[Asterisk-Users] updating display of a hardphone based on agentslogging in

[Franklin Webb]

I talked to Digium about this and they are saying the best thing may be to
get the information from the manager API and display it on a PC if I cannot
find a way to get the data into the phone.  I plan to keep looking into
this, I'll share whatever solution I end up with.  Thanks for your
suggestion I'll be putting some research into that also, it sounds like it
might be the more promising way to actually get it on the phone.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BJ Weschke" <bweschke at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] updating display of a hardphone based on
agentslogging in


I've been thinking about how one would accomplish the same thing.
I've got a CTI enabled GUI that tells the agent that they're logged in
with the call centers that I've deployed thus far, but it's not quite
the same as the agent just being able to look at the phone as well and
know that they're logged in or not.

 You've got the Snom 320's, so maybe the most straight forward thing
to do would be to use the Hint application with them to light a status
LED when an agent is logged in and have it go dark when the agent is
logged out. Are you using AgentCallBack? I wonder if Hint could be
used to status the agent channel itself. Hmmmmmmm. Will have to check
this out a little bit more. :-)

On 8/25/05, Franklin Webb <fwebb at imminc.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>     We are settng up a fair sized call center on Asterisk, but we are
having
> some issues with our agents not knowing if they have logged in and logged
> out.  Prior to beginning our migration to VoIP the agents logged into our
> nortel phones and confirmation was displayed on the phone.
>
>     My question is has anyone out there done anything from Asterisk that
can
> change the display on a VoIP hardphone?  We are currently using the Snom
320
> and the Aastra 9133i.  Thus far the only ideas we've had have involved
> trying to figure out if you can send back something from the caller ID to
> change it on the phone, or maybe I could get away with using SMS to send a
> message and that might be enough for the agents.
>
>     Any thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated.
>
>                                     Thanks,
>                                         Frank Webb