[asterisk-users] Light indicator managed by Asterisk

[Andrew Latham]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jonas Kellens
<jonas.kellens at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there some way to make Asterisk light up a certain light on an IP-phone ?
>
> Like MWI, the message waiting indicator can light up if there is voicemail.
>
> Could this light, or even other lights (like BLF-buttons) be used to give a
> visual notification to the user ?
>
> For example : if a certain value is set in the Mysql-DB and Asterisk reads
> out this value, can Asterisk react upon it inside the dialplan to make a
> light lit up ?
>
> 2nd example : if a certain extension is called, can we perform inside the
> dialplan an action that makes a light lit up on a Snom or Yealink IP-phone ?
>
> I don't know if all this is at all possible, but it doesn't harm asking I
> guess...
>
> If BLF works, then maybe more things are possible in the same way. Just
> thinking outside the box here.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jonas.

On snom and other phones it is easy...
http://wiki.snom.com/Interoperability/PBX/Asterisk#Extension_Monitoring_.28BLF.29_.26_Call_Pick-Up

Also look at SLA
http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/configs/sla.conf.sample

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