[Asterisk-Users] detecting extensions in use

[John covici]

If you can do this is a dial plan have you tried chanisavail
application?  Seems like that should work for you.

on Wednesday 08/31/2005 "Eric \"Skippy\" Hope"(ehope at intrex.net) wrote
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > We've got a department that has 5 phones using a * 1.0.9 box.  They need 
 > to have an extension that rings all 5 phones at the same time.  Getting 
 > all of the phones to ring isn't a problem, but they are running into a 
 > problem with the phones ringing in their ears when they are already on a 
 > call.
 > 
 > Example:
 > Caller one calls the queue, all of the phones rings, and employee one 
 > picks up.
 > Caller two calls the queue, all of the phones ring including the one 
 > that Employee one is talking on, and both Caller one and Employee one 
 > are distracted.
 > 
 > We're locked into using the current softphones, and there doesn't seem 
 > to be a way to limit them to just one line.
 > 
 > We've tried both a true queue with the strategy set to ringall and just 
 > having the exten => Dial(SIP/ext1&SIP/ext2&etc).  We also tried using 
 > SetGroup and CheckGroup(1), but that resulted in only one call reaching 
 > the phones at a time, even though the other 4 were free.
 > 
 > What we really want to have happen is for all 5 phones to ring at once, 
 > except the ones that are already in use.  It seems like there should be 
 > an easy way to do this, but I'm not seeing it.  Anyone got any hints?
 > 
 > Skippy
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