On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:49 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> This is my first foray into SIP telephony, so be gentle. :-)
>
> The Polycom SoundPoint IP 501 phones have been fantastic so far. I still
> have
> a lot to learn when it comes to them, but the manual seems pretty extensive
> and so far Asterisk has been playing well with them.
>
> I have a need to be able to identify incoming calls based on some factor
> (could be time of day, caller ID, dialed number, it doesn't matter.) --
> Assuming Asterisk can differentiate between the calls I want, how do I inform
> the IP501? There are "only" three line appearances -- I can't simply just
> ring a different appearance since there aren't enough of them.
>
> Is there a way to get Asterisk to tell the IP501 to use a different ring, put
> something up on the display, *something* on a dynamic basis? The wiki
> doesn't seem to have a lot of information about this kind of thing.
>
> example: I am using the first two appearances for shared lines, and the
> third
> for my own two-way extension. I'd like the phone to be able to tell me
> (different ring, something on the display, both?) that an incoming call was
> for customer service (ring ring), sales (woop woop), my wife
> (ah-wooooooh-gah), a non-business-related contract caller (beep beep), that
> my laundry is done (buzz), you name it.. Assuming I have the dialplan
> correctly differentiating between these types of calls, how do I get the
> phone to notify me in different ways?
You could try something this this to set the ring tone:
exten => s,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=Bellcore-r7) ; Set
exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/xxxx,20,t)
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