[Asterisk-Users] CallerID not passing through to Polycom 500 (SOLVED, sort of)

[Adam Goryachev]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 13:08 -0500, Gary MacKay wrote:
> After playing around with the CALLERID(number) and 
> CALLERID(name) variables and things, I find that asterisk is sending
> the "name" to my phone and the name is "unknown". I added a line
> exten => _X.,Set(CALLERID(name)=${CALLERIDNUM})  and now it shows
> the number. Is this the right way to do this?

Nope, the correct method is probably to upgrade the firmware in your
polycom phone. I recall one of the bugs fixed in 1.5.2 was to display
CID name + number instead of name only...

Regards,
Adam