[Asterisk-Users] Hinting

[Anthony Rodgers]

Hi Aaron,

You need to create an entry in the directory of the _watching_ phone  
with the extension of the _watched_ phone as its contact. Set the  
'Buddy watch' of this entry to 'Yes', so it appears in the list of  
'Buddies' (couldn't they come up with another term for this? :-)

Then, in extensions.conf, set a hint for the _watched_ extension like  
this:

exten => 2348,hint,SIP/2348

Let me know if you have any more questions.

Regards,
-- 
Anthony Rodgers
Business Systems Analyst
District of North Vancouver
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On 3-Apr-06, at 11:42 AM, Aaron Daniel wrote:

> The polycoms have a buddy feature where you can "watch" a buddy.  From
> what I can tell, it sends a subscribe to the server, and only works if
> you're hinting the phone.  That's what was suggested I do since I  
> want to
> be able to tell if someone's on the phone, and I've watched the sip  
> debug
> as it boots up and it does in fact send a subscribe to the server  
> for the
> extensions I want to watch.  The server's not really doing anything  
> with
> it though, so I'm kinda lost on how this is going to work.  Sip debug
> doesn't show asterisk sending any information to the phone after it
> subscribes.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
> > Aaron Daniel wrote:
> >> Ok, with the buddies, what "device" do you hint to?  The last  
> line of
> >> the phone?
> >
> > I don't understand the question... the 'buddy' is effectively a
> > speed-dial, the same thing you would dial to call that person/ 
> extension.
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