BLF, for Aastra 57i and Yealink T42G

[Vic]

Hello,

General question: How to enable BLF on Kazoo?

Here are the Apps and modules running on the system:

sup kapps_controller running_apps
[acdc,blackhole,callflow,cdr,conference,crossbar,fax,hangups,media_mgr,milliwatt,omnipresence,pivot,registrar,reorder,stepswitch,sysconf,tasks,teletype,trunkstore,webhooks]

sup crossbar_maintenance running_modules
[cb_about,cb_accounts,cb_agents,cb_alerts,cb_api_auth,cb_apps_store,cb_auth,cb_basic_auth,cb_blacklists,cb_callflows,cb_cdrs,cb_channels,cb_clicktocall,cb_comments,cb_conferences,cb_configs,cb_connectivity,cb_contact_list,cb_devices_v1,cb_devices_v2,cb_directories,cb_faxboxes,cb_faxes,cb_groups,cb_hotdesks,cb_ips,cb_ledgers,cb_limits_v1,cb_limits_v2,cb_media,cb_menus,cb_metaflows,cb_multi_factor,cb_notifications,cb_parked_calls,cb_phone_numbers_v1,cb_phone_numbers_v2,cb_pivot,cb_port_requests,cb_presence,cb_queues,cb_quickcall,cb_rates,cb_registrations,cb_resource_templates,cb_resources,cb_schemas,cb_search,cb_security,cb_service_plans,cb_services,cb_simple_authz,cb_sms,cb_system_configs,cb_tasks,cb_templates,cb_temporal_rules,cb_temporal_rules_sets,cb_token_auth,cb_token_restrictions,cb_transactions,cb_user_auth,cb_users_v1,cb_users_v2,cb_vmboxes,cb_webhooks,cb_websockets,cb_whitelabel,crossbar_maintenance,crossbar_services,crossbar_util]

 

I tried with an Aastra 57i:

# Upper softkeys
# The 6757i and 6737i support ten upper softkeys
# These examples configure the upper buttons as
# Busy Lamp Fields, which can be used to
# show the status of other phones on
# the system and to call or transfer
# calls to those phones.
topsoftkey1 type: blfxfer
topsoftkey1 label: Secretary
topsoftkey1 value: 1000

The key doesn't flash when the ext. 1000 is in use. Speed dial do work.

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How to do it on Yealink T42G? with the GUI or on provisioning server?

Thanks,

Vic

 

 

 

 

[Baze]

Is this on your own cluster you set up?  Is the provisioning that you are doing from a server you set up also?  BLF works great on the Yealink, and also does work on Aastra.  Best way we like to do this is to login to the UI on the phones and then set it from the GUI there.  Once that is done and tested, usually there is an option to export the phone config which will give you the exact information you need.  They change from vendor to vendor, and sometimes from firmware to firmware (esp Yealink can) so just keep an eye on that.

[Vic]

Hello Baze,

It is my own cluster setup. For the Aastra, I did it from a tftp server (local). I'm not familiar with BLF in general.

Could you please give a screenshot of the Yealink setting on the BLF section?

Thanks,

 

 

[Baze]

Sure, so here is a screenshot:

Here is the associated config file to make the above work:

linekey.1.label = Brandon B
linekey.1.type = 16
linekey.1.value = 1234
linekey.1.line = 1

linekey.2.label = Jeremy K
linekey.2.type = 16
linekey.2.value = 1218
linekey.2.line = 1

linekey.3.label = Kyle V
linekey.3.type = 16
linekey.3.value = 1237
linekey.3.line = 1

linekey.4.label = David K
linekey.4.type = 16
linekey.4.value = 1230
linekey.4.line = 1

linekey.5.label = Janae S
linekey.5.type = 16
linekey.5.value = 1221
linekey.5.line = 1

linekey.6.label = Bill J
linekey.6.type = 16
linekey.6.value = 1224
linekey.6.line = 1

linekey.7.label=Pramod V
linekey.7.type = 16
linekey.7.value = 1236
linekey.7.line = 1

linekey.8.label = Park 1
linekey.8.type = 10
linekey.8.value = *31
linekey.8.line = 1

linekey.9.label = Park 2
linekey.9.type = 10
linekey.9.value = *32
linekey.9.line = 1

linekey.10.label = Park 3
linekey.10.type = 10
linekey.10.value = *33
linekey.10.line = 1

linekey.11.label = Page All
linekey.11.type = 13
linekey.11.value = 2555
linekey.11.line = 1

[Baze]

Here is a snippet of an aastra 6739i BLF config:

#BLF Key Settings
softkey1 type: blfxfer
softkey1 value: *31
softkey1 line: 1
softkey1 label: "Park 1"

softkey2 type: blfxfer
softkey2 value: *32
softkey2 line: 1
softkey2 label: "Park 2"

softkey3 type: blfxfer
softkey3 value: 5555
softkey3 line: 1
softkey3 label: "Pa O"

softkey4 type: blfxfer
softkey4 value: 544
softkey4 line: 1
softkey4 label: "Client conf 1"

[Vic]

Thank you very much. I will try now.

[Vic]

Hello Baze,

Something is probably wrong on my configs.

For Aastra:

#BLF Key Settings
softkey1 type: blfxfer
softkey1 value: (the device id? or the Extension?) 
softkey1 line: 1
softkey1 label: "Park 1"

Do you have to enable some specific "presence" apps or modules?

Thanks,

 

 

[Vic]

The Aastra firmware:

Hardware Information
Attribute	Value
MAC Address:	00-08-5D-1A-83-F2
Platform	6757i CT Revision 0
Firmware Information
Attribute	Value
Firmware Version	2.6.0.2019
Firmware Release Code	SIP
Boot Version	2.0.1.1055
Date/Time	Feb 22 2011 22:30:29

 

Could you please tell me the firmware version of the Yealink and the Aastra you are using?

Thanks,

 

[Vic]

Hello Baze,

It works now. Thank you!

the issue was related to a field on the DB (Mysql):

ERROR: db_mysql [km_dbase.c:128]: db_mysql_submit_query(): driver error on query: Data too long for column 'etag' at row 1 (1406)

I "alter" the filed in three tables and that solves the BLF issue.

Thanks,

Victor

[Baze]

Great!