twocans v0.1.5

Grandstream desk phones, properly — all four compact hotel phones, hotkeys that actually reach the phone, printable faceplates, changes sent without a restart, and announcements that play through the speaker instead of as a call. Plus music on hold, which was silent before.

Upgrading

./twocans update

The update adds a new pager service (it plays announcements on desk phones; it opens no ports) and fetches the hold music. Then, on each Grandstream desk phone's page, open Setup and press Send its settings now once — or restart the phone — so it learns where to listen for announcements.

From 0.1.1 or earlier, run the one-line install and point it at your twocans folder.

What's new

Grandstream desk phones, properly: all four models, hotkeys that work,
printable faceplates, changes sent straight to the phone, and announcements
that play through the speaker instead of as a call.

Added

• More desk phones. The GHP610 and GHP611 (three hotkeys) and the GHP620
  (the white GHP621) alongside the GHP621. They share the GHP621's settings,
  so should work the same — but only the GHP621 has been tried on a real phone.
• Adding a phone goes by what it is — an app, a desk phone or an adapter,
  then the model, each drawn as it looks. Look for phones scans your
  network for Grandstreams that aren't added yet and knows each one's model;
  pick one and its MAC is filled in. One that asks twocans for its settings
  before it's added is offered too.
• A phone's page is in tabs: Rules, Keys & faceplate (desk phones), Setup.
  A phone that hasn't signed in yet opens on Setup.
• Changes reach a Grandstream straight away. Saving hotkeys, renaming it,
  or changing the name of someone on one of its keys sends it its settings —
  no restart. Its Setup tab can send them again, or restart it, and says when
  it last fetched them.
• Hotkeys, laid out like the phone, with a preview of its face, for a
  person, a group (by its speed dial) or a twocans number. A key follows a
  person or group when their number or speed dial changes. After you save
  someone who isn't on a key, twocans offers a free one; the phones list shows
  each desk phone's keys.
• Printable faceplates. A GHP62x's is a card for behind its clear cover; a
  GHP61x's a 35 × 8.5 mm label for above its three keys. Each shows the photo
  and name of whoever a key rings, in twocans colours or plain white, and is
  previewed beside the hotkeys as they're picked.
• Announcements play through a desk phone's speaker, with no call to
  answer and no microphone open — the way the phones page natively. A new
  pager service sends them as multicast on the house network (it opens no
  ports). A desk phone that has fetched its settings at home gets them this
  way; phone apps, and desk phones away from home, still get a call.
  ./twocans status and System show whether the pager is running.
• Your own hold music: add songs under Greetings → Someone put on hold;
  whoever a phone puts on hold hears them, one after another.
• A proper welcome for test calls — "Congratulations! Your new phone is
  now on the twocans system…" — instead of Asterisk's stock demo, until a
  household records its own greeting. Built-in sounds live in
  storage/defaults/.
• A recording that's the same as another's (another announcement, or
  another phone's message) is saved, but says so: it's usually the wrong file
  picked.

Changed

• Saving doesn't reload the page. Announcements, a phone's calls, hours,
  limits, message, hotkeys and provisioning, and the contact editor, save in
  place and say so, refreshing just what changed.
• Getting started leaves the menu once every step is done, and its page
  can hide it early. System brings it back.

Fixed

• A GHP621's hotkeys reach the phone. They were written to settings the
  phone doesn't have, so it never saw them.
• Music on hold. A phone putting someone on hold left them in silence.
  The installer now fetches Asterisk's Opsound set (credited in NOTICE), and
  ./twocans update adds it to an existing install.

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