[asterisk-users] Newbie Polycom: IP601 console withexpansion module

[Paul Hales]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:39 +1100, Lee, John (Sydney) wrote:
> > You could organise a system where people set their DND on the Asterisk
> > server, then use devstate to generate a flashing light....but it would
> > be a bit of fiddling around, and if people used their DND button on
> the
> > phone it would not be displayed....
> > 
> > We looked at this once, and decided against it after about a days
> worth
> > of testing.
> Thanks Paul.
> I think people would prefer to just press the "Do Not Disturb" button on
> the Polycom handset but I am wondering how the expansion module would
> display the status.  I checked a few places and it appears that DND and
> BUSY are treated as the same thing.

What we looked at was hooking the DND button up to Asterisk....played
around for a while and gave up.

>From memory, the DND doesn't display at all. You only have ringing and
in use. (but I could be wrong...my Aastra 480i only does ring and in
use)

PaulH