Caller-ID Info with Voice Mail -- Can it display to the phone?

["Paul Davidson" <planac (at) gmail.com>]

Message: 21
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:12:38 -0500
From: Brian Swan < swannie (at) swannie.net>
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID Info with Voice Mail -- Can it
        display to the phone?
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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We recently switched my wife's business over to an Asterisk setup
using Cisco IP phones (7940s and 7960s) with chan_sccp.  They didn't
use any kind of "office-style" phone system before, they had one
phone in the office with a built in answering machine that would
display the Caller ID of the person who left the message while
playing the message.  I know in the Asterisk VM system, I can get it
to read back the name and number, but I'm wondering if there is a way
I can get that information to display on the Cisco display as well?
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any way to do this.  I don't
mind writing some custom XML apps either...

Any one have any thoughts on this?

Thanks!
Brian

Brian-

I've been working on this for some time- and it is possible, although has a few pitfalls.  I'm not done with the Asterisk VM object to support it yet, but I have developed a Services menu item for 79XX series phone (using CMXML3- it won't work for SIP loads yet- although I havent tested it with an 
8.0 series load)  that will show you the voicemail by caller id, allow you to select (cherry-pick, as it were), then playback, delete, mark read/unread, and return the call.  The system is backended by a php class I wrote to work with Cisco Unity- but I'm just about to start work on the class for Asterisk VM.  (at my current pace, expect it in a few months).  The system is developed privately- not GPL, not for sale- done for a client- but I am free to discuss the methods and madness within it, or develop a parallel system and contribute bits back to the OSS community- it's just tied in larger proprietary system which would be difficult to chop out without some time I don't have in my schedule right now.  If the Asterisk class development goes well, I may do so- but it won't happen for a while.

I'd be happy to discuss the implementation details with you if you'd like.

-Paul Davidson
 PlanCommunications, LLC
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