Grimsy's Blog

Asterisk Bootcamp

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.

SPA942 and Daylight Saving

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 ...

More SPA942 Firmware stuff

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:6004 - Line 16004 - Line 26004 - Line 36004 - Line 4In 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...