Introduction
Distinctive Ring offers the possibility to use different ringtones for Internal, external or group calls.
Distinctive ringing is implemented in:
- DE700/900 Release 02.00.05 or higher
- DE310/410 Release 02.00.02 or higher
- N510 Software 236 or higher (Support for Alert-info Internal ringtone, all others are played as external ringtones.)
- N720 Software 99 or higher (Support for Alert-info Internal ringtone, all others are played as external ringtones.)
- Maxwell 10
- Maxwell 3 and Basic
The Platform / provider has to send the correct information using the Alert-Info: Header.
Distinctive Ringing protocol
PBX sends URI of a ring melody in SIP ‘Alert-Info’ header field in the following format:
Alert-Info: <URI>[;<RINGER_INFO>[;<POSTFIX>]]
[] – includes optional parameters
<URI>
URI of the ringer melody. If a special (configurable) URI is used, e.g.: <http://www.example.com>, or <http://127.0.0.1>
then it means for the phone that Alert-Info contains local ring melody tag, otherwise URI points at a ringer melody (in .wav format) in the network, which shall be downloaded and played by the phone.
<RINGER_INFO>
Tag of internal ringer melody in the form <info=TAG>. TAG is configured via phone’s Web UI.
<POSTFIX>
Groupcall:
Alert-Info: <http://www.example.com>;info=alert-group
Internal call:
Alert-Info: <http://www.example.com>;info=alert-internal
In the N510 and N720, there is a new provisioning parameter that provides a limited functionality to change the Alert-Header:
BS_VOIP_Data.aucS_SIPAlertInfoHeaderInternal[0]="alert-internal"
External call:
Alert-Info: <http://www.example.com>;info=alert-external
N510 / N720 how to select the Internal / External ringtone.
Ringtones can only be changed in the DECT handset, there is no web-interface to change the ringtones.
On the handset go to: Menu - Settings - Audio Settings - Ringtones (Handset) - Melodies
- Internal Calls: (The ringtone when the Internal Alert Header is received and recognized)
- Tones for the different SIP accounts. (Ringtone used when it is not an Internal Ringtone)
Example header send to N510 behind Gigaset T440/T640
Alert-Info: <http://www.notused.com>;info=alert-internal
There are 2 possibilities to enable distinctive ring on the Gigaset T300/T500.
- Using a module
- Manual (See below)
In the Gigaset T300/T500 you can enable distinctive ringing by changing the Manual configuration of the line settings, like the example below.
Here we added the line:
exten => _.,3,SIPAddHeader(Alert-Info: <http://127.0.0.1>\;info=alert-external)
This causes that for every incoming external call, the Alert-Info header is added and the device now can react on this using a special ringtone.
How to work with groups you can see below.
We changed the incoming dialplan so that when a call for the group with number: 31859020520 is coming in, the Alert-Info field is changed to alert-group.
[X2COM-incoming]
exten => 31859020520,1,Set(channelname=X2COM-incoming)
exten => 31859020520,2,Set(lineconfigid=1946)
exten => 31859020520,3,SIPAddHeader(Alert-Info: <http://127.0.0.1>\;info=alert-group)
exten => 31859020520,4,Goto(X2COM-incoming-manuell,${EXTEN},1)
exten => _.,1,Set(channelname=X2COM-incoming)
exten => _.,2,Set(lineconfigid=1946)
exten => _.,3,SIPAddHeader(Alert-Info: <http://127.0.0.1>\;info=alert-external)
exten => _.,4,Goto(X2COM-incoming-manuell,${EXTEN},1)
[X2COM-incoming-manuell]
exten => _X.,1,Goto(incoming,${EXTEN},1)
exten => _+X.,1,Goto(incoming,${EXTEN},1)