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

By: Osq

Osq — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:37:19 +0000

Would you please demo/explain how to setup a video call between this phone and Apple iChat

.. since iChat uses SIP for video, too

I cannot afford a MAC device merely to video chat with my family who all except for me use such.

I would greatly prefer a hardware appliance for video chat and NOT software.

If not the nortel 1535 can you recommend an inexpensive iChat video capable alternative sip phone?

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can the yealink T46G do video chat using inexpensive [skype capable] USB video cameras?
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I use skype capable as the feature benchmark but have zero interest whatsoever myself using skype as it’s not an open standard and skype-sip requires costly business licenses.

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can the cisco SPA 525G2 be "hacked" to use [skype capable] USB video cameras for video chat? or other hackery?
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[WM: Please head to the PIAF Forum. That’s what it’s for.

By: James

James — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:23:47 +0000

Thanks Ward (and everyone) for you help contained in this set of posts.

I have 2 Nortel 1535s, now connected through sip2sip.

They work fine for audio…
when I switch to video on the phones (Even after 10 min of audio conversation) – consistently after 30 seconds, they hang up with the message "Video Call Terminated".

Any Ideas?

Thanks
James
Australia

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.