Innovaphone swphone with VPN connection

 What

Innovaphone swphone with PPTP connection on Windows pc

 Problem

The swphone drops the call after 3 minutes talking!

DHCP vendor options for Innovaphone PBX

 What

Adding DHCP vendor options for the Innovaphone PBX to Windows Server DHCP.

 Solution

When maintaining a bigger installation, we could use the DHCP vendor options for Innovaphone to make our life easier!


Innovaphone has a lot of options to send to their phones through DHCP. We can add these options with the following netsh batch file (copy and paste into new batch file):

netsh Dhcp Server Add Class "innovaphone" "innovaphone VoIP Options" 312e332e362e312e342e312e36363636 1 b
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 200 "H323 gatekeeper" IPADDRESS 1 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the IP address of both the primary and the alternate gatekeeper for the device. This is only required, if gatekeeper discovery is not feasible" 0.0.0.0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 201 "H323 gatekeeper id" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The gatekeeper id of the gatekeeper the device likes to register with. Usually required only if several gatekeepers are running and a particular one must be chosen during gatekeeper discovery" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 202 "POSIX TZ" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines both the time zone and the daylight saving time information." ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 203 "Default coder" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the preferred coders for H.245 coder negotiation, as well as the packet size when sending RTP packets and the use of CNG and VAD" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 204 "Language" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the user interface language" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 205 "Location" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the various PBX access numbers (country code etc.) for the device" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 206 "VLAN ID" WORD 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The 802.1q VLAN ID for traffic sent and received by the device" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 207 "VLAN Priority" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The 802.1p VLAN priority for traffic sent by the device" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 208 "TOS Bits" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The value for the IP TOS field in the IP header of voice traffic sent by the device" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 209 "Enbloc dialling" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The number of seconds dialled digits are kept in the phone before they are sent en-bloc to the gatekeeper" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 210 "Dialtone type" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="The type of dialtone to generate locally" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 211 "Faststart" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Disable/Enable the H245 faststart procedure" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 212 "H245-Tunnelling" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Disable/Enable H245 tunneling" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 213 "Clock type" BYTE 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Define format of date and time display" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 214 "Static Routes" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Static routes to be added to the routes already defined in the device configuration" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 215 "Update URL" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="URL to retrieve update commands from. This is identical to the /url option parameter of the UP1 module" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 216 "Update Poll Interval" WORD 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Standard poll interval in minutes. This is identical to the /poll option parameter of the UP1 module" 0
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 217 "LDAP directory" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the various Parameters required to access an LDAP directory" ""
netsh Dhcp Server Add Optiondef 218 "Local Networks" STRING 0 vendor="innovaphone" comment="Defines the networks to be considered local in coder negotiation"

The most options you would use are Gatekeeper, update script and language.

Boolean status with different groups

 What

Trick to show the boolean state to different members on different groups.

 Problem

I had the problem that on one PBX, different sites are connected each group has pickup for his own site. But there is one reception phone with different buttons for controlling an boolean object. The goal is when the reception phone changes the boolean status, that the other phone on another site sees this state also. (and vice versa)

NTP server for Belgium

 What

The best NTP servers for Belgium

 Problem

The best NTP servers for Belgium, don't use time.nist.gov!

Bridge Conference - Innovaphone

 What

Bridge conferencing with Innovaphone BX

 Problem

New configuration settings with firmware V9 concerning Bridge Conferencing

Configure Ringtone Filter

 What

Configure different ringtones for group calls.

 Problem

Some clients want to hear a different ringtone when group calls come in.

PBX: Bypass the setup wizard

 What

This is a reminder how to bypass the setup wizard for Innovaphone PBX'es

 Problem

An IPVA was setup up by the hosting company, provided directly with the right IP information. I didn't know the internal IP configuration so I needed a way to bypass the setup wizard.

Partial Rerouting ISDN with Innovaphone PBX

 What

Howto configure partial rerouting with ISDN interfaces on Innovaphone PBX

 Problem

A client asked me if he can see the number of the caller when we forwarded all calls to his mobile phone.

MyPBX Client - Deployment

 What

I needed to install the MyPBX client from Innovaphone to multiple computers

 Problem

The MyPBX client doesn't have an option itself to deploy on workstations, we can do this with Windows GPO or with psexec.