[asterisk-gui] Line Lights

[Bob Crandell]

I'm not frustrated.  I just don't understand the lingo or how phone systems
on this scale are supposed to work.  This has been quit the education.  I
guess I won't mess with BLF until I don't have anything better to do.

Thanks, teacher.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Andrew Latham <Andrew.Latham at tuxtone.com>wrote:

> Bob
>
> This is an interesting topic that causes a lot of frustration for new
> users and even implementors/developers like myself.  The light on your
> phone is referred to as many things but mostly it is known as a "Busy
> Lamp Field" or a "Feature Key".  In phone systems larger than yours
> this function is omitted do to scale (100 users seeing 100 other users
> activity is a waste of resources).  What you are likely going to do is
> setup your Grandstream phones to subscribe to each others extension so
> that you can see when each other is on the phone.  Your analog phones
> will not do this sort of setup unless you have ADSI or some silly
> feature.
>
> Don't get frustrated with this Bob, you may get it working the way you
> want and realize that you really didn't need it.  Asterisk is not a
> Key or Centrex system and it can only mimic the way those systems
> work...
>
>
> ~
> Andrew "lathama" Latham
> Andrew.Latham at TuxTone.com
>
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bob Crandell <robert at assuredcomp.com>
> wrote:
> > You completely lost me on this.  What is "BLF"?
> > Is the setting to enable/disable this in the GUI or the phone or both?
> > Where?
> >
> > I kind of understand the link you included but I don't know where to make
> > the changes.
> >
> > Thanks for trying and sorry for being so dense.
> > Bob
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Andrew Latham <
> Andrew.Latham at tuxtone.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> You are talking about having the BLF on the Granstream subscribe to
> >> the other extensions....
> >>
> >> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/SIP+method+subscribe
> >>
> >> This is commonly used when a user or group is used to a Key or Centrex
> >> system.
> >>
> >>
> >> ~
> >> Andrew "lathama" Latham
> >> Andrew.Latham at TuxTone.com
> >>
> >> * Learn more about OSS
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
> >> * Learn more about Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
> >> * Learn more about Tux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Bob Crandell <robert at assuredcomp.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > We are creeping forward on our Asterisk 1.6.0.9 installation and ran
> >> > into
> >> > another question:  We have 2 Grandstream GXP2020 phones and 2 analog
> >> > Uniden
> >> > 2-line phones.  I was expecting that when a line was busy that a light
> >> > or
> >> > message would show up on the other phones.  First, is there a setting
> >> > that I
> >> > can get to in the GUI that controls this?  Second, do I have the wrong
> >> > phones for this?  If they are the wrong phones, what do you like?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > --
> >> > Bob Crandell
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