[asterisk-users] CallerID from POTS to SIP

[Stephen Bosch]

astuser at braingia.org wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately that didn't work.  What's confusing 
> is that for the line without any distinctive ring that works correctly 
> with callerid, the only thing it does is dial the phones, so here's the 
> entire context:
> 
> [add-incoming]
> exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/ht1&SIP/ht2&SIP/gxp1,20)
> 
> The other context, the one with distinctive ring that's not passing 
> caller id, actually does a little more:
> 
> [main-open]
> exten => s,1,Answer
> exten => s,n,Wait(3)
> exten => s,n,Background(opengreeting)
> exten => s,n,Dial(SIP/ht1&SIP/gxp3,20)
> 
> But even if I remove those extra bits from that context and make it look 
> like the other one, it still doesn't work.
> 
> Any more suggestions? 

What happens when you connect a regular caller ID device to the line and 
call the distinctive ring number? Is the telco even supplying CID info?

This sounds like a programming problem on the telco side.

-Stephen-