Howdy all, working on expanding my knowledge on setting up nodes and phones.

I've got several nodes (WRT-54x) we used at Field Day last year, and working on adding phones for this year; also good experience for setting up a permanent mesh in the area in the future.

I have the system set up with a raspbx and several Polycom Soundpoint IP 331 phones working, but wanted to know which way was better for setting up provisioning.

I've used the web interface for the phones to set the server, extension, etc., but I have noticed that the other systems I've seen here (KF5JIM videos) shows using files on the PBX.

Do the Cisco 7940's not have a web interface like the phones I have?

Would it be better to use the server files for this even though the web interface setup works fine?

If one has internet access, the phones can (and have) "phoned home" to Polycom to get the latest firmware, so I don't know that this is a big deal for using server files, but perhaps for future use in a permanent mesh setup, it would be better.

Certainly open to any thoughts or suggestions anyone might have.

Cheers.

Did more research last night, and I figured that it'd be much better to use the server to provision the phones, so off I go to start writing config files.

They're a bit different than the 7940 shown in the videos, but not too much more complicated, and somewhat easier in some respects.