[Asterisk-Users] Using Asterisk as a replacement for a Merlin Legend.

[Michael Welter]

With the SNOM 220 and its 20 additional LED/buttons...  how can we light 
a button when the extension is in use elsewhere?

Thanks,

Carmi Weinzweig wrote:

> I was just about to replace 2 Merlin Legend systems (one in my house and 
> one in my Parent's house) with * systems. I have 2 beefy linux systems 
> ready to go and have enough Cisco 7960 and 7970 phones to replace all my 
> MLX-10D, MLX-16D and MLX-20 phones. Then I discovered that * seems to be 
> lacking a critical feature for replacing a legend (or any standard PBX) 
> and that is an ability for a user to see if another user is on his or 
> her phone or if a trunk is in use.
> 
> I am not sure if this is where I should address this issue (or if it 
> should be send to a developers list), but is there any work underway to 
> support this? In other words, what I would like to see is if I have a 
> trunk that appears on multiple phones (my house's main line for 
> example), I want a visual indication on every phone that it is in use if 
> someone on another phone is using it.
> 
> On a related front, I would like to be able to put a call on hold in one 
> location and be able to pick it up somewhere else with out having to 
> know anything about where it was placed on hold (difference between call 
> park and call hold). If this is available today, it is not listed as a 
> feature on *'s website, nor can I figure out how to make it happen from 
> *'s documentation.
> 
> To be clear, Asterisk is an amazing product and offers a great many 
> features that I am looking forward to using. I am just trying to figure 
> out when I will be able to use it to replace my PBXes.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> /carmi
> 
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