[asterisk-users] hint priority with 50 channels

[Anthony Francis]

Just curious but why would you want to have a lot of devices all have 
the exact same state information?

Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> 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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Thank you and have any kind of day you want,

Anthony Francis
Rockynet VOIP
(303) 444-7052 opt 2
voip at rockynet.com