Comments for The Open Sourcerer http://www.theopensourcerer.com The Magic of Open Source Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:52:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by randulo http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8363 randulo Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:38 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8363 Rob, if you need help write me at ssl-mail.com using my pseudo above before the "at". If the message doesn't change often, you can just create an XML file and edit it by hand. Go to any simple (non podcast) feed, save it to a file, remove all items but one, edit the subject to the sentence you want and you're good. Maybe I should post a blank one here? Then if the file was called http://voipusersconference.org/s675IP.xml you'd go to my.gigaset.net or whatever that is and set that as the feed. Too bad the feed is the same on every handset. /r Rob, if you need help write me at ssl-mail.com using my pseudo above before the “at”. If the message doesn’t change often, you can just create an XML file and edit it by hand. Go to any simple (non podcast) feed, save it to a file, remove all items but one, edit the subject to the sentence you want and you’re good. Maybe I should post a blank one here?
Then if the file was called http://voipusersconference.org/s675IP.xml you’d go to my.gigaset.net or whatever that is and set that as the feed. Too bad the feed is the same on every handset.

/r

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Rob http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8362 Rob Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:09:11 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8362 Hi randulo, I didn't think of that - that I can just set up my server to serve an RSS and then have the phone ask for that feed. No big hacking required, just need to combine things into an RSS message/feed. And figure out how to set up my server. And figure out RSS. And PHP, XML, etc. ;-) Hi randulo,

I didn’t think of that - that I can just set up my server to serve an RSS and then have the phone ask for that feed.
No big hacking required, just need to combine things into an RSS message/feed. And figure out how to set up my server. And figure out RSS. And PHP, XML, etc. ;-)

]]> Comment on Starting VirtualBox VMs from an Icon or CLI by Mike Tyrell http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/13/starting-virtualbox-vms-from-an-icon-or-cli/#comment-8361 Mike Tyrell Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:08:46 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/13/starting-virtualbox-vms-from-an-icon-or-cli/#comment-8361 thanks alot for this thanks alot for this

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by randulo http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8360 randulo Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:38:47 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8360 If I may jump in, I have a 675 as well. It will display the latest *subject* of any RSS feed. So whatever you want to see needs to be formatted as XML to appear to be an RSS feed, even if it isn't. Here's a phone of the S675IP displaying a Twitter RSS feed: http://x2z.eu/h It's fairly easy to format any info to RSS using PHP or your favorite language on a web server. Just remember that the 675/685 can't display very much text. If I may jump in, I have a 675 as well. It will display the latest *subject* of any RSS feed. So whatever you want to see needs to be formatted as XML to appear to be an RSS feed, even if it isn’t. Here’s a phone of the S675IP displaying a Twitter RSS feed: http://x2z.eu/h

It’s fairly easy to format any info to RSS using PHP or your favorite language on a web server. Just remember that the 675/685 can’t display very much text.

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Rob http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8359 Rob Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:20:23 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8359 Hi Alan, thanks for the informative writeup. I have a s675IP, so the predecessor of the 685, but that shouldn't matter much for what I wanted to ask, namely: do you know how to hack the local network to get something other than the weather for the next 3 days onto the screen? The reason I ask is that I live in Zurich, and the 3 day weather forecast suites me fine - it's just not very correct... So I wanted to know if you know how to 'redirect' the base station's request for the weather and get a webserver on my own system to reply with the message that I want to have displayed. Note that I indeed have a computer as a firewall/internet server between the base station and the cable modem. Hi Alan,
thanks for the informative writeup.
I have a s675IP, so the predecessor of the 685, but that shouldn’t matter much for what I wanted to ask, namely: do you know how to hack the local network to get something other than the weather for the next 3 days onto the screen?
The reason I ask is that I live in Zurich, and the 3 day weather forecast suites me fine - it’s just not very correct…
So I wanted to know if you know how to ‘redirect’ the base station’s request for the weather and get a webserver on my own system to reply with the message that I want to have displayed. Note that I indeed have a computer as a firewall/internet server between the base station and the cable modem.

