[Asterisk-Users] Hinting

[Sean Cook]

I started with the polycoms.... to me its "man those cisco phones boot 
fast" :)

Aaron Daniel wrote:
> I think I'm getting there slowly... I notice in your extension, you're 
> hinting SIP/2348.  I'll see if that helps me a bit, this damn phone 
> takes freaking forever to reboot.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Anthony Rodgers wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
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