Connect and Disconnect

In my Copious Amounts Of Spare Time, I’ve been trying to get my Packet8 DTA310 SIP telephone adapter to talk to my Asterisk PBX software. I was never successful in setting the SIP settings of the DTA310 so that it would register itself with the Asterisk.

I saw last night that Packet 8 has a new firmware update for the DTA. On the slim chance that it would solve my problems, I installed it last night.

Long story short, I went to bed disappointed. The new firmware supposedly fixes a lot of sound-quality issues with the adapter. However, it also hides the SIP settings behind a password-protected “Adavanced Configuration” page. Of course, there is no password, so there’s no way to set them. I retired for the evening thinking I’d have to revert to the old firmware.

Things looked different this morning, though. Kelly told me she heard ringing from the phone plugged into the adapter. Hmmm. After calling the Asterisk server from my mobile phone, the SIP phone did indeed ring!

So it seems the firmware actually DID fix my SIP registration problem. Only problem is, all the settings are still hidden from view. Now I face the prospect of flashing the old firmware in order to change the settings and then reflashing the current firmware to get those settings to work. Argggh! What a headache!

On the other hand, maybe I could just call up Packet 8 and get them to divulge the secret password to unlock the appropriate settings. Then I’d have it all.

Stay tuned for how things work out.