[asterisk-users] Asterisk + hinting presence + macro

[Rob Schall]

Anthony Francis wrote:
> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>   
>> Rob Schall wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> 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.
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>>> So, if I understand you correctly, my macro would look something vaguely 
>>> like...
>>>
>>> [macro-stdexten]
>>> ${ARG1},hint,SIP/${ARG1}
>>> s,1,Dial(${ARG1})?
>>>
>>> This will work? My understand was that by going into a macro, you were 
>>> going to be using the "s" extension. I'm not sure how that hint would 
>>> get called if its not inside the s extension.
>>>     
>>>       
>> I have no idea, but as I understand it, Hints are separate from extensions.
>>
>> I guess you could do something like:
>>
>> [macro-stdexten]
>> exten => s,1,Goto(${MACRO_EXTEN},1)
>>
>> exten => _XXXX,hint,SIP/${ARG1}
>> exten => _XXXX,1,Dial(${ARG1})
>>
>> I do this sort of thing in many of my macros that Dial somewhere.  I 
>> seem to remember something about hints not working for pattern matching. 
>> or working weirdly.
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> Hints do not have to be part of the steps in a dialplan, and if you want 
> devices to be listeners, they shouldn't be. Also you had stated you 
> where using realtime, and the hint priority doesnt work in realtime, I 
> submitted a bug about this and it was rejected as won't fix, but was 
> explained as, not going to be fixed anytime soon.
>
> At an rate make a hint context that has devices mapped to extensions,
> [hint-context]
> 4444,hint,Sip/4444
> 4445,hint,Sip/4445
>
> and the like, then add that context in sip.conf for all devices both 
> monitored and listeners,
> subscribecontext=hint-context
>
> Then ast will send update notifications about these devices to watchers 
> properly.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Anthony
>
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Anthony,

I didn't realize you could do hints like that. This will be very 
interesting if I can make it work....

In extensions.conf, I added

[hint-context]
4444,hint,SIP/4444
5053,hint,SIP/5053

I think added an include to my main context (internal). I'm assuming 
these need to be included.

In sip.conf, I added:
subscribecontext = hint-context
notifyringing = yes

and in the phone directories, I added: <bw>#</bw> to the corresponding 
entries.

However, the phones show as "offline" and using "show hints" from the 
cli also says no hints.

Any ideas?

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