> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Donovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:19 AM > To: Doug Geary > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Setting Wait Time Before Pickup > > Hi Doug, > > On 1/18/06, Doug Geary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) CLID is not being picked up on incoming calls... > > - can't figure out where/how to set delay before answering > > - system is currently picking up on less than 2 full rings > > In /etc/asteris/zapata.conf in the section before you declare the FXO > channels, you need a line that says usecallerid=yes. I think this is > what causes the system to wait until the second ring.
We confirmed this line already exists... any other ideas? > > > 3) How to setup user with phone in office/softphone at home? > > - most users in the office have a Polycom 501 > > - when they go home, want to use a softphone (XLite or ??) > > - can both phones be signed into the same extension at the same time? > > - if not... how do you handle this?? > > Caution: Ugly hack > This isn't pretty but I've done this to make things appear correct in > a situation like the one you're describing. It's alot of work but it > gives users the functionality that they're asking for. > > Let's assume I have an extension 3001 and the user has a Polycom hard > phone, a softphone on her laptop and one on her desktop at home. > - I want to use the same extension number to reach all of them > - No matter where she dials from, it must appear to come from 3001 > > I setup 3 SIP accounts called 3001a, 3001b, 3001c. I set their > callerid to "Jane Smith" <3001>. I had to setup a custom extension > (in the custom extensions file) called 3001 that dialed > sip/3001a&3001b&3001c. I hope you could use the ring group feature in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seemed to be broken in the version I was using and > I never got around to playing with it again. > > All you have to do then is set your Polycom to login as 3001a, your > x-lite to login as 3001b etc, etc. I should say that this could be > used with a combination of SIP and IAX phones as well. On the > polycom, you don't have to show 3001a as the button label, you can > override that in the xml file. I'm not sure about x-lite. > > Hope that helps, > Dave Dave, this is perfect. Ring groups in AMP 1.10.010 are working, making this a relatively simple task now. Thx, Doug
