[asterisk-users] hint priority with 50 channels

[Philipp Kempgen]

Loic Didelot schrieb:

> I noticed that my hint priority stops working when I add to many
> extensions/channels. It looks like everything exceeding 80 characters is
> discarded. 
> 
> By stop working I mean the status is and stays "Unavailable".
> 
> 
> This works
> exten => *1,hint,SIP/loicvoip1_1&IAX2/loicvoip1_1&SIP/loicvoip1_1_a1
> 
> This does not work:
> exten =>
> *1,hint,SIP/bla1&SIP/bla2&SIP/bla3&SIP/bla4&SIP/bla9&SIP/bla5&SIP/bla6&SIP/bla7&SIP/loicvoip1_1&IAX2/loicvoip1_1&SIP/loicvoip1_1_a1
> 
> 
> I tested on several asterisk 1.4 versions like 1.4.21*.
> 
> 
> Is this a bug or something like working as designed?

It's by design. 80 characters is likely to be the limit.

> Is there another
> possibility to monitor a bigger number of channels?

In Asterisk 1.6 you could build something with "Custom" hints
and DEVICE_STATE().

   Philipp Kempgen

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