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I have the LDAP directory working and have it displaying the name on incoming internal calls. I know I can get a picture to display if I set it up on the phone's directory. However, is there a way to have a picture to appear based on the LDAP directory? I know how to associate the picture in LDAP to the user, but getting it to display on the phone has become quite a challenge. Does anyone know how to make this work?

Thanks!

I don't think you can directly show pictures from LDAP. I have a script on our server that prepares and saves the Contact.tar and ContactData.xml files from a database. The files get loaded during provisioning of the phones. That way, the local addressbook and photos get updated/uploaded to all the phones.

The script is something like this:

Then add these 2 lines to the common.cfg file

This workaround replaces the local addressbook, so be carefull if users have created their own entries.

The pictures don't have to come directly from LDAP. Since our internal calls get the display name info from LDAP, and LDAP is the best directory implementation for our setup, I would really like to keep the LDAP lookup. There is a stock picture next to the name display on most of our phones that use LDAP, surely there is a way to get a real picture there without having to push the pictures out to every phone. Could we edit a config file to load a picture based on a filename/extension match from a web server or something?

For the moment, the only way I see to get a non-stock picture to display is to put the contact in the local addressbook. There has been another thread that requests the option for LDAP attribute lookup, or external lookup to get a photo to display on the screen.

You can combine the LDAP name lookup with local addressbook for photos. I'm just pointing out our setup to get the photo's to display of our known contacts. Agreed it is not an ideal setup and a bit of a hassle, but ultimately it does work.

If more people request a server photo lookup feature, this might get Yealinks attention.

You could try send a picture with a SIP Invite callid head via PBX.

Hi thanks for the tip! I have googled a bit, and so far I could only find this format, but it seems to be for Snom phones only. Is this also supported by Yealink Phones? Because that would be awesome!

(08-01-2014 03:28 AM)cptjack Wrote: [ -> ]The script is something like this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
php phonebook.php > ContactData.xml
cd photo
tar -cf ../photo.tar *.jpg
cd ..
tar -cf Contact.tar photo.tar ContactData.xml

cptjack, do you have this phonebook.php script still? If so, is this something you're comfortable sharing?