Hello, Does anyone else have * running with Cisco 7960 phones and skinny? All the advise I am reading so far is telling me to load the SIP image on the phone but I'd like to know what I'm going to lose by persisting with skinny (Not reimaging 50 phones is one benefit amongst others of skinny) Thanks for any comparisons you can provide Rgds ~sm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050412/ee952cc8/attachment.htm
Simon: I have had Skinny going on a 7960 (which I then reimaged to SIP). I currently run a 7910 on Skinny (using chan_sccp) and use the aforementioned 7960 simultaneously. Since you mentioned that you will have 50 phones, I assume you are using them in a business setting. I would *highly* recommend using SIP, as I have found that the skinny driver is not as reliable as it could be (not criticizing Jan or Julien at all, here). Reimaging the 50 of them should only take a while (depending on what version of CCM they have at the moment). I reimaged 12 phones once for a business and it took less than 30 minutes after I got it going (toying with the phones to get them to take the image, exactly how the config files were to be set up, etc...). I imagine you could easily get the whole thing done in less than a day (reimaging and config files), then figure out your dialplan. Then there is the whole issue of writing the config files...but you'd have to do those with Skinny, anyhow. I think with SIP you'll have much better reliability. -Andy FWD: 428725 On Apr 12, 2005 12:48 PM, Morris, Simon <Simon.Morris@cmtww.com> wrote:> > > Hello, > > Does anyone else have * running with Cisco 7960 phones and skinny? > > All the advise I am reading so far is telling me to load the SIP image on > the phone but I'd like to know what I'm going to lose by persisting with > skinny > > (Not reimaging 50 phones is one benefit amongst others of skinny) > > Thanks for any comparisons you can provide > > Rgds > > ~sm > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
>My biggest task is getting in some of the big bugfixes and bad behavior >fixes that have been major issues. In testing at the moment is a fix to > >Yes, I'm using * in a business environment with cisco 7960 and 7905 phones. Sip is the more stable solution. well no busy status line 'cause the cisco sip firmware does not support it. I was testing your chan_sccp. It's under development and I got some crash or phones issue, but I think sccp could be the best flexible system for a PBX. In my spare time I'm working on your chan_sccp code to understand how to get customized and localized (I'm in Italy) softkeys.
>>understand how to get customized and localized (I'm in Italy) softkeys. >> >> >I'm not sure what if anything there is to localize, IIRC chan_sccp >transmits no text to the user except for softkey names, and their you >might be out of luck. > >You can customize softkeys replacing labels static const softkeytypes button_labels [] = { { 1, "Richiama", sccp_sk_redial }, { 2, "NvChiam", sccp_sk_newcall }, this is working. I've also downloaded cisco ip telephony locale. Collection of localized XML labels for 7905 and 7960 phone (tftpboot time) that works. 7905 now have all the softkeys and all the config sub menus showing the localized labels/strings. Booting the phones they are loading XML localized dialtones. 7905 is working but there's an issue about the hold/unhold button. It stays red after the first call. the cisco 7905 does register, but it can't receive calls. When you place an outgoing call it comes back to work and now you can also receive calls. I'm working on it