Endpoint Manager and Cisco 79x5 with the 7916 key expansion module

[cynjut (Dave Burgess)]

I’m not aware of the SIP version of the 79xx phones supporting sidecars under any configuration. In SCCP mode, I’ve used this sidecar and I know it’s supported.

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…

If you haven’t already done a lot of work to get that phone working in SIP mode, I’d recommend using Chan-SCCP-B for the sidecar support.