[asterisk-users] Locking phones at night...

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:40:38PM +0100, Conrad Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:24 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Conrad Wood wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 05:47, Conrad Wood wrote:
> > > > > To do something similar, I created a dialplan extension that - if
> > > > > dialled - creates a file on the server. If dialled again, it removes the
> > > > > file again.
> > > > > Then, in the context of the phone I check for existence of that file and
> > > > > if it exists I play a busy signal and hangup. (Of course, unless the
> > > > > extension to re-enable it is dialled ;) ).
> > > > > Additionally, I ask the user for a password to lock/unlock it.
> > > > 
> > > > This is a good use for the AstDB
> > > 
> > > Sure is,  but files in the filesystem are easier to process from
> > > external (non-asterisk) programs. In my case, I have a web interface
> > > that locks/unlocks phones too.
> > > I find it most convenient  to use 'ls' to look up the current status of
> > > stuff.
> > 
> > asterisk -rx could also be used. Or a phone menu. Problems with a phone
> > menu: how can you tell the status?
> > 
> 
> asterisk -rx requires access to the asterisk console 

It requires access to the asterisk control socket: /var/run/asterisk.ctl
or /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl, depends on your installation. Check
the docs on asterisk.conf on setting it to a different ownership that
root.root .

> which throws its
> own bunch of problems with permissions and scalability.  I'd then prefer
> to code it through the manager interface 
> but that seems like a terrible overkill here ;)
> How would you use a phone menu for that? That sounds interesting. Our
> users here like doing phonestuff on their phones rather than on websites
> etc.

DbGet/DbPut or whatever in the dialplan? (After all, a phone menu / IVR 
is basically a set of Asterisk contetxts calling each other)

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