Recent Polycom firmware versions (4.x, I think) also have support for "user" sort of stuff. See the 4.x Admin Guide.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin P. Fleming Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Trixbox or FreePBX or Elastix or PBX In a Flash On 07/10/2012 01:50 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kevin P. Fleming > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > This can be done using Digium phones; they have built-in support for > selecting which 'user' they should be when they are reconfigured. > It's slightly more complicated than a simple login/logout because it > requires rebooting the phone, but it's there and it works. They even > support the case where a user has a phone at their house, but comes > into the office and 'steals' their extension away from the house > phone; the house phone will then go into an automatic > reconfiguration state and wait for someone tell it which extension > it should 'be'... when the user returns home, they can 'steal' the > extension back from the office. > > > Unfortunately, telling them to dump 50-some Polycom phones that still > work is a tough one. Not impossible though. So if I understand > correctly, the user reboots the phone when he arrives, and goes into > the configure mode? Is it end user friendly, or complex? I still > don't have a server with the Digium phone module on it to test. That's basically it, yes. I just did this on my D70: * Press Menu, select Restart, press Yes. * During the restart, while the progress bar is progressing, push a key. This results in 'Reconfiguration enabled' on the screen. * When the server list appears, choose one (if there is only one server, this will be skipped). * Choose a user from the user list and enter the PIN for it; alternatively, if a global PIN is required by the server, it will need to be entered before the user list will be displayed. * Wait for the phone to configure itself. This takes about 60 seconds. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies Jabber: [email protected] | SIP: [email protected] | Skype: kpfleming 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