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8356 Alan Lord Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:46:43 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8356 @Matthew I get that error all the time :-) It doesn't seem to make any difference to the operation of the phones whatsoever. I got some suggestions on the Asterisk-user mailing list (search that and you should find my questions and answers), but haven't had much time to look into it. As the saying goes, "if it aint broke, don't fix it". @Mohan, welcome to my blog :-) I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. Although I don't think of myself as any kind of "expert" in these phones ;-) 1. I don't think you can change the port number; not from the UI anyway. You could probably use your router and set up a virtual port forwarding rule so you can use any port you like on the WAN interface of your router and map it to the ip address:80 of your phone. 2. I'm not sure I understand. The Caller ID is that of the VOIP service you are calling out on I think. That's what happens here. We have three VOIP services coming into my Asterisk server (I don't think this matters much) and when we make outgoing calls, my caller id, is that of the service I am using at that time. Hope this helps. At least a bit... Thanks for dropping by. Alan @Matthew

I get that error all the time :-)

It doesn’t seem to make any difference to the operation of the phones whatsoever. I got some suggestions on the Asterisk-user mailing list (search that and you should find my questions and answers), but haven’t had much time to look into it. As the saying goes, “if it aint broke, don’t fix it”.

@Mohan, welcome to my blog :-)

I’ll try to answer your questions as best I can. Although I don’t think of myself as any kind of “expert” in these phones ;-)

1. I don’t think you can change the port number; not from the UI anyway. You could probably use your router and set up a virtual port forwarding rule so you can use any port you like on the WAN interface of your router and map it to the ip address:80 of your phone.

2. I’m not sure I understand. The Caller ID is that of the VOIP service you are calling out on I think. That’s what happens here. We have three VOIP services coming into my Asterisk server (I don’t think this matters much) and when we make outgoing calls, my caller id, is that of the service I am using at that time.

Hope this helps. At least a bit…

Thanks for dropping by.

Alan

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by mohan http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8355 mohan Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:05:28 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8355 i have been using s675ip for some days. few questions as u seem to have been using these phones for sometime. 1. is there a way to change the default port such that I can access the web interface from outsite my home lan network. because i also have webserver running on port 80? 2. How did u manage the caller-id? if you are calling out with voip provider1 on handset1, what is the number visible to the outside world? if they see a number then where do u specify it in the web interface? any info on this will be very helpful. thanks in advance mohan i have been using s675ip for some days. few questions as u seem to have been using these phones for sometime.
1. is there a way to change the default port such that I can access the web interface from outsite my home lan network. because i also have webserver running on port 80?
2. How did u manage the caller-id? if you are calling out with voip provider1 on handset1, what is the number visible to the outside world? if they see a number then where do u specify it in the web interface?
any info on this will be very helpful.
thanks in advance
mohan

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Matthew James http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8349 Matthew James Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:48:09 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8349 @Alan Thanks Alan, I've been playing with it for a few hours now. I managed to get the light working a couple of times but it's very hit and miss, this is what the box is saying when trying to send the notification: [Jul 20 01:08:48] WARNING[2311] chan_sip.c: Remote host can't match request NOTIFY to call '0fadac5e08412e564498363b461217c1@192.168.1.65' Whether that's any use I'm not sure. I've been googling it for hours and have found some solutions but none seem to work :( @Alan

Thanks Alan, I’ve been playing with it for a few hours now. I managed to get the light working a couple of times but it’s very hit and miss, this is what the box is saying when trying to send the notification:

[Jul 20 01:08:48] WARNING[2311] chan_sip.c: Remote host can’t match request NOTIFY to call ‘0fadac5e08412e564498363b461217c1@192.168.1.65′

Whether that’s any use I’m not sure. I’ve been googling it for hours and have found some solutions but none seem to work :(

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8347 Alan Lord Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:11:03 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8347 @Matthew Glad they started working again. I said it a took a few minutes ;-) When I get some time I'll dig out my * and S685 settings. But don't hold your breath. Bit busy at the mo... @Matthew

Glad they started working again. I said it a took a few minutes ;-)

When I get some time I’ll dig out my * and S685 settings.

But don’t hold your breath. Bit busy at the mo…

]]> Comment on Siemens Gigaset 685IP Phones and Asterisk Review by Alan Lord http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/27/siemens-gigaset-685ip-phones/#comment-8346 Alan Lord Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=240#comment-8346 @randulo Yes there is. Click on the tiny little "txt" button at the bottom of the first entry here: http://gigaset.siemens.com/shc/0,1935,hq_en_0_152411_rArNrNrNrN_variation%253A-5_pageType%253Adownloads_imagePos%253A0,00.html#content It isn't the most descriptive set of release notes but... Cheers Al @randulo

Yes there is. Click on the tiny little “txt” button at the bottom of the first entry here:

http://gigaset.siemens.com/shc/0,1935,hq_en_0_152411_rArNrNrNrN_variation%253A-5_pageType%253Adownloads_imagePos%253A0,00.html#content

It isn’t the most descriptive set of release notes but…

Cheers

Al

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