[asterisk-users] handling jabber status

[Matt Watson]

On June 3, 2008 07:10:19 pm James Sneeringer wrote:
> 2008/6/3 Benoit Plessis <benoit at plessis.info>:
> > We have both an asterisk server and a jabber server (ejabberd),
> > Since we use mostly softphones, using call notification by jabber
> > wouldn't be very useful, but beeing able to notify *others* that we are
> > on the phone should be more usefull.
> >
> > Anyone already did that (changing jabber status/ status message of many
> > accounts)
> > or know if it's even remotly possible ??
>
> I don't know about ejabberd, but this is possible with OpenFire using
> the Asterisk-IM plugin. It connects to the AMI and watches for
> call/hangup type events, so other than adding an entry to manager.conf
> there is nothing special required of Asterisk to make it work. We're
> using it here and so far it's working fine.
>
> -James
>

That kind of seems like its cheating if it needs to use AMI instead of 
res_jabber working as people would expect!

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Matt Watson
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