[VoIP] More on the VT1005 Dial Plan

[john jones]

That is truly bizarre.  Did you play around any more
with the digit timing or did you leave all of those
settings at 4000?


Thanks for the investigative work!

Has your impression of this device improved or is the
jury still out?


John



--- Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net> wrote:

> I think I finally have it!
> 
> It took some studying of the remote telnet console
> of the VT1005, which 
> wasn't easy because it can belch out reams of info
> at a time and it isn't 
> always possible to scroll back to find what you want
> to see.  These are the 
> dial plan lines that work for seven-digit CNET
> stateside dialing (my 
> Asterisk extensions.conf adds the leading '1'), as
> well as for 011+ dialing 
> for the overseas CNET folks:
> 
> BTIOPT TeleSipDialPlanEntry[0] =
> "DIGITMAP:011XXXXXXXXXXXX"
> BTIOPT TeleSipDialPlanEntry[0] =
> "DIGITMAP:[2-9]XXXXXX"
> BTIOPT TeleSipDialPlanEntry[0] = "DIGITMAP:*XX"
> 
> The third line comes with the sample and allows you
> access to the *XX 
> functions like block CID, call forwarding, etc.
> 
> It is really strange the way the VT1005 starts to
> use a new dial plan, 
> though.  It loads the .bin file from the tftp
> server, and if you query 
> through the remote console "TELEsipConfigShow" it'll
> spit back what it just 
> loaded, however it won't necessarily use it right
> away on your next 
> call!  What appeared to happen is that no calls
> could be placed at 
> first.  Dial a zero and get reorder from the ATA. 
> Dial a digit (not a 
> zero) and get reorder, but then on the remote
> console the ATA then appears 
> to process and load the dial plan into
> memory/working space/whatever.  Next 
> call attempt to any number goes through.
> 
> The same thing happened when I changed the timeout
> setting slightly on line 
> 1.  Next call attempt on line 1 starting with a zero
> went to 
> reorder.  Tried dialing a non-zero digit and got
> reorder.  Remote console 
> belched out dial plan processing progress.  Next
> call attempt went through 
> with the new timing.
> 
> FWIW
> YMMV
> 
> Doug.
> 
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