Curiosity got hold of me. I opened up my BT-10 (and it still works afterwards..)
Under the keyboard (buttons) are four red LED's that appear to run in parallel (they all flash at the same time when you put the power on). These are used to light up the keyboard. The Display LED (blue in my case) is flashed to indicate that a "Message is waiting" There appears to be no other LED's (or light sources) so no button will ever (or can ever) flash... In order to get the message button to work - programme it with the extension number for your voice-mail. On your BT-100's phone web page - it looks something like.. Voice Mail UserID:[300____] (User ID/extension for 3rd party voice mail system) So if I push the 'Message' button - I effectively dial '300' (ie the same as picking up the handset and dialing '300'). In my extensions.conf file - the appropriate line is... ; 300 = Access Voicemail ; My 'Grandstreams' have a "Message" button - that I have programmed to dial '300' ; They then pass over their CLID - so get to the correct mailbox exten => 300,1,VoicemailMain(s${CALLERIDNUM}) exten => 300,2,Hangup This will contact the Voicemail menu system - passing it the ID of the phone that is calling it - the 's' is to skip the password authentication.. Every BT-100 phone is set up in the same way - with the same '300' in the Message Button field. I also have the following set... to **YES** SUBSCRIBE for MWI: Yes, send periodical SUBSCRIBE for Message Waiting Indication So, with reasonably new firmware - the only button that does not seem to have a function is 'Conference'. The 'Transfer' button is used for attended (non-blind) transfers (see postings elsewhere). On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 23:47 -0700, Paul Fielding wrote: > > Haha....well the MWI is the blinking blue LCD. The message button > > is "reserved for future use" Hang in there. There will soon to be some > > upgrades and rumor has it that the conferencing feature will soon be > > introduced so that conference button on the phone will soon be > > working..... > > The message button isn't reserved, it works fine, you simply need to > correctly configure it. It's job is to dial the voicemail box when > pressed. This works as designed. It just doesn't blink. > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:25:46 -0500, Stephen R. Besch wrote > >> Ronald Wiplinger wrote: > >> > I tried to use message waiting indicator, by "Subscribe for MWI" in the > >> > web menu of the phone. > >> > > >> > However, it does not light up / flash, even if a voice mail is waiting. > >> > > >> > Where is the switch to turn it to? > >> I don't mean to be rude to everyone who responded to this question, > >> but I think that everyone is answering the wrong question. The > >> point is that the message waiting indicator doesn't light up, at all, > >> ever. All that happens when messages are waiting is that the > >> display blinks and the phone gives a stutter dialtone. That's it. > >> There is no light under the button - there should be, but there > >> isn't. The "blinking" phone designers should have put those stupid > >> blinking red leds - that only flash on boot up - under the message > >> button and flashed the display during boot up. But they didn't and > >> we're stuck with it. Such is life. -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - Sth Africa. e.164 VOIP ready /| /| / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users