New T4S Yealink Phones & WF40 Wifi Dongle

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Hello,
Yealink has just released some new products.  We are looking forward to using them and wanted to point them out so they can be added to the advanced provisioner.

We are VERY excited about OPUS support with Yealink and look forward to using it.

With a new firmware update. the WF40 now supports the T46G as well as the T29G. Please note you will need to be on firmware revision xx.81.0.15 for this functionality to work.  It also works with the T48G with firmware 35.80.0.95 or higher.  I believe the WF40 also works on all the new T4S series phones, but I need to double check.

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The T4S series includes the entry-level T41S and T42S phones, the gigabit color phone T46S, and the gigabit touch screen phone T48S. The series maintains the elegant appearance of the Yealink T4 series and further ensures users a lifelike communication experience, thanks to Yealink Optima HD voice technologies and the addition of Opus -a totally open, highly versatile audio codec. Moreover, the T4S provides enhanced performance and extended hardware functionalities for business customers.

The upgraded T4S series incorporates the latest advanced components for excellent stability and performance. The phone series delivers a remarkable phone experience with an optimized smartphone-like interface. Integrated cutting-edge features, like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and rich one-touch soft keys, brings additional convenience and increased productivity for customers. 

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More relevent copy/paste from 10/31/16:

Hi ALL

This is Kevin from Yealink support team, nice to know you.

We will support opus on the standard V81 of SIP-T40P/T23P/T23G/T2
1(P) E2/T19(P) E2. 

BR
Kevin
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It looks like the T4S series also supports USB call recording and hearing aid compatible (HAC) handsets.
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Be advised that the new firmware [81] uses a radically different approach to provisioning than previous versions. It claims to be backward compatible, but (at least for me) I'm having difficulty making it work. I mean, it should simply work as usual, and it's not. I've looked at syslog output and the firmware never checks for the legacy config files.  

However, I setup a sandbox tftp server and been successful in using the new provisioning method, but the configuration restructure is forcing a complete re-write of my scripts. I'm guessing if the backward compatibility is really broken, 2600hz will have to re-write the config templates accordingly.    
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Here is a T4S comparison PDF showing the model revisions and FAQ etc..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23868996/T4S%20Comparison.pdf
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It appears all they really did was introduce a new codec processor to support Opus and minor tweaks to speaker audio quality. I'm sure if they could have gotten away with supporting the entire Opus codec in software there wouldn't be an "S" series. I do hope they provide the limited version of Opus on the T29G.
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The telecoil (HAC) as well.
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Dang, I was really hoping the T46G would get OPUS....
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Me too!
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I found out today that my distributor is no longer selling T46G's.  I can only get the T46S series as they are no longer manufacturing them.

Can we get some kind of update on whether or not these will be supported in provisioner and when?
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It appears that Yealink has completely stopped producing the T46G.  Once the current stock of T46G's are gone we will be forced to start using the T46S.
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Oh man, first world problems I guess. That 75 order just want up to 100. :) Think I'll have to pull across 2 vendors and have amazon fill the balance.
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Are you trying to deplete all available stock all by yourself!

Yealink may not allow Amazon sales AFAIK and you may not be able to warranty the product if the vendor is not an approved distributor.  It may have something to do with the lowest price allowed to be published or something.

Be safe.
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Yea, I know it. It won't be a huge number from amazon. Maybe 10 or so. But, for this large or an order I'll take that risk.
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How often are your phones breaking that you're concerned about warranty? Honestly, considering most phones are < $200 and the fact that we have only seen two break/stop working since we started doing VoIP 8 years ago, I never really thought it mattered. Amazon actually isn't an authorized vendor for most products they sell, and if anything arrives DoA you just return it to Amazon with no hassle. 

We give all of our customers a three year warranty on their phones if they purchase them, and only twice have we had to replace a phone and eat the cost. In both instances we just threw the old ones out and didn't bother filing a warranty claim. I'm pretty sure both phones were older than a year, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway where we purchased them from.
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Well, I think we've had more than two. But yea, it's low enough that I don't really care. And I've never had one break while under warranty. The only concern is that technically, phones purchased through grey market don't qualify for use with their RPS system. And it's really nice that when someone factory resets one of our phones, it just reprovisions with us automatically. I've never seen a phone that actually wouldn't provision because of this. But, I'm not buying may phones that way either.
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I just provisioning a few phones with the new FW,  it's very simple you create one file MACADDRESS.boot  that tells the phone to look for the global and the Mac file,  it looks like this

#!version:1.0.0.1## 
     
include:config <y000000000069.cfg>
include:config "00156xxxxxxx.cfg"
     
overwrite_mode = 1



so each phone has 3 files one is the MACADDRESS.boot   y000000000069.cfg     00156xxxxxxx.cfg
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have you had any success using encryption?
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One of my distributors told me about week ago that they were able to procure 600 more T46G's from Yealink.  I thought awesome, based on your volume how long do you expect those to last?  They told me 1-2 months.

I placed an order today for 1 phone and I got a call.  We only have 1 open box phone left.  All 600 were sold to what I suspect is high volume re-sellers hoarding stock.

Additionally, I was told that Yealink is on Chinese new year's for 3 weeks and there is no one they can complain too and that Yealink stopped producing these phones 3 weeks ago.

I have not tried calling other vendors yet as I only needed the one phone for now.  I am however, worried.  Yealink is no treating their US customers and distribution partners correctly with this behavior.

New phone, New Firmware + Chinese New Years!

Maybe, I need to get comfortable with Polycom.
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Any updates on this.  I would prefer to start provisioning the T46S so we can support the wifi dongle for some of our home office setups.

My main supplies has been out of the T46G for a while now, and my secondary supplier is down to 29.
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All I can get is the T42S's as well. I am going to give it a go in testing this week. Will update this thread to see if the T42G SIP template works or not. 
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Can anyone enlighten me about Opus on the New S phones as opposed to the T23G.  Is Opus done the same way on both, in software, or are they different. 
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When are the T42S (I guess all the Yealink S phones + W56P wireless) going to be Supported in the Provisioner? 

I can't get my hands on T46G's anymore, and it will be making more deployments difficult. 
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Hi folks,
      We just sent out our (first) update about the auto-provisioner services. It should cover the questions you have been asking. Please take a look and if we've missed something, please let us know here!
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Hey everyone,

I have had luck provisioning T42S and T46S phones with the T46 and T42G profiles in the advanced provisioner.

I have also been playing the the T41S model and have provisioned it with the T41P configurations as well.