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Using Polycom Phones with Asterisk

Posted by mattdarnell on Wed, 09/23/2009

Check out this document from Polycom that speaks to using soundpoint phones with Asterisk....topics covered are:
* Creating a Basic Configuration
* Using the Messages Key
* Adding Line Busy Lamps
* Enabling Auto Answer for Intercom Paging a Group of Extensions
* Using the Call Park Feature Using the Transfer Key
* Configuring Idle Display Bitmaps
* Remotely Rebooting the Phone to Force a Configuration Reload
* Removing Configuration Overrides
* Enabling CDP
* Assigning VLANs

I have it on the blog @ http://makaicom.com/blog/?p=98

-Matt


Submitted by dozment on Sat, 09/26/2009 Permalink

Good info, Matt. Like you said on your blog it would have been nice to have it a couple of years ago. One problem with it; it mentions changing sip.cfg. I learned my lesson about changing sip.cfg after my first Polycom software upgrade. I now make my customizations to my own cfg file that gets loaded before sip.cfg.

Submitted by eeman on Wed, 10/07/2009 Permalink

any entry in sip.conf you want to modify, simply copy the key/value pair to polycom_local.cfg for your provisioning template.