[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.2.37 + BLF + ParkedCalls + SPA962

[Steve Davies]

On 26 January 2010 04:21, Joel Lansden <Joel at digitalparadise.net> wrote:
> Greetings all.
>
> First off, thank you for your time on this.  I have spent literally 12 hours
> searching every forum and article I can find, and I’m going cross-eyed, so I
> need to bother everyone with this.
>
> I am running * 1.2.37, and I am trying to get the hints working, so I can
> turn one of my SPA962’s LED’s red when someone parks a call.
>
> I have used Button #3 on my SPA962 to successfully monitor Zap channels, SIP
> channels, trunks.. basically, everything ELSE, so I am pretty sure my phone
> is set up properly.  But I CANNOT get this puppy to show me when someone
> parks a call, regardless of the fact that call parking also works perfectly
> on this system.
>
> I have found so much conflicting information regarding the [parkedcalls]
> context, and the hints entry for extensions.conf (to use
> “exten=>701,hint,park:701 at parkedcalls” vs.
> “exten=>701,hint,Local/701 at parkedcalls”), as well as how to set up
> features.conf, I just don’t know which end is up.
>
> Does anyone out there know how to make this work with my setup?  When I type
> “show hints”, earlier is was saying “State:Unavailable”, now it shows
> “State:Idle” but never does anything when I park a call.  Here’s the files:
>
[snip]

AFAIK, asterisk 1.2.37 does not contain the required code to BLF
monitor parked calls. IIRC You need the "metermaid" patch.

Hope that helps,
Steve