[asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 26

[Russell Brown]

Quoth Jared Smith...
>On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 18:51 +0100, Russell Brown wrote:
>> Can anyone point me at a code fragment (C would be nice) that I could
>> use to subscribe to hints on a * box?
>> 
>> I'd like to write a small (hopefuly efficient) widget to show custom
>> device states and believe that a subscription to the hint would be the
>> most efficient but I'm very open to suggestions.
>
>Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't it be a whole lot easier
>to get this information via the Asterisk Manager Interface, rather than
>writing a C program that knows how to parse SIP messages?

Yes I could do it through the Manager and a polling loop but wouldn't
that be somewhat inefficient?  By using the SIP Hints I was hoping that
my code would only be told when a hint changed.

Any pointers anyone?

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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