Cisco - 7962G - mutually exclusive paging and BLF

[cynjut (Dave Burgess)]

@RealRuler2112

From another user on here, I learned about a project that implements the SCCP protocol as an add-on for FreePBX.

Hola.

Interesting new success with Chan-SCCP-B and SCCP-Manager (both from GitHub)

As many of you know, I’ve proudly been running my home on PIAF Gold for something like 12 years. I ran it on the 32-bit Asterisk 1.8 because, at the time, Chan-SCCP-B needed a 32-bit kernel and my Cisco 7910 phones were not SIP-able. I also had a couple other SCCP-only phones that I wanted to use and play with, so I went with it. After more than a half decade, I added TimeTrex to the server (for a library management package I was working on). A few months ago, I upgraded TimeTrex to the new ve…

There are two add-ons to get these phones to work in Skinny mode. The Chan-SCCP-B package allows the phones to connect and be useful, the PhantomVI Manager allows you to manage them from the GUI.

The SCCP protocol is the way to go with these phones. You don’t need to mess with recompiling Asterisk, no patches, and the system just works. Follow the Wiki that I wrote for the channel driver and you can be up and running with your first phone in an hour. Adding the Manager module is similarly installable and allows you to manage the phones from the GUI rather than messing with the config files.

Having used both extensively, I’m not sure the GUI Manager is all that necessary. In my experience, once you install the Channel Driver and build the config files, there’s really nothing you need to do to the phones to keep them working.