ADSI-enabled, I see the following message on the text screen:
>
> Comedian Mail
> (C) 2002 LSS, Inc.
> Downloading Scripts
>
> I don't see any activity on the console in terms of logging, and I
don't
> see
> any way to elevate ADSI logging. Within less than a second, I see:
>
>     Comedian Mail
>     download refused.
>
>     Services is full
>
> At this point the voicemail's welcome script plays and the display
> changes
> to:
>
> Comedian Mail
> (C) 2002 LSS, Inc.
>   Load Cancelled
>   ADSI Unavailable
>
> at this point voicemail's works like it used to before ADSI.
>
> Is any of this ringing any bells with anyone? Any tips appreciated ...
> I've
> looked around but I'm really not finding any documentation on how to
> make
> this work.
>
> -Darren
>
> --
> Darren Nickerson
> Senior Sales & Support Engineer
> iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
> darren.nickerson at ifax.com
> +1.215.438.4638 ext 8106 office
> +1.215.243.8335 fax
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren Nickerson" <darren.nickerson at ifax.com>
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 8:12 PM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Programming an unlocked ADSI phone?
>
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have an Astra 480 that was delivered without any programming. On
the
> main
> > LCD, it says:
> >
> >                                             PLEASE PROGRAM ME
> >                                                        Asterisk
> >
> > I thought I would program it, so I added adsi=yes for this extension
> to
> > zapata.conf, and then I created an extension:
> >
> > ;;
> > ;; Temp hack for programming phones
> > ;;
> > exten => 998,1,ADSIProg(asterisk.adsi)
> > exten => 998,2,Hangup
> >
> > Dialing 998 from the phone worked - the phone said a download was
> available
> > and asked me to accept, which I did. I saw:
> >
> > Connected to Asterisk CVS-12/17/03-02:39:14 currently running on
> testbed
> > (pid = 31583)
> >     -- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/5-1'
> >     -- Executing ADSIProg("Zap/5-1", "asterisk.adsi") in new stack
> >     -- ADSI Available on CPE.  Attempting Upload.
> >     -- Executing Hangup("Zap/5-1", "") in new stack
> >   == Spawn extension (default, 998, 2) exited non-zero on 'Zap/5-1'
> >     -- Hungup 'Zap/5-1'
> >     -- Starting simple switch on 'Zap/5-1'
> >     -- Hungup 'Zap/5-1'
> >
> > When it's done and asterisk hangs up though, my phone seems
unchanged.
> Still
> > asks to be programmed.
> >
> > I can't seem to find a how-to on the wiki, or in the PDF. Looks like
> an
> > addition might make sense, and I'd be glad to help if I could get
this
> > sorted out. Am I missing something obvious?
> >
> > -Darren
> >
> > --
> > Darren Nickerson
> > Senior Sales & Support Engineer
> > iFAX Solutions, Inc. www.ifax.com
> > darren.nickerson at ifax.com
> > +1.215.438.4638 ext 8106 office
> > +1.215.243.8335 fax
> >
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