asterisk

Polycom 501 Contact Directory

I finally found the format of the directory.xml file for my Polycom 501 IP phone after searching the web for about a half hour looking for it. Where better place to keep the format than in the Polycom Admin Guide.  I found an entry on voip-info.org, but it didn't mention all the XML elements I could use. So being the curious guy that I am, I had to know all the options available to me.

I'm reposting the doc page here so google can index it, and if I forget and need a reminder of what the XML elements are Google might lead me back here.

 

Drupal Asterisk module


A couple weeks ago after I upgraded my home office PBX to Trixbox 2.2.4 I did a search on drupal.org to see if there were any modules for Asterisk. Sure enough I found one that had been ported from drupal 4.6 by Chad Phillips, better known as hunmonk in the drupal community.

If you haven't checked out the module, check out his demo site and get in touch with hunmonk for a live demonstration. He showed me some pretty cool features in the demonstration, but the one that sold me was the call bridge. What happens is: