In the "Polycom Support for 3.3 + and VVX500 and other next gen phones" 
thread Todd stated the following:

> In time, I will start a campaign to begin development of a fund
> for members of the community that want this support to get involved in
> development of it by assisting in the funding of it.   This will be a 
first
> for this project, and hopefully the beginning of more projects like this 
to
> come.

Difficult to judge who's right and who's wrong, it is also not important.
At least Todd attempted several times to get things started for 3.3 and 
now 4.0 support for the best phones for SipX.
The replies on all attempts has been minimal.
I won't be of any help as my Management decided to go full MCST, my SipX 
days are numbered........ 

It would be a real pitty if the community can't organise itself to build 
support for the newer firmware.
Who/what/when/how were all the previous models made?

Paul



From:
Tony Graziano <[email protected]>
To:
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Date:
30-04-2012 18:05
Subject:
Re: [sipx-dev] Support for 4.0.2+ and beyond firmware for Polycom
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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:
 
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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