Just a quick post to mention that I’m heading to Melbourne next month for the Asterisk Bootcamp (care of work). Should be a good opportunity to learn a lot of info about Asterisk and VoIP in general.

Well daylight savings just hit for the first time since we’ve had the SPA942s and needless to say I overlooked that parameter when setting them up.
Unfortunately it wasn’t as simple as ticking a box or setting a parameter to 1 or 0 which I was kind of hoping it would be, instead you need to have a ‘Daylight Saving Time Rule’ which I guess is fair enough as different states and countries treat it differently.
Also unfortunate was Linksys’ decision to not allow daylight savings rules to span more than one calendar year. Luckily some people on the Linksys boards were able to provide me with the work around I needed.

Basically you need to set Time_Zone to GMT+11:00 even though it should be GMT+10:00 and then subtract hours rather than adding them.
End result looks something like:

Well I’m trailing out the 5.15a firmware for the SPA942 phones. Firstly, I have figured out the problem I was having previously with the first line being one pixel out of alignment. For our users, we display $EXT – Line # on each of the lines, so for me it appears as:

In the previous (5.1.5) firmware, this was left aligned, where as the newer firmwares are right aligned. Because the number 1 is thinner than the numbers 2,3 and 4, the text looked out of line. Other people probably wouldn’t have this issue, because adding in the Line numbers was a custom change I made for my users (in response to too many questions about why there where 4 buttons).

The other issue I was having with

has been changed to

There’s also a new feature that allows you to set a background image that I’m hoping to play around with shortly – more info about that on voip-info