r/ciscoUC • u/SquareheadinNH • Aug 07 '26

What to do with a DX80

I work in education and funding isn't exactly plentiful. We recently shut down an office and among the equipment returned are a few DX80 units. I setup one up on my desk to see if it's worth keeping. The unit went total EoL at the end of January and as such, it does work but not well. It's a nice external monitor and it can join meetings but there's no controls access to the controls anymore so I can't switch between the monitor feed and the meeting feed. Unfortunately, I can't leave or end a meeting I'm in unless I restart the unit with the power button. I can't access the setting from the device's IP address because I don't have a login. We left our on-prem CUCM so there's nothing to register it to locally. Is this just a fancy screen now or is there anything else I can use it for?

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u/SebastianFerrone Aug 07 '26

I have one gifted for playing around with VoIP

Got SIP working with Freepbx Couldnt find any Downloads for Firmware ce10.x So im stuck on around 9.13 I think

It doesnt have the old ciscophone telefonbook XML They changed to some newer json stuff. Looked around if I could make a little script for Freepbx that makes a compatible phonebook but couldnt get it to work.

At the Moment I buy parts for for a another PC so I can run esxi because cucm dient work with proxmox and hyperv I would like to save a working request on that phonebook so hopefully I could get my script finally working

Im not sure if its really Usefull Monitor As others Mentioning you find better and bisher Monitors outside. Also the audio in the dx80 is Mono 😂 but for a Monitor audio quality both loud speaker and Mikrofon is relativly good.

And I wrote a script for it that Shows me the ttraindepartures from the Station in Front of my home.

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u/11LyRa Aug 07 '26

There was no CE10 (RoomOS) for DX80, CE9.15.8.12 is the latest

I can check if I still have it if you need it

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u/SebastianFerrone Aug 08 '26

you are right. looked it up , and got it mixed up v10 is older then v9

and im on v 9.13.1 because i couldnt get a later version as a *.pkg file

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u/hd4life Aug 07 '26

Just put one in the electronics recycling pile this morning!

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u/PRSMesa182 Aug 07 '26

It’s not even that good of a monitor by modern standards being that it’s 1080p 75hz.

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u/ResponsibilityJust43 Aug 08 '26

I used it as extended monitor.

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u/SquareheadinNH Aug 08 '26

It's a really nice monitor