[Asterisk-Users] Analog Desktop Phone

[Rich Adamson]

Thczv F. Thczv wrote:
> On 3/13/06, Martin Joseph <ast at stillnewt.org> wrote:
> 
>>> The problem with that one is that (as near as I can tell from the
>>> photos and the manual) it has no visual MWI.
>> Is your ATA going to be able to turn on the MWI light on an analog
>> phone?  How does that work?  Just curious.
> 
> Yes, I think so.  I'm not sure how it works.  We have a couple of
> Panasonic cordless phones that are also hooked up to Sipura ATAs
> (since the Panasonics require a power supply, they won't work when the
> power is out).  Asterisk lights up the MWI on those phones through the
> ATA.  I just assume that Asterisk and the ATA are mimicking whatever
> signaling these phones are designed to receive from the local baby
> (soon to be Ma) Bell.

Just an FYI... I have one CorTelCo wall phone with MWI that functions 
just fine with an spa3k. CallerID, etc, works fine as well.