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Hitachi WiFi VoIP up and running!

Finally got my cheap-from-ebay Hitachi WirelessIP 5000 phone working. Took a lot of doing:

  • Hadda configure the wireless to B-only, which suxx.
  • Asterisk config
  • Much poking through a very odd set of phone menus, figured it out only after I googled the phone user and admin manuals.
  • Had to change broadvoice proxies to get the lag down from 165msec to 18.

    • Seems to have semi-poor wireless reception, worse than my not-great aluminum powerbook. Audio quality is still in progress, not sure I have it setup right. I’m getting a lot of these from Asterisk:

        -- Got SIP response 606 "Not Acceptable" back from 204.128.136.100

    No help from google, surprisingly.

    Since the manuals were hard to find, I’m mirroring them locally for anyone else who needs them:
    WIP-5000_WebInterface.pdf

    WirelessIP5000_SE_Manual_jul.pdf

    WirelessIP5000_Users_manual_jul.pdf

    We’ll see how this goes. I really, really love the idea of unlimited phone calls for twenty bucks a month. In other words, email me if you want to talk and I’ll send you the new VoIP number.

    Update 11/23/06:

    I still get 606 errors, but I have new firmware I need to try. The wiki page on this phone has some ideas, so maybe when I get home I’ll try a firmware update. I’m also considering just selling it and switching to a Nokia N80, which has SIP/Asterisk support.

    Update 12/20/06:

    Sold it on Ebay and bought a Sipura 3012 FXS/FXO adapter. Too much hassle with the Hitachi.

    This entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2006 at 11:32 pm and is filed under News, Voice over IP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    4 Responses to “Hitachi WiFi VoIP up and running!”

    1. Doug Says:
      November 23rd, 2006 at 7:28 am

      We have 36 Hitachi WIP 5000 and constantly get “Got SIP response 606 “Not Acceptable” back from” messages. Has anyone figured this one out yet?

    2. austin Says:
      December 29th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

      I also get the 606 errors but only when the mailbox= line is set in sip.conf. If I turn on sip debug, I see the response is from the voicemail notification messages. I thought this phone was supposed to support MWI?

    3. austin Says:
      December 31st, 2006 at 6:11 pm

      I appear to have fixed the 606 errors. MWI had to be turned on. Logged in to the web server as admin and under configuration->MWI, turned on MWI and the error went away for me.

    4. Fnord. Says:
      January 7th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

      [...] I had a fair bit of grief with my Hitachi phone and finally eBay’d it off. In its place is the Sipura 3102, a 3-interface device of considerable sophistication. It has FXS, FXO, WAN and LAN ports, meaning that it is: [...]

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