Hey all, I just purchased this phone ( ebay $35 total) and should be here in a few days. I think I got a boot server (tftp) all set up so the phone will have a place to get the latest boot code. I've read through most of the FS user docs on this phone and it seems like it should be plug and play after I get the configuration files updated and in place. I not sure what to expect, for the initial install. Basic functionality and maybe a few higher features or does the fun begin after the phone is installed? This phone is intended as a beta test, if it works ok, meaning plug in and it works and advanced features don't take days or weeks to sort out, I'll be adding a few more. Any one have experience with this particular phone on FS and any issues or gotcha's to be aware of? thanks
Hell Todd, If you've created the right config files then it should work immediately. However, if you haven't used Polycoms so far I doubt you have the perfect config files. It also depends on which additional functionality you want (like extended function keys, etc.). Polycom's guide includes everything, but it is sort of a refference manual and not a user guide. I suggest you start with the WIKI as it have examples. __Yehavi: 2012/7/9 Todd Bailey <toddb@toddbailey.net>
Hey all, I just purchased this phone ( ebay $35 total) and should be here in a few days. I think I got a boot server (tftp) all set up so the phone will have a place to get the latest boot code.
I've read through most of the FS user docs on this phone and it seems like it should be plug and play after I get the configuration files updated and in place. I not sure what to expect, for the initial install. Basic functionality and maybe a few higher features or does the fun begin after the phone is installed?
This phone is intended as a beta test, if it works ok, meaning plug in and it works and advanced features don't take days or weeks to sort out, I'll be adding a few more.
Any one have experience with this particular phone on FS and any issues or gotcha's to be aware of?
thanks
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Thanks, I'm working through the wiki and it's fairly cryptic. The tftp boot server work right off the bat and once I got past getting the phone to work, once I connected and powered up it went out and got the latest code. So now the phone is running 3.1.8 Initially, I built all the config files as outlined in the wiki, but the phone never auto provisioned, eventually I just went into the web set on the phone and got minimal functionality working. One of my to-do items is to get full functionality for phone services via tftp services, so I can add additional lines and phones, and a nice to have feature is perhaps a few side apps when I can have misc. apps available like weather, traffic, streaming music, etc. I'm not sure what the capabilities of this phone are so it all a research and work in progress project at this point. perhaps I'll find some prebuilt apps so I don't have to spend a lot of time reinventing things. For now I can send and receive calls and nothing else, but it's a start. Buyers remorse? yes I would have liked a high res color screen, and newer & more capabilities but considering the total cost of $25 bucks, it's workable starting point. On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:20 +0300, Yehavi Bourvine wrote:
Hell Todd,
If you've created the right config files then it should work immediately. However, if you haven't used Polycoms so far I doubt you have the perfect config files. It also depends on which additional functionality you want (like extended function keys, etc.).
Polycom's guide includes everything, but it is sort of a refference manual and not a user guide.
I suggest you start with the WIKI as it have examples.
__Yehavi:
2012/7/9 Todd Bailey <toddb@toddbailey.net> Hey all, I just purchased this phone ( ebay $35 total) and should be here in a few days. I think I got a boot server (tftp) all set up so the phone will have a place to get the latest boot code.
I've read through most of the FS user docs on this phone and it seems like it should be plug and play after I get the configuration files updated and in place. I not sure what to expect, for the initial install. Basic functionality and maybe a few higher features or does the fun begin after the phone is installed?
This phone is intended as a beta test, if it works ok, meaning plug in and it works and advanced features don't take days or weeks to sort out, I'll be adding a few more.
Any one have experience with this particular phone on FS and any issues or gotcha's to be aware of?
thanks
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Hi, A few things to follow: - Make sure the phone is set to use DHCP. - Make sure in the same configuration screen that it honors option 66. - Here is a fraction from my dhcpd.conf file: option domain-name "phones.huji.ac.il"; option domain-name-servers 10.64.0.3, 10.64.0.4; ddns-update-style ad-hoc; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 7200; authoritative; option option-66 code 66 = string; option option-67 code 67 = string; option option-128 code 128 = string; option option-160 code 160 = string; subnet 10.64.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 7200; option routers 10.64.1.1; option ntp-servers 10.64.0.3; range 10.64.1.250 10.64.1.252; range dynamic-bootp 10.64.1.253 10.64.1.254; } host phone-cc-80601-401 { default-lease-time 600000; hardware ethernet 00:04:f2:14:7a:9d; fixed-address 10.64.1.20; option option-66 "tftp://10.64.0.3/POLYCOM_OLD_501/"; } Next, try to boot and run TCPDUMP in parallel. Send me its output (preferably the CAP file). Regards, __Yehavi: 2012/7/13 Todd Bailey <toddb@toddbailey.net>
Thanks,
I'm working through the wiki and it's fairly cryptic.
The tftp boot server work right off the bat and once I got past getting the phone to work, once I connected and powered up it went out and got the latest code. So now the phone is running 3.1.8
Initially, I built all the config files as outlined in the wiki, but the phone never auto provisioned, eventually I just went into the web set on the phone and got minimal functionality working.
One of my to-do items is to get full functionality for phone services via tftp services, so I can add additional lines and phones, and a nice to have feature is perhaps a few side apps when I can have misc. apps available like weather, traffic, streaming music, etc.
I'm not sure what the capabilities of this phone are so it all a research and work in progress project at this point.
perhaps I'll find some prebuilt apps so I don't have to spend a lot of time reinventing things.
For now I can send and receive calls and nothing else, but it's a start.
Buyers remorse? yes I would have liked a high res color screen, and newer & more capabilities but considering the total cost of $25 bucks, it's workable starting point.
On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:20 +0300, Yehavi Bourvine wrote:
Hell Todd,
If you've created the right config files then it should work immediately. However, if you haven't used Polycoms so far I doubt you have the perfect config files. It also depends on which additional functionality you want (like extended function keys, etc.).
Polycom's guide includes everything, but it is sort of a refference manual and not a user guide.
I suggest you start with the WIKI as it have examples.
__Yehavi:
2012/7/9 Todd Bailey <toddb@toddbailey.net> Hey all, I just purchased this phone ( ebay $35 total) and should be here in a few days. I think I got a boot server (tftp) all set up so the phone will have a place to get the latest boot code.
I've read through most of the FS user docs on this phone and it seems like it should be plug and play after I get the configuration files updated and in place. I not sure what to expect, for the initial install. Basic functionality and maybe a few higher features or does the fun begin after the phone is installed?
This phone is intended as a beta test, if it works ok, meaning plug in and it works and advanced features don't take days or weeks to sort out, I'll be adding a few more.
Any one have experience with this particular phone on FS and any issues or gotcha's to be aware of?
thanks
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