asterisk users - Mar 2007 - Polycom 501 + Asterisk +Edit buttons

Hey All,

This is more a polycom question, but involves how to make it
specifically interact with asterisk...

I have setup a special extension in asterisk which toggles whether our
"Night Service" is turned on. However, I would like to have 2 things
happen on our Polycom 501 (or 601)s. Where there are buttons which say
"New Call" and "Forward", I would like to add a button
called "NS". Is
there a way to edit its software? The second feature would be to change
the display to read "Night Service On" if it is.

These might be stretching what the phone can handle, but I'm unsure how
to make this work with our asterisk setup.

Thanks,
Rob

Hi Rob -
> I have setup a special extension in asterisk which toggles whether our
> "Night Service" is turned on. However, I would like to have 2
things
> happen on our Polycom 501 (or 601)s. Where there are buttons which say
> "New Call" and "Forward", I would like to add a button
called "NS". Is
> there a way to edit its software? The second feature would be to change
> the display to read "Night Service On" if it is.
I have this same feature enabled for one of my clients.  You can't
edit the soft buttons on the phone, but you can edit the hard keys.  I
remapped a speed dial to an unused hard key.  When this key/speed-dial
is pressed, it plays back a sound file that says whether or not night
service is on.

- Noah

> I have this same feature enabled for one of my clients.  You can't
> edit the soft buttons on the phone, but you can edit the hard keys.  I
> remapped a speed dial to an unused hard key.  When this key/speed-dial
> is pressed, it plays back a sound file that says whether or not night
> service is on.
> 
Noah,

Please share a snip of what the Polycom config file looks like for
re-mapping a hard key.  I was under the impression that was not possible,
just moving the keys around.  So you can actually change the function of
what the key does, like send DTMF tones back to Asterisk?

Thanks.

JR