You stated you had a developer working on new firmware already, asked for
contributions to speed it along when I put out a call for volunteers,
bluntly, you said it was in progress so everything stopped on this side...

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> That discussion was had and you effectively stopped it last time.
> Excuse me?   How do I stop a discussion Tony.  I guess if you are saying
> that my input to a discussion has the ability to stop it then I guess that
> would be accurate.   Geez Tony, I know you like to be blunt.  But
> ridiculous fails to accomplish much.****
>
> On Apr 29, 2012 11:57 PM, "Todd Hodgen" <[email protected]> wrote:****
>
>  ****
>
> The phone group should be able to become the master "container" of the
> "firmware" used. It could certainly be an option.****
>
>  ****
>
> Yes, it could be an option.  I guess it sounds like you are wanting to
> have a rewrite of what is there today.  I’m looking for options to modify
> what is there.   I don’t have an interest personally in rewriting what
> works today.  ****
>
> Explain?****
>
>  ****
>
> 1. Re-writing the sipxconfig field name/values for configuration    yes,
> agreed.  That is a minimum requirement for 4.4.x support****
>
> 2. Containerizing (is that a word) the firmware b phone group to allocate
> the proper firmware.  Agreed, that makes things easy.****
>
> 3. Adding new feature to new fimrware and sending profiles based on
> "profile name" instead of mac address (i.e. login/logout of phone via xhtml
> to get the profile to load, hot reloading of phones without reboot, new
> features like pin-locking, etc.).   Hot loading of phones doesn’t require
> this change – it work now when the phone simply loads 4.0.2x firware.   The
> rest of these features I don’t have knowledge of – it is an enhancement it
> seems to the phones.  Personally, I’d be happy to move the management of
> these phones forward with the features sipXecs has today, along with what
> is incorporated in the new firmware.****
>
>  ****
>
> For example, on my desktop today, I have the ability to move my mouse from
> Screen 1, to Screen 2, to the screen of the Polycom phone.  This requires
> no rewrite of sipXecs, just the firmware on the phone to support it.   The
> VVX1500 plugin has all of the requirments for video support for that phone,
> and it will be a part of the VVX500 phone as well.  Once the mouse is
> there, my keyboard is typing directly on the Polycom phone.  Enter URI,
> click on the directory, search by name, etc.  Nothing required by sipx for
> this, just the firmware.****
>
>  ****
>
> You can add lines, remove lines, change extensions, etc. and in many
> instances it just works, nothing is required for that.****
>
>  ****
>
> You should just load a phone with that firmware and see what it is capable
> of doing.****
>
>  ****
>
> This is the reason why there should be an involved discussion prior to
> people starting to make changes to the templates.  ****
>
>  ****
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Hubler
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:22 PM
> To: sipXecs developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [sipx-dev] Support for 4.0.2+ and beyond firmware for Polycom
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I’d like to suggest that a new section be added to the Device file
> > section of the GUI for the Polycom phones.   Today, there exists a
> > section for uploading Firmware (current) and for adding Firmware for
> > legacy phones.  I’d like to propose a temporary section for adding the
> > 3.3.x versions of Firmware also.
>
> I would think controlling firmware version by phone group would be more
> useful then by phone model.
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