SOLVED: Cannot set DSS keys for T46G

[jfmorris]

First things first - various reviews of the T46G prompted me to buy 18 of them to outfit our small office as we switch from an old Samsung "digital" phone system to VOIP. So far, I am very pleased with the quality of these phones, and everything is working great. I am using Asterisk/FreePBX as the PBX.

That said, I am having issues provisioning these phones. The are loading both y000000000028.cfg and the MAC.cfg file, based on looking at the tftp related log messages on the Linux system. But... I cannot for the life of me get any key assignments to take. All phones show the local extension name next to the Line 1 button, and that's it. I can set BLF keys to the phone using the phone's built in web browser, or the phone screen, and they work - but I don't want to manage that for 18+ phones, especially as people and extensions change.

I've tried entires like this in the y000000000028.cfg file, for multiple keys, and nothing happens on the phone when rebooted:

linekey.1.line = 1
linekey.1.value = 101
linekey.1.pickup_value =
linekey.1.type = 16 (also tried "blf" here).
linekey.1.label = Jim

And so on. Nothing ever shows up. I've tried all sorts of line values (0 and 1 anyway), and have tried assigning keys on the EXP40 set as well, and just am stuck on this.

I can put these phones on everyone's desks, but I really do NOT want to have to use the web browser to each phone, and manually setup all of their DSS keys. I want to be able to manage those from the server.

Any help is appreciated.

Oh - has anyone noticed that when using DHCP time server assignment, that the "auto" setting on the phone for DST does not work? I had to turn it ON, and set the dates for DST, before I could get it to work properly.

Jim
Huntsville, Alabama