Comments on: 2010 Bargain of the Year: Nortel 1535 Color SIP Videophone

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:40:50 +0000

Neat write up. The phone I bought ended up with what forums describe as turkish firmware with the claim the firmware can never be upgraded No wifi but then I don’t believe in competing for frequency at home

(1)
Since the device can resolve the FQDN of NTP why must we enter: " IP address of your server for Proxy, Proxy Address" ??

(2)
sip2sip claims video call capability. Would you please offer an example setup for placing video calls

(2b)
to other nortel 1535

(2c)
suggest win/osx/ubuntu software that can receive such a call

(3)
Can any of these VSP facilitate video calls: voipMS, lesNET, vitelity, anveo?

(4)
are there recommended alternative/3rd party firmware(s) for the turkish device or non-turkish device?

By: Barrett

Barrett — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:24:39 +0000

I purchased five of these phones off of eBay and I am using them with PIAF Purple. Is there anyway to add a dialplan to the phone so that you do not have to wait 4 seconds or hit the green button for the call to start? Is this something I’m missing in Asterisk?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:57:09 +0000

I purchased five of these awesome phones last year. Accidentally purchased a few "wired only" ones, but oh well. They are really cool! One question though, I'm having issues with phones saying they aren't registered. They work fine for months and then randomly stop. I have to go to the phone and select "register" from the phone menu. Then they start working again. Any thoughts?

By: bacon

bacon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:59:44 +0000

I wonder if this new amazon merchant is selling legit gear at $75

http://amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003E2X8E6/

[WM: The two questions we'd want answered are (1) are these the Turkish model or the U.S. model and (2) do the phones include WiFi support. There's no firmware update for the Turkish models to get the VPN software working. And, if the WiFi NIC isn't in the phones, there's no way to add it.]

By: thanks for the great article

thanks for the great article — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:52:59 +0000

I’ve been trying to set up gmail on the nortel 1535 but i can’t get it to work. Is there a trick to getting it to work?

By: Jimbo Roni

Jimbo Roni — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:43:06 +0000

Yep. If you install the deskmount then you can just wrap the power cable around it. There’s a picture in the thread Ward keeps linking to. Somewhere. But it’s pretty obvious once you think about it.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:38:31 +0000

I just got one from OEM solutions for $60 plus shipping. The power supply barrel connector was very loose in the phone, and the slightest touch would reset the phone. Has anyone else experienced this?

By: Mason

Mason — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:12:16 +0000

Just set two of these phones up on my PBXiaF system, my first experience with Asterisk. Great articles. As I was playing with the phone’s web browser, I thought it would be handy to have the weather as an option. It’s a little time consuming the key in, but works great.

Enter this url into the phone’s bookmarks, http://m.wund.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=mobile&query=zipcode

Make sure to substitute your 5 digit zip for the zipcode at the end. Makes for a nice, quick, easy way to look at the current conditions. Even has animated weather radar, all formatted perfectly for this tiny screen.

Hope someone finds this useful….

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:16:31 +0000

What type of features or options will we be missing out on by not being able to upgrade firmware on the turkish model? Anyone know? [WM: Have a look at this thread on the PIAF Forums.]

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:49:09 +0000

Could someone help by posting the procedure for changing the language from turkish to english? Thanks. [WM: See this thread on the PIAF Forums.]

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:23:03 +0000

Can you make outgoing calls on the 1535 via GV without a PBX? I have incoming calls working through my GV number and can make outgoing calls via the SIP number.. but how can I call regular numbers without a PBX? There is a new iphone app (talkatone) that I use to make and receive calls from GV.. so I am hoping I can do it on the 1535 too!

[WM: You can buy some minutes for any one of numerous SIP providers.]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:43:38 +0000

After getting PBXIAF setup again and seemingly more stable, now I’m looking at these SIP phones. Can’t believe I glossed over the 1535 so much. Now I’m considering one… dangerous as my wife won’t be happy with more gadgets. Anyway, it would be nice to have a ‘desk phone’ at home in my den. I picked up a SPA-2102 to convert to my analog wireless phones and that has worked out well. But the video functionality is very tempting. Just wondering – can it interface with Google Video Chat? If so that would be really neat.

