asterisk users - Jan 2007 - caller id ring tones for Asterisk Phone

I'm going to be rolling out asterisk at a small office and one requested
feature was the ability to have a phone that can be configured so that
ringtones can be configured according to the callerid of the caller. 
Does anyone have Asterisk experience with such a phone? Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks in advance!!!

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:15:19PM -0500, Jeronimo Romero
wrote:
> I'm going to be rolling out asterisk at a small office and one
requested
> feature was the ability to have a phone that can be configured so that
> ringtones can be configured according to the callerid of the caller. 
> Does anyone have Asterisk experience with such a phone? Any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks in advance!!!
>   
> 
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Many phones can do this.  Some have only a limited set of tones
that don't vary much.   Most phones can do the basics.  Some
let you have some uploaded wav file ringtones.   A smaller
number such as the SNOM phones and a few others can actually
be given the URL of an audio file as the ringtone, and the
phone will download it and play that.

I haven't tried it, but it should be possible on the SNOM to:

a) Have festival, cepstral or other TTS turn the caller id into
an audio file (ideally cached)
b) Put that audio file on a local web server
c) Set the URL of the audio file as the ring tone.


You usually set the ring tone with the SIP Alert-Info header, however
various phones use different syntaxes.

Do a search on voip-info for terms like "ringtone" and
"alert-info"
for instructions on how to set them.

Of course, you can also do things like generate the audio and have
your computer, or a nearby computer, play the sound so you get
it reading the name or number.  Or you could generate your own
audio files for the people who call you regularly rather than
that trick.

Jeronimo Romero wrote:
> I'm going to be rolling out asterisk at a small office and one
requested
> feature was the ability to have a phone that can be configured so that
> ringtones can be configured according to the callerid of the caller. 
> Does anyone have Asterisk experience with such a phone? Any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated. 
Phones that understand the ALERT_INFO SIP header will do it - I'm using
Polycoms, but a quick search of the wiki gives:
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=OptiPoint+600+SIP+-+Distictive+ring+using+ALERT_INFO
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=UIP200
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Siemens+Gigaset+C450IP
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Polycom+auto-answer+config
http://www.cyber-cottage.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Aastra_ring_patterns
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/SPA-841
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Snom+Phones
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+phone+cisco+7970+SIP

-- 
James Andrewartha
Systems Administrator
Data Analysis Australia Pty Ltd

Most SIP phones handle this functionality by recognizing numbers from  
speed dial or address book entries in the phone itself.  I believe  
that the PolyCom SIP phones do this (IP430, IP501, IP601, IP650).

I hope that this is helpful.

Bryan M. Johns
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On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Jeronimo Romero wrote:
> I'm going to be rolling out asterisk at a small office and one  
> requested
> feature was the ability to have a phone that can be configured so that
> ringtones can be configured according to the callerid of the caller.
> Does anyone have Asterisk experience with such a phone? Any  
> suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
>
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