[asterisk-users] app_queue New Function ToggleQueueMemberUse()

[Russell Bryant]

Benoit Plessis wrote:
>> This is a slightly different approach, but have you seen the state interface
>> code that is in Asterisk 1.6?  There is a backport of the code for 1.4 floating
>> around somewhere, I think.  It allows you to specify a different device for a
>> queue member that app_queue will use to determine the state of an agent.  So,
>> you can still list a Local channel for dialing, but Asterisk will look at the
>> state of SIP/myphone, for example, to know whether the agent is busy or not.
>>   
> ok but since we are using IAX2 with ZoIPer for sendurl() handling this 
> won't help

I don't see why this wouldn't help.  You just list the IAX2 peer as the device
Asterisk uses to determine the state of the agent.

>> Alternatively, if you would like to control the usability of an agent through
>> the dialplan, then you could use the DEVICE_STATE() function to create a custom
>> device state.  Then, you could list your custom "device" as what app_queue
>> should look at before attempting to call the agent
>
> This is more interesting :)
> Is it from 1.6 too ?

Yes, this is also from 1.6, but an unsupported backport of DEVICE_STATE(),
exists, as well.

http://www.asterisk.org/node/48325

http://www.asterisk.org/node/48360

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Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.