

I would not recommend at all that you apply a 2-year old asterisk patch to a current phone system. If you are somehow locked into using 1.6 then fair enough, but just wanted you to be aware that this particular patch has had MANY feature and stability updates since it was first published 2 years ago for 1.6.

My comment about asterisk 1.6 was specifically in relation to applying the presence/BLF/video patch. Patching asterisk is usually fine, but would recommend that you try this on an experimental system that you don’t mind breaking - DO NOT TRY THIS ON A PRODUCTION SYSTEM without having proved to yourself that you can actually patch the thing and not bugger it up. I’ve seen that you’ve posted a similar thing in JIRA, which is fine - but be aware that is not a support forum and you will not necessarily get answers to how do I patch asterisk - they assume you will know how to do this…Īlso asterisk 1.6 is not the best thing to get this working on - you need to move to asterisk 1.8 or later ideally as the Gareth Palmer patch has now moved on considerably in terms of bug fixes and functionality since the first iterations. One thing is certain you will need to patch asterisk to get BLF/presence working. This how-to is based on 89xx and 99xx series Cisco’s and there are some difference with the 7970 phones. I’ve previously published a quick how-to here: The answers do exist and the road has been well travelled
