[asterisk-users] Polycom Do Not Disturb button and asterisk hints

[Russell Bryant]

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> I tried to work around this by centralizing DND requests in Asterisk
> and sending back a short ("You're in DND mode") text to Polycom's
> screen (using sipsak for this).
> This was rather disappointing as Poycoms redirect text messages to an
> Instant Messaging mailbox and do not keep them visible on screen.
> 
> Maybe, some king of XML magic would be a better mean to return current
> DND status to users.
> 
> Any suggestion ?

One solution that I had come up with for this situation was to use a softkey and use custom device state to have the LED on or off based on whether DND was on or off.  I documented it here:

http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596517342/ch14.html#usingCustomDeviceStates

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