[asterisk-users] Asterisk + hinting presence + macro

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Rob Schall wrote:
> I currently have about 50 polycom 501 phones on my asterisk setup. The 
> dialplan is set to work with mysql (realtime), and all of the extensions 
> for the phones route through the same macro (stdexten). This all works 
> fine until I tried to set up notify status.
> 
> On voip-info, they say do something like...
> 
> 4444,hint,SIP/4444
> 4444,1,Dial(SIP/4444)
> blah blah blah
> 
> This functionality works fine. But what if you have a macro
> s,hint,SIP/${ARG1}
> s,1,Dial(SIP/${ARG1}
> 
> this adds a "s" hint which obviously doesn't work, instead of a hint for 
> 4444 as it should.

Yes.  Put in the correct hint.  There is no reason that 
"4444,hint,SIP/4444" would not work in a macro.