On Friday 23 April 2004 12:33 am, David Krider wrote:I've downloaded the entire archive of articles and searched through them for an answer on this, but I haven't come across one yet. I'm looking to replace a small phone system in my church with Asterisk, and I'm stuck looking for phones. I know that the staff are going to want a button for their commonly-called extensions, but I'm having trouble finding phones that have, say, 10 programmable buttons for this sort of thing. I'm left to conclude that most phones can do this sort of thing by clicking through some combination of buttons. However, it would seem that the average price for a nice SIP phone eliminates the possibility of just ordering some to find out. Can someone please tell me how this is handled in general? For instance, the Polycom 600 doesn't seem to have ANY buttons that can be programmed for particular extensions
Not correct - The Polycom SoundPoint IP 600 has 6 buttons on the upper left hand side that can be programmed for "particular extensions" and speed-dial entries. It also has the ability to support 6 lines, and has extensive directory support. And, strangely, ALL the buttons on the phone can be reprogrammed. Keep in mind this phone uses context-sensitive soft-keys, so it offers much more ability and functionality than can be seen in a low resolution photo on the web. It may suprise you to know that the soft-key implementation is very well done: intuitive, logical, efficient, and easy to use. (Polycom should pay me for posting this ;)
Anon
OK, so the question may become more focused with Polycom phones then:
Is it possible (ignoring Asterisk for the minute) for Polycom phones to indicate visually (on the LCD or on a lighted "extension" button or something) that a particular line is in use? I would expect this method to be via NOTIFY or SUBSCRIBE calls from a SIP registrar/proxy/call handler upstream.
Now, if the answer is "Yes", are there instructions anywhere on exactly HOW that is supposed to work, so that someone can start to code these methods into Asterisk? This is one of the missing features when people look at Asterisk as a PBX replacement - the simple task of looking at the phone to see what incoming lines are "off-hook" or what people are busy is lost, but this is a mandatory requirement for office phone systems.
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