asterisk users - May 2003 - Caller-ID questions and suggestions

1.

It would be very helpful if the voicemail module included the caller-ID
info (name and number) in the "Subject" line. Otherwise, looking at
the
list of messages is like looking at an INBOX without a "From" column.

I patched app_voicemail.c quickly, but it would be even better if this 
were a configuration option (since some installations don't have 
caller-ID information available, and "...from unknown" would just be a
waste of time).

2.

When calls come in to an ATA-186 with a garden-variety caller-ID display
attached, the date and time always show up as 01/01 12:00. I am not sure
whether this is because nothing is getting sent, because a mis-formatted
date is getting sent, or because the ATA-186 is incapable of sending the
time/date to the display. In either case it's annoying for me since I use
that as my desk clock! Any solutions would be very welcome.

3.

Caller-ID name information is sent with "double quotes" around it, at
least when it's fetched from the database using LookupCIDName. This wastes
precious display space.

4.

There seems to be no way to distinguish between "Out of Area" and
"Private/Withheld" in extensions.conf. I see in the zaptel source code
that the distinction is available when the data is being read from the
line. Since those really are different situations, it would be great to be
able to differentiate between them.

miguel

> There seems to be no way to distinguish between "Out of Area" and
> "Private/Withheld" in extensions.conf. I see in the zaptel source
code
> that the distinction is available when the data is being read from the
> line. Since those really are different situations, it would be great to be
> able to differentiate between them.
I noticed this in the source code also, but I have observed that calls are
always displayed (on a telephone plugged into an FXS port) as Unknown
Name/Number, even when Private Name/Number is received from the PSTN, and
that internal calls, if *67'ed, display as Unknown rather than Private.

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:52, Miguel Cruz wrote:
> 2.
> 
> When calls come in to an ATA-186 with a garden-variety caller-ID display
> attached, the date and time always show up as 01/01 12:00. I am not sure
> whether this is because nothing is getting sent, because a mis-formatted
> date is getting sent, or because the ATA-186 is incapable of sending the
> time/date to the display. In either case it's annoying for me since I
use
> that as my desk clock! Any solutions would be very welcome.
Just a thought, but did you provide the ata186 with a ntp server?
> 3.
> 
> Caller-ID name information is sent with "double quotes" around
it, at
> least when it's fetched from the database using LookupCIDName. This
wastes
> precious display space.
Did you define them with double quotes? You may want to go looking into
the db and see if it has double quotes. If so you have your answer.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>