[Asterisk-Users] Linksys SPA-941 multiple line appearences

[Kerry Garrison]

You only need to setup ONE account and all four call appearances will work.
-Kerry
 

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Michael Keyes
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:41 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Linksys SPA-941 multiple line appearences
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with the Linksys SPA-941 when 
> it comes to multiple line appearences?
> 
> The 941 comes with 4 line appearence buttons which can 
> individualy be configured to point at any extension.  The 
> phone is capable of 2 extensions out of the box with the 
> option to add  2 more for a license fee.
> 
> The 941 manual states that, "The Call Waiting function is 
> activated when a device has a call in the active state and 
> another call is incoming. The phones in the SPA series do not 
> support multiple calls on the same Line Key. 
> Incoming calls are assigned to an unused Line Key, causing 
> the Line Key to quickly blink red. (Note that the Voice Mail 
> Waiting Indicator also blinks red whenever there is an 
> incoming call.) The phone will not ring. However, to alert 
> the user, the call waiting tone is played into the active 
> audio device."
> 
> During testing I set up an Asterisk 1.2 box with a 941 phone 
> using firmware ver. 4.1.8.  I configured 1 extension and set 
> all 4 line appearence buttons to point to that extension.  If 
> there was an active call in progress I could place that call 
> on hold and by pressing line appearence button 2 was able to 
> place an outgoing call.  That outgoing call would appear to 
> come from extension 1.  This is all working as desired.
> 
> If an active call was in progress and someone called my 
> extension the product manual indicates that call should 
> appear on line appearence button 2.  During my testing 
> Asterisk would flag my extension 1 as busy and instead of 
> ringing the phone on line appearence 2 would send the call to 
> voicemail.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any configuration setting needed on either 
> the Asterisk server or on the phone to make Call Waiting 
> function as described in the manual?  Thank you.
> 
> Michael K
> 
> 
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