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RingCentral

The DuVoice DV2000 provides hospitaility features to RingCentral hosted VOIP service. The features include a link to the property management system (PMS) to push the guest names into the RingCentral guest room extension profile, allow housekeeping to use the guest room telephone to report room clean/dirt status to the PMS, guest wakeup calls and guest voice mail. The DV2000 connects to the RingCentral system using a combination of standard SIP extensions and through a RingCentral App developed by DuVoice. New or existing guest VOIP or analog telephones can be used in the application. The features will meet and/or exceed any existing on premise based PBX solution.

Features

Requirements

Network Considerations

Creating the User Extensions for the DV2000 ports

The DV2000 requires one user extension per port.

*These settings for each extension must be provided to the DuVoice tech to enter into the DV2000 configuration:

Setting up the Call Queue

Setting Up Guest Extensions

RingCentral JWT credential

DV2000 Programming

Telephony

Lines

PBX Configuration

Note: Proxy server port number despite showing as 5096 within Ringcentral configuration needed to be set to 5090 within DuVoice configuration for registration to occur.

Options

Call Routing

Mailboxes

General

MWI address

Profile

** More details on LINK-PBX configuration: https://support.duvoice.com/vs8/pbxlinks/ringcentral

Troubleshooting

Name Updates

When testing with a checked-in guest, the RC API getting 200 OK.

However, when a guest was checked-out, the RC API was responding with a 400 Bad Request.

To fix this issue:

  1. Opened DuVoice DV2000 Manager.
  2. Clicked on 'System'.
  3. Then clicked on 'tenant'.
  4. Then double-clicked the corresponding tenant.
  5. Then clicked on the 'name translations tab'
  6. By default under the 'vacant' table the 'first' and 'last' use the wild cards for the first and last name corresponding to the mailbox.
  7. Updated it so that the 'first' field was 'Room' and the 'last' field was the wildcard for roomid.

Example below:

MWI Consideration

Since Dialogic HMP can only be bound to one interface, the interface it is bound to must have internet access to RingCentral as well as direct network access to the phones so it can send MWI updates via SIP Notify.

Not Enough Rings for Wake-Up Calls

If Wake-up calls are only ringing once or twice. (Not to be confused with attempt count). Then there are a few settings within RingCentral that will need to be verified for the guest extensions.

Within the guest extension configuration under 'Screening, Greeting, & Hold Music' all of these must be unchecked:

  1. User Greeting
  2. Call Screening
  3. Connecting Message
  4. Hold Music

Example screenshot:

Ring No Answer Integration

If a forwarded call has more than the DID or Extension information within the SIP Header, specifically the 'from' and 'to' fields, the DuVoice system will be unable to route the call to the correct mailbox.

In our test case, we were recieving the name of the guest within the room and the extension, rather than just the extension (or DID).

Here is a example of working SIP RNA integration:

To fix our issue, there was a setting within the DuVoice Call Queue inside of RingCentral.

  1. Call Handling & Members
  2. Under 'Display Settings'
  3. Call information displayed:
  4. Box 1: Phone Number
  5. Box 2: None

Example screenshot:

Guest Mailbox Design

While this could be flexible and still work, these options worked best during testing.

Mailbox fields
Call Routing

Enabled extension search for called and caller ID.

  1. Open DV2000 Manager
  2. Click on 'telephony' drop down menu.
  3. Click on 'call routing'
  4. Click insert.
  5. Set 'enabled' to checked, 'input source' to 'caller id', 'action to take' to 'extension search'.
  6. Click insert.
  7. Set 'enabled' to checked, 'input source' to 'called id', 'action to take' to 'extension search'.
  8. Click 'apply' and 'save'.
PMS integration

Use RoomID to avoid requiring a translation table.

  1. Open DV2000 Manager
  2. Click on the 'features' drop down menu.
  3. Click on 'hospitality'.
  4. Click on the applicable PMS link.
  5. Click on the 'PMS tab'.
  6. Under the 'Room lookup method' field, select 'match room ID'.
  7. Click 'ok'.