Change Ring Tone

Having also looked into this, it seems that Trixbox or even the phone companies are only able to adjust the cadence of the ring.

If you have had an old bell phone (which used to be the only ones allowed for us to use when they were a monopoly) and then after the breakup bought one from sharper image or one of the other early companies selling second party phones, you might have noticed that they rang differently than the bell phones although they were on the same line receiving the same signals.

The ring tones are in the phone. Some of the phones have programmable ring tones, Cisco 7970 for instance can have a different ring set for each line - if you install enough different ring files, wheras a Cisco 7960 can only ring with one particular ring for all lines - which can also be customizeable providing you tell it what file to utilise.

I am aware that several other phones can also have options to use different rings - some for the entire phone and others customizeable for each line respectively. Check the manual/manufacturer for your particular phone. www.voip-info.org (search box --> custom ring for your brand) is another good source.

If the phone manufacturers were co-ordinating the development of the phones to get the signal and the respective tone from Asterisk for instance, perhaps they could create a cadence and ringtone for each line and/or all lines in the endpoint manager; but this would have to be on a model by model basis as different phone manufacturers have different ways of addressing their phones.

Therefore when you are asking for feature requests, it might make more sense to request to the phone manufacturer to co-ordinate their functionality with Asterisk/FreePBX/Trixbox as I dont believe trixbox can solve thsi problem without the manufacturer + Asterisk + FreePBX collaboration.

(in the case of a Cisco collaboration, - i wouldnt run and open a winter gear shop in hell - cause it most likely isnt going to freeze over in our lifetime - but on a positive note they have already addressed this in the hardware with 7970 and i presume in their new models as well).