Recently I came across a find at Goodwill, 3 Soundpoint IP550's (complete with headsets and power adapters) and a Soundpoint IP335 all for the princely sum of $47.50 I've been planning on setting up an Asterisk system to replace my Panasonic KXT (A much larger digital PBX system way too big for me that I inherited when I bought the business and subsequently sold the system with all it's phones)
So I rolled up a FreePBX system on a virtual server and connected it to an old Cisco 1700 router with some FXO cards in it plugged into my incoming trunks and I can now make and receive calls from X-Lite on a PC Now I want to connect the Polycom phones (at least 2 of them for now - the other 2 I plan on using to build a little demo Asterisk system on a laptop that I can Dog-and-Pony around)
With the IP335 - unlike the other 3 phones it came with no power supply, and no stand, just kind of bouncing around in the box with the other stuff. It also had RingCentral in big letters on the front of it.
On the back of the phone is a power port labeled 24v DC. I had a big fat old wall wart power supply labeled 18v with the correct polarity that I plugged in and the phone powered up. I then reset the password on it and connected it to the FreePBX system and am able to make and receive calls on it.
I have 2 questions on this so far. First, am I going to run into trouble with the power supply? So far the phone has been running fine for the last week, and I know from experience with these antique wall wart supplies that they often floated higher than their rated voltage so I'm guessing the phone probably is getting around 20v.
Second is the firmware on the phone. Right now here's the info screen:
Phone Information
Phone Model SoundPoint IP 335
Part Number 2345-12375-001 Rev:A
MAC Address 00:04:F2:B1:86:D9
IP Address 192.168.1.207
UC Software Version 4.0.2.11307
BootROM Software Version 5.0.2.12692
I went to here:
And it seems like the phone can take the newer 4.0.11 firmware so I clicked on the link for the non-Lync firmware and downloaded it. I know that to upgrade I have to setup a provisioning server and all of that. But, SHOULD I upgrade? The school of "It's not broke don't fix it" tells me leave it alone, but the school of "if you want to try selling this stuff you need to run the latest code on your demo hardware" says go for it.
One thing I noticed is the web server on the phone did NOT like any other browser than Chrome on my win 10 desktop. Maybe the new firmware fixes that?