Still no phonebook for Digium's top phone

[Charles_Darwin]

I set up several freePBX 14 servers with ~7 Digium/Sangoma D65 phones each. They work great, but I preferred the Digium phones module and deactivated the EPM. I configured the phones using the advanced DPMA configuration.
The phones can use the freePBX contactmanager, but you need a conversion script. It should work for the D80 too…you might have to play around with it and adapt it…it won’t let you edit the contacts on the phone though …yet, a cronjob will sync changes in the contactmanager automatically

Sangoma D65 + Digium phones module + freePBX contact manager

Since I wanted my Digium D65 phones, which work flawlessly with a freePBX 14 server, to use the freePBX contactmanager, I created a script, which generates a xml-file the Digiums can understand. Unfortunately, the Endpoint Manager in freePBX was not reliable enough to set up the Digiums, therefore I decided to use the advanced DPMA configuration with the Digium phone module. This works great, except that you have to use the phonebook in the Digium phone module, which does not supply any names t…