RE: Asterisk - UK callerid

["UKHA" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/05/2004 at 15:44 Kevin Hawkins wrote:


>Nice !

If you live in the UK :/

>
>Just thinking aloud here...
>
>The BT Caller ID signals its arrival by a line polarity reversal just
>before the modem signal and then the first ring... do the US cards have
any
>ability to detect this line reversal ? During a call (call waiting) the
same line
>reversal occurs but obviously there is no ring following.


Mark was talking about providing the function for detecting the polarity
reversal so this may well happen sometime soon....

>I think what you are saying is that the modem constantly snoops the 'on

I'm saying nothing, my lips are sealed ;)

>hook' line & the patch detects 'ring' and then looks in an
alternate buffer
>for the CID info which should be there now having arrived just before
the
>first ring ??   I don't think this would then work for the Call Waiting
CID
>would it ?? The Meteor wont detect this either... or cant we get this
>feature ?

I guess it's a case of waiting and seeing for the moment... the patch is
only a few days old so will probably mature fairly quickly.. you can
always offer feedbak on it to try to get this implemented quicker...

Andy