asterisk users - Jan 2005 - MWI on Zap analog phone not lighting

We are using Bellsouth 8867 phones on our TDM400B FXS lines 
(asterisk-1.0.3). It has a "Voicemail" light, which appears to be MWI 
(according to the manual it works with voicemail from the telco that 
sends a FSK signal). The dialtone stutters when a line has voicemail, so 
I know that I have the mailbox setting right in zapata.conf, but the 
light doesn't go on. I am also getting caller-id on the phone's display,
so I guess that shows FSK works from the card to the phone.

I did some searching before posting, found 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20config%20zapata.conf 
which says "On supported hardware, the message waiting light 
<http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-PBX+Message+Waiting+Indicator> will also 
be activated ? this probably requires that you also set adsi=yes. 
Update: This option does NOT require ADSI. It will send a standard FSK 
tone down the line that lights up the MWI on any capable analog phone." 
That looks like it should be working. I didn't find anything on this 
list that I recognized as the answer to this problem.

I am not sure if the phone needs batteries to do CID and MWI or not, but 
just to be safe I put in batteries.



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ASAIK batteries are for the speaker only.
Everything else should get the power from the line itself.
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> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Warren Burstein
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:23 PM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] MWI on Zap analog phone not lighting
> 
> We are using Bellsouth 8867 phones on our TDM400B FXS lines
> (asterisk-1.0.3). It has a "Voicemail" light, which appears to be
MWI
> (according to the manual it works with voicemail from the telco that
> sends a FSK signal). The dialtone stutters when a line has voicemail,
so
> I know that I have the mailbox setting right in zapata.conf, but the
> light doesn't go on. I am also getting caller-id on the phone's
display,
> so I guess that shows FSK works from the card to the phone.
> 
> I did some searching before posting, found
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-
> index.php?page=Asterisk%20config%20zapata.conf
> which says "On supported hardware, the message waiting light
> <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-PBX+Message+Waiting+Indicator> will
also
> be activated - this probably requires that you also set adsi=yes.
> Update: This option does NOT require ADSI. It will send a standard FSK
> tone down the line that lights up the MWI on any capable analog
phone."
> That looks like it should be working. I didn't find anything on this
> list that I recognized as the answer to this problem.
> 
> I am not sure if the phone needs batteries to do CID and MWI or not,
but
> just to be safe I put in batteries.
> 
> 
> 
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