Cisco ip phone 9971 softkey template

The resolution should be x pixels and the file format MUST be. This must be x pixels and also be in a. Up to 50 images can be defined in this list, all must be PNG however I've not had any problems with size mine is about 1MB which seems rather large for a x image.

I've not actually got any ringtones working as at the current stage I am satisfied with the standard Cisco ringtone which comes with the phone you get two to choose from. However from at least looking into them they're fairly easy to configure and quite similar to configuring the background images.

To be honest, I don't really know what these are for. I just got annoyed with the error messages in the phones log when it was trying to find something which did not exist! As I understand it, it's basically the language settings which exist within the phone. However I have no idea why there would really be a difference between the UK and the US which appears to be the default , but I wanted to change it anyway.

First you'll have to download the locale files from www. You should be able to perform the linux related commands on the FreePBX server itself and create the perl script on it. Personally I used another linux server merely because I was already logged into it at the time and copied the files over using SCP.

By now the phone should be pretty happy and capable of calling other phones "of its kind". The only part which we have left is actually getting our calls routed out to the public phone network, which requires a little more configuration in FreePBX as well as the process of actually purchasing and activating the SIP trunk itself.

There are many SIP trunk providers around and it may be worth doing some research into which you wish to use. Personally speaking I went with www. After looking around at a few different providers they all seem fairly close in terms of rates and what they can do, so decided to go with what was recommended. You'll have been allocated a SIP username and the password is your account password. These need to be added into FreePBX. If you want to change your SIP password you can change it to be different to that of your account.

Substitute in your userid and password, and change the prefered host to a different voip. The only other part you'll require is the register string which is built from details about your account in the following format:. For example if your userid was and your password was hello and you're using the london.

After adding this save and apply, and navigate to your account page within voip. It may need a refresh however it should update quickly. If you did everything correctly you should see the following:. Now the trunk is registered you're almost ready to start spending money! One little gotcha I encountered along the way was I had not enabled international calling within voip. If you're residing anywhere other than the USA or Canada you'll need to enable the locations you want to allow calls to go.

This is done within voip. You can select the countries you wish to be able to call which should be updated on the Account Settings page as below:. After creating an account etc you will have to add funds to your account. This seems like quite a good way to manage things as you can add a nice lump of money into your account and forget about it for a while. The next step is to purchase a DID. This is your phone number which will be presented outbound and which will be used to call your phone inbound.

It can take some time for the DID to be allocated and come through, mine took about 16 hours. After you've been allocated a number you'll receive an email and it will appear in the Manage DIDs section of voip. Now you've been allocated a number it's time to tie the whole thing together, this has a few steps however each is fairly short.

Now is the interesting part, the outbound dial pattern. This is effectively the mechanism FreePBX uses to match a number you dialed and then send it out of the trunk instead of trying to route it internally. I wanted to just be able to make standard phone calls without any of the fancy stuff which you can get, so used the following rule: Now lets break this down to understand what it's doing.

The first part is a prepend, which means FreePBX will silently add this to whatever matches in the following sections. Adding is required for a UK phone line as this represents the country code.

This means you will not have to type it manually when calling. The 3rd section is the match pattern, a Z represents any digit between and the.

So, if I dial this will match the rule. The leading 0 is matched by the prefix, and the 1 is matched by the Z, the rest of the number is matched by the full stop. The leading 0 is removed and pre-pended internally with and then forwarded onward as The final stage of setting up the outbound route is to select the SIP trunk you've previously set up. Save and apply the changes. These are similar to outbound, except they work the other way. When a call comes in on a DID, it has to actually go somewhere and this is how you define where it goes.

Personally I have two phones in my VoIP network, and I wanted each to have their own external number. If you wish to follow my footsteps and have a single DID per extension then this is how it's done. You must create in my case two inbound routes. Name is something appropriate and enter the DID you wish to use in its full form including country code. Right at the bottom of the page set the destination to Extension and select the extension you wish to call.

Submit and apply the settings. You should now be complete! You can do so on the phone configuration page. Be sure to go ahead and reset your device. Note that there is no re-ordering of buttons in this brave new world.

Your button order is predetermined and no you cannot bribe it to display otherwise, no matter how many beers are offered to the networking gods. Skip to content. Home Who writes this stuff and why? Yours will look something like this: Only yours will be wrong if it looks like this. When you disable a feature, the softkeys for the disabled feature do not appear in any call state. The Programmable Line Keys PLKs as SoftKeys feature enables the administrator to provide certain features to users as either softkeys or buttons on the phone.

Your Phone provides quick access to your phone lines, features, and call sessions. You need to create a new softkey template and assign it a Meet-Me softkey. Here are the steps:. On the IP Phone, select this newly added template as the Phone Button Template so that the softkey will appear on the phone. Even though it is set up under this and the devices are joined in that group, it is always recommended that the media resources are set to the device as there are different requirements depending on the device in use.

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