[asterisk-users] How to supervise a Voicemail box with a BLF button ? What does "State:Unavailable" exactly means ?

[John Kiniston]

1) I have a custom subroutine that uses a database and the VMCOUNT function
to determine if the contents of the box have changed and update a custom
device state accordinly.

2) the FreePBX developers may have extended their product to allow hinting
on mailboxes that way, I don't see anything in the source so they have not
submitted their code to the Asterisk project.

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 1. How do you then, synced then unread message presence with custom device
> status ? From an external program ? When a user leaves VoiceMailMan
> application ? Using externnotify ?
> 2. What is MWI:101 at default expression for (see [2] ?
>
> Cheers
>
> [2] https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FPG/Subscribe+a+BLF+
> button+to+Monitor+a+Voicemail+Box
>
> 2017-11-21 17:58 GMT+01:00 John Kiniston <johnkiniston at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello Olivier,
>>
>> I may be incorrect but I don't believe you can hint on a mailbox like
>> that.
>>
>> I've always used custom device states and dialplan logic for my shared
>> voicemail boxes that are not being watched directly by a endpoint natively.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to supervise an existing Voicemail box with a BLF button on
>>> Debian's asterisk 13.14.1 system.
>>>
>>> I mostly found this [1] document.
>>> I added in a context a line like:
>>> exten = *7000,hint,MWI:31 at default
>>>
>>> With "core show hints", I can read this:
>>> *7000 at subs          : MWI:31 at default        State:Unavailable
>>> Presence:not_set         Watchers  1
>>>
>>> My questions are:
>>>
>>> 1. Is this "exten = *7000,hint,MWI:31 at default" statement correct ?
>>> 2. What does "State:Unavailable" exactly means ? To it means "Asterisk
>>> is unable to find any MWI:31 at default state".
>>> 3. Which Asterisk version introduced this MWI/BLF/hint feature ? Was it
>>> supported in 1.6, for instance ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> [1] https://community.asterisk.org/t/hint-mwi-help-i-am-not-able
>>> -to-make-it-works/72112
>>>
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher
a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts,
build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
---Heinlein
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