How to initial and answer a call from CLI of the phone

[Yangjp715]

Hi All,

Is there anyone who knows for how to initial and answer a call from the CLI of 8945 and 8845? "dial dn" is the command for making a call from 8845, but i have not found how can i answer a call from 8845 and initiating a call from 8945.

Thanks in advance，

[Chris Deren]

What are you trying to do? What are the requirements and reasons for this? Are you writing a tool to do this programmatically? 

Is the Web dialer service not an option?

For answer what about Auto Answer on the line?

[davidlamb1258]

This video goes over how to interact with the Phone's UI via an SSH Session.  You can use this to remotely answer the phone.  This works on our 8865's which should have the same firmware as you 8845s.

https://youtu.be/kzCxnS_N-HI

Full disclosure, I did not create this video, i came across it on Reddit.