----- "Eric Lubow" <elubow@linkexperts.com>
wrote:> All,
>
> Since I have now (at least partially) got my 7961G phones working
> with Asterisk, I have temporarily moved on to try to get the
> expansion
> modules working. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of
> documentation here either. Does anyone have this combination working
> (or any 79X1) here?
>
> My goal is ultimately to do the monitoring approach. I have
> Google'd
> around, but come up with little. I want the office manager to be
> able
> to see when the user is on the phone or when the phone is ringing (or
> even be able to pick it up).
>
> I am looking to keep this operation within the SIP space, but if I
> have to go with SCCP to get this module working (if there is a way to
> make the phone treat the lines as protocol independent). Does anyone
> have any suggestions (or examples) as to how to accomplish this?
> Thanks.
>
> Eric
>
> --
> Eric Lubow
> LinkExperts, Inc.
> Systems Administrator
> e: elubow@linkexperts.com
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Last I knew, the expansion modules only worked with Skinny firmware. There is
support for it in chan_skinny in 1.4, but it's mostly useless, as they can
only be line appearances. svn trunk has support for speeddials/hints though.
--
Jason Parker
Digium