[Asterisk-Users] Equipment for small office setup

[Tom Hayden]

Well, my confs are really long, so I can't go and copy and paste them.
 It uses the exact same technique that is used for the snom phones,
and there is no documentation that I could find. This feature works
great on both IP500 and IP600s.

For my IP500

The sip firmware is 1.5.2.0054

My phone in sip.conf is
[p103]
type=friend
username=p103
secret=******
host=dynamic
context=outbound
nat=no
mailbox=103
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
dtmfmode=rfc8233
subscribecontext=toll-trunks
callerid="Tom" <103>

The relevant portion of my extensions.conf is (in context toll-trunks):
exten => 100,hint,SIP/p100
exten => 100,1,Macro(line,${P100})
exten => 101,hint,SIP/p101
exten => 101,1,Macro(line,${P101})
exten => 102,hint,SIP/p102
exten => 102,1,Macro(line,${P102})
exten => 103,hint,SIP/p103
.. and so on, until all my extensions are used.....

The configuration on the phones is far to long/complex to copy and
paste. I just used the standard configs from the wiki, but played
around a little and set the bw variable to 1 in the directory for
"buddy watch".  Basically, a directory entry looks like this (in the
<macaddr>-directory.xml file):

<item>
                        <ln>Jones</ln>
                        <fn>Mike</fn>
                        <ct>104</ct>
                        <sd>1</sd>
                        <rt>3</rt>
                        <dc/>
                        <ad>0</ad>
                        <ar>0</ar>
                        <bw>1</bw>
                        <bb>0</bb>
                </item>

I'm too lazy to walk across the office and look at the IP600's
firmware, but it's the newest that i could find.  The configuration is
pretty much the same, but your directory can display more.

Oh, also, I'm pretty sure you *HAVE* to use the boot server for the
buddy watch feature to work correctly. I could never get it to display
the little 'person' icons using the web or phone interface, but using
the directory file solved that problem.  Now, when someone is on the
line, the red light lights up on the IP600 and on the IP500, the icon
is replaced.

If you can get this to work too, you should make an entry in the wiki.

Cheers,

--
Tom


On 7/5/05, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 16:04 -0400, Tom Hayden wrote:
> > For a small office setting, i've found the Polycom IP600 works great.
> > Our receptionist usually transfers 90% of her calls to about 5
> > employees, and the status (buddy watch) feature works great with *
> > (using hint).  She can see who is active at any given time.
> > Obviously, it's only limited to 5 max status lines, although the Buddy
> > List feature can show more.
> 
> Do you have details on how this works?? I've only ever seen people
> reporting success with snom phones?
> 
> What sip firmware on the phones?
> What in the asterisk sip.cfg?
> what in the asterisk extensions.conf?
> what in the phones phone.cfg
> what in the phones sip.cfg ?
> 
> I would love to be able to support/use this.
> 
> Thanks for any info you can provide.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
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-- 
Tom