[Asterisk-Users] differentiating busy & not connected

[Glen]

For those who may be searching, you can accomplish this using the
${DIALSTATUS} variable.  

The variable will report CONGESTED if the device (channel) is not
available, & will report BUSY if it is in use.  

-g



On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:52 +0100, Philipp von Klitzing wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > How can I determine whether a sip device is busy (channel unavailable),
> > or it is not registered/connected?  
> 
> For the latter try "database show sip" or DBGet(...) respectively. Won't 
> work with RealTime in Head though, I assume. ;->
> 
> Busy: You can always employ CheckGroup() and the like, although that 
> gives you only the Asterisk view of things, not the SIP UAs point of 
> view. Maybe sipsak and a custom SIP message can help, but that's of 
> course outside of Asterisk.
> 
> Philipp
> 
> 
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