I know it's not what you asked but the Aastra phones can easily do this. Their support for push/pull XML is perfectly suited for this kind of thing.
You could even send the phone a whole different set of softkeys and menus based on who logs in. John On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 19:03 -0500, Leif Madsen wrote: > Hey John, > > Sorry to not be very clear there. > > I'm just using the phone as an input device to login to Asterisk. This > is in a clustered system, so what happens is everyone is assigned an > extension number and pin. When you sit down at one of the phones in > the office, you enter #4XXX (where 4XXX is your extension), enter your > pin, and then Asterisk will send calls destined for that extension to > that device -- the phone doesn't know anything about this. > > What the customer is looking for is the ability to see what extension > is logged into the phone by changing the line name display. > > I'll look into the 2.0+ firmware by reading the administration guide > and see if there isn't something that doesn't jump out at me. In the > mean time, if anyone happens to find it before me, feel free to let me > know where to start looking :) > > Thanks! > Leif. > > On Jan 18, 2008 3:58 PM, John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity; how are you "logging into" the phone? > > > > Do you mean logging into the Asterisk server using the phone as the > > input device? > > > > I'm not trying to be a nit-picker, I'm just curious if there is some > > login feature or application on the phone itself which I'm not aware of. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
