Virtual Phone Settings for Digium Phones (5.X)

(Digium) Phone Settings tab

These settings enable you to control everything about your Digium phone. To assign a Digium Phone to an extension, see Digium Phones.

Volume levels for the ringer, speaker, handset, and headset are controlled from the volume bar on the phone itself.

The settings here are also available in Extension Templates and Bulk Modify, for your convenience.

General Settings

Line Label is the label that is displayed on the phone's Line Key for this extension. You can enter a specific label, or use variables to described what the label should be. Variables are useful in Extension Templates, so that you do not have to set a unique label for each extension.

Label Variablesinclude the following from a dropdown menu: First Name, Last Name, First Letter of First Name, First Letter of Last Name, Extension.

Msgs Button

Msgs Button Action is the action that happens when the Msgs button is pressed.

Open Visual Voicemail. Select this option to use the phone Voicemail application to navigate via the phone display, or select Dial Voicemail Extension to call the voicemail-system extension (default extension number 899) and navigate via sound prompts.

Require Numeric Password. Selecting YES displays a prompt to enter a numeric password when you press the Msgs button on your Digium Phone. NO is the default setting.

Voicemail Extension. If using Dial Voicemail Extension, enter the extension to dial in the text box.

Idle Screen Image

An Idle Screen Image is a PNG image that displays on the phone's idle screen. It should be 205x85 pixels; but other sizes can be accepted, then scaled.

Display Missed Calls Notification

If this is YES, a Missed Calls notification is displayed in the top-left corner of the phone display. If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Display

Brightness and Contrast

These control the phone display. If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Backlight Dimming

If this is YES, the phone's backlight will dim to the specified level after the phone is not in use for the specified number of seconds. If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Enable Line Keys for Contacts

If YES, the phone's unregistered Line Keys are used as Rapid Dial Keys.

Sounds

Default Ringtone

This is the ringtone used for incoming calls (unless the extension-owner has set up one or more Ring Rules). If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Reset Volume Every Call

If this is YES, the call volume will be reset to the default after each call. The volume can be changed during the call, using the volume bar. If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Answering Calls

Headset Answer

If this is YES, when the user presses the Answer sofkey during an incoming call, the call is answered on the headset, not the speaker.

This setting should not be confused with the Auto-answer Switchboard initiated calls feature under the Common Settings tab. If this is changed on the phone itself using Preferences, then you will no longer be able to change it here in the web-based suite.

Electronic Hook Switch

If you select Jabra IQ, the Jabra headset must be set to IQ mode. If the Jabra headset does not support Jabra IQ, you may need to update the firmware on the headset. See the manufacturer's documentation.

Advanced Phone Options

SIP Settings

Accept Calls From

If this is set to This PBX's Networks, then the phone accepts calls from any of the networks described in Phone Networks.

If this is set to Any Host, then the phone accepts calls from any host.

Local SIP Port

This is the phone's port on which SIP traffic is transmitted. You should not need to change this, but if you do you must be sure that the SIP traffic to and from the phone is routed correctly.

Override Dial Plan

This lets you override the Switchvox dial plan.

Passwords

Phone-admin Password

This password lets you access the Admin Settings from the phone's Menu. The phone-admin password should not be confused with the phone-registration password, which is used for SIP registration with the PBX. That password is set in the Common Settings tab.

By default, this password is not specified in the Default Template, and a unique password is automatically, randomly generated when a SIP extension is created. However, if you put a phone-admin password in your Extension Template(s), then that same password is used each time a SIP extension is created.

This setting is also available in Bulk Modify, so that you can put the same phone-admin password on multiple SIP extensions.

Reset Registration for Phone-based Assignment-Stealing

If this is YES, then the phone-registration password for this Digium Phone extension is reset when its phone assignment changes (meaning, this extension moves to another phone's MAC address). And the assignment is changed from the new Digium Phone's numeric keypad (not from the Switchvox web suite, Bulk Import, or the Extend API). This is referred to as "stealing" a phone assignment, because a phone is stealing an extension that already belongs to (is assigned to) another phone.

Audio Codecs

Audio codes can be enabled and ordered for priority of use, or disabled. If the codec is disabled, it does not matter where it falls in the order.