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* Connect your Mesh nodes ethernet cable into the phones LAN jack. Plug your PC (if needed) into the phones PC jack.

* This phone is a touchscreen; almost every function (including answering a call and hanging up) are shown on the LCD screen. For me, using these touch screen buttons are a lot easier than using the hard buttons. Though, there are a complete set of hard buttons for those that prefer them.

* and just like a smartphone or tablet, tap on a text/numeric entry field to bring up a screen soft keyboard.

* beneath the display... are five hard buttons. Of interest are the center "Home" screen button, and the furthest to the right is a "Back" button that is helpful when navigating screens.

 

* Name your phone

from the main screen tap Settings

Scroll to Advanced settings and tap

Tap on Account

Tap on the first accound listed, top of the list.

Cllick on the text field next to Account name... and type in your phones name.

(You may have to click on "NEXT" a few times... just accept whatever is in those fields)

When finished, click on OK in the top right corner.

Press the Home hard button to return to the main screen.

* the green hard button - above the volumes + is a redial key when the phone is idle.

* The orange speaker-phone key (above the volumes "-") will activate the speaker-phone, and can be pressed to answer a call and go straight to speaker phone. This orange hard button will also hang-up an active speaker-phone call (this can also be done via the touchscreen as well).

 

* if the LCD screen times out (goes blank), tap on the screen to awaken

* to answer a call:

pick up the handset, or

press the screens ANSWER button, will go straight to speaker-phone mode, or

press the orange hard key (above the volume "-") to answer and go into spkr-phone mode (will also hang-up the spkr-phone if pressed again)
 

* Manually dialing an IP addressed call

From the main screen, tap the white telephone handset icon at the lower left of the display, or press the phones orange spkr-phone hard button (near the volume "-")

 

Over to the right, touch the Mode rectangle... press it a few times until it says IP Call

using the phones hard keypad, enter in the IP address of the phone you wish to call, using the * star key as the decimal

Then touch the green handset icon over to the right... it also has a picture of a microphone next to it; or just wait 3 seconds and the phone will dial automatically.

 

or touch the lower green button to initiate this call as a video call.

* Requesting a video call

after the call is already in progress, touch "options" on the screen

then press Video On

you won't see the other callers mug right away; the person at the other end will be prompted ... asking if they wish to participate in a video call. If they agree, the video will then appear.

* What is this MPK  screen button?

Multi Purpose Key, which defaults to the Speed Dial function. For Mesh use, I prefer using Speed Dial over a typical Contact List. So this is the method I will cover below:

You speed dial by pressing this MPK key, then pressing the entry you wish to call. If there's more than 6 in the Speed Dial list, simply-finger scroll to see the next six... and so on

you can add entries to this list by pressing the MPK screen button

next, press the blue single-person icon near the top right of the screen

next, press the blue single-person "+" icon near the top right of the screen

Near the bottom, give a name to this entry (keep these short)

Number would be the IP address, typed in the format of: 10.123.456.789

Near the top, press "OK" to save

Note: there is an easier way to add entries into this Speed Dial list; from a computer connected to the mesh node, type in the IP address assigned to this phone... you should get a screen asking for login & password; enter in "admin" for both

next, at the top, click on Advanced Settings
over to the left, click on MPK EXT
1
double click on a blank field and a box should appear

Enter in the Name of this Speed Dial entry (keep these short)
in the User ID field, type the IP address... entered in the format of: 10.123.456.789

Click on ADD at the bottom to save.

Perform a final save by scrolling down to bottom of the page and clicking on Save
 

* How to enable the Wi-Fi hotspot

from the phones screen, touch SETTINGS

touch Wireless & network

do not enable Wi-Fi, instead...

scroll to the bottom of that list, touch Portable hotspot

touch on Set up Wi-Fi hotspot

give your W-Fi hotspot a name by touching the fields blank area, a soft keyboard will appear.

for now, leave Security blank

click on Save

now, click the gray checkbox to enable the Hotspot; you should see a Wi-Fi symbol appear near the top of the screen

press the phones Home hardkey to return to the main screen

Note: during a power recycle, the Hotspot feature is not automatically activated.

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