[Asterisk-Users] voicemail notification - LED solution

[Walker Haddock]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:39:41PM -0500, Roger wrote:
> Does anyone know how to send a message to a Cisco 7940/7960 phone 
> running SIP images 6.3 telling it to light up one of its LED's when new 
> voice mail arrives?
> 
> I found alot of web based solutions
> 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+GUI
> 
> and easy ways of getting email or getting paged of a new voice mail - 
> but nothing where you can just look at the phone and see a blinking 
> light or illuminated LED indicating new voice mail..
> 
> Thoughts?

I just hit google and got this.  However, there are 35 hits so take a look.

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/022796.html

or, more recently:

http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-February/007855.html

Bottom line, you have to put the mailbox= record in the sip.conf file in the stanza for the device.

Walker
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