[WM: Doesn't support jabber/jingle/Gchat at least yet. Works with X-Lite 4 extensions on Asterisk, however.]

By: Fate

Fate — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:22:25 +0000

i bought 2 Nortel 1535 and looks i have a very strange problem.
Using a Sip account with portaone switch phones are working ok as voice call. but not video calls. When make video call from Grandstream GVX3000 to Nortel 1535 , it is ok, but when make video call the device did not pass digest credentials in the video call.Is there any known limitation for digest authorization in the video calls for Nortel 1535 or someone knows to clarify Nortel 1535 behavior?

By: tainanese

tainanese — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:54:18 +0000

1-stop-accessories has removed WIFI from their ad. Nortel should have used a different model number for these special units.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:41:17 +0000

Oops sorry just saw tainanese’s post, that’s a bummer.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:39:43 +0000

I order one and can’t find the wifi settings anywhere, it’s from the 1-stop-accessories store on ebay, do I have to do something like enter the admin password to get to the wifi settings?

By: tainanese

tainanese — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:47:33 +0000

I received mine from 1-stop-accessories yesterday. It's Turkey special with hardware version 1.0 and software version 0.2.93. I changed the language to English already but I didn't see "Profile" in the Settings after logging in as Admin. I am stuck trying to enable WIFI. Any hints? Thanks. [WM: We haven't purchased a phone from 1-stop-accessories; however, their ad reads as shown below. If there is no Menu, Settings, Profile option, then the phone you received doesn't have WiFi. Either use a network cable of return the phone.] "Flexible connectivity options with traditional LAN wired Ethernet (10/100 Base-T Fast Ethernet) or Wireless LAN access with an integrated IEEE 802.11b/g (Wi-Fi) radio"

By: cestes

cestes — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:34:44 +0000

5-star is not budging on the price... they have 200 left as of today. I just picked up 3 of 'em for $50/each from ebay seller 1-stop-accessories

By: Peterman

Peterman — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:37:51 +0000

Hi All, I saw this kinda late and went to buy 16 on ebay. I called 5 star and tried to haggle but they said $64 plus shipping each for 16 of them. I called the next day to purchase and it was magically $69 each now. Not too pleased with that service, google lead me to metroline direct, who set me up for $54 each plus shipping. I got the phones today and I’m setting them up. Interesting enough, they were purchased from Ireland I’m told, but they have the Brazilian National Telecommunications logo on the back (Anatel). All seem well so far . Thanks for finding this great deal!

By: MGD4me

MGD4me — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:07:00 +0000

No Hold button ? — No problem…

If you follow the instructions for programming the ‘Voicemail’ button (located beside the #3 key), you can just as easily re-program this button to send ‘##70′ (or, whatever your feature code shows for a Blind Transfer). The icon shown on this particular button is somewhat cryptic anyways, so using it as a Hold or Park function might just be the solution.

See: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8273&page=24

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:25:42 +0000

Oops, I just saw that this articles mentions "With the exception of the early phones which were configured for Turkey." I see that I bought a Turkish model. What does this mean? Did I just waste GBP110?

[WM: No. They're fine. Just follow these simple steps to convert everything to English.]

By: ward

ward — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:23:40 +0000

News Flash: PIAF Dev Team announces release of OpenVPN for the Nortel 1535 Color SIP Videophone. You can download it from the PIAF Forums.

By: Hersh

Hersh — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:57:28 +0000

Just got mine yesterday. It is a cute little phone, managed to get it working with the video on pbxiaf, but there is only one thing missing on this phone, a real hold button. In order to put a call on hold you need to press "options" and then press three times to get to the "call hold" option and then press "OK". Even though the phone was a great deal for its many features but no hold button?

