[asterisk-users] Distinctive Ring detection and caller ID

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:22:53AM +0000, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> I have a line from BT (UK) connected to my asterisk system, on a
> TDM400P.
> 
> I am able to see either distinctive ring cadences or caller ID but not
> both. If I try to enable both, all drings show up as 0,0,0.
> 
> This is a pain because, if I make a call out over that line and the
> number I call is busy, I can elect to camp on it (ringback), which
> results in a different cadence of ring when the called number clears.
> 
> At the moment, if I try to do this, my IVR autoattendant picks up the
> ringback, when ideally I want to be able to make every phone in the
> house ring (distinctively in the case of the Zap devices but I have
> mastered that).
> 
> I have read that this has been an issue for users in Argentina,
> Australia and New Zealand, and have tried patching chan_zap.c and
> recompiling, and enabling that patch, as people have had success with
> there. However, it has not made any difference here.
> 
> It is more important for me to have the caller ID processing at present,
> but I do need distinctive ring detection as well.
> 
> I use stable Debian with backports, meaning my asterisk is currently
> 1.2.10. All my packages are from there, patched as necessary.
> 
> I hope this can be resolved fairly quickly.

Don't know about distinctive ring. As for caller ID:

Have you set zapata.conf to use v23 signalling for callerid?

callerid=asreceived
cidsignalling=v23
cidstart=polarity

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