I agree.. well there is DSS if the phone is idle.. but there is no way for
the button to have states// like with aastra if a BLF is in the ringing state
you can apply the directed call pickup code to the button so it answers the
call ringing on that button.. the Digium phone can just dial the extension
number... there is no one button transfer to a BLF keey either.. alas if
you are on acall and want to transfer a call to a DSS key you have to press
transfer.. press the key, press transfer again... the Aastras allow you to
set it up as a Blind transfer key or where you press the key, wait for the
person to answer and press transfer again...
the only way i was able to get single key Park with BLF t owork is because of a
loophole in asterisk that allows a park pickup to fall through on the dialplan
if there is no call parked which the fallthrough is a "park" command..
otherwise these phones cant dial something different on a DSS / BLF based on
the state of the button...
some items on the Digium phone will update config without a phone reboot,
others wont, but there is no documentation on which items can be changed and
which cannot.. I would expect SIP items to not reboot the phone, but changing
ringtone options caused the phone to reboot..
I also think in some ways the phones are TOO tied to asterisk when using the
DPMA.. with aastras I can used a completely third party script to PUSH XML
data to the phones.. so things like BLFs, ringers, speed dials, etc can be
Pushed to the phones without any involvement from asterisk..
the Digium phones, changing contacts requires I first build out the contacts
(BLF), requires I first build out the contacts XML file.. then issue a
reconfigure command from the asterisk CLI (or AMI) to tell the phone to go get
it... to change a ring-tone, requires, modification to the digium phones CONF
file, so if not using realtime it would require a module reload on the DPMA,
then issue a reconfigure command to the phone.. likely resulting in a phone
reboot..
the audio quality of the phones seems pretty good.. probably not as good as
polycom but surely better speaker quality on the D50 and D70 than the aastra
6731 or 6755.. the speaker quality on the aastra 6757 seems pretty good...
all in all I think Digium just wanted to get these phones on the market
quickly.. ive been told there are "great enhancements" coming for the DSS /
BLF keys, in my opinion the only reason to Buy the D50 / D70 over say a
polycom ot Yealink is because of the DSS / BLF buttons.. esp the D70 with
self labelling keys..
-Christopher
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From: John Novack <[email protected]>
To: AstLinux Users Mailing List <[email protected]>
Cc: The Cadillac Kid <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Was: digiumd70
The Cadillac Kid wrote:
>I have one each of these phones. The idea of many blf
was great except blf are just blf.
BLF without DSS is next to useless.
What were they thinking? Or were they thinking?
Too many engineers don't really know what users want and need in the
real world.
Users want buttons and lights!
Having to reboot a phone is inexcusable
John Novack
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