Distinctive ringtone

General Help
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Hi all,

We would like to have distinctive ringtones for internal and external calls.
At this moment we have specified in the alert info box of the inbound route.

However, a lot of people are having a hard time to hear the actual difference between the external and internal ringtones.

Is there something else we could do to create a complete different ring tone and not only a different cadence and link it only to external or internal calls ?

We use FreePBX 2.9.0.7 with Aastra 6753i phones.

Thanks,
Robert.

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The Aastra phones support Bellcore distinctive ringing. On any freepbx configuration screen that has the “Alert Info” box you can enter the distinctive ring command:

<Bellcore-dr3>

the “3” can be any number between 1 and 4, each one giving a different distinctive ring.

The format is critical. You must use the Greater than and Less than signs, capitalization, etc. to make this work.

BF

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I have Grandstream phones. In FreeBPX for the inbound route I have an

Alert Info: http://127.0.0.1;info=Mycustom

Then on the advanced settings on the phone I have Distinctive Ring Tone: Custom ring tone 2, used if incoming caller ID is Mycustom

It gives me a TOTALLY different sound.

In my case I’m using it to differentiate between DIDs but I think it would work on internal/external as well.