HowTo configure the Pingtel xpressa phone with sipX
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[edit] Introduction
| Important note: Starting with Release 3.0 of sipX, the old Pingtel xpressa phone is no longer supported by ConfigServer. It can still be used with sipX, but has to be manually configured using its built-in Web server |
Are you still using a Pingtel xpressa phone? For those who remember, Pingtel started as early as 1998 to design a new generation of VoIP telephones and their xpressa™ phone was the world's first Java voice-over-IP phone based on the SIP standard. During the early years of SIP, the Pingtel xpressa phone was the reference phone used across the industry. It's high quality and feature reachness made it the ideal user agent for early applications and test setups.
An award winning design: "An intuitive interface layout ... the bitmapped LCD panel provides timely information and on-screen help, numerous programmable buttons give users easy access to commands and functions, and clearly marked buttons for 'transfer' and 'conference' make once-difficult functions simple for all users." – Business Week/Industrial Designers Society Gold award, 2002
The Pingtel xpressa SIP phone is fully managed by the sipX Configuration Server. The following describes how to set it up.
[edit] Before you start
[edit] Reset to Factory Defaults
It is a good idea to reset the xpressa phone to factory defaults before you start:
Press More Press Prefs Press More Press Menu softkey Select Factory Defaults
[edit] Steps to Configure the xpressa phone with sipX Config Server
Follow the simple steps described in more detail below:
- Create a new device for the phone in sipX Config Server
- Assign this new device to a user (this creates a line)
- Power up the xpressa phone
The xpressa phone is setup to automatically find and register with sipX and pull down the corresponding profile, provided DSN is setup correctly. The phone should work fine in an environment that uses DNS SRV to locate appropriate SIP resources.
[edit] Create a new device
Navigate to Endpoints - Devices and click on Add Device. Enter parameters as follows (select xpressa for the phone model):
Note: The phone's serial number can be found on the phone's label on the back.
[edit] Assign the device to a user
We assume here that you already created a user who will be using this new phone.
Navigate to User Settings - Users. Pick the action Assign Devices for the user you want to assign to the new phone and click Go.
Note: We recommend to initially letting the phone register and pull down its profile based on default settings. Therefore, other than creating the device and assigning the device to a user, you should not configure any additional parameters at this point. Once the phone is registered, you can go back and change parameters as needed. Make sure you push the profile to the phone after a change and reboot the phone.
[edit] Initial Registration of the xpressa phone with sipX Configuration Server
After starting, the phone will by default attempt to find a machine called sipuaconfig configured to handle the SIP protocol in your DNS server (See sipX DNS setup for details). The phone should automatically pull down its profile and prompt you to get permission to re-start. Please be patient, this might take a little while.
Note: Make sure that the DHCP server assigns the correct domain name to clients who register for an IP address.
Go to Diagnostics - Registrations to see whether the xpressa phone registered with sipX. If successful two lines will register; one with the serail number of the phone as its ID, the other corresponding to the user assigned to the new device.
Note: You can go to User Settings - Users and pick the Action Send profiles and Restart User Device(s) once the phone is registered. This is also the way how you update configuration changes and proliferate them to the phone.
