[Asterisk-Users] Analog Phones with Status Light Indicators

[Adam Goryachev]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 20:17, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 23:53, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 20:42, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > > 
> > > So before you hamstring your small office into having unnecessary
> > > growing pains as it expands at some time down the road, think about the
> > > nicer, larger PBX solutions. 
> > 
> > True, but would still be nice to see the status of the people around
> > you/in your team. How can I offer any sort of comparable/competitive
> > system without this??
> 
> So you are a bug for bug type person.
> 
> Maybe it would be better to educate your customer in other options that
> you can deliver and not trying to deliver what some other hardware does.

Yes, this is a good idea, and I am trying to convince them that a PC
based status/display is a better solution (mainly because it is possible
with asterisk), but at the end of the day, I can see why people would
prefer to have a phone which at the least, will show them whether the
person they are wanting to call/transfer to is already on the phone.

I also really did think that this was already possible with existing
hardware VoIP phones and the SIP protocol. I *thought* it was working in
asterisk, or, if it wasn't, then suggestions/pointers on what is needed
would (hopefully) be met with patches from me (or bounties on the wiki).

Regards,
Adam