Caller ID Name on an ATA?

az1324 · Post by **az1324** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:23 pm

I am not getting any caller ID Name data through my ATA...only number. Anyone know how this can be configured? Thanks.

tloe · Post by **tloe** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:50 pm

The name isn't transmitted; like a cell phone, only the number is shown.

az1324 · Post by **az1324** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:49 pm

That's what I suspected however in the process memory for the caller id logs the name is shown! So how does the software get that information?

Günter Höhn · Post by **Günter Höhn** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:00 pm

az1324 wrote:That's what I suspected however in the process memory for the caller id logs the name is shown! So how does the software get that information?

Run regedit.exe and browse to:

Code: Select all

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\talk4free\USB Softphone\Options\General\FullName

az1324 · Post by **az1324** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:27 pm

Ok. Yes that value holds the name of the last call received on the softphone. So if only the number is being transmitted how is the sofphone getting the name information? By doing a lookup? And if so is there a way to get the ATA to do so?

Pismire · Post by **Pismire** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:13 am

Only with Callerid Superfecta and Asterisk AFAIK.

mufon · Post by **mufon** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:17 am

Günter Höhn wrote:
az1324 wrote:That's what I suspected however in the process memory for the caller id logs the name is shown! So how does the software get that information?
Run regedit.exe and browse to:
Code: Select all
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\talk4free\USB Softphone\Options\General\FullName

WTF does a registry entry have to do with an ATA, SF.

norml jack · Post by **norml jack** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:38 am

Cut the guy some slack mufon (pron. muff-on).

Günter Höhn only recently emerged from his clan's underground diggs.

It was a very brave thing for him, to emerge though not yet fully convinced that Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was dead.

root · Post by **root** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:57 am

Getting callid name through your ATA is dependent upon the call's termination, and of course proper configuration of your ATA. You didn't specify your ATA, but it should format its sip header something like "callerid name" <number>".

I know this is somewhat vague, but your ATA's config is the one key factor. That being said, the caller id names passage to the callee will still depend on the callee's carrier.

Buttafuoco · Post by **Buttafuoco** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:13 am

Günter Höhn wrote:
az1324 wrote:That's what I suspected however in the process memory for the caller id logs the name is shown! So how does the software get that information?
Run regedit.exe and browse to:
Code: Select all
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\talk4free\USB Softphone\Options\General\FullName

If you make this entry "anonymous" it blocks outbound caller id.

overclock · Post by **overclock** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:37 pm

I think he was talking about incoming caller id.

I also would like to know if/how this can be done. I have a PAP2v2 with one line running MagicJack and the other Gizmo5. Both services thru the ATA only show the caller id number and not the name.

zmaddmattz · Post by **zmaddmattz** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:55 pm

overclock wrote:I think he was talking about incoming caller id.

I also would like to know if/how this can be done. I have a PAP2v2 with one line running MagicJack and the other Gizmo5. Both services thru the ATA only show the caller id number and not the name.

How did you get the pap2v2 to run MJ. I can't figure it out. I would really be grateful if you could help me out.