[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010818]: Hinting not working reliably

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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10818 
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Reported By:                dlynes
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10818
Category:                   PBX/General
Reproducibility:            sometimes
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
Asterisk Version:           1.4.11  
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases): N/A  
SVN Revision (number only!):  
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             09-24-2007 11:24 CDT
Last Modified:              10-26-2007 17:01 CDT
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Summary:                    Hinting not working reliably
Description: 
We are using Aastra 9133i's for most desk phones, and an Aastra 57i with a
560M sidecar module for the blf monitoring.

What we have been finding is that the BLF monitoring is not working
reliably.  Often times a subscription might take up to eight hours to start
showing up as a watcher in Asterisk (as was the case for monitoring zaptel
channels).  Other hints (about 10% of our hints) show up as idle when
they're busy (and they're consistent with that), and the rest seem to work
normal.  Hints registered for parked lines will not show up as watchers,
period.
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 dlynes - 10-26-07 17:01  
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I've discovered a number of things with this issue.

If I set call-limit=50 as someone suggested in the forums, it fixes the
BLF not being watched problem.  This seems to be quite unexpected, as it
means I cannot even use the call-limit to limit how many calls are sent to
the phone now.

Another thing I've found too, is that the call parking BLF was not
working, until I added the parking space to the dialplan:

exten => 901,hint,park:901 at outbound
exten => 901,1,ParkedCall(901)

Using the following:
include => parkedcalls

Was not enough. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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10-26-07 17:01  dlynes         Note Added: 0072582                          
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