[asterisk-users] Hint for realtime peers

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Saturday 16 January 2010 11:02:52 Deep D wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Tilghman Lesher <tlesher at digium.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 January 2010 06:04:01 Deep D wrote:
> >> When I create a sip peer  in users.conf then a hint is automatically
> >> created for that peer. But when I create a peer in sip.conf or a
> >> realtime peer with the same values then this hint is not created.
> >> Every time I add such peers I have to add a hint in extensions.conf.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to have something like   exten =>
> >> _XXX,hint,SIP/${EXTEN}   in extensions.conf so that I don't have to
> >> add hint for each sip peer I create?
> >
> > Only in 1.6.1 and later.  The hints will grow, as phones subscribe to
> > them, one entry per hint, automatically.
>
> I tried this in asterisk 1.6.1.1 by adding the line exten =>
> _XXX,hint,SIP/${EXTEN} to the default context, but it did not work.
>
> I gave the following commands through the manager interface
>
> action: extensionstate
> exten: 777
>
> and the response was
>
> Response: Success
> Message: Extension Status
> Exten: 777
> Context: default
> Hint: SIP/${EXTEN}
> Status: 0
>
> I am always getting a Status: 0 for any value of exten. I think the
> variable ${EXTEN} is not being evaluated to its value.

That's not a subscription.  You must actually get a phone to subscribe to
the hint before it is created.

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