On 17:03, Wed 25 Nov 09, Robert Lister wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:46 -0500, David Gibbons wrote: > > I use two ???lines??? though ???Line appearances??? would be a better term, > > though still confusing in my book. > > > One line for incoming, one line that auto-answers for paging. > > > Cisco really has so many line appearances on their phones to enable > > BLF using SIP over TCP. > > Cisco 7960 does not do BLF (at least not on the SIP firmware) but the > 7961 might. It's a shame they haven't added such features, but there we > go.)
It does with the skinny firmware :) > > If you enable two line keys with the same user/pass then the phone will > automatically put a second call/call waiting onto the second line key > (assuming you have call waiting enabled.) > > But personally I preferred the way it presented the second call before, > on a single line, and found the way it displays it with two lines a bit > confusing. (I can't remember exactly why now, something like it would > flash the second line icon but not show you the call information until > that key was pressed, or you scrolled to it.) I could see users not > getting on with this, so I didn't configure it like that. > > The rest can be used for speed dials, but these were of limited use to > me since for some reason, although the line keys can be provisioned > remotely over TFTP, the speed dials cannot. It's okay for personal use > though. With the skinny firmware you configure the lines and speeddials in asterisk skinny.conf :) > > Personally moved off my 7960 in favour of the SNOM 370 as this supports > far more features than the Cisco SIP image, which is only really a piece > of migration fluff to enable Cisco to migrate customers away from > competitors SIP systems onto Call Manager with the dual-boot/application > loader. Asterisk has chan_skinny. > > The SNOM perhaps doesn't look as fancy as the Cisco handset, but it wins > hands-down on SIP features. (the remote provisioning system was a little > complicated to set up, but once set up it's okay.) > > It's a shame since the Cisco is a very capable (and expensive) handset, > just let down by no development in the software other than small bug > fixes for many years. If you dont like it, send the cisco to wedhorn or me so we can make chan_skinny even better. ;) -- Michiel van Baak mich...@vanbaak.eu http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
