I've been using a couple of Polycom 501 phones in my home Asterisk setup. I set up each phone in sip.conf to be static, i.e. host=<phone ip address> so that registration wasn't required. This has worked fine for me for a couple of years.
Now I just bought a Polycom 335. Since the 501's are now obsolete, I had to go through the steps required in order to have separate sip.cfg's, etc. Anyway, I got the Polycom 335 to almost work, except for the dialplan. When picking up the handset (or hitting the line 1 key) it put me in url-dialing mode, i.e. it prompted me with "Enter URL" and didn't follow the dialplan I had set for the phone. It took me quite some time to figure out what was going on. I finally found a paragraph in the phone's users guide that said: > URL or IP dialing is not supported on registered phones. If your phone is > intentionally unregistered, the default dialing mode is by URL. At least that explained the cause of the problem. I could not find a way of changing the default dialing mode for an unregistered phone. So, I figured the only answer was to register the phone. Just setting the phone's "register" parameter to 1 (voIpProt.server.1.register="1") fixed the problem, i.e. the phone would now prompt me with "Enter Number" rather than "Enter URL" and allowed normal numeric dialing, according to the dialplan. But of course, if I turned on verbose logging in Asterisk, it complained about the phone not needing to register. The only way I could get it to shut up and properly register was by specifying host=dynamic. I'd rather not do that, so I'm currently using the hack of telling the phone to register and it failing every 30 seconds. This doesn't seem to break anything, but I can't say I'm really happy with the solution. So, a couple of questions: 1) Does anyone know of a way to disable the default URL dialing mode for an unregistered Polycom 335? 2) Is there a way of configuring asterisk to allow static ip address registration in sip.conf? I can understand that this doesn't make much sense, but it appears the Polycom phone really wants to be registered. I prefer the static configuration since it is a little more secure and reliable in my opinion. 3) Assuming the answer is "no" to 1 and 2 above, is there something I am overlooking with my "hack" solution? Should I just go ahead and set the phone up for dynamic registration? John _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users