Grimsy's Blog

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...

Problems with latest SPA942 Firmware (5.1.10)

I've noticed that the spacfg.xml seems to be malformed and it's causing my scripts to break :'( It seems that Linksys have added which presumably due to the fact that it starts with the number 2 is breaking it :( I've posted over on the Linksys boards and hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on it.

SPA942 Personal Directory with LDAP

A while ago, I posted a blog about the SPA942 Personal Directory. Well I've built on it a bit now and managed to get it populated from the information taken out of our LDAP server (Microsoft Active Directory). When we allocate a phone to someone, we fill in the ipphone field with their extension. We then also add two other ipphone entries, the first being the MAC address of the phone, the second being the phone's IP. I'm also managing calling groups (queues) in LDAP by creating security groups...

iubi Blue firmware update. v1.202beta

There's a new version of iubi Blue firmware over at Advanced MP3 Players.There's also an extra file here that you need to download (right click - save as) and add to the system folder after the unit restarts post update.Apparently the update is to... fix issues relating to picture aligment when recording, and when playing back recorded video.which I haven't ever actually bothered doing with my iubi yet, but it also seems to have updated the icons (speaker, volume and battery) in the top right co...

SPA942 Personal Directory

I've been setting up Asterisk at work recently, as our old PABX has reached it's limits. We picked up half a dozen SPA942's for some initial testing. I have to say that while the phones are nice as an end user, however some of the administration functions seem to come up a bit short. One of the big issues for us was that the personal directory on the phones doesn't actually have to option to be populated from Asterisk (or any other PBX other than SPA9000). I have to admit though, I'm not really ...

iubi Blue firmware update. v1.20beta

Advanced MP3 Players have the latest English version of the iubi Blue firmware. Seems to have fixed some of the issues I was having. Definitely worth the download.

MythDora = FTW!11!!!1

In my last post, I was bitching about having problems with VLC and digital channels and trying to stream. Well this morning I saw a slashdot article on MythDora. I have to say, once I got past some hardware issues, I was all set.Very very happy :DI'll probably still end up using VLC to multicast, as mythstreamtv only broadcasts on http.

VLC Woes

I've recently been trying to set up a streaming TV server at work to allow people to watch important things (like the cricket) from their pc's.Well after a bit of fiddling, I have been able to get VLC to multicast an analogue channel from a Winfast TV2000 XP Expert card. Unfortunately, the picture is terrible, and sound isn't being streamed.I can multicast a .avi quite effectively, so it appears to be an issue with the tv streaming.I've now tried out my DVICO Fusion DVB-T Pro card, however VLC d...

Snowy Trip

I've just returned to my normal work after spending a week down around the Snowy River.The trip was to monitor changes to the vegetation along the Snowy and surrounding rivers due to the controlled flows of water.It was good weather, and we got the work done quicker than expected. I even picked up a few prints from the Michael Scott Lees gallery in Jindabyne.