Different ringtone for ring groups, direct calls and queues with Grandstream 2170 phones

General Help
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Hello all I found some posts about custom ring tones for groups and direct extension for other phones but I am wondering if I can have a specific ring tone for a user group (say reception) and then the phone would ring different if someone tried to direct dial or called their extension and not the ring group.

I changed the alert_info to another ring tone in the ring group but that is not helping.

Anyone have something that I am missing?

I am not a phone guy, I am just our companies “tech” person.

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Did you also change the alert info on the physical phone?

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I went through and looked and I don’t see alert info on the phone, I can change the main ringer, but can’t assign a ringer to a call group from there, that I know of.

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Custom ring on Grandstreams is not very obvious to implement - Here:

http://www.grandstream.com/support/faq/product-related-questions/gxp-enterprise-phone-series

Specifically:

How do I use Distinctive Ringtone by ALERT INFO method?

The GXP series phone supports the Alert-Info mapping to the 3 custom ring tone files. For example, if you configure the Matching Incoming Caller ID to “priority”, the ring tone will be used if we receive INVITE with Alert-Info header in the following format: Alert-Info:;info=priority

Play with it - it’s fiddly.

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On the phone, it’s Account → Call Settings:

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Here is the Manual for the Phone:

And here is the Specific Section:

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That looks to be the gui for the web app no? I do not have anything on the phone that looks remotely like that.

when I went through the menus I have

Call History - Status - Contacts - Messages
Preferences - Phone - System - Reboot

I went through those menus and didn’t see anything.

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Straight off of the Phone GUI - Are you using the Admin login to the phone - not the user?

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I am not using the admin interesting, I will see if I can dig that up, thank you.

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okay I found that, but something I am not understanding.

I have a call group - Reception

What do I need to put in the alert info box on the pbxact ring groups alert info box

if I select [custom] then put Reception there would my pattern match on the phone gui be
Alert-Info:;info=Reception?

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I think just Reception - play with it.

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So I tried
"Reception"
I have the CID Name Prefix set to “Reception:” I figured I would try that and nope
"Alert-Info:;info=Reception"
“Alert-Info:;Reception”
"[R]xx+"
"[Reception]"
"[Reception]+"

I am out of patterns to try ha

P.S. thank you already for your help - I was able to configure the phones for different wrongs for our CEO and from internal customers already and look like a hero!

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Yeah, I just played with it on my phone - Give me a few minutes - I will do a capture and see what I am sending!

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Did you get a chance to test anything out?

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I remember doing it at a client once, I’ll try to take a look later and see what we are sending.

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issues.freepbx.org/browse/FREEPBX-3890

has the answer I couldn’t paste the hyperlink because I am a new user. Assuming you have this sorted already, but in case anyone else winds up here looking.

On the phone istelf just put the word after the = you end up using.