By: Tom Westheimer

Tom Westheimer — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:27:38 +0000

Does anyone know of a GOOD video softphone that will work with these? I bought 2 for my kids while I am in Thailand but want to use a softphone here. I did get mine for $49 + 11 shipping too [WM: X-Lite works great, and it's free!]

By: ward

ward — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:45:32 +0000

Impressive progress turning Nortel 1535 WiFi SIP videophone into all-purpose Linux platform. http://nerd.bz/ade8ff

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:33:44 +0000

Do these phones support configuration via a file in the tftp directory? Can they be added to the endpoint manager? Just bought two to see if I want to replace the Cisco 79x1s we have now. [WM: See this thread on the forums. It will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about these phones.]

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:33:43 +0000

$70 each even for multiple purchase? These are $75 shipped from another non-ebay seller, so there’s really no reason to deal with the FiveStarTelecom folks any longer. I was ready to impulse buy 4-5 of these things at the price mentioned in the original post, but now I’m just getting one.

By: Yozh

Yozh — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 02:32:16 +0000

Too Bad went up to 60$ on the offers and no go, really dont want to pay over that and then there is shipping, if any one wants to sell theres cheaper then that let me know

By: ward

ward — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:27:42 +0000

Great tip today on the forums:

"Has anyone else left video voicemails? I had no idea that if you make a video call and leave a voicemail, Asterisk will record a video voicemail. All you need to do to view it is make a video call when you check your voicemail. Very cool."

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:41:22 +0000

Informed by colleague that price is up to $70/phone for even a multiple purchase now. Reason given by seller is a higher cost to them for a new lot they purchased to offer for sale. I'm leery to purchase now. Might not get the same mileage out of this "new lot" of the phones.

By: ward

ward — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:00:54 +0000

How to provision your Nortel 1535 Color Videophone from the phone’s browser | PIAF Forums http://nerd.bz/9aWvG0

By: Harold

Harold — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:21:39 +0000

Price increase! The link now is $77 or "best offer" I called in and was told by Renee that the 3 phones I wanted would be $56 each. She would do $50 for 10 phones only. There is another seller but he wants $59. I ordered the 3 for $56 each and $14 shipping. Maybe others are better bargainers. Good luck everyone!

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:38:04 +0000

Hello Ward,
Thanks for the great work….
Can you help me here with a situation. I have the incredible pbx installed with everything working ok. Using a sip softphone, I was able to log in from outside (public wifi in a cafe shop)here in the US.
But my relative overseas tried unsuccessful to log in, using the same extension, same credentials and softphone. Their internet connection goes through satellite (V-SAT or satellite broadband).
I don’t know the extension works fine here from outside in the US but when connected from overseas, it does not work…
Would you have a solution ?
Is it due to latency ?
Thanks…

[WM: Latency is not your friend when it comes to VoIP. Probably always going to be hit-and-miss via satellite.]

By: vic

vic — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:51:35 +0000

You may want to modify your proxy statement above. I am on asterisk and I tried using the external address (public IP) and the phone is inside my network. When I changed it back to my private ip of the server it came right up.

[WM: It needs to be the network address on which your phone and Asterisk server reside. Behind a firewall, that would be your private IP address. If the phone is outside the firewall, then it needs to be the public IP address. With some routers (such as dLink), you can always use the public IP address.]

By: vic

vic — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:07:23 +0000

quick question. also to let everyone know it seems $50 is accepted price online.

I am trying to setup with trixbox ce 2.8.0.4

I see your document. I have setup the extension with mac as generic. I modified the sip_general_custom.conf. I am stuck at the last part with setting up the extension.

dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=yes
context=from-internal
host=dynamic
type=friend
nat=yes
port=5060
qualify=yes
disallow=all
allow=h263,ulaw,gsm

where do I put this information? It almost seems like it is in the trunk section? If it goes in a config file in tftp do we create it from scratch with these settings?

I am a new user still learning. any help would be appreciated. thank you. and thanks for the heads up on the phone and info for setup.

[WM: Those are actually the extension settings. You won't see most of them until you create the extension and then edit it. Good luck!]