[asterisk-users] Cisco 7961G + 7914 Expansion Module

[Eric Lubow]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 12:26 -0500, Jason Parker wrote:
> ----- "Eric Lubow" <elubow at linkexperts.com> wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> >    Since I have now (at least partially) got my 7961G phones working
> > with Asterisk, I have temporarily moved on to try to get the
> > expansion
> > modules working.  There doesn't seem to be much in the way of
> > documentation here either.  Does anyone have this combination working
> > (or any 79X1) here?
> > 
> >    My goal is ultimately to do the monitoring approach.  I have
> > Google'd
> > around, but come up with little.  I want the office manager to be
> > able
> > to see when the user is on the phone or when the phone is ringing (or
> > even be able to pick it up).
> > 
> >    I am looking to keep this operation within the SIP space, but if I
> > have to go with SCCP to get this module working (if there is a way to
> > make the phone treat the lines as protocol independent).  Does anyone
> > have any suggestions (or examples) as to how to accomplish this?
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Eric

> Last I knew, the expansion modules only worked with Skinny firmware.  There is support for it in chan_skinny in 1.4, but it's mostly useless, as they can only be line appearances.  svn trunk has support for speeddials/hints though.

Does that mean that if I have the phone working with SIP that I can
still use those line appearances for informational purposes?  Is there
an example or a HOWTO somewhere to use as a guide?  Thanks.

Eric
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